

Donna
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@web_buzz
Conservative, culturally comatose GenX/Boomer who loves journalism, gaming, dogs, tech, art, memes, and truth.




I had dinner once with a top physicist and a top computer scientist and asked what they thought the probability was that we were in a simulation. They answered simultaneously at 0% and 100% respectively. It was like a double-slit experiment, but with humans.


I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country







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Before we had silicon chips, we had needle and thread? In the 1960s, NASA didn’t ‘upload’ code; they sewed it. To get Apollo 11 to the moon, skilled weavers (often called ‘Little Old Ladies’) literally hand-stitched software into physical objects. By passing copper wire through tiny magnetic rings, they created Core Rope Memory. The logic was beautifully simple: wire through a ring was a ‘1’; wire around it was a ‘0’. Because the code was physically woven, it was virtually indestructible. It couldn’t be deleted, it couldn’t crash, and it survived the intense radiation of deep space with just 72 kilobytes of data: millions of times less than a single photo on your phone today. It proves sometimes the most advanced tech is actually handmade.




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