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zdw on June 11, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: NVMe is not a hard disk

inspired by that last sentence, the analogy could be rewritten as:

  - lines on page
  - pages of paper
  - whole notebooks

and might be easier for people to grok than the earlier houses/paint analogy.

jazzyjackson on June 11, 2021 [–]

I don’t know, I like the drama of copying a neighborhood and tearing down the old one xD

jnwatson on June 11, 2021 | [–]

Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1737/.

"When a datacenter catches fire, we just rope it off and rebuild one town over."

jdironman on June 11, 2021 | | [–]

Speaking of xkcd, 2021 is return of "All your bases" See alt-text on image.

https://xkcd.com/286/

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