This must unironically be the first “big data”, where it is cheaper to move the computation than the data.
DAMNIT KEVIN STOP LEAVING THE FUCKING DRAWERS OPEN
seems like it came straight from harry potter
Very Brazil
Damn what a brilliant film
My first thought also
Not enough pipes!
Hey! Prague was one of the last cities ever to operate a public pneumatic mail system (until 2002).
When people ask me why I so very much want to go there, I always respond “Why the Prague not?”
“Why the Prague not?”
Very Praguematic.
One step further back, very Orwellian, or even Kafkaesque.
Kafka was from Prague, probably no coincidence!
🎵They say the world looks down on the bureaucrats,
They say we’re anal, compulsive, and weird,
But when push comes to shove,
You’ve got to do what you love,
Even if it’s not a good idea!🎵I am Bender, please insert girder
wes Anderson, is all I’m saying
Or Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
This is what SQL took away from us. Never forget.
But how? This looks way more efficient.
Now the drop table is merely a database command instead of a table actually falling down from an elevator failure.
It’s less fun, but ultimately saved lives
But at what cost…
That looks kinda dope ngl.
I’d be a 1937 file clerkYou’re gonna have a real blast in 5 years
2 years.
alright, I’ll bite, what do you mean.
He’s just saying it’ll be great when there’s some management changes and you’ll get promoted to chief Jewish inspector … That is if you know German and aren’t Jewish yourself.
im so austrian i forgot ww2 existed for a second
Well you guys technically didnt exist during the war itself so fair enough.
meanwhile, i cant wait to find out how we cause ww 3 too
all “good” things come in three ehProbably some damned silly thing in the Balkans.
Probably by accidentally invading Lichtenstein and through a comedy of errors Milan gets nuked or something.
1942 is the middle of WW2. 1937 in Central Europe is not somewhere i want live, because things are about to go sideways.
im an austrian woman, im fine, for the most part
Except for the German soldiers “quartering” in your bedroom.
“The offices of the Central Social Institution of Prague, Czechoslovakia with the largest vertical letter file in the world. Consisting of cabinets arranged from floor to ceiling tiers covering over 4000 square feet containing over 3000 drawers 10 feet long. It has electric operated elevator desks which rise, fall and move left or right at the push of a button. to stop just before drawer desired. The drawers also open and close electronically. Thus work which formerly taxed 400 workers is now done by 20 with a minimum of effort.
Workers of the Adeptus Administratum. Terra, 937.M1
Part of me wistfully mourns for the loss of edifices like this, caused by computers. Another part recognizes that those guys would probably have given their left nut to get out of those desks and in front of a computer.
I’m sitting here wondering what modern safety programs would find wrong with the processes involved here. Looks amazing though.
The obvious one is an enclosure or latches door to prevent accidental falls. They might be wearing fall protection that we can’t see but I doubt it.
There’s a good chance nobody ever fell from one of these but those regulations exist for a reason.
Maybe less obvious is fail-safes for any elevator system so if the brakes fail it doesn’t freefall into the ground.
Scientists in 1985: “This data can now all fit on a machine-readable 12-cm plastic disk with an access time of seconds, not minutes.”
Central Insurance Institute in Prague-Smíchov 30 years later:
Don’t see an easy way of walking around those counterweights as it looks pretty tight or you get smacked in the chin as he suddenly rockets up
Here’s a video of them in action - you can see the Nazis tried to create popular high-budget movies despite the war costs. They weren’t very fast even back in the day and now that they are only used for historical records, they probably go even slower. I’m pretty sure their usage is very restricted and still they likely needed an exception from the European equivalent of OSHA.
No shit? I always wondered where Futurama got the floating buerocrats from.
I’m glad they kept the cabinets grey
I can see how that’d inspire Kafka
Made in 1936 and Kafka died in 1924. He would probably have die in a concentration camp if he lived to see this. Still, there must have been other bizarre filing systems in his era, a multi-story vertical conveyor belt of filing cabinets is used in some town halls to this day.
Nazis did not give special treatment to Jewish writers, for example Josef Čapek
They kind of did. The Nazis started out by hunting down and imprisoning or killing academics. If you were smart and educated, and not well connected inside the Nazi party, then you were enemy number one at the start of their takeover.
Yeah, that kind of special treatment, absolutely. But once in a concentration camp, you’d be just another subject with a number, albeit likely a lower one.
The guys got replaced by a needle
What kind?
On a hard drive
What Terry Gilliam movie is this from?
Brazil?
