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Comment by sib

6 hours ago

Great site - and lessons are still valid.

How you can tell it's from 1997:

The master fell silent, but on his way out he pocketed a 20 Gigabyte corporate backup tape that was lying around.

That's about the right size for all the data that actually matters at a big corporation. Everything else is just marketing slop that people think is important.

  • That is just nonsense. Is your work experience perhaps only in marketing-oriented shops for you to think that?

    Most models from architect offices of any size will be larger; many experimental results from applied physics research labs will be larger; any single project from a film production company of any size will be larger; any combined weekly security log at MSPs of any size will be larger; any industrial plant's daily production indicators will be larger; any energy company's hourly operational measurements will be larger.

    • I mean, I have ten years worth of hourly reports for a few power plants printed on greenbar in my archives.