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by AnthonBerg 1 day ago
As I understand it, it takes a bit of anger to get electromagnetism to wiggle that fast over copper. Imperfect transistors using their full operational envelope to control a sort of chaotic thing? Fields and stuff.
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can confirm. anger causes loud fast communication that can be heard over background noise. I've heard anger using light-based signalling like sign language might be more efficient.
They get hot using fiber as well.
is thunderbolt not copper?
It doesn't get as long! Long copper.
Thunderbolt cables also have mini coax cables inside of them rather than twisted pair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBWnb0ZIlEA