• @[email protected]
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    4814 days ago

    As someone with formal education in electrical engineering, electricity is magic and we are wizards

    • @TexasDrunk
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      1014 days ago

      I’m making this comment from a magical device that sends bottled lightning though rocks inscribed with very exact runes in order to display information from people all over the world.

      • @Aqarius
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        313 days ago

        How many goddamn ads can you fit into a wiki?

        • @Klear
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          213 days ago

          Get the browser plugin that automatically redirects you either to a sensible alternative (such as UESP for Elder Scrolls) or a breezewiki mirror.

          Much better

      • @[email protected]
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        113 days ago

        Yep that’s what I use. I bought them in an IKEA, but it seemed like I was walking around forever

      • Trailblazing Braille Taser
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        I only have a vague understanding. The technique used to manufacture integrated circuits is called photolithography. Basically, these circuits need such tiny features etched into them that we can’t do it through traditional means. Instead, we draw a picture of the circuit we want, hundreds of times larger, shine a light through it, and use lenses to shrink the pattern down to size. This big pattern is called a “mask”.

        So what’s the deal with the demonic sigils above? As we make our circuits smaller, the physics gets stranger. For instance, there’s this effect called quantum tunneling where electrons just teleport to a part of the circuit we would not expect based on classical physics. Due to these kinds of effects, we have to do crazy things to the masks if we want the circuit to behave correctly.

        Disclaimer: I am not an electrical engineer and I have no idea what I’m talking about.

  • Scratch
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    1714 days ago

    Then software engineers harness that evil in mazes of their own.

    At least that’s what the code I’ve read looks like.

  • @Im_old
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    1614 days ago

    you should really read “the laundry files” by Charles Stross. It’s a whole series of stories on this topic basically

    • @TexasDrunk
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      Seconded. This is an excerpt from a comment I made the other day about it:

      If you like making fun of quiverfull ministries, programming, Eldritch horrors, British humor (humour?), spy thrillers, agitated engineers, vampires that don’t exist, bloodthirsty elves, and a thinly veiled story about anthropomorphic climate change then this is the series for you.

      Entities from other realities are listening and waiting for our computers to summon them.

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    I once tried writing a bit with demons being like the “demons” sometimes used in philosophy where they’re more like mysterious, reality altering things that sort of hide between our understanding of the universe and the unknown as opposed to scary monster things. It didn’t really go anywhere. The person I was writing with vanished on me. I still think it’s an interesting concept though and it sort of fits this post

    Edit: I realize this is an odd concept, this is what I mean by “philosophical demon” lol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_(thought_experiment)

    In thought experiments, philosophers and scientists occasionally imagine entities with special abilities as a way to pose thought experiment or highlight apparent paradoxes.

    The word “demon” here does not necessarily connotate a demon, a malevolent being. For instance, when William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) came up with the Maxwell’s demon, to highlight the implications of James Clerk Maxwell statistical interpretation of thermodynamics. He used the term in analogy to daemons in Greek mythology, supernatural beings as unseen forces of nature.

  • @[email protected]
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    714 days ago

    Don’t share this with the Republican conspiracy theorists or they are legitimately gonna start spreading that on their Q boards.

  • @Voyajer
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    514 days ago

    The demons tell me they like it

  • @[email protected]
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    213 days ago

    With how small feature sizes are on chips, I wonder what sort of easter eggs the designer have hidden in them.