Magic Thinking Rocks - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. —Arthur C. Clarke

Nah, they are fairly common rocks.

We can even use extremely common ones, but the just a little bit uncommon ones need an easier forming spell.

The rocks ain’t magic, dingus. The rocks are just a cipherstone to let us teach lightning how to count to 2 and do addition.

Rubes diminishing the achievements of hardworking artificiers.

The population isn’t really in awe of the warlocks though 😥
The population simultaneously needs and resents the warlocks
I've seen this before but it was a 4chan greentext and the last line was about Fortnite porn
I guess I’m a warlock now. I do like the version that became the Grateful Dead, another 30 years as a warlock and I to may become a grateful Dead
This is why I ponder my orb.

/sad

Staring at the palm of my hand and not seeing cats.

…github.io/2020-06-28-how-we-trick-rocks-to-think… fun, accessible-for-non-experts related article

Today we’re going to explore how the thinking rocks that power your computer are created.

How We Trick Rocks to Think

There is an excellent tuple of tweets by @daisyowl that go something like this: a CPU is literally a rock that we tricked into thinking

Jake Chanenson
We didn’t learn the rock language. WE CREATED IT!