Pretty sure unclean unmount potential just rose immensely. Whoops, the sticky note fell off… just lost data / corrupted my filesystem.
Why not use file system that can handle such misuse? Aren't there transactional file systems?
DataStickies: USB drives as sticky notes
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#52Obviously this isn't feasible right now (and probably won't ever be), but this is great out-of-the-box thinking.
I think it's super important to have creatives like designers and science fiction writers conjure a wonderful future as it is exciting and inspiring. Not all of it will make sense (flying cars anybody?), but it capture the imagination.
Full disclosure - I'm not a creative (I wish I was more creative), but just think it's important to have perspective
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#53Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Apparently adverts for products which don't exist and never will exist are also nearly indistinguishable from adverts for advanced technology.
i do not understand the negativity in here. literally the very first line of their copy is
> dataSTICKIES: A design concept conceptualised as graphene-based flash drives that replace USB data drives.
i see this as an appealing visualisation of "if technology gave us storage materials of this form, how might we design a product based around it?", in much the same way that science fiction extrapolates tech advances and tries to imagine devices using them.
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#54Pretty sure unclean unmount potential just rose immensely. Whoops, the sticky note fell off… just lost data / corrupted my filesystem.
Why not use file system that can handle such misuse? Aren't there transactional file systems?
There is no transactional filesystem that works cross-platform. And even if, say, you stick to ntfs, no filesystem in the world can protect against data loss in the event of accidental disconnect.
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#55Even though the concept as shown is impossible right now, you can make a USB flash drive that's under a mm thick. Then just glue some paper to one side and you're practically done.
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#56Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Apparently adverts for products which don't exist and never will exist are also nearly indistinguishable from adverts for advanced technology.
i do not understand the negativity in here. literally the very first line of their copy is > dataSTICKIES: A design concept conceptualised as graphene-based flash drives that replace USB data drives. i see this as an appealing visualisation of "if technology gave us storage materials of this form, how might we design a product based around it?", in much the same way that science fiction extrapolates tech advances and…
HN has become a site where most of the comments are severely lacking in imagination.
I suppose that's inevitable in the long run.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not use file system that can handle such misuse? Aren't there transactional file systems?
There is no transactional filesystem that works cross-platform. And even if, say, you stick to ntfs, no filesystem in the world can protect against data loss in the event of accidental disconnect.
> There is no transactional filesystem that works cross-platform
Frankly I don't see how this is a problem for a project that wants to implement 4GB stick-it notes, doesn't seem to be the greatest challenge.
> no filesystem in the world can protect against data loss in the event of accidental disconnect
If note falls off and copying didn't finish, sure you'd expect to lose data. Otherwise if cache is disabled there shouldn't be a problem.
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#58Even though the concept as shown is impossible right now, you can make a USB flash drive that's under a mm thick. Then just glue some paper to one side and you're practically done.
The bit that I liked in the OA was the way you could mount the data sticky by popping it on the bottom bezel of the computer like a fridge magnet. I imagine wifi and some processing capacity in the sticky, perhaps power over radio from the PC?
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#59Why are so many people naysaying this? We have NFC, we have super slim (and super thin) consumer-accessible memory cards. The magnetism bit might be a little tricky (getting the object to stick to the data reading surface), but why is this so far-fetched? What they say aside (it seems that they are designers, not really engineers) -- saying this could never exist is an over-step
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#60I ordered some via Amazon Prime Air and am convinced they'll arrive by 2037.