Data centers contain 90% crap data
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Data centers contain 90% crap data
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Re: Data centers contain 90% crap data
#2Don't forget emails.. I have everything I ever sent or received, and I have it backed up. I expect 90% of my inbox is the jpg signature logo they attach to the bottom of my clients email rather than hyperlink.
Re: Data centers contain 90% crap data
#3Don't forget emails.. I have everything I ever sent or received, and I have it backed up. I expect 90% of my inbox is the jpg signature logo they attach to the bottom of my clients email rather than hyperlink.
That's not even crap data - that's archived data that might be useful someday (though de-dupe is probably a great idea and email sigs are definitely wasteful trash) - most of the crap data is things that would never have been useful under any circumstances.
I have cleaned up dozens of product databases in cost management efforts and have found anywhere from 50-99% of data stored in product databases is crap, because they are not well managed and any single mistake can lead to a huge outsized impact on storage.
What to log all those http requests for just a day? Might as well turn that on for all time...
Re: Data centers contain 90% crap data
#4Don't forget emails.. I have everything I ever sent or received, and I have it backed up. I expect 90% of my inbox is the jpg signature logo they attach to the bottom of my clients email rather than hyperlink.
I ended up working on some software and I was deemed the email guy (it's a very small % of my job but it is the biggest pain).
"I need an email when this happens.. and when this happens."
The requests are endless and I'm convinced there are people who if they could would do their entire job from their inbox and get everything and anything an application can do via email.
The insidious problem is that it never solves anything. "I didn't get the email!" is a constant refrain (yes they did, they always did). "Oh someone didn't do the thing so can you add this to the email too." and so on.
It is such an abused tool.
Re: Data centers contain 90% crap data
#5Don't forget emails.. I have everything I ever sent or received, and I have it backed up. I expect 90% of my inbox is the jpg signature logo they attach to the bottom of my clients email rather than hyperlink.
Well "the cloud" will generally store exactly one logical copy of your static jpg, one of the reasons why clouds are pretty good for efficiency.
There is really no sense at all in the article's claims that "we are destroying the environment" to do x y and z thing the author whines about. We are destroying the environment to drive a Dodge Ram to the Circle K to buy a 52oz Polar Pop. Information sector doesn't even show up on top ten lists of things that are destroying the environment.
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#6Surely a few more nines if the base rate is already Sturgeon.
Re: Data centers contain 90% crap data
#7Don't forget emails.. I have everything I ever sent or received, and I have it backed up. I expect 90% of my inbox is the jpg signature logo they attach to the bottom of my clients email rather than hyperlink.
It's probably deduplicated on the server though, so the millions and millions of messages with that logo likely share the same piece of disk space. Probably one reason why free providers don't tend to offer End-to-End encryption. It prevents deduplication (and otherwise compressing redundant information).
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#8Don't forget emails.. I have everything I ever sent or received, and I have it backed up. I expect 90% of my inbox is the jpg signature logo they attach to the bottom of my clients email rather than hyperlink.
I ended up working on some software and I was deemed the email guy (it's a very small % of my job but it is the biggest pain). "I need an email when this happens.. and when this happens." The requests are endless and I'm convinced there are people who if they could would do their entire job from their inbox and get everything and anything an application can do via email. The insidious problem is that it never solves…
> The requests are endless and I'm convinced there are people who if they could would do their entire job from their inbox and get everything and anything an application can do via email.
That sounds like a reasonable goal for a whole lot of job duties. And yes some entire office jobs. (Excluding some direct human communication but a lot of jobs already have too much of that in situations that could have been an email.)
> "I didn't get the email!" is a constant refrain (yes they did, they always did).
Well having to manually check wouldn't improve that, would it?
Re: Data centers contain 90% crap data
#9Must be more, surely.
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#10Fortunately with LLM's we can generate data and not store it. If you think about it that means articles could always be relevant with additional details added as time goes on.