Some things just WORK. Newer is not always better, though externalities often force newer. Like your programmers dying off. :-)

I take some issue with your position as a member of the LGBTQ community.

Hot Tub Limo. Cool fall air, nice hot water, someone else doing the driving.

Miata is always the answer.

NONE! No car! Don’t do this. I’m sick of following you, going 15 mph under the limit and drifting back and forth over the double yellow as you point out varieties of dead leaves. They’re freakin’ leaves. They do this every year. Just look out the window of your house if you need to see a yellow leaf that badly.

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Seems to be a lot of corporations shooting themselves in the foot these days (I’m looking at you, Washington Post). Ford really blew it for me — I’m enjoying my first Ford ever — a 2022 Maverick — and giving them a pass on the long list of little recalls. It’s clear that Ford builds a better, more thought-out truck…

Interesting that my local VW dealerhip is offering to pay me $30K trade in for my 2019 Golf R. I would take them up on it...if they had any damn thing I wanted to buy. I’ve been a VW fan for a while (yeah, go ahead and boo and throw garbage at me, I don’t care), but I think their “crazy offer!” speaks to the fact that…

Elon’s predictions have always been wildly optimistic, whether for Tesla or SpaceX. And he’s had some real disasters as well, including the Cybertruck and Full-Self Driving.

Third Gear: Musk’s business “strategy” for Tesla has always been hyping the next thing to cover up for the broken promises and spotty performance of the last thing.

the fact that it was possible to install it backwards is a fuck up on GMs part.  anything that can go wrong will go wrong! 

Is it the drive though speaker mod ?

Ha... I never spent the extra money for “double-sided” floppies. Also fun was the idea that write-protecting your floppy disks was just putting a sticker over the little notches.

I have been coding for over 40 years now, and I can all but guarantee that some of my COBOL or FOCUS code is still in use somewhere.

This happens in my industry (real estate and construction) all the time. When large office and apartment buildings are constructed, decisions are often made by the development and construction team with the intent of keeping the building in decent, low maintenance condition for about a decade. That way, they can sell…

Yeah I was super surprised by that throwback.  By 1998, 3.5" floppies had been out for more than a decade and were more commonly used.  This system must date back to late 80's/early 90's and was likely updated a little over twenty years ago.

Exactly this - and people who are not in the business have absolutely no idea at all how big and disruptive of a deal it is to change any sort of system that is fundamental to a business’ operations. BTDT, and it is never fun, easy, or cheap. So quite often, the right answer is “if it ain’t completely broken, leave it…

Excellent post. I miss having people like this frequent here. Around the KINJA killing off fun articles, lead to them going away.

Yes, but KISS, I mean there are still robots and other machinery that run via a serial port, and that has been outdated for decades. A lot of places run tech that is massively out of date because it’s simple, and it works.

I dunno, I might be getting old but I had a hard time hearing the car with all the other cars running the track around it. It sounded fine at startup and idle.

Came here to say the same thing.  Not just the “not really floppy” floppys (with the hard case), but the actual large, exposed, easily bendable giant circa-1985 floppys.  That’s so retro it’s actually kinda cool.....