Optical made advancements beyond the DVD. However they caught on only in a limited manner. There is Blue-Ray, now 128GB 4-layer. However, due to the amount of data we generate and consume, long term storage is less of a concern at the consumer level, i.e. there is almost always more where that came from. Content has, simply put, been commoditized.

I never said they didn't, and indeed, cited 100GB optical media. I said they made _limited_ progress.

In 1982, a 20MB HDD was considered large, while a CD is 640MB. That's an almost insurmountable 20x advantage to optical.

By the late nineties, a DVD was 4.7GB, while typical HDDs were maybe 500MB-2GB, giving a more modest advantage to optical.

In 2024, a HDD is maybe 200 times bigger than optical (20TB versus 100GB), while an SSD is maybe 10x bigger (1TB versus 100GB).

Prices are also worth looking at. 100GB media is maybe $10/disk. I remember buying CD-Rs and DVD-Rs in stacks of 20-100, at maybe 10 cents-$2 per disk, depending on type, quantity, and year. The cost-per-byte for optical media has hardly changed in two decades.

So limited progress.

Sounds like he was talking about quantum physics.

Was violence involved?

sadly yes and circumstances surrounding has made attending funeral a bit challenging which has made processing a bit hard

Great question.

I lost one of my parents through cancer. There are times I wished they were shot in the alley because at least I'd have someone to be angry at.

Alas my faith determines that it was the parts we play as the world is a stage.

I cope by playing my part. I speak fondly. I forgive and learned to be content with the lack of answers. The if only had to stop. I can't stop every poor choice, bad action, or accident.

Hopefully that helps. The violence done to me in my past didn't lead to death. After about 15 years I was able to forgive my bullies and random people who harmed me for my skin color and faith.

that's dark apologies if asking brings up bad memories. do you have any recommendation for someone who doesn't believe in any religions?

No. I refuse to live a life without hope. I would rather believe a lie than live thinking this life is all we have.

That's valid and I totally respect that but I'm asking for any tips that don't involve religion / for someone who believes what we see is what there is

Escape through drugs and experiences until death. Eat, drink, for tomorrow we die.

I wish I could have that kind of faith, but I always get stuck on "how do I pick which lie"?

Think of faith as a choice. Then weigh your satisfaction after exercising it.

Perhaps I could go off your username, and put my faith in pizza. I'm generally pretty satisfied after pizza.

If we're talking semantics, the celebration is not so much for the deceased, but for the living "left behind."

Prepositions are a fundamental part of English, and having a celebration for a person [alive, or dead -- it doesn't matter] is using "for" as a preposition.

Anarchist Library not The Anarchist Cookbook, silly.

Drats! Foiled by reading comprehension, once again!

..., but can lead to inefficiencies and capture.

> Most controllers are willing to put up with it if the pay is commensurate with what we're being told to do.

How does "putting up with it" maintain or improve safety? Sounds like at best it would be a collateral effect.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

Sounds like the QAnon may garner more support.

Don't blame it on the media, though I agree that they're not doing a good job. If you know they're not doing a good job, don't be complacent. Do the research yourself. It's not like this is a secret law and the Internet doesn't exist.

Yes, people should be more focused on what's going on in their back yard, at least on the social level, than another country "half way" around the world.

I do do the research myself and consider myself a very engaged citizen, but the power of the media to inform poeple shouldn't be overlooked. It's very difficult for someone starting from zero to even know they're missing something never mind what to look for.