this made me immediately think of the shingled writing head/multi-track drifting thing
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the magnetic recording people are real shitposters, it's kinda endearingpic.twitter.com/OX1U3owDqu
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(tbh they do deserve it, storing/retrieving data by moving a centimeter-scale actuator with nanometer precision while flying it at a couple nanometers above a spinning surface is seriously technically impressive)
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Ah sweet so Computer chips have a trade off between compactitude of storage in physical space and data corruption due to thermal fluctuations?
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no, it's about magnetic recording media (hard drives)
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higher dimensional objects confuse three dimensional monkeys
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god is a cassette tape?
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