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Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @01:12PM (#18452172)
so people will pick it up for a couple of days, and then forget about it for weeks on end?
Re:Camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second on Friday October 12, 2018 @04:18PM (#18204403)
the fastest time-resolution that is generated is in a niche field, attophysics, where they can get a pulse in the low hundred attosecond range, 10 ^ -16 or so.

the signal is extremely weak, the conventional 'shortest-pulse' is around 5 femtoseconds.