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Long-term memory sometimes feels like an archive of not just data, but the computing containers required to relive them. The “I” is a series of time-stamped VMs or container configs. Remembering something from 10 years ago is: load up VM(now-10y) in VM(now), then the data...
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One implication of this is if you’ve experienced cognitive decline, you cannot actually run the old VM inside the current one and you get glitchy performance. Very clear when I reread some of my own posts from net smarter times.