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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED (youtu.be)
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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.

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[–] friendlymessage@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not getting pushed, it's being liked. Because it's informative and entertaining. Simple really.

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today -2 points 9 months ago

There is a ton of entertaining and informative content that doesn't show up in multiple separate feeds for me. Because it doesn't get pushed by the algorithms.