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Re:NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 by glimshe on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:26PM (#36945974)
A brick can't fix itself in case of problems. Just grab a brick, put it in a corner of the room and you'll see. It stays there doing nothing, it's kind of amazing how little it can do.
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Re:NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 by deepspace on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:17PM (#36948186)
There is also such a thing as subtlety and nuance. Words borrowed from physical objects do not need to have, and in general do not have exactly the same meaning when applied to software.

I would love to see a picture of your computer pulling itself up by the straps on its physical boots the next time you press reset. Bleeding when a process is "killed".

Even something as superficially similar to real-world behaviour a "queueing" is implmented in a very different way in software, for the most part.

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Re:NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 by glimshe on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:47PM (#36949310)
You can also see nuance in humor, in particular when recognizing a joke.
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