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How incredible is it, that I'm writing software on a laptop, connected to the internet over wifi, all while being 38,000 feet in the air. And all this enabled
by qrybam 4y ago
How incredible is it, that I'm writing software on a laptop, connected to the internet over wifi, all while being 38,000 feet in the air. And all this enabled by billions of tiny transistors made from sand. And to make this all the more surreal, I'm sitting next to someone who knew him.
Thank you Gordon Moore. RIP.
- simonebrunozzi 4y ago> I'm sitting next to someone who knew him Is this person someone who is (was) traveling with you, and therefore you knew that he/she knew Gordon Moore, or did you just got to know this person by random chance? Given he/she knew him, can you ask to share some memories, and post it here? RIP.
- iamsanteri 4y agoHacker Newsing above the clouds? What a world we live in…
- matwood 4y ago> all while being 38,000 feet in the air I was pushing code while on a transatlantic flight the other day and I got a little overwhelmed with just how cool it was. There I was in a metal tube staying aloft with 2 jet engines, and had wifi at 30k feet while traveling at ~600 mph.
- Razengan 4y agoAnd all of this..all of us..basically coalesced from star dust that will one day again be star dust :)
- selectodude 4y agoMaybe. Might just end up being a dense ball of nothing.
- andrewflnr 4y agoTo be fair, "star dust" is not rigorously defined, and the cosmological definition of "dust" includes some pretty big chunks. So after the sun swallows the earth, there's a very good chance we'll qualify. :)
- tim333 4y agoAlso we are more patterns in the dust given that most of the atoms in our bodies swap for new ones over a couple of years. The patterns may be able to continue separately from the dust.
- ChickenNugger 4y agoAt the cosmological scale, stars are dust.
- FrontierPsych 4y agoI thought that at any scale, that they were atoms. Or quarks. Or quantum fields. Or whatever.
- TheCoreh 4y agoA dense ball of _everything_.
- Aperocky 4y agoThat's what we are, entropy generating star dust.
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- kirubakaran 4y agoCloud computing!