Re:Why There's No Single Best Way to Store Information
by danans on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:40PM
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Pedantic, but the article is talking about the way we structure/organize information, not store it. When I think of the word store, I think of the physical medium. The way we organize the information is only partially related
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Re:Why There's No Single Best Way to Store Information
by 1970-01-01 on Saturday January 17, 2026 @04:05PM
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It's not pedantic, you are correctly using words as we understand them, and they are not. The headline needs a sharp correction. Editing jobs are in very short supply these days.
Re:Why There's No Single Best Way to Store Information
by megaBiteToEat on Saturday January 17, 2026 @05:03PM
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Oh come on. Programmers discuss how to "store" data in memory as a data model all the time.
You're reducing definitions and meaning too far to make an ultimately empty point just to contribute the thread.
If social medias only contribution is language policing, then it really should die off. What a waste of resources so functional illiterate nobodies can project ego.
Re:Why There's No Single Best Way to Store Information
by 1970-01-01 on Saturday January 17, 2026 @05:56PM
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No, I'll think I'll double down, because I do think I'm right here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_storage is a different website from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_store because they are different, slightly overlapping concepts.
Re:Why There's No Single Best Way to Store Information
by pixl97 on Saturday January 17, 2026 @03:45PM
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I mean if we're talking about the physical storage of medium, the single most dense way would be to write it on the surface of a black hole. I still haven't figured out how to read it back though.