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Re:Why lasers are so brilliantly useful by atoav on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:33PM (#25768247)
I think bringing back that absolute bafflement intentionally once in a while is good habit, especially for people working in technology.

I am constantly amazed that computers work at all. The more I learn about it the more amazed I am that anything works. Especially software wise I see soo much duct tape on so many layers, like looking at a house of cards that could (or rather should!) crumble down any minute, because it seems to defy reality.

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Re:Why lasers are so brilliantly useful by pengstrom on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @04:42PM (#25768341)
My illusions of technology were lifted after a course in advanced computer architecture. The true technical complexity is unfathomable enormous. I mean, correctly flickering 3 billion times per second on nm scale and being super sure you got the designs right? Cannot imagine.
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Re:Why lasers are so brilliantly useful by atoav on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:50AM (#25773434)
And even if you did get everything right, every now and then a friggin' cosmic ray zaps through just in the right way to flip that one bit in your memory.
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