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Re:The World's Most Complex Machine by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @10:22AM (#47935071)
Or more complex than, you know, one of the CPUs it can produce, with four billion transistors, which is not "mostly the same thing repeated"?

Off topic: Does it blow anyone else's mind that a DRAM chip has more transistors on it than there are humans on the planet?

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Re:The World's Most Complex Machine by ghc on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @10:38AM (#47935280)
I mean, your brain has an order of magnitude more neurons than there are people on the planet. I think humans are just incapable of wrapping our heads around the sheer number of tiny things that fit in small macroscopic spaces.
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Re:The World's Most Complex Machine by tanseydavid on Saturday May 02, 2026 @05:55PM (#47990966)
>> Off topic: Does it blow anyone else's mind that a DRAM chip has more transistors on it than there are humans on the planet?

Yes.

Accepting these facts is one thing but "getting over the astonishment" never happens for me.

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