[HN Gopher] Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need [vi... ___________________________________________________________________ Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need [video] Author : davidfactorial Score : 56 points Date : 2022-04-10 03:08 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.youtube.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com) | RichardHeart wrote: | You need not waste electricity to maintain a consensus network. | For those who made it to the end. | chrischen wrote: | That was some twist ending. | mooman219 wrote: | Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30973871 | GuestHNUser wrote: | Tom7 is brilliant for anyone that hasn't seen him before. His | Reverse Emulation video (https://youtu.be/ar9WRwCiSr0) and Weird | Chess Algorithms (https://youtu.be/DpXy041BIlA) are a must watch. | His dead pan delivery coupled with the ridiculous amount of | effort he puts into things that don't _really_ matter is honestly | inspiring. | jrmann100 wrote: | Stumbled upon his work on HN with "Uppestcase and Lowestcase | Letters": | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26667852 | drpixie wrote: | I had a large collection of hard drives that had caused | uncountable grief, we would relieve the stress by abusing the | drives. Unfortunately they have long since been disposed of, but | the collection included: | | * subject drive to 100t press (it got thinner!) | | * immerse drive in acid (little change) or base (drive | dissolves!) | | * subject drive to industrial guillotine | | * warm drive with oxy torch | | * drop from 300 ft tower (little change) | | and so on. All good fun. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-12 23:00 UTC)