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Chinese researchers indicate diamonds can store data for millions of years
- leftbit 2y agoMakes me wonder how much information from prehistoric civilizations got lost by cutting up their libraries into wedding rings...
- onemoresoop 2y agoAnother reason for using synthetic diamonds for jewelry.
- zdragnar 2y agoFor some reason, I imagine most diamonds just store the same word over and over: HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT....
- Eddy_Viscosity2 2y agoOr, "under pressure, da da da da-da dum dum"
- tgv 2y agoThe diamond with information you're hypothesizing would have been dug up and modified by that prehistoric civilization, only to be put back under ground. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been found in a diamond mine. And would you trust (very) future civilizations to come across a small diamond and think: hey, I'm going to fire a laser through this thing in a particular sequence and interpret the outcome as UTF-8? I think anyone who wants their data saved for posterity would give that some thought and not leave it to chance.
- meiraleal 2y ago> Otherwise, it wouldn't have been found in a diamond mine. After 50k years, a library would become a diamond mine.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoIt's trivial to include macro structures that invite investigation, and utf8 is irrelevant. It doesn't matter what encoding scheme you use. utf8 is fine. All that matters is that there is structure.
- glouwbug 2y agoCan’t be more expensive than AWS
- monero-xmr 2y agoWell they will have to add some margin to Diamond DB. Of course I self host a Zirconia instance
- 1317 2y agothe paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-024-01573-1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-024-01573-1
- rig666 2y agoReminds me of how they archived data in blade runner with librarys full of little crystals as optical storage. With Sony soon to stop making blue ray it makes me fearful in what to use for a long term archive. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/sony-stops-producing-blu-ray-and-optical-disks-for-consumer-market-business-to-business-production-to-continue-until-unprofitable https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/sony-stops-produc...
- techjamie 2y agoThey're still doing B2B sales after, so unless they're only making those deals under stringent contract, maybe some company will pick up the market and retail them. Curious if they're stopping it because writing your own blu rays is relatively rare, or if they're hoping to cripple the bootleg movie industry from using them. Given this is Sony, I'm partial to think the latter may be the case.
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