Articles about things killing workplace morale are killing workplace morale.
irdc
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I’m sure your colleagues will want one too when they see you using one :)
Such retention times are often probabilistic (ie. some percentage of bits have retained their proper value) and an "up to" value, which is negatively influenced by such things as the storage temperature and background radiation.
In practice, it might be that the only useful retention time is only a small digit number of years.
How many do you need? If it’s for a prototype, scavenging them from retail hardware isn’t necessarily a bad idea.
I misread this as stimulate and thought to myself that doing so would be highly appropriate for documented virgin Isaac Newton.
TBH one could argue its arguments were never valid. There’s no way to incrementally extend IPv4, because every endpoint still on the “old” version will be unable to talk to endpoints on the “new” version. That's was much true 20 years ago as it is today.
I can stop whenever I want!
What’s the matter with that if that is what they (the individual women and the Japanese government creating the circumstances) want?
Why would cats keep humans? It’s not as if they like us or anything….oh wait.
It doesn’t help that photography historically had (and still has?) a problem with dark skin.
The lesson that technology isn’t neutral by definition is one that we would do well to heed with all this machine learning going on.
Having grown up with them, to me floppies still feel like something special, unlike later more capacious media. The fact that a floppy’s storage is so limited provides an upper bound to the complexity of dealing with it: one physical object represents one (or a small set of) digital document(s); my mind intuitively understands this fact. Whereas a multi-megabyte USB stick or multi-gigabyte cloud drive sure is more convenient but less simple, requiring me to rely on metaphor instead of physicality.
This to me is the main draw of retrocomputing: it originates from a time when computing was too simple to provide much in the way of learned metaphors, instead having to rely on intuitive physicality. Maybe that’s something we’ve lost along the way.