I still remember the first time I had to sacrifice a child to get more memory
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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.
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
“Anything sufficiently advanced technology can be mistaken as magic.” -Isaac Asimov (paraphrased, not precise quote)
“Definitely not occult magick. Just gotta use cat to trace lines for my headless daemon and track down this zombie orphaned child. Maybe there’s something in the journal about what it bound to before the memory pool told it to sleep. … Why are you looking at me like that?”
"Nonsense, there's an entire field of science behind computers"
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It’s just math. The programmers just like playing wizards.
Rust has a transmute function.
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.
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