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reminder: nobody really understands how computers work AT ALL

that computers have been useful in any way is solely the res...
boyish stead
  11/14/18
Visual depiction of Boltzmann Brain in first ever working tr...
Crawly narrow-minded set
  12/12/18
(circuits masterman)
Haunting Ivory Stage
  11/14/18
its ones and zeroes
Nubile spectacular base
  11/14/18
Seems straightforwardly wrong
exhilarant dilemma dragon
  11/14/18
I don't follow.
Swashbuckling generalized bond
  11/14/18
i was going to make basically the same thread, but about mod...
racy range toaster
  11/14/18
What
exhilarant dilemma dragon
  11/14/18
like the old argument about the complexity of the human eye,...
racy range toaster
  11/14/18
i was thinking this as I did 75mph around a curve recently, ...
Shivering at-the-ready center
  06/30/25
high and low voltage as way to represent 0s and 1s, which ar...
soul-stirring black indian lodge sound barrier
  11/14/18
just so!
boyish stead
  11/14/18
Migration of holes through a semiconductor. ALUs and memory ...
Swashbuckling generalized bond
  11/14/18
...
Irradiated sandwich karate
  02/17/19
...
boyish stead
  11/16/18
...
boyish stead
  12/12/18
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTbGLTg...
Very tactful obsidian stage
  12/12/18
this is the modern equivalent of people saying thunder is th...
boyish stead
  12/12/18
Other than the obvious possibility that you're flame, where ...
Very tactful obsidian stage
  12/12/18
(guy in the pocket of BIGCOMPUTER)
boyish stead
  12/12/18
If you're opposed to BIGCOMPUTER, why not learn things for y...
Very tactful obsidian stage
  12/12/18
lol yeah just read my pamphlet bro.
boyish stead
  12/12/18
lol yeah, right. that thing there eats javascript and gives ...
light property ratface
  12/12/18
...
Costumed Temple
  12/12/18
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Bisexual Flesh Heaven Pocket Flask
  12/13/18
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odious knife home
  12/13/18
There's a big secret in engineering that's revealed to you o...
exciting aggressive associate
  12/12/18
I'm too dumb to understand this without abstracting it away ...
Drab cruise ship
  12/12/18
How is the vibration of the quartz in a CPU heuristic? It's ...
territorial son of senegal pit
  12/12/18
utter flame. circuit behavior is non linear sure but the ide...
Heady indigo coldplay fan space
  12/12/18
Thought he was talking about semiconductor behavior approach...
citrine double fault crackhouse
  12/12/18
we are nowhere close to that yet wrt semiconductor fabricati...
Heady indigo coldplay fan space
  12/12/18
You have any idea why Intel is having so many problems with ...
citrine double fault crackhouse
  12/12/18
no idea
Heady indigo coldplay fan space
  12/12/18
Multiple offset litho passes per layer. Geometric increase i...
medicated high-end house
  12/13/18
it honestly blows my mind how invested people like you are i...
boyish stead
  12/12/18
wait what
Heady indigo coldplay fan space
  12/12/18
maybe i’m not being fair and you know the truth but yo...
boyish stead
  12/12/18
...
light property ratface
  12/12/18
...
exciting aggressive associate
  12/12/18
...
exciting aggressive associate
  12/12/18
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Hyperventilating Bateful Nibblets
  02/17/19
Computer tp poasted this flame
exciting aggressive associate
  01/10/21
have you ever OPENED a computer? it's just a bunch of littl...
Passionate Business Firm Headpube
  12/12/18
made from fucking dirt! little cargo cult computer "eng...
boyish stead
  12/12/18
This is true about lots of stuff. We know how pencils work, ...
Bronze insane hominid shrine
  12/12/18
eh I could have guessed 'insert graphite between two carved ...
odious knife home
  12/12/18
what's graphite
Drab cruise ship
  12/13/18
...
Bisexual Flesh Heaven Pocket Flask
  12/13/18
no idea. fine, insert lead.
odious knife home
  12/13/18
cr. what are the best methods for identifying a lead deposit...
Bisexual Flesh Heaven Pocket Flask
  12/13/18
wait for people to die from lead poisoning, burn corpses to ...
odious knife home
  12/13/18
should i get skippy or jif peanus butter? i'm going to ta...
Demanding Amber Windowlicker National
  12/13/18
...
boyish stead
  02/17/19
...
boyish stead
  01/10/21
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
Mustard Appetizing Lodge Multi-billionaire
  01/10/21
Was going to make this same thread about iphones
henna autistic voyeur school cafeteria
  01/10/21
It’s just logic gates man. You and most xoers don&rsqu...
180 Death Wish Corner
  01/10/21
We all understand logic games buddy
Idiotic thriller hospital
  06/30/25
...
boyish stead
  11/26/21
...
boyish stead
  05/29/22
...
boyish stead
  06/30/25
you a HAM elmer or what
beady-eyed rigor locale
  06/30/25
maybe, but i don’t know what that is.
boyish stead
  06/30/25
Silicon engineers are modern alchemists.
blathering really tough guy
  06/30/25


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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

(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: 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

(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: 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.

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



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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

(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: 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)_/¯

(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: 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

(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: 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?



(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: 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

(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: 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



(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: 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.

(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: 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

(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: 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

(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: 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)