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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks 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.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks 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 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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