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January 21, 2022•18 words
"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months."
-- Fred Brooks
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Yeah, okay, so I might have too much disk space right now...
14.96TiB on my main workstation, 2.798 TiB NVMe, plus 11.9TiB SMR spinners. Non-redundant non-RAID, but everything is backed up or can be trivially replaced (Steam games, cough Linux Distros, and such).
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