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reminder: nobody really understands how computers work AT ALL
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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM Author: Curious Bawdyhouse that computers have been useful in any way is solely the result of an inconceivably unlikely coincidence of pure random chance; an a.i. boltzmann brain. and the music could stop at any moment. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37235683) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 3:12 AM Author: Duck-like arousing messiness Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working transistor.
https://i.imgur.com/hFrQqjC.jpg |
Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM Author: greedy ocher ratface water buffalo (circuits masterman) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37235686) |
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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:16 PM Author: Pearly idiot its ones and zeroes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37235731) |
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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:17 PM Author: Stirring puppy Seems straightforwardly wrong (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37235735) |
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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:17 PM Author: Insecure home crotch I don't follow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37235737) |
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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:20 PM Author: High-end trip casino i was going to make basically the same thread, but about modern day cars. their complexity is absurd and the likelihood that they should even work at all is astronomically small and unbelievable; a proof of God that you can physically get into and drive to the supermarket. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37235746) |
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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:21 PM Author: Stirring puppy What (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37235750) |
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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:30 PM Author: High-end trip casino like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye, but about cars instead. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37235800) |
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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:06 PM Author: sadistic mad-dog skullcap i was thinking this as I did 75mph around a curve recently, family in tow.
a dozen other people were doing it, and Id done it 10000000 times.
we just presume, yeah these tires will work and avert the cliff we are hurdling to at unnatural speeds |
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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:22 PM Author: lake internet-worthy immigrant pisswyrm high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which are used to implement logic and arithmetic, organized into more or less complicated control flow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37235754) |
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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:27 PM Author: Curious Bawdyhouse just so! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37235780) |
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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:27 PM Author: Insecure home crotch Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory management. Instruction sets and compilers.
This is all well understood. |
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Date: February 17th, 2019 3:04 PM Author: Passionate territorial corner sound barrier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37797523) |
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Date: November 16th, 2018 1:01 AM Author: Curious Bawdyhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37243183) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:39 AM Author: Curious Bawdyhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393567) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:44 AM Author: provocative azure station mood https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTgA1cVbGtIafoKH3uIOwI0XEQ5S7Djd1BibWursVVGVKFQNA
Not that fucking hard bro |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:47 AM Author: Curious Bawdyhouse this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is the sound of the gods bowling or whatever. it makes sense based on our woefully insufficient understanding but is completely made up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393600) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:53 AM Author: provocative azure station mood Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where are you trying to go with this?
If the Vikings had some theory about lightning and Thor, and were able to use that theory to land a space craft on an asteroid, that would seem to lend credibility to that theory.
If you feel perplexed by computers, maybe take a couple beginner EE/CS classes? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:10 AM Author: Curious Bawdyhouse (guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393664) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:39 AM Author: provocative azure station mood If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for yourself?
https://eater.net/8bit |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM Author: Curious Bawdyhouse lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393865) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:15 AM Author: nubile orchid lay nibblets lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives me porn. not buying it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393679) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:16 AM Author: Cordovan Motley Gunner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393683) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:06 AM Author: Odious market (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37401308) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM Author: jet coffee pot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37401309) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:08 AM Author: Misanthropic state pocket flask There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you only if you've spent enough time in advanced electrical engineering courses: MOSFETs and other types of transistors found in processors don't actually behave as described in those circuit diagrams; their behavior is in a hazy state between randomness and determinacy, which can only be poorly approximated with existing mathematical tools. CPU speeds are "heuristic" values that don't actually measure anything, but rather they're based on arbitrary standards without any physical reference. The same is true for memory, storage, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393660) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:25 AM Author: Zombie-like piazza cumskin I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away into mysticism. This is evidence that there's a ghost in the machine, right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393702) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:41 AM Author: Big-titted exhilarant stead legal warrant How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's like car RPM, but instead of a 360° turn of the wheels, a cpu clockspeed is it performing one full cycle of fetch-calc-send?
Edit: "To ensure proper operation of the CPU, the clock period is longer than the maximum time needed for all signals to propagate (move) through the CPU. In setting the clock period to a value well above the worst-case propagation delay, it is possible to design the entire CPU and the way it moves data around the "edges" of the rising and falling clock signal. This has the advantage of simplifying the CPU significantly, both from a design perspective and a component-count perspective. However, it also carries the disadvantage that the entire CPU must wait on its slowest elements, even though some portions of it are much faster. This limitation has largely been compensated for by various methods of increasing CPU parallelism"
Is that what you're talking about?
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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:59 AM Author: Crusty temple utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the idea that they dont behave as designed is flame (excluding manufacturing/design defects). inverters invert, PLLs generate clock signals, ADC/DAC convert signals etc etc
CPU speeds are rough approximations to indicate speed at which the chip operates. it does mean something. try running latest video games on pentium processors if they dont mean anything |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:04 AM Author: Dull gas station roommate Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approaching quantum mechanical physics due to feature sizes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393793) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:18 AM Author: Crusty temple we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabrication/manufacturing
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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:22 AM Author: Dull gas station roommate You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with their 10nm node? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393856) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM Author: Crusty temple no idea (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393866) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:10 AM Author: outnumbered gaming laptop senate Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase in defects. The upcoming move to Extreme UV for below 10nm will allow them to move back to single pattern layers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37401319) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:25 AM Author: Curious Bawdyhouse it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are in this obvious lie. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393862) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM Author: Crusty temple wait what (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393868) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:29 AM Author: Curious Bawdyhouse maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but you’re one of the people that benefits from perpetuating this ridiculous charade. in the end that’s probably worse, though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393872) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:31 AM Author: nubile orchid lay nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393879) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 9:26 PM Author: Misanthropic state pocket flask (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37398801) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 8:14 PM Author: Misanthropic state pocket flask (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37398426) |
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Date: February 17th, 2019 3:03 PM Author: Coiffed cerebral friendly grandma address (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37797520) |
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Date: January 10th, 2021 3:57 PM Author: Misanthropic state pocket flask Computer tp poasted this flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#41724245) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:13 AM Author: Spruce vivacious french chef plaza have you ever OPENED a computer? it's just a bunch of little wires. |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:15 AM Author: Curious Bawdyhouse made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "engineers" patting themselves on the back all day. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393678) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:30 AM Author: Lascivious mewling hairy legs This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, but literally no individual knows how to make one: https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl.html?chapter_num=2#book-reader (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393714) |
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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:23 AM Author: jet coffee pot eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved pieces of wood then crimp tin around components'. and everyone knows how they work - graphite stick paper make mark rubber make graphite unstick. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37393858) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:04 AM Author: Zombie-like piazza cumskin what's graphite (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37401299) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM Author: Odious market (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37401310) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:07 AM Author: jet coffee pot no idea. fine, insert lead. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37401311) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:18 AM Author: Odious market cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit and safely mining it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37401352) |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:35 AM Author: jet coffee pot wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to extract lead
EZPZ |
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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:23 AM Author: olive apoplectic hall should i get skippy or jif peanus butter?
i'm going to target later.
and don't tell me peanus butter is faggot, i know that already |
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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:44 PM Author: Curious Bawdyhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#37796850) |
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Date: January 10th, 2021 3:53 PM Author: Curious Bawdyhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#41724226) |
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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:02 PM Author: gaped famous landscape painting https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#41724259) |
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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:03 PM Author: Dashing toaster church Was going to make this same thread about iphones (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#41724261) |
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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:04 PM Author: adventurous people who are hurt hospital It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don’t understand them because you’re all polisci shitheads and not alpha stem bros (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#41724271) |
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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:17 PM Author: Multi-colored macaca lodge We all understand logic games buddy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#49061510) |
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Date: November 26th, 2021 11:54 AM Author: Curious Bawdyhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#43511565) |
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Date: May 29th, 2022 8:25 PM Author: Curious Bawdyhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#44595289) |
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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:01 PM Author: Curious Bawdyhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#49061461) |
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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:05 PM Author: Charismatic nowag you a HAM elmer or what (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#49061478) |
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Date: June 30th, 2025 8:43 PM Author: Curious Bawdyhouse maybe, but i don’t know what that is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#49061919) |
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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:14 PM Author: razzmatazz locale circlehead Silicon engineers are modern alchemists. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2)#49061504) |