[cmpb]

Ah the old "entire digitized Library of Congress" per second metric

[ThePadawan]

I always find comparisons using text data incredibly worthless.

I'm sure a Shakespeare play or The Great Gatsby are barely a few megabytes.

But if you asked Joe Shmoe on the street "In Great Gatsbys, how big was the last picture your iPhone took", they would rightly have zero idea.

It's so useless.

[bravura]

Agreed, number of books stacked end to end to reach the moon is much more intuitive.

[adverbly]

Easy! It's just three olympic sized swimming pools worth of dollar bills stacked to the moon in bits.

[edoceo]

I think all of Shakespeare was like 450,000 LOC.

I used to use that metric when folks ask why it took so long to debug. Like, our project is 600,000 LOC and more complicated than any of his works. He didn't have it all memorized and neither do I. It's a metric PMs can understand.

[ericpauley]

I think this says more about the minuscule (on Google scale) ~10TB size of the digitized library of Congress.