• Dasnap@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    A lot of people don’t realize that a ‘cut & paste’ is actually a ‘copy & delete’.

    And guess what ‘deleting’ is in a consciousness upload?

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      7 months ago

      That’s actually not true. When you copy/paste a file on your computer (for most computers), it’s much faster than copying the file. Deleting the file is also not instant, so copy and delete should be the slowest of the three operations.

      When you cut and paste a file, you’re just renaming the file or updating the file database. It’s different how that works depending on your file system, but it typically never involves rewriting much of the data of the file.

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        7 months ago

        when you copy/paste a file on your computer it’s much faster than copying the file

        I think you meant ‘when you cut/paste a file’?

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        7 months ago

        Only if you copy and paste to the same disk. When copy pasting to a different disk, as any consciousness transfer would entail, it is very much actually copied and actually removed (from the index).