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A comment on Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025). Parent comment

Re:Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Cr... by Zigurd on Thursday February 12, 2026 @09:04AM (#46988968)
Having debugged code with a logic analyzer, I'm pretty sure the voltage on those CPU pins is real, and really the consequence of the code I think I'm running.
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Re:Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Cr... by the__alchemist on Thursday February 12, 2026 @10:58AM (#46990410)
This. Try it! LAs are cheap and easier to use than a scope, even if it has digital features.
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Re:Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Cr... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Thursday February 12, 2026 @06:45PM (#46996937)
This is like arguing I can hear humans talk, therefore the souls must exist.

You can wire voltage to CPU pins without software.

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Re:Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Cr... by donkeybeer on Friday February 13, 2026 @01:32AM (#46999595)
The visible part of em spectrum by which we interact with computers daily needs no multimeters.
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