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   mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓 (monorail@glaceon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 08:42:33 JST mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓

   it's endlessly funny to me that humanity FIRST figured out how to show pictures on a screen by using carefully calibrated and timed electromagnets to sweep an electron beam of varying intensity across a glass panel coated in phosphor thousands of times a second, and SECOND put a bunch of lights in a rectangle

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     Eppy NWS (eppynws@bark.lgbt)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 10:19:31 JST Eppy NWS

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     @monorail

     Make it work
     Make it work correctly
     Make it fast
     Make it small

     Over and over and over again.

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 07:57:47 JST iced depresso

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     • Lemuel :leafeon:
     @omni @monorail i think this has something to do with not being able to economically make the tiny grid of lights at the time.
     
     there is some truly fun stuff when you get to nanowires and group symmetry, but it took a surprising amount of development to be able to reliably shape things that smol :blobcatgoogly:
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     Lemuel :leafeon: (omni@elekk.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 07:57:48 JST Lemuel :leafeon:

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     @monorail humanity loves exploring the tech tree out of order. we first made home computers talk to each other over long distances like 2 decades after going to the moon