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   Bethany Black (bethanyblack@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 20:57:26 JST Bethany Black

   • Neil Brown

   @neil literally me watching videos about them making silicon chips, “wait so you boil sand until it goes silver and then bombard it with ions, and how is this distinguishable from magic exactly?”

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     The Penguin of Evil (etchedpixels@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 22:53:25 JST The Penguin of Evil

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     • Neil Brown

     @BethanyBlack @neil It's even scarier when you get a glimpse at some of the details involving lines too fine to draw with light, a world where quantum physics things like electron tunnelling are just part of the day job for design, where the metal is so tiny that over time the migration inside the chip is enough to wear it out, and where active areas of some gates are count on your fingers numbers of atoms wide and where it produces more heat per mm2 than the surface of the sun.