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When the last company I worked for shut down (and hardware was going to get thrown out), I was given the opportunity to salvage whatever I wanted. One of our salesguys, in the laptop bag he left, had an external floppy drive, interfacing through USB.
It's the only floppy drive I still have to this day. I have used it, and it still worked when I last tried.
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I remember reading years ago that Japan was still very much committed to floppy disks, but were trying to move away from them. That, and fax machines.
Moving data, 1.44MB at a time...can you imagine this in 2024?
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On the positive side, it ensures that all submissions must fit in 1.44MB.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Some people would be in trouble. People have been taking for granted resources (storage, bandwidth, access speed, etc) are unlimited and you end up with the situation we have right now.
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I just got a SMS to say that they would be delivering a parcel to me between 07:24 and 10:24 today - which is fine, I understand the need for a reasonably sized delivery window.
Only thing is that it's 08:50 now, so the message is telling me that they could deliver the parcel an hour and a half ago ... 
I guess it's better than the usual message "We'll update the tracking once we've delivered the parcel" which is all they give you once they have received it into their system. Just not much. Computer systems don't seem to be their forté - Horizon anyone? 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I had a parcel coming via FedEx "Express" a couple of weeks ago. They said it would be delivered on Friday before 10pm, which was fine. About 3 'o'clock Friday afternoon they sent an email saying it would now be delivered the following Monday before 10pm; OK, they don't work weekends. On Monday morning I received an email saying it would now be delivered on Tuesday before 10pm. Well, Tuesday we were off to the Cornwall for a few days so I had to redirect it to a local collection point. Tuesday morning I got a message confirming that it would be delivered to said point, on Wednesday! When I arrived at the hotel later on Tuesday and checked my email I discovered it had been delivered that day (Tuesday) before we left home. Fortunately it was nothing urgent.
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I needed a part to sort out a telly problem in our social club. I would imagine the parcel ought to be small enough to go through a letter box. So I told them to deliver it there, rather than come to me first.
I also included full details of opening times in the delivery instructions section.
Yesterday's "We attempted delivery" message was timed at 7:05pm, when the Club was open.
So how exactly can you fail to deliver to an open boozer when even the lamest of buffoons must be able to see the lights on the the people inside?
Do delivery drivers perhaps have some vampire blood and are unable to cross the threshold unless invited?
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I can kinda understand that - if you get filmed going into a boozer in delivery uniform and then driving away, Tiktok isn't going to assume you were dropping off a small parcel! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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They also had the option of ringing the doorbell!
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Beware Griff, this evening they will send to jail, for stealing that package.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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OriginalGriff wrote: Only thing is that it's 08:50 now, so the message is telling me that they could deliver the parcel an hour and a half ago
I see that all the time. Seems like it shouldn't be that hard to substitute the earliest time with the current time if it's in the past, even if only so it doesn't look so dumb.
That, and the weather forecast saying the high's gonna be 24 today, but also reporting it's currently 27. Why not take a chance and report the high as 27 then...?
[Extended rant]
Is there any other job that allows you to be so wrong, so often, and yet remain employed?
I'd love to see someone collect weather forecast data and how it gets revised over time, and then after the fact, compare what was forecast with what you actually got, and plot a graph showing the deviation over time.
"They" keep saying forecasts are now more accurate than ever. I don't believe that for an instant, and I'd more readily believe forecasts were more accurate "back in the day" (whenever that might be).
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Oh man, I was so sure I had it that fourth guess!
And so close to us CPians too 
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That's already been used Sander
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I have my own IoT ecosystem, and often when I add to it I feel a little guilty.
Because half the time I am not creating something that's never been done. It's just never been done my way, or on the particular platforms I target, or whatever.
All of my touchpad drivers operate the same way, using the same basic interface. That was worth it to me to create drivers that were like that, so I could easily port my code to all the different IoT devices out there.
My graphics library was the first to support TrueType fonts on IoT and embedded without megs of PSRAM. My graphics library is still the only one to support SVG (yes, the graphical web technology) on the same. That was worth it to me.
I also try to defend it to myself before I make it. I just don't know if my reasons are rationalizations.
Particularly when my dependency graph on a typical project looks like this:
Dependency Graph
|-- htcw_esp_i2c @ 0.1.1
|-- htcw_esp_lcd_panel_ili9342 @ 0.2.0
|-- htcw_uix @ 0.15.4
|-- htcw_esp_wifi_manager @ 0.1.3
|-- htcw_esp_ntp_time @ 0.1.3
|-- htcw_bm8563 @ 0.1.6
|-- htcw_esp_ip_loc @ 0.1.2
|-- htcw_m5core2_power @ 0.1.4
|-- htcw_ft6336 @ 0.1.6
|-- htcw_gfx @ 1.670.2
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Still waiting for the first supply chain malware injection?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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and am now using uSoft Edge as my browser and I have to admit it's better than a sharp stick in the eye.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.4.0 (Many new features) JaxCoder.com
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What was your previous browser, and what led you to the conversion?
"A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants"
Chuckles the clown
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Chrome, then they wouldn't allow AdBlock so I went back to FF, which I had used for years.
Then I start having problems getting links to work, I was getting a lot of "That site can't be reached" errors so I went to Edge to see if it was a browser issue. I was still getting errors!
Turned out to be with the Server 2019 I have as a file server here at the house. For some reason it started having DNS issues and when I set my Windows 11 machine back to using Auto DHCP it cleared every up and it is now working for FF.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.4.0 (Many new features) JaxCoder.com
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Mike Hankey wrote: Chrome, then they wouldn't allow AdBlock
Eh? I run Chrome and have never had a problem with AdBlock - or at least uBlock - except with YT who have been running a blocker war for a year or two now*
Chrome has never refused to run it, and it "just works" with whitelists for sites like CP.
* YT appears to be losing, with updates within hours of them changing it - and the number of people who use ad blockers going up because they had never heard of them before YT started trying to ban them ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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