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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 7mo 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 7mo agoSo it has negative weight in this case.
- TheOtherHobbes 7mo agoNegative mass = negative energy, so we should be able to make an Alcubierre Drive out of punched cards.
- tavavex 7mo 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.