Edit: for the record, Fuck AI
Computers have daemons inside.
Only Linux!
I think all Unix variants as well. It was even the inspiration for FreeBSD’s logo.
Otherwise known as “programmers.”
Seriously though we tricked metal into thinking with runes and lightning. That is magic.
No, but the wifi chips do. Even radio engineers who designed them will tell you they just tamed the elves, they don’t really understand how radio engineering works.
Computers have voodoo goblins inside them with the personalities of extremely malevolent genies.
👾WAGA LAKA BOODONGI NI CROPO NALINGKI👾
It’s called the Machine Spirit.
Praise the Omnissiah!
Reminds me of https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
(I can’t get that link to work right now. Maybe it’s down. So here is the same story on the Wayback Machine.)
The ‘more magic switch’ is one of my favorite stories like that, right up there with the 500 mile email.
No, I don’t agree.
Every single problem can be traced to a specific source.
What a lot of people (especially in IT) determine as a glitch, is just some unexpected change that they don’t have the time/energy to deal with and can be solved by just rebooting.
Every single thing has a cause, even if the problem was a single particle of radiation from space that flipped a bit on a hard drive.
I’ve had the pleasure to work with some IT-guru that could solve every problem. They could see where this unexpected change came from and tell how to solve it so it wouldn’t ever happen again. Except maybe those bit flips.
Bitflips are fun.
For a while, I managed a fleet of about 6500 iPod touch devices, and we would have random failures on devices where a simple re-image would solve the problem. I did a back of the napkin calculation, and our rate of those failures was almost exactly the expected cosmic radiation bitflip chance for the total surface area of all the storage chips in our devices.
I once had a email that crashed the network card on a windows 2000 server. That was not fun to try and find the problem. After the 3rd occurrence the network card got binned
Midwit doesn’t know about RDSEED, or RNDRRS . Every modern computer has a hardware random number generator built in (aka true random number generator). Since there’s a hwrng bulit in, operations that depend on it aren’t deterministic.
Not a magic elf though. Definitely more goblin.
I thought they had angry pixies inside?
Don’t forget about “race conditions”!
Magic elves are deterministic logical systems.
Be sure to leave bags of Kuai Kuai out for the magic elves.
