Comment by pimlottc

Comment by pimlottc 3 months ago

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This is perhaps only a problem with the niche HN user base, but “Filing System” would be more accurate. Thought this had to do with damaged hard disk recovery or redundant file systems or something technical like that.

ziml77 3 months ago

It really sounded to me like some grim project where you store your data by destroying houses!

  • xp84 3 months ago

    In version two, instead of storing a 1 as a destroyed house, we’ll destroy them to varying degrees and then read that single house as multiple bits. Like TLC SSDs

    • desdenova 3 months ago

      What if we just destroy it enough so that nobody would want to live there, but there may or may not be a homeless person living there now?

      Now we have quantum storage.

  • ginko 3 months ago

    Relatively quick to write but expensive to reset the blocks.

    • Hackbraten 3 months ago

      Version 2 works around that limitation using the divorce and re-marry technique.

      • lazide 3 months ago

        It requires super sensitive sensors through. The prior rev could be read from orbit. (/s)