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You are stuck in a timeloop, but your memory also gets reset every loop; But you are able to preserve 1024 Bytes of information between each reset, how would you use this "memory buffer"? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Its basically like a cloud storage, and your local storage (your brain) gets wiped every loop. You can edit this file any time you want using your brain (you can be tied up and it still works). 1024 Bytes is all you get. Yes you read that right: BYTES, not KB, MB, or GB: 1024 BYTES

Lets just say, for this example: The loop is 7 days form a Monday 6 AM to the next Monday 5:59 AM.

How do you best use these 1024 Bytes to your advantage?

How would your strategy be different if every human on Earth also gets the same 1024 Bytes "memory buffer"?

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[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Well, that 1KB is special and is immune to time travel effects, everything else gets reset.

You can link to a website that you create after the loop begun, but when the loop resets, the link goes to what the webpage looked like at the beginning of the loop, so either a 404 Error, or if you already had the page up befote the loop, its just gets reverted to what it looked right at the start of the time loop.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 points 2 days ago

So if between weeks you don't retain any skills and the entire world resets, then the sum total of your existence is what you experience in a week and what you can store in 1 kB of data. Unlike groundhog day, where the protagonist knows and can learn.

The 1 kB would be the only thing that indicates that something is going on.

The irony is that your own memory of the 1 kB existing and how to write to it would also need to be retained.

(I'm a software developer, it's all about the edge cases.)

My initial response with the expanded parameters, I'd probably store a GPS location and a timestamp. How far did you get in a week, assuming that your starting location also resets.

[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean, you could store a location finder in the Library of Babel.

You can convert any 3200 character into a location on an imaginary library, site is here https://libraryofbabel.info/

Example:

Hexagon: goynbkiuqamnqrrbo2h2xt1xpg9j802eacyyur5zua3a

Wall 4 Shelf 5 Volume 17 Page 48

The text says:

you already tried assassinating the queen of england last week, but your attempt failed when you stepped on a banana peel just as you pulled your firearm, and your head smashed into the pavement and you typed this text just as you bleeded out

You can then put multiple locations into another set of 3200.

Like you have have multiple of:

"Hexagon: goynbkiuqamnqrrbo2h2xt1xpg9j802eacyyur5zua3a

Wall 4 Shelf 5 Volume 17 Page 48"

Type of text all crammed into another location.

Then you have one string of text telling you to go to a page, which has an index of every other location you need to go to. You can cram so much information in there. Honestly, I think you can do this recursively and fit like nearly unlimited info in there, ye know what I mean?

https://libraryofbabel.info/ Very cool concept btw.

Edit: Actually nvm, I just realized the hexagon number is as long as the max text limit 3200, so see y'all again on Monday 6AM since I will be stuck in this timeloop again. 🙃

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

library of Babel

Wouldn't the contents of the library also get reset every loop?

[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

No, the information already exists. Its just a link to it. Basically, every combination of 3200 letters of the english 26 letter alphabet, space, period, comma, already exists.

But that doesn't matter anymore, as I just realized the hexagon code thingy needed to locate the thing is also 3200 characters long, so this isn't exactly useful.

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