Ages ago, there was a time where my dad would mail back up tapes for offsite storage because their databases were large enough that it was faster to put it through snail mail.

It should also be noted his databases were huge, (they’d be bundled into 79 pound packages and shipped certified.)

I'm laughing my ass off at this

Edit:

https://chatgpt.com/share/671da57b-5fe4-8005-bdba-68b69f398c72

Still fucking amazing

Pigeons with flash drives ftw

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/yes-a-pigeon-is-still-faster-than-gigabit-fiber-internet

or a train full of dudes jorking it like that one NSFW copypasta

Awesome bandwidth to be sure, but I do think there is a difference between data transfer to RAM (such as network traffic) vs. traffic purely from one location to another (station wagon with tapes/747 with SD cards/etc.).

For the latter, actually using the data in any meaningful way is probably limited to read time of the media, which is likely slow.

But yeah, my go-to would be micro SD cards on a plane :)

6.065 petabytes a second or 6065 Tb/s

The students smart enough to do that, are also probably doing their own work or are learning enough to cross check chatgpt at least..

There's a fair number that just copy paste without even proof reading...

I'll do you one better, why is Frankie Hawkes.

Right, but the whitespace between instructions wasn't whitespace at all but white text on white background instructions to poison the copy-paste.

Also the people who are using chatGPT to write the whole paper are probably not double-checking the pasted prompt. Some will, sure, but this isnt supposed to find all of them its supposed to catch some with a basically-0% false positive rate.