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.
It’s a cleanse
Voyager - it was on f droid and it works.
And the rest of you are COBOL programmers.
The LLVM is probably the most appropriate answer to my question. Books about the development of it would be outstanding.
Not op. Deeper understanding of how these compilers are written across different architectures yet share common compiled structures.
One woman that works at a heritage farm told me a story about an open house they were having. She wanted to offer a lemon-sugar they made at the farm from an heirloom lemon tree. The woman organizing the event got very upset about this.
I joined a makerspace recently and in one of the steering committee meetings they talked about a problem they had with people who were not authorized using potentially dangerous or costly tools, and authorized people being unable to get easy access. I, being an embedded systems guy, offered to make a solution to this. They could have taken me up on the idea and just not used it, but instead one of the board members goes ballistic telling me I am not the one to do it.
I worked with a STEM teacher who contributed a lot of time after hours to help students enter academic competitions. This upsets other teachers, for reasons I don’t understand. They want him stopped. He was getting paid. He told them they could do it too and make extra money (as much as $50/hr) but they didn’t want to. They wanted him to stop.
A lot of it I don’t understand but it sounds a lot like the politics inside an HOA or a lot of other organizations.
I do when the need comes up. There is a surprising amount of gatekeeping.
I spend a lot of time off grid but it is excruciating.
Best treatment is having things to do for others, but that is rare these days
I experience it myself. I know I am an addict and need to quit. Yet here I am.
Same way millennials killed Applebee’s.
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.