Technology

Punch cards, you see it in the upper left corner.

First time I’ve heard a floppy disk being referred to as reliable

Old tech still requires maintenance and replacement parts. This tech is so old that they can't effectively provide either. I 100% agree with you that you don't want to "move fast and break things" but there does need to be a program to upgrade over time to deal with the maintenance and replacement problems, as well as improve capabilities and safety. The fact that some ATC systems completely crashed in recent months, leaving air traffic in a very dangerous state, is evidence of this problem.

Floppy disks are not reliable!

Moving away from floppy discs in 2026 is moving fast and breaking things? Peak Lemmy moment.

The floppy disk is 60 years old. In which universe is migrating away from 60-year-old technology "moving fast and breaking stuff"?!

Sorry but 'Floppy' and 'reliable' in the same sentence... is odd.

It's not so much that new tech is bad ... new tech could be made to be ten times safer than what we have now.

The problem is that the new tech is controlled by psychopaths who want to squeeze as much profit out of everything imaginable ... imagine all that new tech controlling air traffic but its all locked up by proprietary software that would hold entire airports, agencies and governments hostage, or be made available to the highest bidder and even for international opponents or enemies ... and all of it up for grabs for profit and regardless of morals, ethics or human decency.

Floppy discs reliable? I remember mine not working if I transported them in my backpack when it was cold outside. They came back to life when "thawed", but I'd prefer airliners use something better!

Billionaires start dropping out of the sky because ChatGPT told them to nose dive into the tarmac.

I hear AI would make a great traffic controller. Surely you wouldn't regret replacing human traffic controllers with AI.

Yeah, didn't Japan recently make a move away from floppys too for sone goverment stuff? Big floppy is going to take a dive on the stock market.

Goodbye S&P500 floppy was its last true champion.

It's way more common than you think.

If something works then you don't need to fix it.

There was actually a benefit to being behind the curve on this.

The scheduling is done on modern machines, the actual flight control console is a glorified comms station with a very beefy audio recorder.

It's built to last, and to be as reliable as possible, while still being repairable by a skilled technician.

Any update needs to be as solid and reliable as what it replaces. That's the key, not being advanced or some shit.

It really is a crazy country. I can't imagine the stress of living there.

It's fairly typical of aviation around the world

Old is safe, and if it's reliable, why change it?

We just add new layers on top of the old system

For the record, whole lot of planes using floppy disks too

The US needed floppy disc to launch nukes until a few years ago.

Still, not really US exclusive. The German Navy also still uses them.