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Such a loss (lazysoci.al)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 21 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

Is it not batshit insane that we were throwing movies around via radiation before video tapes at home?

Turns out it is, so much so that we decided to bury light across the country to make movies get here faster.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's crazy what we do, and to think most people have no clue of all the crazy physics that has to happen for some of their most basic activities everyday.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Back in high school, a buddy of mine mused about something that still itches my brain.

    When they built the first computer. How the fuck did they figure out how to "make it turn on"? Like... the first boot cycle.

    Really makes you appreciate some of the insanely complex stuff that we take for granted.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    I'm not really sure what you mean. The first computers didn't have an OS or anything. They just took the input and applied the assigned operation.

    This gets more advanced when you want a BIOS loaded first, but it's not particularly complex. It does the same as above, but the first instructions jump to the BIOS, which itself is just another set of instructions that initialize things.

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