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Technology · Infrastructure
Payroll, pensions and the water bills of a small country still run on code older than the engineers maintaining it. Meet the night shift that keeps it alive.
Technology · Engineering
…readings mean are not, and there are fewer of them every year. The result is a great deal of infrastructure that is, in the technical sense, monitored, and in every practical sense, not. The quietest hour Calloway’s plots…
Politics · Government
…the finance ministry say so, often. Liesel Moravec, the opposition bloc’s spokeswoman on infrastructure, argues that the cure is to take the department’s core maintenance budget out of the annual fight altogether,…
Politics · Water
…anyone who paid in advance. The last meter The decision belongs to Corran City Council, whose infrastructure committee published three options in February and will put one of them to the full council in May. The first leaves…
Ideas · Work
…meets after midnight. What strikes me, reading their stories, is how little of the night’s infrastructure was ever designed. Nearly all of it is improvised, by night workers themselves, out of whatever the day left behind.…