Have you figured out a way to have a shared (family) photo library? My wife and I use different iCloud accounts, are part of iCloud Family. However, I cannot setup a single shared library for all the kid's pictures we take.
Hi hsshah, we talk about some benchmarking we did in our technical paper (page 10, "Experiments") http://www.snappydata.io/snappy-industrial. This is not a real-life scale deployment, but may be useful.
I don't know what that does in evernote. I just copy and paste stuff from the browser and it pulls all the formatting and the link too, in the note. Also, there is a built in screenshot tool. I use it sometimes to take snippets from the browser.
This post reminded me of the ideas discussed by Malcolm Gladwell in "The Tipping Point". IIRC, talks about highly networked individuals starting new trends.
Looks very promising. Been looking for Google Doc alternative for sometime now.
I realize that there is a commercial service aspect that is being worked on to provide server side hosting, however, how easy would it be to self host this on sandstorm.io?
General AI has always been very fascinating and exciting to me. However, recently I feel like it will serve us humans better to continue along the path of ML.
We want an AI trained with ML to keep focusing on flying plane. We may not want an AGI pilot who can also get bored just like humans and can get distracted playing games.
I am glad companies like Facebook is using Blue-Ray. Hopefully this will trigger progress in increasing density of optical discs and/or decreasing cost of high capacity discs and writers for consumer market.
Eager to archive my yearly ever increasing personal media (thanks to having a kid) onto a high capacity disc and just store it in the safety deposit box.
I don't know what the life of blu-rays are but burned optical cds and dvds have an estimated lifespan of only 10 years. Make sure you continue to keep up your backups! How I do it is I update my backups every few years but I also keep everything on functional and "hot" hard drives at all times (so I can see it's all still there).
The common Blu-Ray media (BD-R, not BD-R LTH) discs use a non-organic dye and should be more resilient than DVD-R or CD-R media. According to this source [1] 100-150 years data retention.
Edit: note also, BD-R writers immediately read back and check written data, re-writing damaged sectors to a spare area. This in-hardware defect management should make BD-R more resilient against data corruption than DVD-R or CD-R [2].
CDs and DVDs have horrible shelf life because they all use organic dyes. Some Blu-Rays do too, but you can still buy Blu-Rays with metallic dyes which should work for decades(panasonic BD-Rs are guaranteed for 50 years).
In fact, do you remember the very first, early writable CDs? They all were blue on the bottom - that's because they used a metallic dye as well, I imagine 99% of those discs will be perfectly readable today.
The main downside is that MDiscs have a max capacity is 25GB on the Blu-ray.
I have some myself, but I can't attest to the life span, since I've only had my BDR for about a year now. How does a normal person prove the lifespan claims of an MDiscs other than waiting?
I still find myself burning most backups to 50GB disks, and making redundant copies of only my most important stuff to the 25GB MDiscs.
Where I live, a 3 pack of 25GB MDiscs runs around $20 vs $70 for a spindle of 25 RiData 50GB discs. That's ~6.66/25GB MDisc vs ~2.80/50GB BDR. Not a huge premium for piece of mind, I guess.
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