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Tuesday, 11-March-2025 00:44:22 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Backblaze have released their 2024 Drive Stats report. At the end of 2024, Backblaze was actively monitoring 301,120 data drives, though 487 were excluded from the Q4 analysis due to insufficient data points. This left a dataset of 300,633 drives, which helped give a valid quarter-by-quarter comparison. The annualized failure rate (AFR) for Q4 was 1.35%, a noticeable drop from 1.89% in Q3, mainly due to the introduction of newer, high-capacity drives.
IntelInside sent word that Skype is going away - because Microsoft are going to kill it off. In order to streamline our free consumer communications offerings so we can more easily adapt to customer needs, we will be retiring Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free), our modern communications and collaboration hub.
Also from IntelInside, some COBOL news. If you've gotten cash from an ATM, you've interacted with a COBOL-based system. Here's why this old programming language will probably outlive us all. I did a bit of COBOL in a former life, along with MVS JCL.. *twitch*
Some news from Matt, worthy of congratulations: my data container, std::hive, made it into C++26 as of last week. Reference implementation here. More info in a trip report here. P0447R28 “Introduction of std::hive to the standard library” by Matthew Bentley is a major library addition that formalizes a widely-used high-performance data structure. Well done!
No idea where this video came from but it's an interesting one about building a retro Mac from new parts. What happens when you get a broken Macintosh SE/30 but it's not worth fixing? You go incredibly overboard instead.
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