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minus-square@topinambour_rexlink11•edit-21 year agoFor render the first picture of a black hole a couple of uear ago, the data transfer was done through hdds transported by a plane, than a data transfer through Internet, because the former was so much faster. https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/289423-it-took-half-a-ton-of-hard-drives-to-store-eht-black-hole-image-data
minus-square@iamtherealwalruslinkEnglish10•1 year agoYou are joking. But https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ is real.
minus-square@Pipocalink4•1 year agoIt’s a real quote, from the 80s, published in a networking textbook. It’s amusing, but it’s always been a serious and occasionally practical observation.
For render the first picture of a black hole a couple of uear ago, the data transfer was done through hdds transported by a plane, than a data transfer through Internet, because the former was so much faster.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/289423-it-took-half-a-ton-of-hard-drives-to-store-eht-black-hole-image-data
You are joking. But https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ is real.
It’s a real quote, from the 80s, published in a networking textbook.
It’s amusing, but it’s always been a serious and occasionally practical observation.
Relevant XKCD.
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