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The really fun aspect of this for me, personally, is that I've been doing computers for ages (25 yrs or so?) now and 3TiB still intuitively feels like a massive
by lomnakkus 11y ago
The really fun aspect of this for me, personally, is that I've been doing computers for ages (25 yrs or so?) now and 3TiB still intuitively feels like a massive amount of data even though I think I have something like 6TiB free space on my home server disks... which, in total, didn't even cost as much as a months' grocery shopping. Sometimes it really takes effort to rid yourself of these old intuitions that don't really work any more.
(I'm getting better at it!)
EDIT: And my desktop machine has -- let's see -- about 500000 times the RAM my first computer had. Truly astounding if you think about it.
- 7952 11y agoI can remember going through this with a 10MB file about 15 year ago. It felt like a lot after growing up with floppy disks. But even a modest CPU could iterate over it quickly, I just didn't realise. I just assumed I would need to process it in a database!
- lomnakkus 11y agoExactly! On a somewhat related note: The original Another World[1] would probably fit into the caches that your CPU has as a matter of course these days. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgkf6wooDmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgkf6wooDmw
- aidenn0 11y agoMy first hard drive was only 2MB larger than the caches on my CPU.