Explain how a modern computer works at the most basic level.

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How do you go from some silicon wafer with some metallic lines printed on it to having a GUI desktop. I don’t understand the intersection between hardware and software at the fundamental level.

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There’s an episode of ‘3 body problem’ where they explain logic gates quite well. Put a million people with a flag into a square. They’ve each been told instructions like: if the person north of you has a flag, show your flag, or if the person to the left and south shows their, don’t show your flag. Then you tell the person at the bottom right, show your flag, and everyone follows suit depending on their instruction. That’s one clock cycle.

Then all the sand flows out of the bath … backwards. #hhgttg

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