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Some other museums to visit while you’re in Tokyo: JCII Camera Museum https://www.jcii-cameramuseum.jp/top-e/ Small Worlds Miniature Museum https://smallworlds.jp/en/ Button Museum https://button-museum.jp/en/ World Bags and Luggage Museum https://www.ace.jp/en/museum/ Meguro Parasitological Museum https://www.kiseichu.org/e-top I learned about the Button Museum more than twenty-five years ago. I was taking a walk al…
> All media other than paper and stone will become extinct Somewhat tangential... I once worked for the national archives. Unlike libraries, the archives typically have the only copy of a specific piece of data. So if the lose the data, it is lost forever. My mission was to figure out how to deal with information storage in a millennial perspective. There are tons of really interesting ways to store data. I think my…
Microsoft's Project Silica is intriguing and would be perfect for this if they can get the technology simplified and commoditized. It offers the Star Trek vision of mass storage that could outlast us. Not directly applicable to the needs in your case but is interesting. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/project-silica...
They can't. Even if they manage to ship something, they will destroy it with an "update".
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Microsoft's Project Silica is intriguing and would be perfect for this if they can get the technology simplified and commoditized. It offers the Star Trek vision of mass storage that could outlast us. Not directly applicable to the needs in your case but is interesting. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/project-silica...
> Microsoft's Project > if they can They can't. Even if they manage to ship something, they will destroy it with an "update".
Real Soon Now™
Edit: The project is intended to be for Azure cold storage, so it's not directly consumer facing.
Considering that Azure has more marketshare than GCP we should not dismiss them lightly.
The fact that this is the case still kind of blows my mind. Azure? By those Windows guys? C'mon! Really?