• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    What on Earth do people DO with computers that requires this level of complexity?

    It just seems like computers could have stopped in 1989 and I struggle to see what the difference would be.

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      Material science simulations, Weather and climate modeling, Protein and genetic analysis and modeling, Video games and CGI, Logistics and scheduling