Based on current trends, I’d say we might get SSDs and HDDs at the same cost per GB around 2030. That’s based on prices being 12-13x higher in 2015, and around 5x higher now. SSD cost efficiencies are slowing down, but there will also be a big change in demand once the prices get close, because SSDs have other advantages people will switch as soon as it’s economical.

I’ve currently got a 200TB storage array using enterprise HDDs (shout out to Backblaze’s HDD failure rate publications), and I definitely would not have been able to afford 200TB of enterprise SSDs.

Finally, I’m almost done!
Part 17 is as much work as part 1-16
Fuuuuu

If you’re storing petabytes of data sure, but when a tape drive costs $8k+ (Only price I could find that wasn’t “Call for quote”), and only storing less than 500TB, it’s cheaper to buy hard drives.

I’m not sure how important 2 types of media is these days, I personally have all my larger data on harddrives, but with multiple off-site copies and raid redundancy. Some people count “cloud” as another type of storage, but that’s just “somebody else’s harddrive”

As a person hosting my own data storage, tape is completely out of reach. The equipment to read archival tapes would cost more than my entire system. It’s also got extremely high latency compared to spinning disks, which I can still use as live storage.

Unless you’re a huge company, spinning disks will be the way to go for bulk storage for quite a while.

If anyone’s ever followed console emulator development, they know those undocumented commands are everywhere. There’s still people finding new ones for the N64 hardware

Edit: I should say undocumented behavior, not necessarily new commands

Let me explain how it works when you self host like me:

• “All” starts out completely empty, there are no federated instances to find this way.
• You then have to browse communities on other instances and subscribe to them on your own instance. Only then will posts start showing up in “All”.
• Since there’s only 1 user, the list of communities in “All” is the exact same list of communities in “Subscribed”

For most people yes, you can just browse “All” unless you’re on a smaller instance, since someone on your Instance has probably already subscribed to the community you’re looking for.

If you’re on an instance with only 1 user, they’re the same thing. But yes, Lemmy’s a lot better if you just subscribe to what you want.

Setting up my own instance ended up being pretty good for me since it meant I had to manually subscribe to every community I want. The quality of “All” posts depends heavily on the instance you’re on.

They’re synonyms in this case, so either works here

People need to work to live, which requires looking at job postings. Shocking, I know

Well the study we’re commenting under calls out that press releases and job postings are also becoming increasingly LLM-written. You can’t avoid those simply by touching grass.

Not a single screen to be found! Just analog gauges and buttons as it should be.

They mean time to write the code, not compile time. Let’s be honest, the AI will write it in Python or Javascript anyway

The good old days of phpmybb

I always thought T&& made sense as a movable reference. In order to move something, you need to change where the reference points, so conceptually you need a reference to the original reference to update it. (Effectively a double reference)

This might work on the scale of a building to even out its own power usage throughout a day, but to make a difference on a city grid scale, you need an insane amount of height and/or weight.

Check out Pumped Water Energy Storage. It’s the same concept but uses water as the weight. Doing the math on the Ludington Pumped Storage Power Plant’s active capacity, it stores over 100 billion pounds of water.

I’m sure the AI datacenters would have a few GW to spare if we put the LLMs on pause.

Is that using numbers for carbon capture from the atmosphere? Carbon capture directly on the exhaust of a fossil fuel power plant would probably be an order of magnitude more efficient. Obviously you can’t sustain everything by only using fuel combustion, but you could probably reduce to total emissions per kWh quite a bit without even looking at renewables.

i < array.length or else you overflow.

Speech-to-text set to the wrong language or something?