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Re:Do we really travel through time with the speed of light? by rl3 on Monday August 31, 2020 @01:44PM (#24333957)
>I can't even begin to describe how absurd it is to argue anything else. It's like... saying with a straight face that software doesn't "really" follow the rules of boolean algebra if it has enough lines of code. That somehow once a program gets "big enough", it can transcend truth tables and somehow go analog or something.

It literally does sometimes, just ask anyone that's programmed software designed to be resistant to bit flips caused by cosmic radiation.

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Re:Do we really travel through time with the speed of light? by jiggawatts on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @05:26AM (#24339914)
If large programs are vulnerable to cosmic radiation-induced bit flips, so are small programs, all the way down to individual machine instructions. The point is that the rules of the system are consistent across scales.
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