The question is how customized those hints were. That changes whether looping over an entire code base is possible or not.

Are you saying that [You don't?] is cross-examining/swipe, but [How did you "notice"] isn't?

I wouldn't highly object to either but if I had to pick one I'd definitely clear the former.

Okay, please explain why the replies are funny.

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog, you learn more but you kill it in the process.

It was a joke? It comes across like you pointing out someone missing evidence and being wrong. Obviously you used the word "funny" but that's not usually a word that goes in a joke.

Nevertheless the joke is already dead. There's no reason not to explain.

The prototyping and machine costs are easily under a million. It's one custom-built vacuum.

You can do it with 0-3 digits of license cost too.

There's no sane way the business overhead more than doubles things.

You can put a few shapes into one container and it's still much faster than searching color-first.

The question mark is pretty bad though.

Notably Microsoft used to offer 15GB until decreasing it a decade ago.

So while I would say 15GB is pretty typical, I would not say it's competitive. I would say the competition died in 2013.

If the top offer is 15 GB, then 15GB is competitive, even if multiple providers offer it.

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on anything related to this.

Competitive implies competition.

The competition ended over a decade ago, and 15GB stayed 15GB even though the price of providing it dropped 5x.

Even though they're near the top, none of those companies are "competitive" in my book.

1GB that grew to 7GB over about 4 years and then 15GB over another 5 years. And has been stuck at 15GB for about 13 years. https://lifetourer.com/gmail-and-storage-capacity-cmon-googl...

The limit used to cost a whole dollar of hard drive space (plus redundancy), sometimes more than that. If they kept that up with adjustment for inflation then 100GB would be the free tier today, not a $20/year tier.

For the "coincidence" part: While technology has been advancing very fast, the human population also ballooned alongside that advancement, so the odds of any particular intelligent Earthling being born in such an era of growth are pretty high.

> 16 million terablocks, or 8 billion terabytes.

To be clear, the first quote was talking about 2^64 bytes, and you're talking about 2^64 blocks.

Edit: Though confusingly the second part talked about 2^128 blocks.

Also these days I'd assume 4KB blocks instead of 512 bytes.

> To be clear, the first quote was talking about 2^64 bytes

That's 16 exabytes. Wikipedia cites a re:invent video to say that Amazon S3 has "100s of exabytes" in it.

So it not only could theoretically be done, but has been done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3