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I'd guess that Starfield wants an SSD because it will be using DirectStorage as a mandatory feature, and that more or less requires an SSD, but calling the disk space requirement "memory" is definitely WTF territory.
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TRWTF there is any game using over a hundred gigabytes of storage
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I can recall the patch notes of a game mentioning that they managed to significantly reduce loading times. At the same time, the game also now needed a much, much larger amount of storage.
Gee, I wonder how they managed to do that?!
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So TRWTF is contributors not themselves being able to count syllables accuracy? Ah well, off-by-one errors and all that ...
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If you buy MS Flight Simulator 2020 with the expanded package (deluxe version or whatever it's called), it pulls in excess of 90GB of data, mostly maps and aircraft details. Given what Bethesda says about Starfield, I'd put money on the 125GB being mostly that sort of stuff.
So it's not quite as much of a WTF as you make it sound.
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Does it have a 31-key sequence to get to the hidden spreadsheet Easter Egg?
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Ah, sorting hard... especially when sorting strings generated from the raw data. Throw in time and timezones, and its even worse. I still think we should train all users to understand ISO 8601 - "2023-07-21T14:53:03Z" is perfectly readable, isn't it?
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Look again at the PC World screen. One line labeled "Memory" specifically says 16GB RAM, while the other "Memory" line says 125GB available memory. Admittedly labeling the row as "Storage" would make more sense, but I've heard disc capacity called memory before; it's just not RAM.
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Ditto X-plane 12. Download all the scenery on the mac, and it's about 95GB.
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The GOG one is obviously a null Unix date.
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Honestly the WTF with the PC World is that it was even accepted as an entry. The description below the table very clearly states 16 GB of RAM and 125 GB of SSD so it's hard to claim they got confused at all. And the table has a clear Memory 16 GB line under CPU. Nowhere does the 125 GB thingy claim to be RAM so there's really no reason to pull that here. The whole WTF is rather contrived.
Occam's razor explanation: they lacked a "storage" entry in their requirement database or table template and reused the closest label they had, i.e. memory, and figured their readers would be smart enough to figure it out because it's sort of obvious.
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Look very carefully at the line in the table that talks about 125GB required - it's labelled "Memory", and since we tend to rail about non-techies who call disk space "memory" or, worse, "RAM" (I have heard that, although long and longer than that ago), it's reasonable to rail about a techie magazine confusing the two.
I find that explanation improbable, and it's almost a worse WTF. To lack "Storage" or "Disk space" in a requirements template for software is inexcusable.
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Those dates seem sorted to me. "April" definitely comes before "August", and "2" (which, admittedly, is part of "26") is before "4". So, clearly, the dates are sorted. Just not sorted in date order. Or numerical order.
Unless, of course, you name the months of the year as "April, August, December, February, January, July, June, March, May, November, October, September".
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God you are right. They are sorted as strings, character by character.
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On PCs there's a hard line between "Memory" and "Storage" On smartphones and tablets, not so much.
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Yep, I have to deal with Amazon's lovely date sorting as strings often, in the context of DMS. A table's not replicating properly? OK, kick off a resync. Now check to see how that's going so you can wait until it completes... but sorting by the sync time is not going to help you.
Not too bad if it's just one table because you can search for it. Quite a pain when you're doing half a dozen at once and you are waiting for them all to finish.