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You know... I'm thinking about all the times I've heard people laugh that I have four full shelves of computer books. Hardcopy books. Actual books. It reminds

You know... I'm thinking about all the times I've heard people laugh that I have four full shelves of computer books. Hardcopy books. Actual books. It reminds me of how people used to laugh at me for wearing my neck protector on my body armor in Iraq and the Philippines. It wasn't required to wear it, but I always did. People laughed, until they heard about a friend of mine whose neck was ripped open by shrapnel that would have been stopped by the same protector. He bled out on a random, dirty street in Baghdad. I'll take hardcopy, thanks.

hga 11y ago
As someone who started using tape backup in 1978 (sic) and first bought body armor in 1984 (sic), yeah, I hear you. And my personal anecdote is how multiple forms of backups saved my critical data from this: http://www.ancell-ent.com/1715_Rex_Ave_127B_Joplin/images/ http://www.ancell-ent.com/1715_Rex_Ave_127B_Joplin/images/ (rsync.net, since the disk backups in the bathroom got trashed). Fortunately haven't had to put body armor to real use. But between the way I prefer to use many computer books (multiple windows on a big screen), the ease of saving them to multiple backup sites (every time I buy digital media I upload copies to rsync.net and ironically Amazon's free (5GiB?) service, plus they're in my normal backup systems), how fast their content gets obsolete, and their lower price, I tend to buy them. But only for the perishable stuff, I get e.g. CS books in hard cover. As I noted elsewhere, you also want those physical shelves backed up by a good insurance policy, and for you I recommend USAA, my father started with them in the 50s, and especially due to tornadoes and the like we've had to make a lot of claims.
- teddyh 11y ago
  (Note: “Sic” doesn’t mean what you think it means.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic

hga 11y ago

As someone who started using tape backup in 1978 (sic) and first bought body armor in 1984 (sic), yeah, I hear you. And my personal anecdote is how multiple forms of backups saved my critical data from this: http://www.ancell-ent.com/1715_Rex_Ave_127B_Joplin/images/ http://www.ancell-ent.com/1715_Rex_Ave_127B_Joplin/images/ (rsync.net, since the disk backups in the bathroom got trashed). Fortunately haven't had to put body armor to real use. But between the way I prefer to use many computer books (multiple windows on a big screen), the ease of saving them to multiple backup sites (every time I buy digital media I upload copies to rsync.net and ironically Amazon's free (5GiB?) service, plus they're in my normal backup systems), how fast their content gets obsolete, and their lower price, I tend to buy them. But only for the perishable stuff, I get e.g. CS books in hard cover. As I noted elsewhere, you also want those physical shelves backed up by a good insurance policy, and for you I recommend USAA, my father started with them in the 50s, and especially due to tornadoes and the like we've had to make a lot of claims.

teddyh 11y ago
(Note: “Sic” doesn’t mean what you think it means.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic