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[–] Changer098@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] tonytins@pawb.social 8 points 1 day ago

I was just thinking that. XD

[–] notgold@aussie.zone 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just nuts that my 386 was to big to take on my pushy as a kid and now the same thing would get lost in my nose hairs

[–] Strobelt@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Maybe you just didn't have long enough nose hair as a kid

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 172 points 2 days ago (9 children)

The future: we have replaced the microplastic in our blood with microcontrollers

[–] Strobelt@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

32-bit processor, the powerhouse of the cell

[–] dch82@piefed.social 75 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And each of them is powerful enough to run Doom

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] geomela@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

So right at the end?

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So you are saying once it gets into your bloodstream you are doomed?

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

in every meaning of the word

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I live in Denmark, work in a location with about 120 people. Two of them believe this, and there is a third one who's a massive Trump fan. I try to not interact with them.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

It's spreading around Scandinavia like wildfire, no idea why, but lot of people are scared of this happening.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure they have interesting things to say about the covid vaccines.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago

about ~~the covid~~ vaccines.

There, all fixed now.

[–] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

And the microcontrollers to control the microplastics.

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At what point do we become Borg

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[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nanobots of 90's sci-fi, here we finally come!

[–] Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I want those fuckers powering little submarines that fight cancer cells right now - but realistically speaking, these microcontrollers would need to be at least one order two order of magnitude smaller for that, no?

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

I can guarantee you they wouldn't (solely) be used for pur benefit

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

Oh, absolutely. I just mean that we appear to be headed in that direction.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just reprogram viruses (like the microbe) instead. It's easier.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 73 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

"It does in fact run Doom", he said before he snorted a line of his new favorite drug - a dark grey line of Megaflops.

Wear your N95 around the next gen SoCs. We don't know the effects of inhaling them (yet)

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago

We don't know the effects of inhaling them (yet)

Pretty sure I've seen what happens before.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 90 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

In broad terms, that seems to put it about on par with an Intel 386 chip from 1985

At 24 MHz, it's actually about 4-6 times faster than a full fledged 33 MHz i80386DX with 10 times as many transistors back in the day.
It's absolutely insane that i386 remained the standard with its inferior high latency design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes

exhibiting BASIC language performance ten times faster than a newly introduced 80386-based computer

That was an 8MHz Arm system, and it was commonly recognized as being clearly faster than a 33MHz i80386DX!
In fact the 8036 was so inefficient at 33MHz it couldn't even beat the speed of a 16 MHz 80286 on 16 bit code!!
Mips, Alpha, Motorola, Sparc and finally Arm were all better, but they weren't backed by IBM, and the availability of clones made the PC relatively cheap. But basically everything else was better than Intel.

Unfortunately Arm also lacked a math co-processor, so for tasks that were heavy on FP calculations, an i386 with co-processor was superior.
Also Arm was unable to sell them cheap enough to capture at least a niche market. (Apart from education in UK)
And for the hobbyist an Amiga was way cheaper, and had powerful graphics and sound chips.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you. This kind of information was exactly what I wanted in the comments.

As a person who started on a 286 this seems blazing fast. Just wish it had ports for power, HDMI and USB

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

HDMI

I don't believe it has enough RAM for any real video, among other things.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now you got me remembering my 2MHz "big board" Z80 computer I put together in the 80s from a kit. First computer I ever owned. On first power-up nothing seemed to happen, then I turned up the monitor brightness and a choir of angels sang.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 67 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is making the Republicans so nervous.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What would you be referring to?

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 6 points 23 hours ago

Like a solid half of all antivaxxers are anti vax because they're convinced that Bill Gates is putting microchips in your bloodstream to control your brain waves.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

This article was written by someone who only knows buzz words. They said it's "not just the silicon(edited from silicone), but the entire microcontroller" what do they think processors have other than silicone?

Edit: silicone->silicon

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

They're referencing the package as a whole, plastic casing, gold internal wiring, etc. and the silicon die in the center of it all.

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[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no silicone at all in microprocessors but silicon.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 23 hours ago

You're right, I don't type that word into my phone much so the autocorrect effed me. I'll edit for clarity.

[–] naonintendois@programming.dev 1 points 21 hours ago

You forgot to edit the second silicone at the end of your sentence.

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