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EkpyroticFrood

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Dad, Nope to Religion, Full Stack Web Developer, HOBBY Robot Builder and Game Developer, Doctor Who fan and general all around nerd.

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if I had a lot more time I think I might write a book on my ideas about "adversarial automation".

The idea that the point of computers is to help the humans do their job faster and easier, and sometimes the computer or the software on it is the enemy in that battle.

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@foone You are basically describing my full time job. Just the automation is for internal systems, that are ancient and horrible. They do often complain that I’m sending them too much traffic, but that is because nearly all of the usage of their system is via my automation and the simple user interfaces I created for it.

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Bad idea: an external floppy drive that can appear as a mass storage device of arbitrary size. The way it works is it has a little screen, and you use that to configure how big you want it to be, then it formats the proper number of 3.5" floppy disks.
Then when the PC tries to read a sector that's not on the current disk, the display will just prompt you to insert disk or whatever.

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@foone so just like a tape library robot thing but with lower density media and I am the robot? When our AI overlords take over I hope I can get the job of floppy disk swapper.

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