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Someone needs to invent...

Princess AlicePrincess Alice
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...a file format that takes up negative disk space.

That way, every time your disk is almost full, you can just save a -500 GB file and you'll never run out of space again!

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  • Obā-sanObā-san

    you know those hacked SSDs that you buy off ebay that say they have more space than they do, and then when you try to save stuff onto it over the real amount of space it corrupts your data
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Brilliance
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Whoa, I forgot that was a thing, but yeah that's totally applicable here
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    this reminds me, I was wondering yesterday why our FedEx scale at work sometimes dips negative. There's no such thing as negative weight, is there? anti-pounds?
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    not outside of theoretical physics, there isn't

    there is the Casimir effect which is similar
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    That was always a little silly, yeah.

    The only way it's gonna register a negative weight is if it's calibrated wrong, so instead of showing a negative number, it should just say "ERROR" or something.
  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    Imipolex G said:

    this reminds me, I was wondering yesterday why our FedEx scale at work sometimes dips negative. There's no such thing as negative weight, is there? anti-pounds?

    Maybe it's calibrated to weigh how much something in a box weighs minus the weight of the box? Or something.
  • HavenHaven
    Let me tell you. About Fallen London.
    also, as far as things people need to invent: a way to pet cats through the internet

    if we can put a man on the moon we can do this
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    idk how FedEx's scales work, but you do get scales that you can set to measure the weight on them relative to a base starting weight, in which case a situation might arise in which it might be useful to know that you have less on the scales than you had before, i guess
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    tare weight
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    oh, yeah, that's the word
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I used to screw around with this when I would get bored at my old job.

    If you put some weight on the scale and hit the tare button, it'll register that weight as zero. If you then take that weight off and put on something lighter, it'll register a negative weight, because it weights less than "zero" pounds.

    Amusingly enough, even though the LCD on our scale would show negative numbers, the UPS software on the computer it was connected to wouldn't display anything unless you gave it a valid weight.
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    The scale, when empty, is supposed to read 0. Any weight of the packaging materials (box, whatever) is counted as part of the overall weight.

    I just thought it was weird
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