The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.
One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry's vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: roughly one-fifth of the hard disk drives dating to the 1990s it was sent are entirely unreadable.
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/After reading this article, be sure to play this "simple" push-blocks-around game on a non-Euclidean grid: https://sokyokuban.com/
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https://zenorogue.medium.com/non-euclidean-geometry-and-games-fb46989320d4Also interesting: how the question and its correct answer relates to astronomy!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUHkTs-Ipfg