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Lift up your mouse. What is an LED but a spicy candle?
LED? There's a rubber-coated metal ball under there.
You guys aren’t fingering your laptop?
😩
That's really bad for the mouse. You are going to damage the rollers. I know it's a hassle, but remember to properly replace the ball with a hardboiled egg yolk every week.
That box isn't for "candies"?
As a programmer, I also summon daemons.
Hey, that's a sysadmin's job!
Candles make light and heat. Is my pc a candle?
Give it 40,000 years. There’ll be candles alright.
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You have obviously never tried dereferencing a null pointer.
Does that require candles?
What's wrong with executing the parrent?
If you execute a parent, you end up with living or zombie children that you need to find and put down.
That's how a parent daemonises their child. With their own sacrifice.
The sacrifice must be voluntary or you'll end up with zombies.
I have a candle on my desk...
No candles, but I do light up a torch wink wink
You get candles if you are datasatanism type of programmer plotting stuff