"It would be possible to any half decent university student to emulate a floppy disk using a $5 ESP32 Module"
Emulate at what level - disk controller? Maybe a few really good students, most wouldn't know where to start.
If the disk is only used for data then it could simply be copied to USB. If however its used for booting then it could be a different story depending on the capabilities of the boot loader in ROM.
Its the drives. There are probably a ton of disks still lying around but no one makes the drives anymore and they don't last forever.
As for people laughing about floppy disks - I'd like to see any of todays devs who write frameworks-for-everything, needs 2 gigs of mem just to start, write an ATC that could fit all its data into 1.2 megs.
You make sure the alarm goes off BEFORE the temperature goes out of safe range you muppet.
"has a takeoff weight of 10,000 pounds and is designed to cruise at Mach
Sounds like a learjet except slower. As for re configurable flight control tech, what does that even mean? Does it mean the flight controls can change action (why would you do this, pilots need muscle memory, they don't want to have to think which lever does what) or does it mean the flight surfaces can somehow change? Well swing-wing was a thing for a while but it was more hassle than it was worth.
Shouldn't this be in a criminal court? Its deliberate and wilful negligence leading to poisoning FFS.
"ut who cares because fridge is at X temp now. Reset the alarm and forget about it."
A power trip alert light along with a max temp reading could be done electromechanically with 1940s tech FFS.
A fridge doesnt need to be managed by an IT dept. It keeps to a fixed temperature and if it deviates by X amount a very loud alarm goes off which someone on duty will hear. Job done.
I'm waiting for the day a fishing boat gets taken out or a larger ship damaged by falling debris in the "empty" ocean. And of course there are aircraft too.
Jan 2029. Thats still over 2 more years of this clown show the world has to endure. Sure he's down, but he's not out.
An even better idea would be to ditch the cretinous vertical fridges where cold air pours out as soon as you open the door, and go back to horizontal ones where, by its nature, the cold air just sits there.
Pretty fucking obvious to anyone with a normal brain aspie.
" How would such language constitute anything other than a distinction without a difference?"
Says the man without a job, kids, elderly parents or any kind of responsibilities.
Its not the physically changing the clocks thats the issue you idiot, its the general pointless hassle of it.
We're sick of it here in the UK too. The problem is some people who prefer lighter evenings want permanent BST, others like me who prefer lighter mornings want permanent GMT/UTC.
Its a known fact that a far greater proportion of CEOs are on the socio/psychopathic spectrum than the general population. Seems to me like this guy is way along it.
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
