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[–] [email protected] 118 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the hiway.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] FuglyDuck 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Peregrine falcons FTL…

(There’s this fat fucker that hunts off our building’s rooftop. It waits for a pigeon to strike the neighboring buildings windows and scoops them up. Some how it’s reassuring to know that humans aren’t the only lazy animals. Peregrine are freaking cool though.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That's smart predator behavior! Cull the stupid and injured. Save energy and reduce risk. Live long and prosper.

[–] FuglyDuck 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, it is.

I just wish the neighbors building wasn’t so prone to window strikes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There might be a way to fix that. Determine whether the glass is invisible or mirrored (or becomes so, as the sun moves). If it's males attacking "rivals," letting light shine out might help. If it looks like you could fly through it, closing blinds might help. The neighbors might be willing to try, if they're tired of being startled by thumping birds.

[–] FuglyDuck 3 points 2 days ago

Yup. Unfortunately…. They don’t care. The only reason they’d consider it would be to reduce the window cleaning bill.

At least Hank gets something out of it; (yup. We’ve nicknamed the chonker Hank The Tank)

[–] FuglyDuck 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Ages ago, there was a time where my dad would mail back up tapes for offsite storage because their databases were large enough that it was faster to put it through snail mail.

It should also be noted his databases were huge, (they’d be bundled into 70 pound packages and shipped certified.)

[–] Valmond 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Just a couple of years ago I was sent a dataset by mail, around 1TB on a hard drive.

Later I worked on visualization of large datasets, we didn't have the space to store them locally because they were up to a PB.

[–] FuglyDuck 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We’re storing data in peanut butter? Please tell me there’s jam involved.

/j it’s amazing we’re talking about petabytes. My first computer had like 600 meg. (Pentium 486 cobbled out of spare- old- parts from my dad’s ~~junk~~”Parts” rack.)

[–] Valmond 4 points 3 days ago

😁 ya my first "computer" was a ZX-81 with 1kB of ram, type too much and it was full! A card with a whopping 16kB later came to the rescue.

It's been a wild time in history.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Mail dataset in standard-compliant way. Like RFC1149. Don't forget that carrier should be avian carrier.

we didn't have the space to store them locally because they were up to a PB.

Local is very vague word. It can be argued, that anything, that doesn't fit into L1 cache is not local.

[–] Valmond 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Local as not in the building in that case :-)

RFC1149 lol yeah wasn't that a norwegian experiment at some sub-bits per second? Thanks for making me remember!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Some african with megabits per second. Which was much faster than any local ISP.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm laughing my ass off at this

Edit:

https://chatgpt.com/share/671da57b-5fe4-8005-bdba-68b69f398c72

Still fucking amazing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Awesome bandwidth to be sure, but I do think there is a difference between data transfer to RAM (such as network traffic) vs. traffic purely from one location to another (station wagon with tapes/747 with SD cards/etc.).

For the latter, actually using the data in any meaningful way is probably limited to read time of the media, which is likely slow.

But yeah, my go-to would be micro SD cards on a plane :)

[–] FuglyDuck 3 points 3 days ago

Well, it depends on the purpose of the data. If it’s meant as an offsite backup… well… you’re probably it driving them just down the street anyway.

[–] TriflingToad 3 points 3 days ago

or a train full of dudes jorking it like that one NSFW copypasta