The concept of πFS, a FUSE filesystem that stores data by finding its location within the infinite digits of Pi, sounds like sci-fi. It promises '100% compression' by eliminating the need for actual data storage. However, the article reveals its practical implementation is abysmal, with a simple text file taking five minutes to 'store.' It's a brilliant thought experiment, but don't expect to…

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Playing Factorio On A Floppy Disk Cluster

While a revolutionary storage system for their time, floppy disks are not terribly useful these days. Though high failure rates and slow speeds are an issue, for this project, the key issue is capa…

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