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reminder: nobody really understands how computers work AT ALL

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(circuits masterman)
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I don't follow.
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i was going to make basically the same thread, but about mod...
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utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the ide...
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we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabricati...
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what's graphite
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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: wonderful maroon university bbw

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: unhinged orchestra pit

Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working transistor.

https://i.imgur.com/hFrQqjC.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2#37393951)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: mahogany razzmatazz stage

(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: Disrespectful heaven coldplay fan

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: Buck-toothed Pisswyrm State

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: frisky smoky theatre persian

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: Plum marvelous haunted graveyard

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: Buck-toothed Pisswyrm State

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: Plum marvelous haunted graveyard

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: bisexual whorehouse mood

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2#49061482)



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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:22 PM
Author: disgusting house

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: wonderful maroon university bbw

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: frisky smoky theatre persian

Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory management. Instruction sets and compilers.

This is all well understood.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2#37235785)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 3:04 PM
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Date: November 16th, 2018 1:01 AM
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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:39 AM
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(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: self-centered mind-boggling indian lodge

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Not that fucking hard bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2#37393587)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 12:47 AM
Author: wonderful maroon university bbw

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: self-centered mind-boggling indian lodge

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)_/¯

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2#37393627)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:10 AM
Author: wonderful maroon university bbw

(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: self-centered mind-boggling indian lodge

If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for yourself?

https://eater.net/8bit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2#37393745)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:27 AM
Author: wonderful maroon university bbw

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(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: Buff Hall Pozpig

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: Dun Offensive National Shitlib



(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: magenta supple ticket booth depressive



(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: effete native



(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: cerise spectacular plaza

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: Histrionic Sapphire Corn Cake

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: thriller startled principal's office

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?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2#37393754)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:59 AM
Author: provocative french chef chapel

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2#37393784)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:04 AM
Author: Lascivious Giraffe

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: provocative french chef chapel

we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabrication/manufacturing



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2#37393848)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:22 AM
Author: Lascivious Giraffe

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: provocative french chef chapel

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: Turquoise masturbator toaster

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: wonderful maroon university bbw

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: provocative french chef chapel

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: wonderful maroon university bbw

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: Buff Hall Pozpig



(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: cerise spectacular plaza



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Date: December 12th, 2018 8:14 PM
Author: cerise spectacular plaza



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Date: February 17th, 2019 3:03 PM
Author: disturbing angry locale tank



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Date: January 10th, 2021 3:57 PM
Author: cerise spectacular plaza

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: Gay magical sneaky criminal home

have you ever OPENED a computer?

it's just a bunch of little wires.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2#37393672)



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Date: December 12th, 2018 1:15 AM
Author: wonderful maroon university bbw

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(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: Confused Azn

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: effete native

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: Histrionic Sapphire Corn Cake

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: magenta supple ticket booth depressive



(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: effete native

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: magenta supple ticket booth depressive

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: effete native

wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to extract lead

EZPZ

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2#37401431)



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Date: December 13th, 2018 11:23 AM
Author: Floppy snowy mediation

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2#37401369)



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Date: February 17th, 2019 12:44 PM
Author: wonderful maroon university bbw



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Date: January 10th, 2021 3:53 PM
Author: wonderful maroon university bbw



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Date: January 10th, 2021 4:02 PM
Author: Amethyst lay

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(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: Very tactful main people hospital

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: bat shit crazy stead chad

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: odious brilliant kitty cat

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: wonderful maroon university bbw



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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:01 PM
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Date: June 30th, 2025 6:05 PM
Author: Stimulating drunken market telephone

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: wonderful maroon university bbw

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: Stirring slimy gaping queen of the night

Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2#49061504)