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Comment Re:speed of light (Score 5, Informative) 65

Computers work at the speed of their clock and their fetch-interpret-execute cycle. Not even the traces between transistors propagate signals at the speed of light. For one thing, there is a little bit of capacitance. You change voltages on a signal path you have to charge it up, or discharge. So there's allowances for when the signal path has a valid signal. In fine, this article is written for the kind of people who think the Marvel Multiverse is a thing.

Comment Re:Fiber (Score 1) 107

This reminds me of asteroid clickbait. There's a thing called the Law of the Numerous Small. For every really big once-in-a-millenium solar storm that threatens to take down civilization there should be ten smaller ones that make civilization wobble every century, and a hundred even smaller ones that put a crimp in civilization every decade. We're not even seeing those.

Comment Re:Good (Score 2, Informative) 159

Yeah, one time I asked ChatGPT to give me the distance to the second Earth-Moon Lagrange libration point (L2), it gave me the figure for the Earth-Sun system. I politely pointed out the error and the damn thing acted like a Trump voter being told the orange goober lost the election. So STEM nerds are safe for now.

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