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Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM Author: boyish stead 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: Crawly narrow-minded set Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working transistor.
https://i.imgur.com/hFrQqjC.jpg |
Date: November 14th, 2018 11:10 PM Author: Haunting Ivory 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: Nubile spectacular base 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: exhilarant dilemma dragon 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: Swashbuckling generalized bond 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: racy range toaster 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: exhilarant dilemma dragon 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: racy range toaster 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: Shivering at-the-ready center 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: soul-stirring black indian lodge sound barrier 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: boyish stead 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: Swashbuckling generalized bond 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: Irradiated sandwich karate (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: boyish stead (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: boyish stead (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: Very tactful obsidian stage 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: boyish stead 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: Very tactful obsidian stage 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: boyish stead (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: Very tactful obsidian stage 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: boyish stead 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: light property ratface 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: Costumed Temple (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: Bisexual Flesh Heaven Pocket Flask (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: odious knife home (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: exciting aggressive associate 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: Drab cruise ship 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: territorial son of senegal pit 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: Heady indigo coldplay fan space 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: citrine double fault crackhouse 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: Heady indigo coldplay fan space we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabrication/manufacturing
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Date: December 12th, 2018 2:22 AM Author: citrine double fault crackhouse 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: Heady indigo coldplay fan space 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: medicated high-end house 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: boyish stead 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: Heady indigo coldplay fan space 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: boyish stead 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: light property ratface (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: exciting aggressive associate (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: exciting aggressive associate (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: Hyperventilating Bateful Nibblets (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: exciting aggressive associate 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: Passionate Business Firm Headpube 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: boyish stead 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: Bronze insane hominid shrine 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: odious knife home 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: Drab cruise ship 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: Bisexual Flesh Heaven Pocket Flask (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: odious knife home 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: Bisexual Flesh Heaven Pocket Flask 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: odious knife home 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: Demanding Amber Windowlicker National 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: boyish stead (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: boyish stead (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: Mustard Appetizing Lodge Multi-billionaire 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: henna autistic voyeur school cafeteria 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: 180 Death Wish Corner 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: Idiotic thriller hospital 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: boyish stead (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: boyish stead (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: boyish stead (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: beady-eyed rigor locale 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: boyish stead 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: blathering really tough guy Silicon engineers are modern alchemists. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4133518&forum_id=2#49061504) |