XPost: uk.d-i-y   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 15/05/2025 13:50, nib wrote:   
   > On 2025-05-14 14:13, Edmund wrote:   
   >> On 5/14/25 13:56, yossarian wrote:   
   >>> On Wed, 14 May 2025 13:17:40 +0200   
   >>> Edmund  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Wow, so you actually agree, you only have a huge problem admitting   
   >>>> your   
   >>>> stupidity, OK we get it.   
   >>>   
   >>>  Digital doesn't exist,   
   >>   
   >> You got it!   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Thinking of analogue/digital definition brought to mind those short-wave   
   > numbers stations. They basically transmitted a series of numbers from   
   > transmitter to receiver, by speech or Morse code.   
   >   
   > They meet the basic requirement of transmitting hard digital numbers   
   > over a wireless interface to a receiver where they are recorded as the   
   > same identical numbers.   
   >   
   > So a digital transmission, but with very analogue modulation in the middle!   
   >   
   Quantum physics apart, all 'digital' is simply a mathematical   
   abstraction imposed on analogue quantities.   
      
   The problems arise, as I said, when people mistake the abstraction for   
   the reality.   
      
   This is the delusion mainly of non STEM ArtStudent™ type people. And   
   computer scientists of course who are a bit dim.   
   All computers use analogue components... Transistors capacitors   
   resistors and inductors.   
   For Computer scientists, they pretend that this isn't relevant and its   
   all looks just like a mathematical abstraction.   
   Those who have to design the chips and circuits know better.   
   Statistically there is usually a one in 50 years type probability that   
   e.g. a cosmic ray  or a stray asynchronous event will turn a 0 into a 1 etc.   
      
      
      
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   doesn't exist instituted by self legalising protection rackets that   
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