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- Hacker News
- Far, far more than 1 MB.
- Thanks, that’s a lot. Can I ask for a ballpark figure? And how you have written so much?by cwmoore
- Way way more. I write about that in journal entries alone per yearby senordevnyc
- Thanks for the feedback! Sounds like you are prolific and consistent!
Do you write outside of journaling? Same amount?
by cwmoore - It doesn't take long to build up that many words on online forums, like Hacker News.by dlcarrier
- Thanks for your input. Apparently it does! There’s another commenter on this thread who found less than that in their 10 year history.by cwmoore
- The text content of my iOS Notes, when zipped, is about 500Kb. Some small fraction of that was copy-pasted from someone else’s writing.
I probably have an order of magnitude more than that.
Bigger than a context window, smaller than a useful model, and fits in L2 cache.
by cwmoore - Some here probably have more than 1mb in comments. There's probably a way to calculate that through the API if someone were so inclined.by Bender
- I just pinged the api to dump my 10 year comment history. Yes, that definitely can be done, in a few seconds and a script.
Edit: the csv = 698kb and the json = 866kb Edit 2: api was the wrong term. I used algolia.
by eth0up - Easily. I probably generate 180k words per quarter at work and another 180k for personal and social media purposes. Maybe 180k/month, even.by apothegm
- Thanks for the info. Wow, 9000 words per workday seems extraordinary.by cwmoore
- Yes i do, i like to put down my thoughts in writing as well as planning out strategies and such as i found out that i could not find a pen when i needed it much which was a dilemma of mine and so i started just using my laptop and phone to jot down what came to mind and was worth recordingby KashifNY
- How much more than 1Mb, do you know?by cwmoore
- I've got 459,203 words posted here on HN alone, according to clickhouse
I'm currently ranked #495
https://serjaimelannister.github.io/hn-words/
I'm out of the labor pool with nothing but time until I age out. I also have strong minority opinions.
by mikewarot - Sure, and thanks for the ranking context also. I think 1Mb is an interesting ballpark figure.by cwmoore
- I haven't exactly counted it, but I'd say I've almost certainly have access to more than 1MB of my own writing. I've written articles about a variety of the topics for the last decade or two, posted far more on forums than is probably healthy, and have an untold number of my own emails in my inbox.by CM30
- That's the kind of info I am interested in, thanks.by cwmoore