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You classifying 11 writes per second as "heavy use" reminds me of how people on average completely underestimate how fast computers actually are (when they're n
by majewsky 6y ago
You classifying 11 writes per second as "heavy use" reminds me of how people on average completely underestimate how fast computers actually are (when they're not bogged down by crappy programs).
- mixmastamyk 6y agoI don't believe the grandparent's simulation actually took three years, it was likely operations with a particular data size that was tested. Still, your main point stands. Around 2001 I wrote a C-program to record every file and size on a large hard disk. We were all amazed that it finished (seemingly) before the enter key had come back up. Must be a bug somewhere, right? Nope. Much earlier I wrote a Pascal program on a 486 in school that did some calculations over and over again, writing the output to the screen. It blew my mind then how fast the computer could do it.