9 month ago
deusx : Tom White: "Disks have become tapes" - "In essence MapReduce works by repeatedly sorting and merging data that is streamed to and from disk at the transfer rate of the disk. Contrast this to accessing data from a relational database that operates at the seek rate of the disk"
Matthew M. Boedicker : thinking of disks as a sequential device rather than a random access device - (via reddit) [via]
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28 month ago
philgyford : Analog audio tape cassette nostalgia - tapedeck.org - Pictures of tapes. There used to be a huge Japanese page that had all the pictures on one page, but that's gone and this is more convenient. How quaint. (via City of Sound)
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