Wake up! It's HighScalability time:

 

Spirit? Smoke? Lightning? Nope. It's a gorgeous LIDAR image showing 1500 years of Willamette River movement (@Blacky_Himself)

 

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• 536: IRS tax return submissions per second; 400,000: drone planted trees in a day; 200 million: smart speaker observers installed by year end; 54 million: GoT pirated in first 24 hours; 123,052: kg of crashed human spacecraft on the surface of the moon; 610 pounds: 128 kilobytes of  IBM S/360 core memory; 33%: per account month over month Lambda function growth; $100,000: Netflix bug bounty payout; $1 million: Shopify bug bount payout; ~$2300: cost to transfer 23TB from S3 to Backblaze B2 in 7 hours; 14%: Netflix users share passwords; 88%: believe P != NP; 30-90: minutes saved by StackOverflow per week; 83%: US teens have an iPhone; $2m: Microsoft bug bounty payout; $1 million: made by Colin Cowherd on 331 million Facebook page views, moving more to Instagram; 0: lines of code in Pong; ~95%: redis is slower when GDPR complient;


• Quotable Quotes:
  • melodysheep: The universe has only just begun.
  • @matthew_d_green: I spent the year before Heartbleed visiting important people in DC trying to convince them OpenSSL was a mess, and they should fund it as “critical infrastructure”. They laughed and told me that term referred to dams and power plants.
  • Tim Cook: No
  • @asymco: Among 8,000 U.S. high school students surveyed, 83% have an iPhone, 9% Android. 86% plan their next phone to be an iPhone. -Piper Jaffray Taking Stock With Teens survey
  • @dialtone: Do you know S3 throughput is higher than a SATA 3 controller and almost as much as PCIe 4.0 2x? Depending on the usecase, mounting S3 as a filesystem, not only makes sense, but it saves a LOT of money (and time) as well. You just need to use it a special kind of filesystem.
  • Steven Melendez: By 2022, automation will displace about 75 million jobs worldwide. On the other hand, they will create an estimated 133 million new jobs. The predictions come from extrapolating from surveys sent to more than 300 major employers around the world. 
  • So many more quotes...