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Comment We kept our CAD drawings on them...for a while. (Score 2) 140

At a large US auto manufacturer our crew were responsible for commissioning controls systems and maintaining the drawings related thereto.
The HDDs on the CAD machines were simply NOT big enough to contain all the drawings so we had stacks of ZIP disks and both mobile (SCSI by parallel port) and internal (SCSI) readers for them.
One of the more experienced guys bought a CD burner (that was a $600.00 purchase at the time) and would make weekly backups for us. Blank CDs were $10.00 apiece at the time.
A couple of years into it we started hearing the "click of death". Thank you Butch; you saved our work!

Comment Re:Kewl story, you're also cancer free without che (Score 3, Insightful) 112

It is that simple. Stop stuffing your face to exploding at every opportunity. I know society makes it hard, but don't shovel in the portions they sell you.

I quit opiates, it really is as simple as stopping. The hard part comes before that: Deciding you're really done with the behavior.

BS
You can quit dope completely; I did almost 40 years ago.
You can't quit food completely.
Losing weight and keeping it off is a hell of a lot harder than getting clean and sober.

Comment Re:Of course (Score 1) 55

Take that learning away and how does someone know what to tell/direct an AI bot to do? If they've never done the steps before, how do they know what is right or wrong?

The people making the decision to replace entry level jobs with AI absolutely do not care about the lack of training. That is a future problem, not their problem.

As a side note, many "manuals" that come with equipment fall into the last category. Clearly the people "writing" the manual have never done what they're telling you to do. Had they done so, the numerous quirks and confusions wouldn't be there.

Of course they don't. The people that write the manuals are Tech writers not users and not engineers.
The user or engineer writes the instructions and the Tech writer dresses it up so it looks nice gives it back to the user or engineer to review.
They iterate that until they have a decent manual--at least that's what's supposed to happen.

Comment Re:Extreamists? (Score 1) 59

Do we have to abuse every word until its meaningless.

You can call them extremists, when the bomb some data-center, or gun down a group of intellectual property attorneys at the firms anal barbecue.

Until I think we can go with 'activists' or maybe even 'agitators', hell 'criminal offenders' if you wish, but extremists is kind of a weird take.

Wait, I am confused. Are you talking about spotify or the hackers?

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