Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need (2022) [pdf]

  • There's a fantastic associated YouTube video that talks through these too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio

    It's a rabbit hole that had be fascinated for quite a while.

  • For those who might not be aware, early computer memory relied on essentially the same principle:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory

  • Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30974165

    Tom7 content deserves being posted every day though.

  • I think this is a candidate for best two sentence combo ever written:

    So we have 1 million chainsaws per second, for 335.36 hours, which is 1.215 × 10^12, a configuration known as tera-wield. This requires expert juggling skills.

  • Google calendar fs, using Google calendar to store data in events, was inspired by this. Any others?

  • Tom7 is the goat. Love his videos.

  • Figure 1 is somehow beautiful in it's chaotic dis/organised structure, a representation of the whole internet, something which us humans now so heavily rely on

    ipv6 yadda yadda yadda

  • Nice grapixhs