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I no longer believe storage capacity growth will follow an exponential increase curve like it did in previous decades. If you look at the last 5-10 years you’ll
by jl6 5y ago
I no longer believe storage capacity growth will follow an exponential increase curve like it did in previous decades. If you look at the last 5-10 years you’ll see far slower growth than in the decade prior to that.
So I believe we must still strive for a degree of storage efficiency.
- blitzar 5y agoIs there an environmental argument (reduce waste, save the planet) to be made at some point? There are many, possibly exagerated, pieces about the energy savings from something as simple as 'dark-mode'. These small changes if scaled to billions of users and hours represent a meaningful impact.
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