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Harddrive Is Probably Full

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komadoritoday at 6:18 PM

I recently ran `df` and was surprised to see that I'd used more than half of the two terabyte SSD in my laptop. So, being apparently atypically proactive, my first action was delete all of the target directories in my Rust projects and was equally surprised to see that it freed up nearly 10% of my disk usage (~200 GB)!

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kmosertoday at 6:06 PM

This is a variation of Parkinson's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law: "Data expands to fill the space available for storage."

mfrotoday at 5:50 PM

I think about this problem often in life because of my tendency to procrastinate. Only the long term effects that cause me serious paranoia get any real attention (failing to meet social expectations, major health issues, large-figure finance problems). It’s absolutely necessary to define the constraints before they define you. This requires a lot of forward thinking and effort but considering how little time we get on this earth… worth it

ThrowawayTestrtoday at 5:51 PM

I bought a 8tb drive just before prices exploded so I'm alright