SatyrSack@quokk.au to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoMRW I'm trying to slack off for the rest of the year and someone tries assigning me a new taskfeddit.orgimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1168arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squareteft@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·1 day ago Starfleet systems are digital They aren’t. Digital implies electronics. Starfleet runs on duotronics/multitronics and isolinear chips. No more transistors or resistors.
minus-squaredata1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-216 hours agoNo. “Digital” refers to the logic used to implement a system, which is usually boolean and probably still is in Star Trek. Things can be digital regardless of implementation; tapes and spinning hard drives, can still store digital binary data.
minus-squareaeronmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 day agoWhat? Digital implies digits! Electronic, duotronic, multitronic, whatever it’s called at the time. Starfleet computers are programmed in binary (at least as of TNG), it’s been shown many times.
minus-squareSundray@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day ago“Electrons? What is this, the dark ages?”
minus-squareaeronmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoImagine if Bones was an engineer. “Soldering? My god man, what do you want me to do next? Install vacuum tubes??”
They aren’t. Digital implies electronics. Starfleet runs on duotronics/multitronics and isolinear chips. No more transistors or resistors.
No. “Digital” refers to the logic used to implement a system, which is usually boolean and probably still is in Star Trek.
Things can be digital regardless of implementation; tapes and spinning hard drives, can still store digital binary data.
What? Digital implies digits! Electronic, duotronic, multitronic, whatever it’s called at the time. Starfleet computers are programmed in binary (at least as of TNG), it’s been shown many times.
“Electrons? What is this, the dark ages?”
Imagine if Bones was an engineer.
“Soldering? My god man, what do you want me to do next? Install vacuum tubes??”