Cold. By Texas standards anyway. It was in the 50sF last night and damp, so it felt even cooler. Probably it will be cold, then cool, then warm today with sun and clear skies. Nice.
I spent yesterday doing small things on the list. I got several done, and kept moving forward. Baby steps are still steps, right?? For an unhurried day, there was a lot going on. We even had some carnivore drama in the back yard to deal with.
D1 had a date, and the guy seems nice. She had a good night and was beaming. Her previous dates have been pretty lackluster, so I’m happy for her, but I’m still a dad with my little girl going out with boys. Kid is tall, in good shape and confident. Nice change from the emo simps.
Between D1, D2, and their friends, I’m coming to think that their emotional maturity is a couple of years behind where I’d expect it to be. Certainly it’s behind where my generation was. There are a couple of reasons that could be, 2 years of pandemic and social media are the obvious possibilities. And of course, we’re mostly talking about middle and upper middle class white kids. The hispanic kids have a different experience and point of view from what I can see.
It will be interesting to watch how this generation grows up.
But, that’s all for later. Today we take the time to pause and give thanks. There are always things to be thankful for, even at our darkest hours, and Thanksgiving Day gives an opportunity to stop, take stock, and find those things.
I’m thankful for Bob giving me this opportunity, and for Barbara’s faith and trust. I’m thankful for all of you who stop by and share your lives and thoughts with me and the rest of this community. I’m thankful for the world we live in, for the beauty of the natural world and everything in it. I’m thankful for the opportunity to love and be loved, and for my family and the support they give. I’m thankful to be alive. When I was young, I never thought I’d see 26 years of age, and here I am 33 years past that point.
There have been good times and bad during those years, but they made me who I am and I’m ok with that. They have all been a gift; one I’m glad to share with the people in my life. I look forward to many more, no matter the challenges and heartbreak that may be ahead of us.
Thank you all,
nick
(stack something good)
Honestly, I expect that every generation thinks that. Teens think they are mature, but adults look at them and think…omg, what has happened to the next generation. Remember the quotes from the ancient Greeks, moaning about the youth of the day?
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What a pile of snow. I ran the snow blower 5 times in 2-½ days. Of course, our lovely neighbors had something to say about that, because at one point some of the snow landed on their property. Not “hey, could you please be careful where you aim”, but more “No, no, bad dog”. Totally pissed me off, but…what are you gonna do?
I’m sure SteveF will have a couple of ideas… Likely impractical, but fun to imagine anyways…
Anyway, the ski resorts will be happy, and it is pretty to look at. The dog loves it – snow is just about his favorite thing.
I’ve noticed the same. Not only emotional maturity but the ability to function as near-adults. Some is because of helicopter and snowplow parenting. Some is because of the neighborhood Karens screeching about any potential, perceived threat to children. Some is due to living on the phone and online rather than in the physical world.* Today’s teens, by and large, are in for a shock when they go out into the world and don’t know how to do anything and don’t know how to handle problems. And we’re already seeing it – there are plenty of articles about young adults having meltdowns over ordinary, minor mishaps and stresses. The sheer lack of ability and competence and even willingness to try would be worrisome if it weren’t so pathetic. (My daughter’s roommate at college had never cleaned a bathroom before a month ago. (And she objected to having to do her half of cleaning the shared bathroom, but that’s a different matter.) The friend she’s staying with this weekend is a high school senior and has never done a load of laundry or cracked an egg.)
On the other hand, every generation for four thousand years has complained about “kids these days”. Most likely, most of them will survive to become adults, and those that don’t were weak and deserved to die anyway.
* I say, as I type online, having left the property seven times in three months.
Here’s an item for Nick and me** and maybe a couple others who have teenage daughters: We’re not going to be grandfathers in the next few months.
Oh, did that statement just add stress to any lives? Sorrrrrrry….
** Aside from the suitemates, my daughter has mentioned exactly one student as an individual, a young man who apparently goes out of his way to come and talk to her or sit with her.
Think less “snow blower” and more “wood chipper”.
When you have a son, you worry about one penis. When you have a daughter, you worry about all the penis’s.
Happy Thanksgiving y’all. The day we celebrate conning the American Indians with a false sense of security with much gluttony before we stole all their land.
If anyone in this country deserves compensation, it is the American Indians, not JammaBammaWulu with 8 kids by 24 different fathers while complaining of the free housing, utilities, cable, medical and food while sporting expensive braids, designer fingernails, three gold teeth, a gut the size of a small recliner while standing in line to buy 20 lottery tickets, three six packs, and a carton of cigarettes.
Currently in Atlanta for the annual get-together with our friends. We’ve been doing this for 30 year.
I did go to Microcenter yesterday to get two gaming monitors for my son for his Christmas present. Microcenter had stacks of monitors from different brands at the entrance and down the main aisle. I think they are figuring to sell many tomorrow. Even if the price is $10.00 less tomorrow, it is not worth it to tolerate a line 200 people deep that winds up and down a couple of aisles.
Happy Thanksgiving to all here, with special appreciation to Barbara, Nick, Rick, and the Special Agents of Authoritie.
Looking at the latest memes on Bayou Renaissance Man, one of the pics is this one. Which reminded me of an old friend, sitting in the passenger seat on a long highway drive. They were close behind the cab of a semi-truck that was being towed. Backwards. So he woke up to a sight very much like this.
I’m told the dent he made in the roof could be hammered out…
Happy thanksgiving to all our USA contributors, especially Nick. May it be a joyous day for you all.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Once you’ve lost a war, you no longer are entitled to “compensation” or “reparations”. The spoils go to the victors. You could argue that that is not moral law, but you cannot argue it violates natural law or millennia of history.
The people we laughably call Native Americans or First Peoples were themselves johnny-come-latelys to this continent. They were just better at killing and enslaving and outbreeding the ones who came first. They also killed and enslaved each other, failed to develop the wheel, the written word, and architecture beyond adobe and wattle. They were bloodthirsty savages who routinely sacrificed children to their gods.
Good riddance. I’m glad we conquered them. The survivors have spent the last 150 years avoiding assimilation to a superior culture, and have used PLT sentiments to seize some sort of hazy moral high ground through victimhood.
Nuts.
If you don’t believe in conquest, then you must also believe that Carthage deserves compensation, that Portugal deserves compensation (from the Ottomans), that the Ottomans deserve compensation from the Portuguese reconquista. The list goes on and on.
My idea of land acknowledgment goes like this: I acknowledge that this land was once Indian land. The Indians lost it, and we put the land to better use. Deal with it. .
What makes this stance hard for me is the fact that Western Civilization, a clearly superior culture in nearly every way, is losing the current war. My descendants could end up on the losing end against low-IQ Muslim savages and their “diverse” allies and the AWFL quislings. Or the infighting could allow the Chinese or Indians to replace it.
Good morning all!
It is in fact a bright sunny day.
D2 is making cinnamon rolls for breakfast, and in a minute I’ll start my coffee.
Then there will be an explosion of pie making.
I’ll just stay out of the way and sneak treats.
n
This is exactly why we need to stop Mooslims from immigrating to the FUSA. The Religion of Pieces is incompatible with Western philosophy. Alas, it might be too late to prevent a war over it.
60F outside. Chilly!
n
The move to get their money separated from the US continues.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-11-24/eu-and-india-bypass-swift-usd-payment-rails
What can’t go on forever, will end. Be thankful while we can.
n
Gah, just realized I blew off my pickups yesterday. Total brainfart.
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wrt kids learning to do stuff, they all think they can learn a task JIT by watching a short or instagram. Sometimes, sure, but most stuff takes longer than 2 minutes to explain.
Everyone in our house does their own laundry. Been that way for years. However, when I suggested to W that I take some time and teach D1 how to properly iron clothes she said no. Rather emphatically. I was like “WTF?” Every so often I will iron 10-15 shirts at once. Most of my clothes need minimal care or attention (that’s intentional) but some do look better if ironed.
Cleaning bathrooms used to be part of the kids’ chores, and a surface clean still is, but tub and toilet scrub is left for professionals. I realized the products will permanently blind you if they get in your eye, and the kids didn’t like wearing safety glasses. I wasn’t going to take that risk. Brushes fling drops everywhere if you aren’t really careful. Even I wear safety glasses when I occasionally use one of the powerful cleaners.
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Sun went away, hope that’s just temporary. Sent D1 to HEB for nutmeg of all things. W tore the cabinets apart over the last weeks, sorted, stacked, MOVED EVERYTHING, and somehow with three holidays coming up missed that we were out of nutmeg. This despite sniffing a bag of brown powder to decide if it was nutmeg or cloves….
I do not understand.
n
Don’t forget the iPhone 17 Pro Max.
H Mart will be open today if you need something at the last minute.
Which reminds me. I always think of this when we are in there on Thanksgiving Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JY23g8bwQM
Yep. I stand corrected.
Then complains the system is rigged and it is not providing a basic existence. The “system” wants her to go to work. Now she will have to file for disability due to the back injury she suffered stealing that big TV from Walmart. Walmart will be named in the lawsuit being filed by Bubba’s Wreck into a Check law firm.
Any archaeological excavations that find human remains are required by U.S. law to turn those remains over to “indigenous” tribes, preventing any scientific investigation that might show earlier cultures that were supplanted by later groups, e.g. conquerors.
Three Levels of Manipulation on X, Only Two Of Which Are Addressed By “Location” Disclosure
Trump Yanks Temporary Protection Status for Over 350K Haitians, Sets Deadline for Their Departure
Trump already did so with the Somalis, but turns out only 705 were affected, with the rest either born in this country or naturalized.
DOJ should start investigations with the goal of determining how many Somalia committed fraud to get in and lied in taking their citizenship oaths. Start with Omar and drill down from there.
Well, the dead camera is dead. B&H has a very nice Speco Technologies camera on sale, limit 2, free shipping. The camera is very capable and massively discounted.
Speco Technologies O8T1MG 8MP Outdoor Network Turret Camera with Night Vision & 2.8-12mm Lens
I can’t link because their store knows I already bought my two.
You can add this cam to most recorders or NVRs, or add a microSD and use your browser to view the video.
I’m very happy with Speco overall, it’s the higher end of “prosumer” quality, generally speaking.
Two day shipping.
In the mean time, I’m looking in my box o cams to see if I have something to add that might overlook the new neighbors. I have a place for it that won’t violate their privacy, but will show who’s coming and going.
n
Required listening on every Thanksgiving Day: “Alice’s Resteraunt” by Arlo Guthrie (1967 original recording) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM
Explanation, for you young whippersnappers….. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice's_Restaurant
Classic.
“27 8×10 color glossies with circles and arrows…”
Thursday bedtime. Shattered. Either I am getting old, or it was really cold in the woods today. Maybe both.
If anyone has a recommendations for good heated vests, particularly ones to fit a little fat fellow, I would be grateful. That was no fun…
I understand today is the day that US-Americans gather to do unspeakable things to turkeys. Have fun!
What is a French meat pie? What is French, the meat or the pie, or both? Mysterious. Intriguing…
Gobble! Gobble! Literally.
@denis, this isn’t the recipe my wife’s family uses but it looks pretty close.
https://growagoodlife.com/tourtiere/
they also make another French Canadian / New England thing that is similar, but you spread it on bread (we use buttered english muffins.) That one I’ll have to look in the physical cookbook because the family has forgotten how to call it…
n
This isn’t the recipe either but it’s similar and since the family name for the dish is very similar, this must be it.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/213554/gorton-french-canadian-pork-spread/
You definitely want to stir in the fat layer to make it creamier. Served cool on hot buttered english muffins with a bit of salt, it’s delicious.
n
Lunch at my dad’s. I did bring the cookie-brownies for the grand-nieces and -nephews, who weren’t there because the nieces had Thanksgiving meals with their husbands’ families. (Each niece got married at least a year before having her first kid, had all of their kids with the same man, and is still married to the original husband. Crazy idea, these days.) I sent the cookie-brownies with my sister and her husband, to give their daughters. My other sister informed me that the treats would be eaten before the end of the two-hour drive. Well, I tried.
The Child kept up her part of conversations, mainly answering various adults’ questions about how college was going. She was the youngest person there by 12 years but did ok … until halfway through the meal, at which point she started drooping. She slept on the couch while my sisters and my dad’s wife packed up and divvied up leftovers and I washed dishes. Turns out she and her friend were talking until 0330. Gee, and just recently I was talking about how much she’d grown up and gotten responsible since starting college.
So…. spread on bread…. like Potted Meat in the can made by Libbys. Or Underwood’s Deviled Ham.
But better because fresh and “not canned”. Am I in the neighborhood?
Anyway. Years ago I toasted and buttered some muffins. Smeared on some potted meat and then glazed it with chunky strawberry jam. So so good.
Everyone else in the house made lots of gag noises. Meh. More for me.
They eat stuff like broccoli and cauliflower. So we are all even on the gags.
Then again, https://growagoodlife.com/tourtiere/ looks like something my mom would make once in a while. On a cookie sheet. Not in a pie plate/dish. Pie crust, seasoned hamburger meat, I don’t remember it having potatoes mixed in the meat, then the crust glazed with egg white and sprinkled with instant mashed potato flakes (for some reason). Pretty good. Better the next day. Sort of like meatloaf in a pie crust.
Dang, “Rachel” is quite the manly looking woman.
I’m now sure dogs talk to each other in frequencies I can’t hear. High or low, I don’t know.
Buddy was in my chair. I’m watching a crummy movie and sitting on a wood stool next to my comfy chair because it’s occupied. But, ya, dogs, make them happy. Penny walked by the chair a few times. So I could tell she wanted the chair.
Queen Bitch, cough, Her Highness Precious Puppy Princess Perfectly Pretty Penny Poo must have said something. Buddy started a growley noise, like he was swearing at her, and hopped out the chair. Penny needs help to get on the chair…… er, her throne. I mean, she just turned 14. Buddy went to the loveseat. He likes the loveseat but the chair is better because if I’m sitting on the stool watching a movie, you get lots of petting in the chair.
This is not the first time this has happened.
I called Hallmark with a new story idea for a script. Hallmark said, No, one is enough.
RIP Sarah Beckstrom
Prayers Up, Americans: Sweet Sarah, So Grievously Wounded Doing Her Duty, Has Died
–Beege Wellborn, Hot Air
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/11/27/prayers-up-americans-sweet-sarah-so-grievously-wounded-doing-her-duty-has-died-n3809333
Justice delayed is justice denied. Indict, charge and set the trial for 30 days hence. Allow 30 days for appeal of the guilty verdict, and carry out sentence within 24-hours.
At least Afghan immigration is stopped for now.
@denis, not as finely chopped/pureed as pate’, grotten means a sort of crunchy crumble, so the texture is more like soggy GrapeNuts cereal in size.
Still, it smears out pretty nice on all those craggy holes in the english muffin.
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@paul, not only do they talk, they talk about us.
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Dinner was good. Lots of food. D1’s 5 pound mac and cheese casserole was chunky and sharp tasting. Not a keeper. Next time, we’ll try a new recipe with a smaller serving size.
D2’s pies were a bit underdone. Still tasty, but a bit pale crusted.
Turkey was ‘spatchcocked’ or cut open and cooked flat. REALLY shortens cooking time, and the breast stays moist because you don’t have to overcook it all. Very tasty.
I’m sweaty from too much food, and the sugar will crash me out in a few minutes.
Good meal all in all.
n
I found and hung an older camera in place of the dead one. It’s a PTZ dome model that was pretty expensive when new. The difference from even a few years ago and current product is amazing. My newer PTZ cam has built in IR, and is 4K resolution. This one has no built in IR and it’s just HD. The difference in nighttime picture is crazy. The newer cam wasn’t even that much money compared to the past.
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Point of reference, data point.
While looking for some canned sweet potatoes and canned green beans, I did some sorting in my outdoor milk crate storage system. About 30 cans were compromised and I haven’t looked in the bottom row yet. More surprisingly, the cans in the garage, in the dark and out of the rain had failures too. About 8 cans so far.
The worst offender is always fruit. Canned peaches, canned pears, canned mixed fruit all popped. DO NOT store canned fruit with or above other canned goods, and expect you’ll only get a couple of years storage.
The next biggest offender was canned carrot slices. Granted they were a cheap house brand (HCF, HEB’s least expensive label) but I was shocked how many cans had failed.
Next after that was garbanzo beans/chick peas. Several cans had failed. I have lots of other beans and they are all still good.
And unfortunately, after 15 years of baking in the sun and freezing in the winter, my three cans of Red Feather Butter got swollen. I opened one and it smelled like toe cheese. Gross.
The cans I did find for green bean casserole looked terrible, but were still intact and tasty. Didn’t find any good cans of sweet potatoes.
n
@Nick Flandrey
Thermal cycling will lead to seal failure as the contents and the cans themselves contract and expand.
Can integrity is going to be partially dependent on the internal coating. Any failures that allow the contents to come in contact with the metal will lead to corrosion.
Fruits are lower pH and considered high-acid. Such are processed at a lower temperature and for shorter times, which probably means that the standards for the cans themselves are somewhat different. Not sure what makes carrots prone to failure. It would be interesting to have a conversation with the packaging lab at Libby or Green Giant.
“The cans I did find for green bean casserole looked terrible, but were still intact and tasty.” Age? I recently tossed about a dozen cans of green beans with best by ca. 2015. Stored in HVACed space. Looked fine but taste seemed a little off. Life is took short to lose time over bad beans.
I clicked a link to an article on CNN earlier and was presented with:
The only option was to click the box to “Agree”. The link to “Privacy Policy” goes to a page that does not mention cookies at all.
Beware.
Sat out and had my tiny little fire while I finished the final book in an 8 book series.
I liked the series a lot. It’s available on kindle unlimited, so it’s cheap.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0895TKC6P?binding=kindle_edition&tag=ttgnet-20
Twisted Luck, by Mel Todd.
It’s urban fantasy set in modern day, but really an alternate history where magic comes to the world in the 1800s. I believe that it might be called a “progression” series as her understanding of her magic and the wider world grows with each book.
I spent way too much time reading this series when I should have been doing other things. There are some oddities in the book. The main character isn’t really interested in sex at all, but ends up in a very modern relationship, which is all kind of background and at the end of the day, is important to the story and what type of person she is. The main conceit of the sixth book had me thinking it was strange and irrelevant and irritating but it is a pivotal plot point and critical to developing the story and character.
There are some mechanical issues, a couple of copy and paste errors, some editing stuff, and the occasional missing word, but it’s better written than a lot of the indy stuff I’ve been reading in the LitRPG genre. Write fast and earn, rather than having a publisher limit you to one book a year… seems to be the model in indy publishing.
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It was 48F when I went out, and 50F when I came back in. The Mr Heaters were running full blast. I would have been a lot chillier on the dock at the BOL, but I might have had a big fire in the pit as well as the heaters to take the chill off. I am cranky about not getting to the lake for a change of pace.
We don’t always get what we want though, and what I do have is pretty good after all.
n
The cans develop microfractures when exposed to extreme cold as the moisture in the product inside the can turns to ice and expands.
Plus, you live in the Gulf Marine environment which is tough on metals due to the year-round humidity and salt in the air, even if you live inland.
Plus, you live in the Gulf Marine environment which is tough on metals due to the year-round humidity and salt in the air, even if you live inland.
– and my storage conditions sux the dead bunnies. But if I can do it, anyone can. I just accept that I’ll have more ‘breakage’ than most people.
I will say that having the cans and boxes easily accessible helps me to actually use them more often. This past year or two, I haven’t had them sitting on a shelf where I can just grab a can to add to dinner. And with the kids having school activities, I’m not cooking as much from basics.
It’s important to use your preps and rotate them. Well, to get the best value from them.
n
Jeez, I just looked at the clock. Time for a shower and bed.
n
“Due Diligence (24) (Liaden Universe®)” by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
https://www.amazon.com/Due-Diligence-Adventures-Liaden-Universe%C2%AE/dp/0996634657?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number 24 of a 36 book space opera series with psychic elves in space ! I count the series as 36 books as there are 31 novels plus 5 collections of short stories. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback novella published by Pinbeam Books in 2017 that I bought new in 2020. I have more books in the series and I plan to order more in MMPB.
Over a thousand years ago, the Liadens and several others escaped from a dying Universe to the present Universe with Terrans and such. The dying Universe is still leaking spaceships and other flotsam to the Liadenverse. Along with live people. And in the very recent past, the Korval clan, whose founder was the pilot of the universe traveling space ship, has been ousted from the Liaden planet to Surebleak, a harsh and underpopulated planet by Terrans and many others. The rest of the Korval clan is slowly rejoining the others at Surebleak. And other Liaden clans are moving themselves to Surebleak to follow Korval wherever they may go as the Captain of their destinies.
The Clutch Turtles, a space born race, are big fans of the Clan Korval and their sentient tree. In fact, they moved the Clan Korval and their sentient quarter mile tall tree from the Liaden planet to Surebleak, a harsh and underpopulated planet by Terrans and many other races. All of the races in the new Universe are very careful around the Clutch Turtles due to their light year spanning powers and huge incredibly fast spaceships.
https://liaden.fandom.com/wiki/Clutch_Turtles
Fer Gun pen’Uldra was teetering between trouble, more trouble, and bad trouble. Cornered in a cheap bar by a too-knowledgeable stranger with an unlikely offer, Fer Gun realized having no money and no space pilot license might be the least of his troubles. Clan Korval knew his name and that proposal was hard to refuse.
BTW, Sharon Lee’s reading order of the series is:
https://sharonleewriter.com/liaden-universe-correct-reading-order/
The first book of the series, “Agent Of Change” is in my six star book list.
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (562 reviews)
Lynn
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
My father used to quote that to me every time that I used the word wish.
That’s a pretty stupid law, in that it prevents any sort of serious archaeology. Unless the archaeologists are allowed to investigate first and hand over later.
There’s an archaeological program “Digging Britain” that I watch whenever I happen to trip across it. Britain obviously has a very tangled history, from Picts through Romans, Middle Ages, to much more recent times. Some of the investigations discover unknown stuff from as recent as the 19th century.
Anyway, one of the lurking questions for archaeologists dealing with burials and human remains: Where is the line between archaeology and grave robbing? Digging up someone’s grandmother would probably cross that line. How many generations back does it become ok?
@SteveF: That can be understood a couple of different ways. I do hope that multiple men are involved?
Justice is supposed to be swift. For murder (or aggravated rape, or other serious crimes): As long as there is absolutely zero doubt about who the criminal is, the sentence needs to be a swift, public execution. Pour encourager les autres.
Here’s an item for Nick and me** and maybe a couple others who have teenage daughters: We’re not going to be grandfathers in the next few months.
Oh, did that statement just add stress to any lives? Sorrrrrrry….
My son is 42 and does not date, having met too many crazy women in his Marine Corps years. My daughter is 37 and has had a hysterectomy. I now regret telling my daughter in her teenage years that “girls get pregnant, boys do not”.
Maybe it’s strange, but my wife and I have no craving to be grandparents. Nothing against it – if it happens, it happens – but we aren’t missing it either.
@Lynn: Anyway, what are you doing up? In your time zone it must be the middle of the night!
I’m sweaty from too much food, and the sugar will crash me out in a few minutes.
I had to get up Monday night three separate times to pee. I am really really really hoping that this does not become a regular problem. Usually getting up once a night to pee is good enough for me.
Dad told me once that he had to get up five times to pee in one night. Why even bother going to bed at that point ?
@Lynn: Anyway, what are you doing up? In your time zone it must be the middle of the night!
It is 2:37 am right now in Central Time Zone with no daylight savings time. I am a night owl like my mother.
My son and I talked about trends and crazy events until midnight before he went home.
“Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible”
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/seagate-achieves-a-whopping-6-9tb-storage-capacity-per-platter-in-its-laboratory-55tb-to-69tb-hard-drives-now-physically-possible
“Hard drives remain a vital component in building high-capacity storage solutions, especially in the data center. IT Home reports that Seagate is continuing to break barriers on how many TBs can be stored on a single hard drive and has achieved a whopping 6.9TB per platter in its laboratory, making 55TB to 69TB hard drives a possibility for the first time.”
“Seagate’s experimental 6.9TB platter boasts more than double the capacity of platters it uses in official products right now. Outgoing models such as Seagate’s 30TB HAMR HDDs use 10 3TB platters to reach maximum capacity. With 6.9TB platters, Seagate will be able to build drives with more than double the capacity of its outgoing drives in the same form factor.”
I can remember swapping mainframe disk drive platters with 30 MB on each platter wondering what we would do with all that space. Now we have more than 100,000 times that amount of space.
In my lecture yesterday we looked at how the database API (specifically JPA) are implemented. As a demo, I wrote a small library that implements the most important JPA functions. 200 lines of code. If you use one of the big JPA implementations (Jakarta), there’s a whole set of libraries and dependencies needed. ChatGPT estimates somewhere between 200,000 and 400,000 lines of code.
Sure, my little implementation doesn’t do everything, but it would cover probably 95% of the use cases. For the other 5%, do you really need 1000x as much code?
Super-fast processors, lots of memory, lots of storage: Developers have gotten lazy, and we all pay the price for it. Systems are often slower now than they were 20 years ago. All that code presents a huge attack surface – you’ll never find all the bugs.
Just as a completely example: Windows Explorer has gotten so huge that is it too slow to start. So Microsoft is apparently going to start loading it into memory when you boot your system. It’s just a stinkin’ file explorer…
Awesome, bring it on. I’m currently using 20 and 22 TB Seagate SAS drives at work for storage. Overall, I have almost a Petabyte of storage available, with 60% of it in use.