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5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If it ain't broke don't fix it

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Until it finally broke and it was too late…

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If it's not maintainable or upgradable then it's broke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

More like: it's eventually going to break your weekend or even your whole week, but you don't get to pick which one.

Edit: To put that in perspective, there are 260 working days in a year. Let's say that you have just one of these hardware failures in a five-year career with the MTA. That's roughly 1/1000 odds. If the lottery had chances like that, you'd play it every time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Honestly it kinda sounds like this might break an entire city's transportation system for more than just a whole week.