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cs02rm0 on April 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon...

I would bet that more people know what a transistor is than what a brain cell is.

No chance. Everyone knows what a brain cell is, to some extent. Even people who have too few to rub together don't really feel like they know what a transistor is after reading the Wikipedia page for them, twice...

jl2718 on April 11, 2020 [–]

I used to know what a transistor was. And then we shrunk them to the point where they are no longer the same thing and yet they are still a thing, so I don't know what they are anymore.

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