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> Can we please move on?

Doubtful. If there's one thing that new developers have always insisted upon doing it's telling the networking and data store engineers that their foundational limitations are wrong. It seems that everyone has to learn that computers aren't magic through misunderstanding and experience.



Way way back, I had a coworker who aspired to be a hacker get really mad at me because he was just sure that spinning rust was “digital” while I was asserting to him that there’s a DAC in there and that’s how data recovery services work. They crack open the drive and read the magnetic domains to determine not just what the current bytes are but potentially what the previous ones were too.

They’re digital! It’s ones and zeroes! Dude, it’s a fucking magnet. A bunch of them in fact.


Yes, any real digital device is relying on a hopefully well-separated bimodal distribution of something analog.




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