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Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]

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Re: Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]

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Post by flexagoon »

kristopolous wrote: post #69
kryptn wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not a good summary of this video. I wonder how much other content you've skipped because some AI told you it was something it wasn't.

I skipped it because it's 40 minutes long and I had lots of things to do. I used the AI tool because I didn't expect anyone else to take their time to explain it and the 19 page pdf seems to be meandering without a coherent thesis. So the answer to your question is 0 because that's not what happened.

Mhm, that's called "entertainment". If you don't have 40 minutes (or 20 on 2x) to spend on something that isn't work, that's pretty sad.

Re: Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]

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Post by kmarc »

This is the first time I encounter a tom7 content. I expected a fun, nerdy video.

I walk away with goosebumps, cathartic feelings. I didn't see it coming how the end switches to a pretty serious topic. The whole composition is award winning in my mind, but then he also put a ton of engineering effort in it, at a level of quality that I could at most wish that I could achieve in a lifetime.

Wow.

Re: Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]

#73

Post by kroltan »

kmarc wrote: post #72

This is the first time I encounter a tom7 content. I expected a fun, nerdy video. I walk away with goosebumps, cathartic feelings. I didn't see it coming how the end switches to a pretty serious topic. The whole composition is award winning in my mind, but then he also put a ton of engineering effort in it, at a level of quality that I could at most wish that I could achieve in a lifetime. Wow.

My favourite feature of this video is that he uses the "Network Block Device Kit" to make a kit of 3 drives, each using one of those words as the main point:

"Network" storage, "Block" storage, and "Device" storage.

Re: Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]

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Post by fnord77 »

ChrisClark wrote: post #38
fnord77 wrote: post #20

is there a TL;DW on this? I don't have the patience for these long drawn out videos with bad audio.

Unfortunately no. With a short attention span, you will just have to miss out on what makes his videos awesome. For this type of thing, making it accessible for you would ruin the magic.

So I sat down and watched the entire thing. I didn't find it awesome or magical. Just annoyed that he stretched a concept that could be explained in 60 to 120 seconds into a whole lot of unentertaining, onanistic nonsense.

Re: Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]

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Post by parkerside »

The basic premise of the ping-based drive, taking advantage of ephemeral media i.e. transmission time of a packet, was the idea behind clacks (https://github.com/AlexanderParker/clacks). I got excited to see someone else had a similar idea and explored it.

My approach was more as a p2p system of mutual random packet bouncing rather than using ICMP ping.

Edit to add: I simulated a network of peers and rendered some videos of a single message propagating through the network: https://github.com/AlexanderParker/clacks-tests/blob/main/pr...

Recovering your file in this way would take some time... "Eventually" you'll get it back...

Re: Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]

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Post by 12_throw_away »

Need to praise the inception here - the whole time I was watching it, I was feeling clever, thinking "all of these silly and wasteful methods for storing data are still pretty efficient compared to 'blockchain'".

Then it turns out that that that was secretly the whole point :)

Re: Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video]

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Post by [deleted] »

flexagoon wrote: post #71
kristopolous wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I skipped it because it's 40 minutes long and I had lots of things to do. I used the AI tool because I didn't expect anyone else to take their time to explain it and the 19 page pdf seems to be meandering without a coherent thesis. So the answer to your question is 0 because that's not what happened.

Mhm, that's called "entertainment". If you don't have 40 minutes (or 20 on 2x) to spend on something that isn't work, that's pretty sad.

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