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I couldn't tell. Had I made this joke myself, I would have dropped the irrelevant Foundation reference and made it more obvious by wondering aloud if this "hypothetical" device might rotate somehow, or be used to store music.

Perhaps such a device would be named a "Concise Disc".

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>or be used to store music.

I am assuming that you can store any arbitrary data on Azure, including music

Absolutely -- but I'm talking about signalling your intent to make a joke.

Obviously the less overt signalling you can get away with, the better the joke is for those who get it. But if you provide so little that people confuse the joke for genuine ignorance, the joke isn't working as well as it could. I'm not the official joke arbiter by any means, but I did read your comment and think about whether you intended this specific joke, and concluded that you probably didn't.

I’m not sure what you mean about jokes. You said something to the effect that Cerabyte storage might spin, but they’re not platter drives (?)

Just in case you weren't joking, and at the risk of making a fool of myself if you were and still are joking (and/or trolling us now), where you initially said "non-rewritable optical storage media", some people people including me thought you were making a joke referencing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_disc.

If you genuinely weren't aware of CDs, that's fine, see https://xkcd.com/1053/.

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