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@cypnk Will do! I blame you for all the procrastination I will undertake this weekend, though

@cypnk well, thank you for sharing the fruits of your labor with us! As someone who grew up with PCs it's eye-opening to see what early computing was like

@zachss I'm going to one alone tomorrow and just thinking about it is driving me crazy :/

The reason we refer to "core" memory or "core dump" is because how early memory was actually designed. These are magnetic cores with wire woven through (by hand, I might add) which contained program instructions

Core memory went away when silicon took over in the mid 70s

@cypnk that's crazy that people wired those tiny magnets by hand, considering how automated things are today! Out of curiosity, where do you find this stuff?

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#PROTIP: Spending hours writing critical theory about a thing decreases you immediate enjoyment of the thing.

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Your occasional etymology: pollution (n.)
mid-14c., "discharge of semen other than during sex," later, "desecration, defilement" (late 14c.), from Late Latin pollutionem (nominative pollutio) "defilement," noun of action from past participle stem of Latin polluere "to soil, defile, contaminate," ...

Well ... /that/ was unexpected.

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This new Playboi Carti record is really fun but I feel bad because I COULD be listening to Kendrick again...