On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:55:01 +0200, Peter Sylvester wrote:
>On 21/06/2022 17:47, Mike Schwab wrote:
>> 24 byte blocks get 82 blocks per track. (96 blocks * 31 days) / 82
>> blocks = 37 tracks per month. Inefficient but a very small
>> utilization. Copy to historical dataset to reblock.
>
>Indeed.
>
>How much data is this compared to all copies of all messages in this thread ;-)
>
>How many centuries/eternities of 24bytes/15min can you store on a ....
>whatever medium ?
>
"Why do you want to do it in a suboptimal way?"
"Because we can!"
>Just create a file with a timestamp as a name, one for each block.
>
>Performance? Loadint the program also takes cycles.
>
>What you do with these files, is most likely not as urgent as the problem for
>the Apollo mission "We
>know ho to get them to the moon; we'll see later for a solution to get them
>back".
>
>How much of these data can you store in a laser beam to be reflected from the
>moon, oups, clouds :-)
--
gil
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