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2025-08-20 15:54 UTC

@techokami Computers compute by passing controlled lightning (electricity) through a series of precisely crafted, extremely pure rocks (silicon transistors). Computers store information by trapping lightning in tiny bottles (floating gates) and recall it by measuring how much lightning is trapped in each bottle. Erasing stored information involves expending more energy than is actually present (quantum tunneling). So yeah, magic.

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