Post AhJU6SlGsuZSOz0OLw by fritzoids@mas.to
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(DIR) Post #AhIFg0PjpwBoFbPIno by foone@digipres.club
2024-04-26T21:51:21Z
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You know, in the 80s people often said things like "in 40 years, everything will have computers in them", and while they weren't wrong, they severely underestimated the situation.Our computers have computers in them. Those smaller computers often have even smaller computers inside them.We didn't get a "everything is a computer" future, we got a future with fractal computers. The fuckers have metastasized
(DIR) Post #AhIH3j5I1IudPJiWKu by The4thCircle@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-04-26T22:03:51Z
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@foone Wait what are the even smaller computers in the smaller computers?
(DIR) Post #AhIHSbzzV6Uufi6Znc by guffo@topspicy.social
2024-04-26T22:06:02Z
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@foone Maybe in 40 years nothing will have a computer in it
(DIR) Post #AhIHvyl3xfYxek7rqi by rasteri@mastodon.scot
2024-04-26T22:15:04Z
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@foone they probably didn't expect that the computer that's in everything (8051) would be one that already existed
(DIR) Post #AhIINfURC3TY0OYKoa by trevorskey@holycarp.org
2024-04-26T22:19:07Z
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@foone Very true. I happen to write code for one of the computers that runs inside of a CPU handling voltages, frequencies, temperature, etc. Looking forward to the day when it gets its own little computer.
(DIR) Post #AhIId8vY1pyxeBc1iK by m@martinh.net
2024-04-26T22:23:22Z
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@foone Will never forget the moment when I discovered that the "5G module" in my router is actually another ARM CPU running (wait for it...) Android! So a phone, basically, as the path of least resistance to a shipping product. This means that not only is there a computer inside my computer, but there's a Linux inside my Linux. And that's before we get onto the ARM CPU embedded in the microSD card...
(DIR) Post #AhIK6KgpTTiUTqD6kC by foone@digipres.club
2024-04-26T22:35:08Z
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@rasteri I've joked before that the fundamental logic gates (of which all computers are built) are AND, OR, NOT, XOR, and 8051
(DIR) Post #AhIKIv1iCVsoeTynaK by acsawdey@fosstodon.org
2024-04-26T22:37:53Z
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@foone Have you looked at a server chip lately? Those suckers have a whole damn network in there!
(DIR) Post #AhIM0y24UDv8fbiQU4 by Millhouse@glasgow.social
2024-04-26T23:10:45Z
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@foone Well, quite.
(DIR) Post #AhIM9kFL6zlkWI6hgu by foone@digipres.club
2024-04-26T23:11:09Z
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@DavidRobb yeah. my car has one of those, because instead of having two different computers for the two different screens, it has one computer running emulation so it can run two OSes at once, one of which also runs VMs so that my phone can draw maps on it
(DIR) Post #AhINsTrNKxAopFBvgu by rose_alibi@post.lurk.org
2024-04-26T23:32:29Z
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@foone every wish a curse
(DIR) Post #AhJ3JUA2QEInhMus6q by tobozo@mastodon.social
2024-04-27T07:18:13Z
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@foone
(DIR) Post #AhJG8rGpSZejaeM6YS by wonka@chaos.social
2024-04-27T09:40:08Z
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@foone 8051 or 6502?@rasteri
(DIR) Post #AhJI6f387rxr161ngO by slowmart@mastodon.org.uk
2024-04-27T10:04:00Z
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@foone @rasteri not picking a fight and happy to be corrected but I have in my head that rather than individual gates the circuits are designed as NAND gates for ease of construction?
(DIR) Post #AhJJWMyC4HBEQXXdyK by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-04-27T10:19:46Z
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@foone I've said it before, the biggest mistake of all was the cloud.We put the computers in places where we can't easily get to them with hammers.
(DIR) Post #AhJU6SlGsuZSOz0OLw by fritzoids@mas.to
2024-04-27T12:16:03Z
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@foone trying to come up with a version of big bugs have small bugsupon their backs to bite them.small bugs have smaller bugsand so ad infinitumbut for computers in computers.
(DIR) Post #AhJW5BWTgws8YXbWBk by TimWardCam@c.im
2024-04-27T12:35:48Z
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@foone That was even true in the 1970s. An IBM mainframe had a number of other computers inside it.
(DIR) Post #AhJsVD5Mhb1LvJjlzM by snarfmason@hachyderm.io
2024-04-27T16:51:18Z
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@foone no choice but to kill them all with fire now.
(DIR) Post #AhKAC9jGktIBBdSxLE by scentedmeat@norcal.social
2024-04-27T20:09:56Z
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@foone @Cassandra 💯
(DIR) Post #AhLDafWagakPlksMs4 by xilebo@norden.social
2024-04-28T08:22:14Z
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@fooneNAND and NOR not AND and ORAND and OR use a lot more power than NAND and NOR or even !NAND and !NOR, so normally, computers are buildwith NAND and NOR as basic elements@rasteri
(DIR) Post #AhLNZHtm2aZFkKhRsO by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-04-28T10:14:36Z
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@foone I'm hoping an organism will evolve that breaks down computers and eats them. Happened for wood, millions of years ago. (May have taken a long time though.) And it's starting to happen for plastic.
(DIR) Post #AhLbrfx8kF9av6w7vc by icedquinn@blob.cat
2024-04-28T12:56:18.064418Z
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its computers all the way downand they're all used to spy on you
(DIR) Post #AhLpHmpbuNGfoUCMbo by iacore@mastodon.de
2024-04-28T15:25:13Z
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@foone now: we are computers
(DIR) Post #AhMP2U3l133XbEolv6 by foone@digipres.club
2024-04-28T22:04:13Z
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@llewelly we're living through what future geologists will call the Turingiferous Period
(DIR) Post #AhQUwBhvEqr8mY2eeW by ramsey@phpc.social
2024-04-30T21:23:35Z
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@foone @Xenograg Yo, dawg, I heard you like putting computers inside of computers…