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Re:Send your email right to the other person's spam by mulmen on Sunday February 06, 2022 @03:51AM (#30230597)
To be honest if iCloud corrupted 1% of my photos I’m not sure I would notice.

1.44 MB pretty much fits in my head.

But “infinite” storage over 15 years now? How would I even audit that?

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Re:Send your email right to the other person's spam by BiteCode_dev on Sunday February 06, 2022 @06:17AM (#30231473)
> 1.44 MB pretty much fits in my head.

That the size of a zipped plain text bible.

There are some people that knows the bible by heart, and I suppose if you work with it a lot, you have a general idea of the order of all things, and what's going on in each part without having to know the exact words. Like an essay you've been working on for months.

So seems about right.

Maybe it's time for a new metric: 1 floppy is what you can hold. More is too much.

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Re:Send your email right to the other person's spam by orestarod on Sunday February 06, 2022 @06:44AM (#30231651)
More like what you can hold as a single entity in your head. The sum of your knowledge is vastly more than that.
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Re:Send your email right to the other person's spam by BiteCode_dev on Sunday February 06, 2022 @07:40AM (#30231994)
Yes.

I can memorize so many docs and API, but there is a threshold for a project size above which I cannot hold the entire code base in my head.

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