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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.
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.