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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] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Often you can still find out what it does, but the “why” gets lost and because of that people are afraid to change it.

I feel like this is what gets lost whenever documentation is talked about. Yes, you should probably be able to work out what something does by looking carefully at it - but why can be so easily lost!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Well I suppose that reminds me, I ought to comment the why and the where a bit more lol