I flew for the first time on a plane last week and I’ve seen planes take off at the airport. It looks crazy. But being on one is totally different like holy shit. The thing just FLIES. It just… Soars… Through the sky! Like whoa man. Wtf… It’s crazy. With how much these things weigh, it’s insane to me the thing can just go up and bam, there we are, we’re flying now. Like wow… Dude crazy.

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        We grow flawless crystals, slice them into perfect disks, engrave billions of arcane runes onto them with magical potions and rays of light, animate them with lightning, and make them do our bidding.

        And then we give them an “intelligence” that can’t even count the Rs in strawberry…

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            Do you work in a fab? If so would love to know more about your work

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              Design, close to tape out now, but also post-silicon and bringup.

              It’s fun as all fuck, never thought about it as incantations or runes, then the rock comes back and we cast spells to bring it to life I guess.

              Takes a while but is just incredible.

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        Does anyone actually know? We have laws and math that predict and model behavior but last time I checked know one knew why.

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          I mean, big magnets work because they are made of electrons that have their magnetic fields aligned so they don’t cancel each other out. Now, as for why electrons have magnetic fields in the first place, that we don’t know

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      And telephones! Even en old-school analogue phone is pretty amazing how sound becomes an electrical signal and then is converted back to sound at the other end.

      Modern digital phones are just pure magic compared to analogue phones.