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points by alex_suzuki 1 day ago | 0 comments
> replacing outdated floppy disks that contain vital weather and other critical information with a streamlined, 21st-century system

What does this even… mean?

[–] mmmlinux 1 day ago
zip disks.
[–] ProllyInfamous 1 day ago
That ungoldly click of death...

¡much confidence. fly yes!

[–] inquist 16 hours ago
Memory spheres
[–] whynotmaybe 1 day ago
Micro-services with docker running out of a kubernetes compliant blockchain with somewhere some "AI" added in the mix. I guess this news is more for PR than anything else because I don't see how the replacement of 69% of copper wire is meaningful in any way. What copper wires? Where? Is it because you removed landlines and replaced with voip?
[–] greenavocado 1 day ago
Probably something something fiber optic
[–] boguscoder 1 day ago
Going to 5” floppies, must have more space /s