• x4740N@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Ram is closest to human short term memory

    Our minds dump its contents to permanent memory when we sleep

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      My ram just dumps its contents to whatever it feels like whenever it fancies like a rogue waste disposal truck that goes around neighborhoods collecting trash and then just delivering it to other random homes.

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        Have you heard of CPU and GPU caches and registers? Even the storage in a PC has cache(s).