Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need (2022) [pdf]
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#2There's a fantastic associated YouTube video that talks through these too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio
It's a rabbit hole that had be fascinated for quite a while.
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#3Tom7 is the goat. Love his videos.
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#4Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30974165
Tom7 content deserves being posted every day though.
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#5Google calendar fs, using Google calendar to store data in events, was inspired by this. Any others?
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#6Figure 1 is somehow beautiful in it's chaotic dis/organised structure, a representation of the whole internet, something which us humans now so heavily rely on
ipv6 yadda yadda yadda
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#7I think this is a candidate for best two sentence combo ever written:
So we have 1 million chainsaws per second, for 335.36 hours, which is 1.215 × 10^12, a configuration known as tera-wield. This requires expert juggling skills.
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#8For those who might not be aware, early computer memory relied on essentially the same principle:
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#9Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30974165 Tom7 content deserves being posted every day though.
Wish Lorem Epsum became a real phrase as well.
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#10I think this is a candidate for best two sentence combo ever written: So we have 1 million chainsaws per second, for 335.36 hours, which is 1.215 × 10^12, a configuration known as tera-wield. This requires expert juggling skills.
The straightfaced and unhinged nature of the chainsaw section reminds me of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and probably some Kurt Vonnegut stuff. I love this style of writing.