Do yourself a favor and watch the entire back catalog. Not sure there’s anyone more creative than tom7 working right now.
SIGBOVIK is always fantastic, and Tom7 is consistently the star of the show
Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]
41–50 of 86 posts
Re: Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]
#42It'd be nice if there were a topic summary. What is this about? I'm not going to devote part of my day reading/watching something about chainsaws to understand what the topic is
Re: Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sort of like a really, really long delay-line memory tube, it's just mostly-vacuum instead of mostly-mercury... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory
OTOH, you’d be building one of the largest computers in the solar system. Count me in.
[dead]
Re: Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]
#44It'd be nice if there were a topic summary. What is this about? I'm not going to devote part of my day reading/watching something about chainsaws to understand what the topic is
Tom7's relatively small oeuvre of videos are frequently re-posted here and just as frequently re-upvoted, and they deserve to be.
Discovering what the video is about as it discursively unfolds is part of the joy. There comes a moment in every video (multiple moments, even) where you'll suddenly be like, "wait, I can't believe what you appear to be suggesting", only to find out that not only is he suggesting it, he actually implemented it. There are few video creators who are as attuned to the hacker mindset as Tom7; I decline to summarize and instead strongly recommend you watch it and find out for yourself. It's a video about the logistics of juggling a trillion chainsaws, in a manner of speaking.
Re: Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]
#45It'd be nice if there were a topic summary. What is this about? I'm not going to devote part of my day reading/watching something about chainsaws to understand what the topic is
Throwing chainsaws in space is probably a more reasonable "juggle" that for example using blockchains as mass storage. It's also probably cheaper for the environment to boot.
Re: Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]
#46It'd be nice if there were a topic summary. What is this about? I'm not going to devote part of my day reading/watching something about chainsaws to understand what the topic is
Tom7's relatively small oeuvre of videos are frequently re-posted here and just as frequently re-upvoted, and they deserve to be. Discovering what the video is about as it discursively unfolds is part of the joy. There comes a moment in every video (multiple moments, even) where you'll suddenly be like, "wait, I can't believe what you appear to be suggesting", only to find out that not only is he suggesting it, he ac…
Your comment makes it sound even less appealing since I avoid getting nerd sniped by my hacker mindset and go on to topics that actually interest me
Re: Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]
#47[dead]
Re: Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tom7's relatively small oeuvre of videos are frequently re-posted here and just as frequently re-upvoted, and they deserve to be. Discovering what the video is about as it discursively unfolds is part of the joy. There comes a moment in every video (multiple moments, even) where you'll suddenly be like, "wait, I can't believe what you appear to be suggesting", only to find out that not only is he suggesting it, he ac…
Your comment makes it sound even less appealing since I avoid getting nerd sniped by my hacker mindset and go on to topics that actually interest me
I don’t think Tom7 videos will ‘nerd snipe’ you. Nobody has watched a Tom7 video and thought ‘wait, I need to implement something like that’.
They will give you some things to think about, some new metaphors to use (you clearly like geeky creators who give you metaphors to employ since you are aware of XKCD’s ‘nerd sniping’), and they will entertain you.
Re: Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]
#49Do yourself a favor and watch the entire back catalog. Not sure there’s anyone more creative than tom7 working right now.
Seconded. My first experience with Tom7 was the "Super Mario Bros. is Easy with Lexicographic Orderings and Time Travel..." I've been hooked ever since.