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"Data has weight, but only on SSDs" - Not just SSDs! Unless you always hang the chad, surely writing data onto punchcards reduces the weight of that 'storage me
by alanh 8mo ago
"Data has weight, but only on SSDs" - Not just SSDs! Unless you always hang the chad, surely writing data onto punchcards reduces the weight of that 'storage medium'!
- erg0s4m 8mo agoSo it has negative weight in this case.
- TheOtherHobbes 8mo agoNegative mass = negative energy, so we should be able to make an Alcubierre Drive out of punched cards.
- tavavex 8mo agoIf some PMs today evaluate performance by the number of lines of code, I wonder if the punch card equivalent was weighing the punched-out holes that were removed by each developer.