The bitbucket is a holy place

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The bitbucket is a holy place.

Bitbucket, the bucket inside your system, collecting all used bytes, recycling them if needed, voiding them into the bit nirvana if rendered useless.
No wonder your system does all the effort to be useless, all bits keep beeing reincarnated until definitely useless, the holy-bit-grale.
Perhaps it is something like one of the rules our universe is based on, every sufficient complex system creates a bitbucket.

Can the bitbucket ever be full?
Hard to say, as the bitbucket is just an imaginary place, the content is spread throughout your system until it is reset.

How many castes are there?
Even harder to define some programs keep running and reusing part of the initial data perhaps going to infinit times.

Can we retreive lost data from the bitbucket?
You can try, one story is know of a couple of monkeys typeing the whole works of Shakespeare, then one dombo kicked the file into the bitbucket. The story goes the works reappeared just before 1600 somewhere on Earth.


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