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I was in a similar situation some years ago; where our company had given a 250GB laptop. Outlook mails with big attachments used to take space, mine was a development machine.
Then someone suggested WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics [^]. Installed this, and got to know exactly where the bulky files reside, mostly in the C:\Users...\AppData subfolders. Used to regularly move-to-external-hard-disk/delete unwanted bulky files, to make space. This was not very time-consuming, and would be done maybe once a week or fortnight.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Our two tech writers
You had me at "two tech writers"!
Most companies do not have even 1 tech writer.
Doesn't your company know that companies don't write manuals any more? 
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When your equipment sells for $1.5M-$2.5M and customers don't like to maintain it properly, you write user and service manuals as CYA.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: When your equipment sells for $1.5M-$2.5M
!!!
I thought I remembered that you worked on/built large expensive equipment. 
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Yup. We build commercial inkjet printing systems that print full color, front and back, at up to 17 feet of paper per second.
In other words, we ain't your mama's DeskJet  .
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Gary Wheeler wrote: up to 17 feet of paper per second
Truly amazing! That's got to be cool to watch it print.
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I agree, does your company have videos of said machinery in action?
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I was thinking it was even a bit dangerous. That is 11 miles an hour if I did the math right. Might not kill you but could probably do some damage.
Think paper cuts.
Or maybe a new way to decapitate a zombie.
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Man! Imagine the paper cut you could get at that speed! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: Imagine the paper cut you could get at that speed!
You put that image in my mind...
Guillotines might be less efficient.
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Indeed. It's running joke about lethal paper cuts. The other joke is "baptism" when the machine dumps ink on you.
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Quote: The other joke is "baptism" when the machine dumps ink on you.
That only happens when you are wearing a new suit and / or tie to meet a client ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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We actual did that to a corporate guy touring one of the labs. Some tubing on a test stand cut loose and sprayed him with yellow ink.
We bought him a new suit  .
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Have heard that in such printer systems, the software is generally the slower component amongst hardware and software; hardware, even though mechanical / electro-mechanical is faster among the two.
Is this true?
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We have dedicated computers and hardware to handle high-speed interactions. Print data for example is sent over fiber optic links from the data source to the printheads.
Our controller application (the part I work on) is a Windows UI application and a group of services, all heavily multithreaded.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: inkjet
Gary Wheeler wrote: 17 feet of paper per second
And the home consumer thinks his inkjet printer goes through ink fast...
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We sell ink in 5L "cubies" (think wine box, just cubical), 208L drums, and 1000+L tubs.
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LMAO.
I remember years ago someone made the calculation and posted that if ink (the ink-jet cartridge type) sold at linear prices, it would come down to something stupid like $9000 a gallon.
I'm guessing this is not quite the same scale. 
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Having worked on such printers back in the 90's in my hardware maintenance days, often in the middle of the night (one such night with a 102 degree fever), I bet I can make a very good guess which company you work for.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Gary Wheeler wrote: they could buy an SSD for each and they'd never have to do this again.
Is it that the company will not buy a bigger drive? Or perhaps they just think the company will not?
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Assistant friend will give you the wordle ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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So it is 5 letters?
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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Yes
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Little does she know it's an L1 cache for fast random access to my frequently used clothes in O(1) time.
I'll get my coat in O(1) time.
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Tell her that it's a L2 Wash-through cache and that the laundry bin is for Dirty items.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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