Instead of comp, here’s a pool table. That’ll keep everyone in the office!

My favorite way to end brushing my teeth.

I had not thought about having the sunscreen leech into the water. Thank you for educating!

Yeah, but one day the thousands of browser bookmarks will come in handy. Right?

The per degree temp control is a huge win along with the spout. Itll also stay warm for 30mins, optional beeps when done heating, and you can have it boil water automatically for a specific time. I really enjoy mine.

I have the same one. Mainly got it for temp control for white tea and figured having per degree control was a huge plus. Plus it’s so nice artistically

It’s crazy to me that we live in a world where money and celebrity implies influence, and credentials don’t mean much on a general public stage. This man can tweet something insane and its taken as a serious discussion point.

Given that money can buy influence, it is a legitimate risk to society, I get that. But how crazy is that as a concept?

It’s actually pretty shocking. It seems so normal to struggle to buy a house, yet most of the last generation have one. It’s going to be a rude awakening for society as this trend continues. At some point the older generation is going to pass on and free up houses. What is that even going to look like? Are they going to be jacked up too? It’s just not sustainable if you project it out. There has to be a tipping point. People need homes and renting is so limiting.

https://engineering.fb.com/2015/05/04/core-data/under-the-hood-facebook-s-cold-storage-system/

This is an article from 2015 where Facebook/Meta was exploring Blu-ray for their DCs. You’re definitely right though. Tape is key as the longest term storage.

This is such a great example of the potential consequences of making a decision without understanding the landscape/context. It’s obvious this would happen in hindsight.

Super cool, blew my mind! I would love to see it in operation. The logistics from the machine side + the storage heuristics for when to store to a disc that’s write-only sounds like a really cool problem.

There are also techniques where data centers do offline storage by writing out to a high volume storage medium (I heard blueray as an example, especially because it’s cheap) and storing it in racks. All automated of course. This let’s them store huge quantities of infrequently accessed data (most of it) in a more efficient way. Not everything has to be online and ready to go, as long as it’s capable of being made available on demand.