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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Computers are magic.

Circuit boards are basically runes, written in stone and inlaid with precious metals to conduct pure energy around in very specific ways to do pretty much anything we wish.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's sand we carved into patterns and tricked into thinking with tamed lightning.

Then there's RF (radio frequency) which is the DEEP magic.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

As someone who is trying to get Meshtastic to work I feel this. My pocket node can connect to people 50km away, but the base station with the chongus antenna can only connect across town?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've always told my students that programming is just magic. If you get the right combination of words and symbols, the magic lightning rock will do your bidding.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

We write incantations to make the magic rock think and give us answers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

The best evidence of this is the "magic / more magic" switch.