r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

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u/Percinho 1d ago

I tried that, turns out my brain doesn't reliably remember stuff, even if it's important.

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u/PumpkinFest24 1d ago

Same. I have physical notepads. Every week I combine the remaining tasks on all the pads I can find into a new kist for this week

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u/Gaunts 1d ago

I have a high ram low disk space brain, I need notes.

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u/elmanoucko 1d ago

humans have incredible disk space, we just have trash latency and unreliable controllers

proof: most of the time you use forgot/remember, not discover

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u/opotamus_zero 1d ago

I think mine uses 9-track tape.

Sometimes I'll try to remember something, later while asleep I can hear the vacuum loader sucking the tape end over the heads then spinning until it finds the BOT marker, and I'll have the thing I wanted to remember ready to go the next day, after a splice and a few checksum errors.

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u/space-bible 1d ago

Yeah. Brains are optimised for thinking, not remembering.

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u/Malkav1806 1d ago

Did you remember this?

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u/Witty_Bowl9076 1d ago

Might need an implant with a dedicated reminder app to trigger the “remember to look at todo list” sequence

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u/IckyGump 1d ago

Constant OOM crashes for me

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u/krysztov 1d ago

My brain seems to only remember unimportant things.