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I keep having this argument with my boss but he refuses to let me write machine code.

• dangerbird2 5y ago
  If the good lord wanted us to code in assembly language, he'd have made transistors operate on mnemonics, not electric currents.
  • lostcolony 5y ago
    If the good lord had wanted us to interact with transistors based on mnemonics, not electrical currents, he'd have implemented our brains in mnemonics, not electrical currents.
    • akiselev 5y ago
      Nitpick: voltage potentials and ion channels. There's not much actual current flowing.
      • AstralStorm 5y ago
        Nitpick over nitpick: synapses are not exactly electrical or ion current based, they have active transporters. If all electrical activity ceases, does memory survive? (Answer is very likely yes given cryonic experiments. Brain is protein, ion currents have tendency to auto fire on defrost.)
        • akiselev 5y ago
          Ah, I was under the mistaken assumption that ion transport was a subset of ion channels but I see now the latter is passive only.