[jcgrillo]

> "Wow. I mean I thought we were moving on to AI. So why are we doing floppy disk," said Katie Guillen, SFMTA passenger.

This naivety is not Katie's fault. We who work in tech are to blame for constantly pushing our half-baked experimental garbage as if it was "engineering" on par with civil or aeronautical systems. We can't blame people for occasionally believing the lies.

The tech-washed version of this quote might go something like "wow I thought everything was moving to the multi-cloud serverless kooberneetus now, why is it still running on a computer?"

> It is easy to run a secure computer system. You merely have to disconnect all dial-up connections and permit only direct-wired terminals, put the machine and its terminals in a shielded room, and post a guard at the door[1].

This is the kind of thing I want running the trains. Give it ECC RAM too, please.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(cryptographer...