stackyFACTSIf you think your laptop is complicated, you should see the bloated supercomputer sitting in your driveway.
If you think your laptop is complicated, you should see the bloated supercomputer sitting in your driveway. An F-35 fighter jet operates on roughly 25 million lines of software code to handle stealth, weapons, and supersonic flight. Meanwhile, a modern premium automobile runs on over 100 million lines of code just to manage your climate control, blind-spot monitors, and the touch screen that you constantly complain is lagging.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
Transport →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
In 1936, anticipating that another massive conflict with Germany was unfortunately inevitable, the French government passed a peculiar law requiring every…
Discover more
When mandatory seatbelt laws were first introduced, what bizarre argument did the public use against them?
Discover more
While Americans get pulled over for doing 75, large stretches of the German highway system trust drivers enough to not mandate a limit. You can legally blast…
Discover more
It turns out basic science doesn't always deeply account for aesthetic nausea. In 1915, businessman John Hertz excitedly read a dubious university study…
Discover more
Honda Civics from the late 1990s and early 2000s consistently rank as the most stolen vehicles in the United States year after year, completely beating out…
Discover more
Instead of wasting precious money on an electric fluid pump, Volkswagen engineers decided to weaponize the air in your spare tire. The classic Beetle routed a…
Discover more