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Comment Re:Make them occasionally? (Score 1) 171

Only if they stop making it out of that crappy brass that tarnishes into an ugly brown metal slug after only a little bit of actual circulation. I learned this back in the Sacajawea coin days when there were postage stamp vending machines that tried to accept and give change with dollar coins. The artwork on the coin may have changed since then, but the metal hasn't changed.

For those who may not be familiar (zoomers and foreigners), the previous dollar coins were the Susan B Anthony dollar, for which the primary complaint was that it was too hard to tell apart from a quarter (similar size and ridges), and the 4cm silver dollar, which was simply too huge to be useful.

Comment Re:PowerShell defaults (Score 1) 79

Perl had the concept of "tainted" input data to make it sort of possible to prevent SQL/shell injection, etc.. We've already got web browsers marking downloaded files as "treat this like a biohazard" even if just it's a stupid text file, why not clipboard contents too? (...to be followed by the scam instructions telling you to open a text editor, create a new document, paste into it, copy what you just pasted... the universe can always create Bigger Idiots)

Comment Re: Bad ideas that just won't go away (Score 1) 148

HAL's problem was that he had been given secret orders before the mission, which caused the presence of a crew to become inconvenient. And now we're already seeing so-called AI do crazy things because of secret objectives that conflict with what a user asks for, and tricks to get it to avoid such secret objectives.

Comment Re:lotsa luck (Score 1) 57

I imaged all my 1980s TRS-80 floppy disks around 2008 or so. The only read errors were original errors from back in the day. Sometimes you could even see the bad spot on the disk.

I wouldn't feel so confident about 1990s 3.5" HD floppies, but that's because they were crap, especially the cheap 25-pack disks. They were always bad and don't get worse with time. It's more likely that you had problems from misaligned or dirty drive heads.

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