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When I was working in vfx we employed a guy who's sole job was to fly back and forth from LA to Melbourne with pelican cases full of hard drives. It was faster
by diveanon 6y ago
When I was working in vfx we employed a guy who's sole job was to fly back and forth from LA to Melbourne with pelican cases full of hard drives.
It was faster and more secure since we were working on air gapped networks.
- raihansaputra 6y agoThat feels like a dream job for a temporary amount of time. And very effective too. I assume the VFX studio is in Melbourne?
- bronco21016 6y agoMaybe if they’re flying first class? Otherwise that sounds like a nightmare that would require an insanely high paycheck.
- Raidion 6y agoIf you're flying back and forth on that route that often, you're going to get upgraded quickly, I would imagine. I've done 6 flights a month domestic and have been upgraded to first class for free fairly often.
- bronco21016 6y agoDepends on the rewards program I suppose. A US airline I’m familiar with does not upgrade frequent fliers on international flights.
- disillusioned 6y agoYou're allowed to say their name here.
- gruez 6y ago>Otherwise that sounds like a nightmare that would require an insanely high paycheck. If the courier in question is 6'2" that might be the case, but I suspect if the person was much smaller and is a heavy sleeper, that it wouldn't be too bad.
- diveanon 6y agoHe was a writer, and seemed to enjoy the job
- bronco21016 6y agoAs a person of 6’0” I found the flight from LAX to SYD, and return, miserable in coach. I slept a lot and watched some movies but any way you cut it that is a long time to be sitting in a very uncomfortable seat.
- lostlogin 6y agoIn the before times I flew Auckland to Doha over 20ish hours. I can’t believe anyone likes flying, every bit of it is awful. I’m 1.97m or so and it’s really not designed for me. I suspect it’s optimised for those at 1.6-1.7m.
- 0x10c0fe11ce 6y ago1.75m here and coach sucks for me too. For that reason and social distancing I just bought a car that can drive me to places I’d usually fly, in much more comfort.
- nine_k 6y agoIt's an ideal job if all you need is hours of concentration, reading, and writing or drawing. A writer, a PhD student with a laptop, a comic book author, etc. Or, maybe, even a Zen monk who spends time meditating.
- diveanon 6y agoYeah one location in LA and another in Melbourne so that we had 24 hour coverage.
- dmix 6y agoOnly if it was before American TSA which sounds like it was. Now flying that much must suck cuz murcia. And you know real threats combined with gov agencies flailing about to pretend they are doing something about it. (Most of the stuff that worked had nothing to do with TSA adopted tech).
- diveanon 6y agoFrequent fliers are still a thing. Your post is ill informed FUD.
- dmix 6y agoStill sounds like an awful job to me flying that much. Not sure why people said it was a good thing to do. You'd be bored of the process within a couple months and hating planes and airport... unless you're a certain type of person. A lot of traveling sales guys have talked about this.
- jmnicolas 6y agoDream job to spend hours and hours in a plane? Then more hours clearing customs? Thanks but no thanks.
- kilroy123 6y agoBut Americans going to Australia just pass through a computerized system. You don't even have to talk to anyone. I agree with OP, if this was a first class flight, it wouldn't be a bad gig.
- harikb 6y agoHopefully this was cabin baggage and not something left unattended for minutes on the baggage belt
- kortilla 6y agoUnattended for 14+ hours you mean. A baggage handler on the departing side could be bribed to steal it and you would have half a day of unfettered access before the courier on the plane even knew it was missing. Of course you don’t check it if it’s that critical.
- diveanon 6y agoTransport security wasn't as big a concern as consistent delivery. Network volitility is a huge problem when transferring huge files.
- closeparen 6y agoIs the internet in Australia really less reliable than airline on-time performance?
- diveanon 6y agoTime is one factor, it's also surprisingly easy to corrupt vfx master files with just a few missing bits. Checksums will identify something went wrong, and then you need to redownload the file to a quarantine network and scan it. Takes time. Much easier to go from trusted source to trusted source and verify the files on drive prior to shipping. Amazon just released a device (forget the name) for exactly the same use case. We developed it in house. Not to mention most major studios will contractually prevent you from exposing anything to the web.
- itismetheidiot 6y agoFYR Amazon has the AWS Snow Family with the largest being a 45ft TEU, while Microsoft does Azure Data Boxes that are somewhat smaller.
- 867-5309 6y agoI wonder if tapes are more prone to some form of driveby attack, whereby instead of requiring physical or remote access to a location, a strong enough magnetic field within a certain distance of a datacentre could penetrate bricks and mortar and render them useless I'm envisioning a huge device in the back of a van which pulses a powerful beam, similar to typical movies (Oceans 11?) cutting the power to a bank / casino prior to a raid
- t-writescode 6y agoAre you familiar with the story of the force field generated at the 3M plant apparently in 1980? It would probably take more power than that to do what is being suggested from the distances that are being suggested. I'm not sure it's feasible.
- rkagerer 6y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/ElectroBOOM/comments/9jig1l/can_you_confirmdebunk_the_3m_electrostatic/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectroBOOM/comments/9jig1l/can_you...