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How incredible is it, that I'm writing software on a laptop, connected to the internet over wifi, all while being 38,000 feet in the air. And all this enabled

by qrybam 3y ago

How incredible is it, that I'm writing software on a laptop, connected to the internet over wifi, all while being 38,000 feet in the air. And all this enabled by billions of tiny transistors made from sand. And to make this all the more surreal, I'm sitting next to someone who knew him. Thank you Gordon Moore. RIP.

simonebrunozzi 3y ago
> I'm sitting next to someone who knew him Is this person someone who is (was) traveling with you, and therefore you knew that he/she knew Gordon Moore, or did you just got to know this person by random chance? Given he/she knew him, can you ask to share some memories, and post it here? RIP.
- qrybam 3y ago
  Random chance
  - NiloCK 3y ago
    Holy smokes!
matwood 3y ago
> all while being 38,000 feet in the air I was pushing code while on a transatlantic flight the other day and I got a little overwhelmed with just how cool it was. There I was in a metal tube staying aloft with 2 jet engines, and had wifi at 30k feet while traveling at ~600 mph.
- Razengan 3y ago
  And all of this..all of us..basically coalesced from star dust that will one day again be star dust :)
  - Aperocky 3y ago
    That's what we are, entropy generating star dust.
  - selectodude 3y ago
    Maybe. Might just end up being a dense ball of nothing.
    - andrewflnr 3y ago
      To be fair, "star dust" is not rigorously defined, and the cosmological definition of "dust" includes some pretty big chunks. So after the sun swallows the earth, there's a very good chance we'll qualify. :)
      - tim333 3y ago
        Also we are more patterns in the dust given that most of the atoms in our bodies swap for new ones over a couple of years. The patterns may be able to continue separately from the dust.
      - ChickenNugger 3y ago
        At the cosmological scale, stars are dust.
        FrontierPsych 3y ago
        I thought that at any scale, that they were atoms. Or quarks. Or quantum fields. Or whatever.
    - TheCoreh 3y ago
      A dense ball of _everything_.
- blueprint 3y ago
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  - _oqj3 3y ago
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iamsanteri 3y ago
Hacker Newsing above the clouds? What a world we live in…
kirubakaran 3y ago
Cloud computing!

by qrybam 3y ago

simonebrunozzi 3y ago

> I'm sitting next to someone who knew him Is this person someone who is (was) traveling with you, and therefore you knew that he/she knew Gordon Moore, or did you just got to know this person by random chance? Given he/she knew him, can you ask to share some memories, and post it here? RIP.

qrybam 3y ago
Random chance
- NiloCK 3y ago
  Holy smokes!

matwood 3y ago

> all while being 38,000 feet in the air I was pushing code while on a transatlantic flight the other day and I got a little overwhelmed with just how cool it was. There I was in a metal tube staying aloft with 2 jet engines, and had wifi at 30k feet while traveling at ~600 mph.

Razengan 3y ago
And all of this..all of us..basically coalesced from star dust that will one day again be star dust :)
- Aperocky 3y ago
  That's what we are, entropy generating star dust.
- selectodude 3y ago
  Maybe. Might just end up being a dense ball of nothing.
  - andrewflnr 3y ago
    To be fair, "star dust" is not rigorously defined, and the cosmological definition of "dust" includes some pretty big chunks. So after the sun swallows the earth, there's a very good chance we'll qualify. :)
    - tim333 3y ago
      Also we are more patterns in the dust given that most of the atoms in our bodies swap for new ones over a couple of years. The patterns may be able to continue separately from the dust.
    - ChickenNugger 3y ago
      At the cosmological scale, stars are dust.
      - FrontierPsych 3y ago
        I thought that at any scale, that they were atoms. Or quarks. Or quantum fields. Or whatever.
  - TheCoreh 3y ago
    A dense ball of _everything_.
blueprint 3y ago
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- _oqj3 3y ago
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iamsanteri 3y ago

Hacker Newsing above the clouds? What a world we live in…

kirubakaran 3y ago

Cloud computing!