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   flacs (flacs@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 19:53:19 JST flacs

   can you believe that computers used to have miniture furnaces in them to smelt multi-metal alloys at specific temperatures up to 700 °C in order to modify how much they scatter light and we stopped doing it not because it's complicated but because it was too slow

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     ROTOPE~1 :yell: (rotopenguin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 19:54:28 JST ROTOPE~1 :yell:

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     @flacs now, we merely quantum-tunnel electrons through a solid insulator barrier.

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     iAmAnEngarneer (engarneering@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 19:54:53 JST iAmAnEngarneer

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     @crzwdjk @rotopenguin @flacs and we capture them in place by developing photos onto sand.

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     crzwdjk ✅ (crzwdjk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 19:54:54 JST crzwdjk ✅

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     @rotopenguin @flacs It only takes a couple dozen electrons per bit! Just gotta hope they haven't quantum tunneled their way back to freedom by the time you try to read the bits.

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