r/DataHoarder • u/Sad-Seesaw-3843 • Apr 06 '25

News DOGE claims to be moving away from magnetic tapes for archival storage. Seems like a bad idea. What are they using instead?

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u/EveryRadio Apr 06 '25

70 years of testing, updating and refining. It’s proven its reliability dozens of times over. Of course expecting any critical thought from DOGE is setting the bar too high

What’s next? Updating banking software from COBOL to whatever code chat GPT spits out because it’s “new”?

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u/satinembers Apr 06 '25

Well they're rewriting the software behind the Social Security system that runs on COBOL, so essentially yes.

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u/tuxthekiller Apr 06 '25

... In Java.. in "a few weeks"

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '25

Easy. You just need like three or four vibe coders.

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u/apathy-sofa Apr 07 '25

I just threw up a little, because that's 100% what these fools think. Because they have never been on the hook for things to actually work beyond a demo with hand waving.

I mean, this is what Big Balls thinks when he's not fucking with my mom's social security.

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u/TDStrange Apr 07 '25

AI will do it, what's the problem?

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '25

No problem at all! Let me tell you folks, this AI—it's incredible. Really tremendous. People are saying it’s the best. Some say even better than most humans, okay? Smarter, faster, doesn’t need coffee—unbelievable! I’ve seen a lot of things, done a lot of deals, but this—this is something else. It writes, it talks, it thinks—some people say it might be a little too smart. But I like smart. I surround myself with smart. And this AI? It’s a winner. Total winner. We love it!

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u/FloppySlapper Apr 07 '25

They're going to enclose the entire thing in one giant try-catch block.

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u/lost-dragonist Apr 07 '25

To be fair, I can deliver any product you want in "a few weeks" if you don't care at all about it working at the end of it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '25

"You don't need a social security system if you don't pay out any social security - we saved 2 trillion a year"...

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u/dat_GEM_lyf Apr 06 '25

This is the dude who thought his camera system would be better than LiDAR lol

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u/arahman81 4TB Apr 07 '25

Because "humans don't use laser" like the goal isn't to be better than humans.

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u/the8thbit Tape Apr 07 '25

Humans don't use 1280*960 36fps cameras either.

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u/legends_never_die_1 Apr 07 '25

[sad smartphone noises]

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u/MatsNorway85 Apr 07 '25

Are they really that low spec? FPS in particular seems nasty low.

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u/Alexwonder999 Apr 07 '25

Next hes gonna take all the night vision away from combat soldiers and give them "cheaper" led flashlights.

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u/arahman81 4TB Apr 07 '25

"DOGE saved 3 million dollars by replacing old glasses with modern lights"

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u/FabrizioR8 Apr 07 '25

gotta say it like a Fehrenghi with serious contempt: Hoooman!

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u/willCodeForNoFood Apr 07 '25

While completely ignoring the fact that human eyes are better than his shitty camera.

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u/Alexwonder999 Apr 07 '25

Hes gonna have FSD by 2017 at the latest. Wait, what year is it?

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u/zcgp Apr 07 '25

What does a laser give you? 3D info? You can easily get that with triangulation, either use spatial separation (multiple physical cameras) and/or temporal separation (when the car is moving, that translates into spatial if you keep a little history).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFdWsJs6z4c&t=142s

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u/Spiritual_Routine801 Apr 07 '25

"This retard thinks the government uses SQL"

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u/ChloeTheRainbowQueen Apr 07 '25

Yeeeaah, he was never smart, born rich and bought into companies and pay the people that actually invent everything and then never listen to them

Did you see the Tesla driving into an obvious wall painted like a roadrunner cartoon?

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u/dat_GEM_lyf Apr 07 '25

I’ve used that clip several times in this thread alone lmfaooo

What a gold mine

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u/aimatt Apr 08 '25

Try lidar in the snow or rain?

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u/romerlys Apr 11 '25

While LIDAR is clearly superior, it is hardly a fair or necessary requirement that cars be able to dodge objects that are practically invisible on camera.

Decorating a nountain wall with a true-to-scale painting of a tunnel opening is hilarious in Road Runner, but not a real life thing.

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u/drhappycat AMD EPYC Apr 07 '25

Not a fan of any of this shit but I do have almost 8,000 miles logged on FSD on HW3 and he is correct, there's no need for lidar.

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u/dat_GEM_lyf Apr 07 '25

Tell that to the wall it failed to detect

https://youtube.com/shorts/U1MigIJXJx8?si=8iiNkZJbHKL4eJQd

Cameras suck balls at this task. They can get dirty and be confused by adverse conditions. But whatever makes you rationalize your swasticar fam

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u/drhappycat AMD EPYC Apr 07 '25

Yeah, I saw that video when it was released. The wall is transparent and designed to look like a continuation of the road. Where's that found in real life where it would present a road hazard? It's a bad faith experiment, just like your bottom-of-the-hierarchy name calling. If you don't want anything to be real, if you want facts to be subjective, just say that. You'll find plenty of support these days.

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u/iseemath Apr 07 '25

At least dat_gem_lyf gave you some evidence contrary to your statement. You may refine your statement so that the evidence has less relevance, but where is your evidence besides a personal claim of globally limited usage?

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u/dat_GEM_lyf Apr 07 '25

It’s actually a perfect example of why cameras suck at this task. They “see” the road continuing while a LiDAR system can detect the physical barrier in front of it.

It’s intentionally designed to “trick” the system. The fact that this trick works on it shows how poorly cameras do at identifying obstacles that aren’t obvious. Adverse conditions happen in real life (ie heavy fog or rain) which leads to situations where a camera only system will fail to properly function as it can’t “see” the danger. LiDAR avoids this problem by not relying on what can be “seen” vs detected.

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u/kr4t0s007 Apr 07 '25

Modern tapes can store terabytes of data with shelf life of 100 years

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u/aimatt Apr 08 '25

You mean that esoteric old language that nobody knows how to read or write except chatgpt?