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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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"oh, you know so much! howd you do that?"

"grandma, i literally only typed dir."

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[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

One of my favorite comparisons is computing to magic. They say that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

A lot of people have a hard time drawing that comparison, but if you tell them that there are very special, rare ~~silica~~ rocks that you can only find in specific places on earth, and that if you inscribe one of these rocks with billions of tiny ~~transistors~~ runes and then ~~power~~ infuse the rock with ~~electricity~~ lightning you can actually ~~make~~ trick the rock into ~~a processor~~ thinking, and that this now let's you create ~~software~~ incantations which explain to the ~~processor~~ thinking rock how to ~~execute a program~~ do specific things for you, then they begin to see why.