Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need
In this video we make and evaluate several hard drives that we didn't want. Drawing some inspiration from vexing current events, we find that creative, structured thought on adjacent (but frivolous) problems is a sort of digestive act, and one that is ultimately laxative. Paper, source code, ringtones (and for a limited time, the data and viewer from pinging the whole internet): http://tom7.org/harder Errata (thanks to all pedantic viewers who catch this stuff): I got the escape velocity off by a factor of 1000! It's 11 km/sec, not 11,000 km/sec. I think the other calculations are correct; I just mistook a period for a comma in my bleary-eyed late-night editing. I got the size of the genome wrong due to a very silly bug from bleary-eyed late-night programming. It is 29903 base pairs, which can be stored in an economy-sized 7476 bytes. For SIGBOVIK 2022
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