If everyone has it then it would be the purge everyday as everyone will be keeping in RAM the fact they are in a time loop, and dieing does not matter.
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That weeks winnings lotto numbers. It would amount to nothing but I'd be happy forever.
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Seems like storage outside your brain is stable, so you can use your 1 kb of brain persistent storage to store a URL and credentials.
Well, that 1KB is special and is immune to time travel effects, everything else gets reset.
You can link to a website that you create after the loop begun, but when the loop resets, the link goes to what the webpage looked like at the beginning of the loop, so either a 404 Error, or if you already had the page up befote the loop, its just gets reverted to what it looked right at the start of the time loop.
So if between weeks you don't retain any skills and the entire world resets, then the sum total of your existence is what you experience in a week and what you can store in 1 kB of data. Unlike groundhog day, where the protagonist knows and can learn.
The 1 kB would be the only thing that indicates that something is going on.
The irony is that your own memory of the 1 kB existing and how to write to it would also need to be retained.
(I'm a software developer, it's all about the edge cases.)
My initial response with the expanded parameters, I'd probably store a GPS location and a timestamp. How far did you get in a week, assuming that your starting location also resets.
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I’m confused, does this mean you would be immune to consequences? Like if you broke your arm the next time loop would magically fix it like nothing happened?
Yep.
You die, time just resets again, and you won't remember anything except the "strange txt file" that 1024KB in size that popped up in front of you on your Neuro-Computer implant when you wake up.
Maybe include something to the effect of, "you are the chosen one, have maximum confidence in your actions and decisions, for they are guided."
Yes, you'd be a raging psycho, but 1.) that's sadly what works and gets you to the top fast and 2.) brain wipe, no risk of remorse if I can't remember. You'd feel motivated and fulfilled, though it's based on a lie. Blissful ignorance.
Lol the "Chosen One" thing was literally my previous question. 😅
Yes you read that right: BYTES, not KB, MB, or GB: 1024 BYTES
1024 Bytes are 1 Kibibyte or 1,024 Kilobytes.
And to make it even more confusing, the person I'm replying to is using a thousandths separator (",") that is ambiguous. Unlike metric, there isn't an international standard for this. More than half the world uses 1,024.00; between 70-80% of the people in the world use "." as the decimal separator; of these, most use "," for thousandths, and under 2% use apostrophe. So, most of the world would write "one thousand twenty four" as 1,024, and 20-30% would write 1.024, and a very few - mostly the Swiss and Albanians - would write 1'024.
So Zacryon, your punctuation means something different in different countries. To most people in the world, you're claiming 1 Kibibytes = 1 Mibibyte.
In the most Milquetoast way, no standards committee has put their foot down and said, "this is the way numbers should be represented."
The only good solution is to pick something everyone hates for thousandths separators. I like "_". 1_024. There. Nobody but software developers uses that.
So: to everyone reading this, Zacryon isn't wrong, they're just using a decimal separator used by a minority of people in the world.
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Goddamn it who named these terms? The original term was supposed to be 1024 bytes, why the fuck was the definition of Kilobyte retroactively changed?
Kilo is metric for 1000, not 1024. To remain consistent it was changed.
To conform with SI unit prefixes. Which is a good thing imo.
But according to Wiki the IEC defined those binary prefixes in 1999. And I find it problematic that so few still don't know about this and don't adhere to that standard. Even fellow engineers don't use it correctly. No wonder companies like Microsoft also still use it wrong. This keeps things confusing.
It would take me a week to decide, besides the fact this is beyond me 😄
I’d save a text file that says “be sure to change your underwear.”
Bytes? What even is a byte in a brain? How much information is that? I think if you said "a tweet of 250 characters", I could give you an answer, but 1024 bytes???
Assuming standard data storage, you've got 1024 chars
If you do a 5 bit encoding (0-31) that's enough for the alphabet and numbers can overlap with letters like in braille, plus spaces. Thats around 1638 characters. Standard ascii is technically 7 bits and that would compress to 1170 characters without the initial 0
I think the question here is how much translation can be auto-done if you don't have any memory of it to begin with. If it takes you any significant amount of time, that's probably not worth it.
8192 "1"s or "0"s stored in your Neuro-Computer Implant which automatically converts to Human-Readable text via UTF-8.
TLDR: You have a .txt file in your brain with the max capacity of 1024 Bytes or 1024 characters if its the standard English Language and syntax.
Oh, but having bytes opens up so many more possibilities. I'm working on a fun response to this... But it's going to be a bit long.
Guess be one url to the nicest porn gif I've found so far.
With regard to what if every person on earth gets a similar buffer: Assuming everyone initially becomes aware of this feature, I would imagine communities would pool up their storage by connecting them via references to other member's name or identity (similar to linked lists). They could store their collective thoughts in the form of megathreads similar to how Twitter users do it, in plain text or making use of links to Babel pages as suggested in another comment.
Intelligence agencies would be extremely efficient in cramming information in their limited shared buffers. Imagine they observe 'CakeShoeRock' written in the buffer and immediately conclude they are in a time loop because they anticipated this exact scenario and developed a comprehensive set of protocols and a system of condensed code words to follow for the same in advance.