Discussed at the time:<p><i>Programming Is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204464" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13204464</a> - Dec 2016 (126 comments)
Isn't the losing of information by digitising sound a particularly bad example? The Nyquist–Shannon theorem states that you can get perfect reconstruction of the wave if the sampling rate is high enough.<p>Edit: Haha looks like this was the top comment in the original discussion too. Bikeshedding and all that, eh?