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Re:The GitHub Arctic Code Vault by Wowfunhappy on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:11PM (#23866587)
Right, so it wouldn't be a 2020 computer. It would be whatever new computer they've built.
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Re:The GitHub Arctic Code Vault by dmitriid on Friday July 17, 2020 @03:06AM (#23867950)
By then, why would they need code from GitHub? Given that they will won't even be able to run it in any shape or form.
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Re:The GitHub Arctic Code Vault by Wowfunhappy on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:11AM (#23870632)
To study history and culture. And who knows, there may well be algorithms we came up with but which no one ever re-discovered.
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