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by lillecarl 1900 days ago
I would've guessed that they packaged everything inhouse. I'm fascinated by this industry, it's so incredibly omnipresent products, yet "we" know "nothing" about the process of going from "sand" to gigaflops in your machine.
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dragontamer 1900 days ago
We talk to the piece of sand with lightning (USB Keyboard 5V interface), and then we hear its response back with lightning (HDMI Port interface). And somewhere in the middle, there's a source of lightning that's making it think on its own (Power supply and VRMs).

EDIT: More seriously though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4

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lillecarl 1900 days ago
Video saved to watch later, thanks mate. Though I must say I like your first unedited answer too, so I'll put it back here.

> Its pretty simple. We zap sand with lightning until it starts thinking for us.

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dragontamer 1900 days ago
Lol, thanks.

I think I kept working the joke in my brain, and it was too brutally simple at first. And then I worked it over, and now it reads too complicated. Ah well.

I think I was overthinking the joke.

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