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Big T Larrity (bigtlarrity@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Tuesday, 09-May-2023 03:55:56 JST Big T Larrity Useless knowledge of the day: A full USB drive weighs less than an empty one
When you save data, a binary zero is set by charging the float gate of the transistor, and a binary one is set by removing the charge.
To charge it, we add electrons, and the mass of each electron is 0.00000000000000000000000000091 grams.
This means that an empty USB drive (which mostly holds zeros) weighs more than a full USB drive (which has ones and zeros). Add data, reduce the weight.