You will need to watch the next one to see how a transistor works. It to, is very simple and very clever. I do know how these guys figured it out.
If you have questions I am very happy to try and help. Someone did it for me decades ago.
I had to find this. This explains on an atomic level how semiconductors work. For me this was important for me to gain an intrinsic understanding of what is going on in computers.
https://youtu.be/33vbFFFn04k?si=5W_ymFgYJByXf3sR
It is simple and fascinating and brilliantly clever.
I think you’re asking all the right questions and I think knowledge of these things makes you much more capable.
I think a good answer that you will understand is too long for this format. I gave a brief answer but then I went off looking for better information. Sorry to offend you.
I think this course from Ben eater on how he built his own CPU from logic gates might explain a lot.
I think it also covers how transistors work which is fundamental to how gates work.
Flashing code to a chip doesn’t really involve light.
you used switches on the front panel to load code into the computer by setting individual bits high or low. Typically you toggled in the bootstrap loader, which was a program that read a sequence of number directly into a spot in memory. The first program loaded by the bootstrap loader was usually the absolute loader. This was another program that loaded data from some peripheral, similar to the bootstrap loader, but it could do error checking and also load to non- sequential locations.
3-the Internet isn’t light. It’s electricity. On fiber the bits may be temporarily encoded as light, but overall it is electric.
4- You can understand it all if you want. It depends on the depth to which you want to understand it. You can understand a mouse has a plastic shell. You need some organic chemistry and chemical engineering to understand how to design plastic.
5- I recommend Ben Eaters YouTube channel to get a good overview of the basics.
Forth. Not forth compilers like gforth but the whole environment. Esp32Forth is a great implementation.
If you have two resistors in parallel the current doesn’t just flow through one resistor. You will get shocked. That’s why you yell “clear” before juicing them.
And the rest of you are COBOL programmers.
I understand that their are autonomous mowers. I watch Hank the Tank. I just didn’t think this one was. Apparently it is largely autonomous but also has a remote.
Yeah. The whole idea of growing something, watering it, fertilizing and caring for it, so you can chop it down is pretty crazy.
That is pretty scary. No e-stop when it hits a gas line. You just have to chase it down.
It doesn’t look like this is dedicated to one lawn. It looks like it is meant to be moved from place to place, to provide a service.
https://wrightmowers.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=312
It doesn’t go into detail about how smart it is. It does say “drive by wire” but also say autonomous. I am pretty certain it is not meant to be used unattended.
The top marginal tax rate should be 100%. The bottom marginal tax rate should be negative.
I remember placing some large equipment in China some decades ago. There was a crane onsite but instead of using it the Chinese insisted on using many men with bamboo poles. We thought it was odd and hilarious that they had to do such make-work. Now here we are. This is why I litter and don’t put my shopping cart away. People need jobs.
Why does the fact that it is riderless have anything to do with it being combustion powered or not. How are those two things connected.
I’m pretty sure this is a remote controlled mower, not an autonomous one.
This is the most controversial post on Lemmy 4 months later.
TIL