• zalack@kbin.social
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    One of the things I like about programming is it feels like legit magic. You infuse a lightning stone with words of power that bend its mind to your will.

    One must be cautious. The stone will do what is asked of it. Exactly what is asked of it. Ask carefully.

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      1 year ago

      “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”

      Arthur C. Clarke, 1962, “Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible”