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Re:Sumerian dog jokes, or the difficulty of translating dead... by simias on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:05AM (#30754250)
It's going to be a predictably nerdy reply but I feel like the issue of smoke signals is not complexity, it's bandwidth.

Now maybe if you could put a dozen or so smoke signals in parallel and add error correction codes...

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Re:Sumerian dog jokes, or the difficulty of translating dead... by thelittlenag on Monday March 21, 2022 @10:10AM (#30754309)
The clacks would like to have a word with you...
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Re:Sumerian dog jokes, or the difficulty of translating dead... by addaon on Monday March 21, 2022 @12:51PM (#30756427)
I have an image now of someone sky-writing Euclid's axioms.
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