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- Comment on What is there to know about magnetic storage mediums? 18 hours ago:
Depends on a couple different factors such as how robust you want the data encoded and the length of the tape.
Assuming 1mm thick tape encoding 11 bits (8 data, 3 error correction) per row at about 1mm wide and 10 meters of tape; you could store 10MB robustly. Higher density is more difficult but entirely possible.
- Comment on Why don't harvesting economies make as much money as manufacturing or service economies? 2 days ago:
Because you can only eat so much food but you can buy stuff limited only by your amount of money
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 2 days ago:
Just be careful cooking the kidney beans, improper cooking them can be fatal
- Comment on Just a Meme. :3 3 days ago:
The rule is never lend a penny to a friend that you expect to get back.
Giving $50 to someone you hate is a very cheap way to get them to avoid you.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
A $5 computer could be good enough if you are willing to learn and do things via the command line, ssh and carefully engineer it as you go
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 4 days ago:
Over the last 20 years for every $2000 in reward money offered by law enforcement in the United States, less than $4 has been paid.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 4 weeks ago:
When entire state governments can fit in a single Rack, why bother?