This was my first thought, and it was important to me that someone else have said it already.
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heavyboots@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Isn’t this a Von Neumann machine, essentially?
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
toynbee@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
Learning this from XKCD was worth it both because it’s an interesting concept and because it indirectly lead me to the Bobiverse.