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Programming is the closest thing to magic we have. Incant the right words and you can do nearly anything.
It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it works. -Terry Pratchett
++????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start.-Terry Pratchett
“Anything sufficiently advanced technology can be mistaken as magic.” -Isaac Asimov (paraphrased, not precise quote)
Isaac Asimov
Of course that also means that any technology that’s distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Don’t forget to use Elixir
There is also magic smoke if some hardware dies hard enough. :)
It’s called sufficiently advanced technology.
“Nonsense, there’s an entire field of science behind computers”
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"Least ugly cpp exception
Is this the Minecraft font?
I don’t think so, but now that I think about it, it’s quite similar…
It’s just math. The programmers just like playing wizards.
“it’s just math”
Anyone who claims modern smart phone isn’t a cursed item is just kidding themselves.
mathemagic, please.
Completely off topic tangent: the people that started the KKK also really wanted to play as wizards. If LARPing and/or D&D were a thing at the time they might not have become a thing
Rust has a transmute function.
import curses
It can hear me? No wonder my code doesn’t proc.
I like how there’s a daemon on my phone thanks to Pegasus II that tells the Pentagon when I am playing with my penis. This is a significant upgrade to the Garden of Eden and I think we should continue on this path as a global community.
I still remember the first time I had to sacrifice a child to get more memory
Have you ever had to remove child from parent using fork? I have…
bro, clone, detach, kill, then fork
RAM doublers did feel like making a deal with the devil.
Did they become a zombie?
Guess he sacrificed the child not its parent
Isn’t it weird that if you kill the parent that the child becomes the zombie?
To be fair, child becomes an orphan first, but orphans turn into zombies after death and start searching for their parents.
Wait I like this worldbuilding.
Sounds like a movie spinoff from a game I’d enjoy watching.
When killing children, it’s important to first identify parent child relationships, assuring total genealogical erasure.
I just downloaded it
Of cause its magic. We are pumping electricity into rocks to make them think.
You forgot to mention the tiny intricate runes we cover the slice of rock with.
Enchanted Artifacts
Then we harness lightning to bring them to life.
No thanks, I don’t support JK Rowling \s
I don’t support CrApple (no /s)
Kill and invoke a daemon.
Curses is a Python standard library module (for those who like me have never had anything to do with Python).
Actually, curses is much older than Python. It’s a generic library to allow standardized output on non-standardized text terminals. If you see text based user interfaces on Posix systems, you can be 99% sure that it’s based on curses (or its successor ncurses).
Developed for C in the late 1970s, it now has bindings for dozens of languages from Ada to Zig
Do people still use original curses and not ncurses (which is a bit newer than python)?
I’m not too deep into the history of curses, but as far as I read, ncurses was just a rebranding of pcurses when a new maintainer took over. And pcurses is an open source clone of curses from 1983.
So whether python or ncurses is newer depends on if you consider the renaming as the birth of ncurses, or the date when its first line of code was written.
Not just Python. It’s a terminal control library for Unix-like systems (originally BSD, but widely ported).
