Mar 26, 2021
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Do AO3 Next You Cowards
Lots of us who write code for our jobs have felt the unmistakable urge after making some discombobulated, misbehaving junk code that beguiled us for hours to bury it hundreds of feet below ground in the remote wilderness so that chunk of accursed Python would never again darken our doorsteps or ruin another afternoon. Well, the good news is that Github has taken care of that for us, copying all open-source code now stored on its servers and burying it 820 feet below an arctic mountain. The bad news is that they’ve done it for archival purposes: GitHub copied data on to 186 reels of silver halide microfilm — 8.8 million pixels per reel — to store 21 terabytes in stasis for up to 1,000 years. This is part of a larger goal of constructing an immutable record of computing that can survive discontinuities or unpredictable systemic shifts.
Peter Grad, Phys.org