FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Traffic Control (faa.gov)
25 points by pseudolus an hour ago
jonhohle 2 minutes ago
More information needed. Was this a sneakernet? No one thought of replacing with a floppy emulator and SD cards? All of the data can fit into 1.44MB?
If the last one is true, devs take note. If FAA can rely on slow, small storage for safety critical applications, you probably can reduce the resource requirements for your app and improve your customers’ experience and extend the life of their hardware.
alex_suzuki 23 minutes ago
> replacing outdated floppy disks that contain vital weather and other critical information with a streamlined, 21st-century system
What does this even… mean?
philipwhiuk 13 minutes ago
whynotmaybe 8 minutes 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 4 minutes ago
Probably something something fiber optic
Bluestein 6 minutes ago
Out with FDD, in with GPT! (!)
tencentshill 29 minutes ago
I don't want the FAA to make changes at "lightning speed" or "rapidly moving to make upgrades" or "record pace". Safety must be further down the list for these guys.
p-e-w 20 minutes ago
Using outdated computer systems with aging storage media is a safety issue.
ale42 11 minutes ago
Replacing them with cloud-based systems (if this is the "streamlined, 21st-century system") is a safety issue as well. I hope they are not.
creatonez 6 minutes ago
Just turn WinRAR error correction up to max /s
superxpro12 14 minutes ago
why is this "historic"? the thirst for this admin to use the most bombastic language possible is so tiring.
Just... modernize the thing already. thats your job. It's not impressive that you did this. You're supposed to do this. You dont get extra kudos for doing the thing you signed up to do...
and dont forget to put Trump's name at the beginning. Or he might get cranky
njovin 7 minutes ago
Everything they try to spin positively has to be 'historic' because:
1. The party leader is a fragile, dying narcissist who is desperate for his name to be attached to anything other than the misery he's inflicted upon the world.
2. Their _actual_ historic achievements are all war crimes, human rights violations, and policy changes that would terrify their average supporter if they actually understood the long-term consequences.
tokai 8 minutes ago
You could call it histrionic.
InsidiousWombat 9 minutes ago
hopefully not with pendrives