ramsey , vor 2 Monaten

@foone @Xenograg Yo, dawg, I heard you like putting computers inside of computers…

iacore , vor 2 Monaten

@foone now: we are computers

llewelly , vor 2 Monaten

@foone
I'm hoping an organism will evolve that breaks down computers and eats them. Happened for wood, millions of years ago. (May have taken a long time though.) And it's starting to happen for plastic.

foone OP , vor 2 Monaten

@llewelly we're living through what future geologists will call the Turingiferous Period

harshad , vor 2 Monaten

@foone has anyone responded with Yo Dawg yet?

looks around

scentedmeat , vor 2 Monaten

@foone @Cassandra 💯

snarfmason , vor 2 Monaten

@foone no choice but to kill them all with fire now.

TimWardCam , vor 2 Monaten

@foone That was even true in the 1970s. An IBM mainframe had a number of other computers inside it.

fritzoids , vor 2 Monaten

@foone
trying to come up with a version of

big bugs have small bugs
upon their backs to bite them.
small bugs have smaller bugs
and so ad infinitum

but for computers in computers.

datarama , vor 2 Monaten

@foone I've said it before, the biggest mistake of all was the cloud.

We put the computers in places where we can't easily get to them with hammers.

tobozo , vor 2 Monaten

@foone

video/mp4

rose_alibi , vor 2 Monaten

@foone every wish a curse

Millhouse , vor 2 Monaten

@foone Well, quite.

acsawdey , vor 2 Monaten

@foone Have you looked at a server chip lately? Those suckers have a whole damn network in there!

m , vor 2 Monaten

@foone Will never forget the moment when I discovered that the "5G module" in my router is actually another ARM CPU running (wait for it...) Android! So a phone, basically, as the path of least resistance to a shipping product. This means that not only is there a computer inside my computer, but there's a Linux inside my Linux. And that's before we get onto the ARM CPU embedded in the microSD card...

trevorskey , vor 2 Monaten

@foone Very true. I happen to write code for one of the computers that runs inside of a CPU handling voltages, frequencies, temperature, etc. Looking forward to the day when it gets its own little computer.

rasteri , vor 2 Monaten

@foone they probably didn't expect that the computer that's in everything (8051) would be one that already existed

foone OP , vor 2 Monaten

@rasteri I've joked before that the fundamental logic gates (of which all computers are built) are AND, OR, NOT, XOR, and 8051

wonka , vor 2 Monaten

@foone 8051 or 6502?

@rasteri

slowmart , vor 2 Monaten

@foone @rasteri not picking a fight and happy to be corrected but I have in my head that rather than individual gates the circuits are designed as NAND gates for ease of construction?

xilebo , vor 2 Monaten

@foone

NAND and NOR not AND and OR
AND and OR use a lot more power than NAND and NOR or even !NAND and !NOR, so normally, computers are buildwith NAND and NOR as basic elements

@rasteri

guffo , vor 2 Monaten

@foone Maybe in 40 years nothing will have a computer in it

The4thCircle , vor 2 Monaten

@foone

Wait what are the even smaller computers in the smaller computers?