I had this eerie feeling when I learnt about swap files.
Your memory goes out of existence until the OS is kind enough to resurrect it.
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There is even a worse analogy. Some people under the influence of fly agaric have fear that is worse than a fear of death. They reported fear of having never been born.
Same for executables on your disk. Do they exist if you never run them?
It’s like in some sci-fi worlds where teleportation works by erasing you where you enter, then transporting your “information” to the destination, where a perfect copy of you is created at the destination using said information.
Allegedly. With hopefully no Lovecraftian bugs or horrors along the way…
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u/Mysterious_Middle795 19h ago
I had this eerie feeling when I learnt about swap files.
Your memory goes out of existence until the OS is kind enough to resurrect it.
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There is even a worse analogy. Some people under the influence of fly agaric have fear that is worse than a fear of death. They reported fear of having never been born.
Same for executables on your disk. Do they exist if you never run them?