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[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago

Some people may be asking "is that a bit too many crabs?"

The answer is that it's an adequate amount of crabs. For that task at least.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 points 13 hours ago

They were too engrossed in if they could, to condsider if they should.

[-] callyral@pawb.social 55 points 1 day ago

There are not 8 logic gates in a byte, there are 8 bits in a byte

[-] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Original us correct If the gate they built with the crabs is a D-flipflop.

[-] vala@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Yeah this part really confused me

[-] liquidparasyte@pawb.social 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

BORN TO KILL

HELL IS A FUCK

🦀 Rip and Tear 1993

I am logic gate

16,039,018,500 SOLDIER CRABS

[-] Mr_Fish@lemmy.world 86 points 1 day ago

Oh so computers are doing carcinization now as well

[-] brrt@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago

Dehydrate!

(For anyone unfamiliar with it, there’s a similar concept in Cixin Liu‘s Three Body series. Forgot which of the books.)

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 points 23 hours ago

One of my coworkers calls taking a piss "Dehydrating" and it has stuck in my head since.

[-] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Also in Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Time" and the following books!

[-] benignintervention@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

The first one

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago

Do we need any more proof that crabs are indeed the ultimate lifeform?

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 7 points 23 hours ago
[-] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago

How do you store a tweet in logic gates? Would you not need to construct crab based memory?

And to play doom you would need a crab based cpu with much more functionality than the few logic gates they have working.

[-] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago

If you can have NAND-gates, a clock and some wires, you can build anything.

Go visit https://nandgame.com/ to try it out yourself!

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

Based on the https://nand2tetris.org/ courses if you want an even deeper dive.

[-] daw@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago

I know what I'll do in the next boring lecture!

[-] splinter@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

You can create memory by arranging logic gates in bistable or latch circuits.

[-] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

If the logic gates can feed back onto themselves, you can build a simple [flip flop](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop_(electronics)) that can store a bit.

[-] chellomere@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah but you need 2 logic gates for one bit so it would take 16 logic gates for a byte, not 8.

[-] nectar45@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 day ago
[-] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Sentient AI: "OMG I'm a crab?!" Scientist: "Always have been..."

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 22 hours ago

not A crab, no.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago
[-] molten@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I'm not doing that math. One every 6 hours.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

What if you overclock the crabs? Surely you could reach 1 per hour!

[-] molten@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

How do you overclock the crabs? Hot butter?

[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago

when two swarms of crabs collide, they merge and continue in a direction that is the sum of their velocities.

Hahahahahaha. I love nature

[-] pancake@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Rust has gone too far.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

Why 640 thousand? You mean store and retrieve? Because 240 UTF-8 chars is 240*64= maximum just over 15 thousand bits.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Why 640 thousand?

It should be enough for anyone.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 8 points 1 day ago

It also equates 1 bit to 1 logic gate, which I'm not sure it's possible to create memory using that few gates unless it's read-only. All memory cell circuits I know of require at least 2 logic gates.

[-] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

DRAM needs 1 transistor per cell, but it loses stored data quickly, and a crab-based computer would probably be too slow to update it.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 points 21 hours ago

Ah right. DRAM also requires a capacitor instead though, and I don't know how you'd represent that with crabs. Maybe it's possible.

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