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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink23•1 year agoI had (what felt like) an epiphany (but has seemed obvious to everyone I’ve shared it with) some time ago: Electrical signals are serial; they’re connectionless, like UDP. Underlying all these fantastic technologies is just aother connectionless protocol.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•1 year agoI’ve got a grandpa who says this all the time. He was a technician on a bunch of government contracts all through the cold war. “No matter how much you try or how well you succeed in digitizing things, we still live in an analog world”
I had (what felt like) an epiphany (but has seemed obvious to everyone I’ve shared it with) some time ago:
Electrical signals are serial; they’re connectionless, like UDP.
Underlying all these fantastic technologies is just aother connectionless protocol.
Every digital system is also secretly analog.
I’ve got a grandpa who says this all the time. He was a technician on a bunch of government contracts all through the cold war.
“No matter how much you try or how well you succeed in digitizing things, we still live in an analog world”