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   nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 22:03:06 JST nixCraft 🐧

   What’s a compsci (computer science) concept that still amazes you?

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     JB 🐎 :neuro: (anautieatuni@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 22:03:10 JST JB 🐎 :neuro:

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     @nixCraft The internet. Don’t know why! Just always has!

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     Ricardo Martín (ricardo@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 22:03:12 JST Ricardo Martín

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     @nixCraft Users.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 22:03:24 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @nixCraft memoization

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     🦃 Kat Callahan :chiba: 🦃 (jezebelkat@famichiki.jp)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 22:30:33 JST 🦃 Kat Callahan :chiba: 🦃

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     @nixCraft

     Data over radio. That I can't hear. But just... exists. In the air. We're surrounded by it. Even when there is near silence. Like invisible 0s and 1s just flying every which way.

     Radio waves in general as a science concept, let alone a computer science concept, is absolutely miracle shit.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 22:30:33 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @jezebelkat @nixCraft I do ham radio for a hobby. Once I had a conversation with a guy in Australia from my home in Atlanta. My output power was 100 W. I have lightbulbs that draw that much power. But somehow that's enough to wiggle the EM field and let someone halfway around the globe hear my voice. Absolutely magical.