86thumbs
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
pmjv@lemmy.sdf.orgM to unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 7 months ago

the other side

lemmy.sdf.org

message-square
48
fedilink
592

the other side

lemmy.sdf.org

pmjv@lemmy.sdf.orgM to unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish · 7 months ago
message-square
48
fedilink
  • baines@lemmy.cafe
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    7 months ago

    I think it’s even simpler than that

    it’s ram

    here is some ee 100 stuff not looked at the whole thing

    www.cs.emory.edu/~cheung/Courses/255/Syllabus/4-intro/SLIDES/s10a.html

    there’s probably a youtube video with a guy from India that’ll do it better

    ewww ran into ai slop on youtube instead

    this is decent

    https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1gvh5c6/eli5_is_there_really_a_tiny_switch_for_every_bit/

    • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      7 months ago

      Without more details, it’s hard to know.

      But I’d guess his dad would’ve simply said “ram” or “memory”, something everyone is at least mildly familiar with, vs the more specific phrasing, “similar to a data switch but on a way smaller scale”.

      • baines@lemmy.cafe
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        It’s on the chips. It’s similar to a data switch, but on a waaaaaaay smaller scale.

        We’ve argued about this a lot. He doesn’t like to call them that. The term “electronic switch” is so old.

        this makes it pretty clear

        he’s explaining the function to someone that he thinks is hardware illiterate

        also if he’s really specialized it may literally be the ‘switch’ part

        • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          7 months ago

          Disagree, but we’ll have to ask @Xanthrax@lemmy.world 😎

          • baines@lemmy.cafe
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            7 months ago

            There can be only one!

            ~Here we are…

          • Xanthrax@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            22 days ago

            Am I cool?

unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org

unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org

remote_follow_modal_title

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org

The underscore is very important!

A place to share original content related to computers, content, surrealism, wizardry and everything else.

analognowhere things of interest:

  • archive
  • irc
  • support|store
  • wiki
community_visibility: public
globe

public_blurb

  • 17 users / day
  • 285 users / week
  • 727 users / month
  • 2.56K users / 6 months
  • number_of_local_subscribers
  • 3.26K subscribers
  • 471 Posts
  • 2.93K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org
  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
  • UI: unknown version
  • BE: 0.19.5
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org