If you want to keep growing emotionally and spiritually for the rest of your life, accept this as your mantra and try to live as if it were true:Everything that I experience from another human being is either love, or a call for love.
A NASA-funded peep into the farthest reaches of the cosmos has uncovered this "feeding black hole" 12 billion light years away. APM 08279+5255, as this compacted mass of inescapable doom is affectionately known, has been gorging on water vapor and spewing out energy. How much H2O exactly? It's only the "largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe," and it weighs in at 140 trillion times the amount in our oceans.
Amazing. The universe is really crazy. Imagine a gigantic amount of water just floating in space. I know that blew my mind just now.
I love Backblaze. It's employee owned, not VC backed. They publish everything about how they do it.
Granted the comparison is not fair, because S3 is way more performant at scale and for concurrent access... Backblaze is designed for more or less cold storage. But for backups, that's exactly what you want.
I'm about to build an Unraid server myself -- 10TB for under $1000 using commodity hardware including storage, expandable to 30 TB pretty easily. So I guess I'm a bit of a storage nerd. I believe all things should be stored forever. With companies like Backblaze, it looks like it may well be within humanity's grasp.
One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o'clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they're looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an a**hole. This was the latter case.
Really brilliant copy. I love it.