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They are at 30 presently. The "standard" is somewhere around 300-500 which, again, is acceptable for cold storage at the current tape drive size of 10-30tb.

There are minimums expected as density increases. Cold storage / backup still needs this to be viable.

You need to put the capacity into perspective with the storage speed. The comment I made simply highlighted the issue with an extreme example... For the reasoning provided. And as someone who's worked with emerging tech before... 30 Mbps is their ideal lap time in a lab environment. Do remember that 100 Mbps is considered absurdly slow for networking. 1Gbps sounds fast but even those transfer rates move into hours and days for larger file transfers.

We desperately need a non-magnetic storage for obvious reasons ... But making a new thing is freakish difficult.

That's the joke. The speed of a lot of these tech would require twice the time the data retention to write it.

We can place atoms in order on the head of this pin and store 30 Pb. Write speed? 1KB/min

This shit is why more people now have dabbled in DNS blocking and vlans. Its "your" equipment but you need to literally treat it as hostile.

Obligitory:

Also: water is wet and fire burns.

The Grid...

A digital frontier:

I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer...

What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles?

Were the circuits like freeways?

I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see...

And then one day ... I got in ...

Technically yes... But I think he was more making the excuse for the gore "from the goresmith's perspective."

And I'm not sure if the compiler in any language would change a random check function... The others are a possibility.

Seems someone said it before me... But you missed the point.

I'll respond to your statement generally though.

Basic survival on 56k was doable. Shoutcast or Pandora could even be streamed with occasional buffering while browsing more light, or less heavy, sites. On the topic of video - low quality 240 would be "manageable" again, thanks to modern compression.

Was it a good experience? Rarely. Was it passible? Certainly; and if a site optimised for load time and reduced bandwidth - it could even be near broadband "experience" with some caching tricks.

Im not saying everyone needs to be code gods and build a 96k fps... But optimizing comes from understanding what you are writing and how it works. All this bloat is the result of laziness and a looser grasp on the fundamentals. As to why we should take a harder look at optimization?

• Datacenter / cloud costs are rising... Smaller footprint - smaller bill.

• Worldwide hardware costs are rising... Less people will be building fire breathing monsters. Better optimization - better user experience - more users. Recent examples (of poor optimization:) fallout and early 2077.

What is utterly stupid is with modern compression and rendering techniques - if it weren't for developers shipping a whole ass library to prod for one function that is simplifying 8 lines of code... 56k would still be usable for light browsing and access. It'd be slow still.. But far from literally impossible now.

The sheer amount of "fat" on some (most) sites and applications is just depressing.

What's the point of being healthy when they have rascal scooters?

HEY my armor isn't PINK its light red.