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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Everything is just silicon oxide gates being saturated and drained and turned on and off in various patterns very rapidly in a way that means something to us. That Fortran/C/C++/Assembly depends on that tiny two-MOSFET AND gate in the ALU to do the AND correctly every time.

Programming languages at the basic level are just an automated way of putting numbers into a calculator, processing them, and getting another number/status/flag back and doing something else with it based on the result.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

meanwhile, me trying to get a feeling for how fast A GHz is by waving my arm as fast as I can: