alt Hacker News > notebooks are hard to sterilize
There isn't a library of lab coats which contain notes written on them, for future consultation.
A notepad page is also easier to permanently sterilize (via incineration) than a lab coat.
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infinitewars • yesterday at 4:55 PM
The labcoat is a kind of L1 data cache.
The commenter acknowledges this: "I was always impressed that the laundry managed to get them pristine white again."
I think it's pretty clear they were taking ephemeral notes, not using them for long-term archiving.