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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

The internet gave us email, which almost made the USPS extraneous. But then the internet gave us online commerce, which has made the USPS even more necessary.

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The internet gave us email, which almost made the USPS extraneous. But then the internet gave us online commerce, which has made the USPS even more necessary.

🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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    fun fact: street vehicles are still being used to transport data around. for large amounts of data, it’s faster and cheaper to write it on a disk, then ship the disk, instead of transporting it over the internet.

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      Never underestimate the bandwidth of a Ford Taurus full of tapes screaming down the Jersey Turnpike.

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      I remember someone put a Micro SD card on a pigeon and sent it. Was faster.

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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

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          I just noticed the MTU for the interface in the article. If nobody has suggested this already I’ll be disappointed, but I propose that instead of jumbo frames we call them dumbo frames, when it relates to IPoAC using printed paper as the medium.

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        i remember there is an XKCD about it, i just can’t find it rn

        edit: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

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        One time I looked at a 1tb microSD card and decided there was no fucking way that much data could fit into something so small. Ever since that day, no microSD card has worked for me. They get I/O errors, each one. Suspecting this isn’t a coincidence might be my most schizophrenic thought.

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          You should not have doubted that card, now they’re all taking their revenge

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            This morning my external SSD won’t mount. This is getting fuckin spooky

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              Could you doubt global warming or Trump? I mean you have a power, and with great power comes great responsibility. Stop only destroying electronics 😉

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                Alright, I’ll take a flying fuck at it. I guess check headlines in an hour.

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          wait until you learn about the information density of DNA

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            I’d better go find out and balk at that too, free vasectomy if it works

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      Ah, classic sneakernet!

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