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Re:Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016) by danuker on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @05:29PM (#27989983)
computing is a fraud, a CPU is literally a rock that we tricked into thinking
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Re:Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016) by Ancapistani on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:00PM (#27991994)
You’re oversimplifying.

We didn’t just trick a rock into thinking - we beat on it until it was really thin, shoved a little bit of lightning inside of it, then tricked it into thinking.

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Re:Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016) by teddyh on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @06:28PM (#27990574)
If a CPU is thinking, then all rocks are constantly thinking their rocky thoughts, contemplating the immeasurable eons of their existence. A CPU is, then, merely a rock which we have made to think some thoughts which are to our benefit.
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Re:Evil programmer's tip: avoid “easy” things (2016) by vvilliamperez on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @05:40PM (#27990096)
This gave me a great belly laugh
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