# "What does 'Insufficient Disk Space' mean?"

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-insufficient-disk-space-mean/824011
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 5, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-insufficient-disk-space-mean/824011 "2018-11-05T15:50:07Z")
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### Author: ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-insufficient-disk-space-mean/824011/29 "2018-11-06T15:46:12Z")

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> [@Revtim](#):
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> It is literally the most clear and concise unambiguous error message in the entire history of computer science; past, present and future. When they make quantum computers that beam error messages into our cerebral cortexes, they will not be more clear.

Heh, 15 years ago I posted this on a thread about a brain chip being developed about the limits of memory:

> [@Scientists Develope "Brain Chip"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scientists-develope-brain-chip/160987/10):
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> I can imagine the first real life typical user/consumer follow up comment to that:
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> Neat!! What a cool TV show from the last century! I think I will download the second season to this space in my left cortex!!!..…
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> Doh! There goes the 20th season of the Simpsons. . .

Yep, customers will not get it about memory space, and it is more scary that the Simpsons are now in their 30th season!

[Brain explodes]

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