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lemmy.ml

I still remember the first time I had to sacrifice a child to get more memory

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partzelreply
lemmy.world

Guess he sacrificed the child not its parent

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When killing children, it's important to first identify parent child relationships, assuring total genealogical erasure.

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copaceticreply
discuss.tchncs.de

Isn't it weird that if you kill the parent that the child becomes the zombie?

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Jankatarchreply
lemmy.world

To be fair, child becomes an orphan first, but orphans turn into zombies after death and start searching for their parents.

Wait I like this worldbuilding.

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Aqivexreply
fedinsfw.app

It is time for a grim dark reboot of ReBoot.

Let's see what Bob chooses to do after Megabyte offs Nibbles and Little Enzo Matrix turns into a real problem for Mainframe.

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Reboot already has a grim dark season where Bob dies and Enzo becomes more scruffy. Yes, it's still ultimately a kids show, but it is much more dark comparatively.

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lemmy.world

Of cause its magic. We are pumping electricity into rocks to make them think.

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Beartotemreply
sh.itjust.works

You forgot to mention the tiny intricate runes we cover the slice of rock with.

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discuss.tchncs.de

Programming is the closest thing to magic we have. Incant the right words and you can do nearly anything.

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works. -Terry Pratchett

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lemmy.zip

“Anything sufficiently advanced technology can be mistaken as magic.” -Isaac Asimov (paraphrased, not precise quote)

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mcvreply

Of course that also means that any technology that's distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

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huquadreply
lemmy.ml

No thanks, I don't support JK Rowling \s

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“Definitely not occult magick. Just gotta use cat to trace lines for my headless daemon and track down this zombie orphaned child. Maybe there’s something in the journal about what it bound to before the memory pool told it to sleep. … Why are you looking at me like that?”

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Miaoureply

I could tell what it was before zooming in. Only surprised it's not boost

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lemmy.zip

It’s just math. The programmers just like playing wizards.

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"it's just math"

Anyone who claims modern smart phone isn't a cursed item is just kidding themselves.

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Completely off topic tangent: the people that started the KKK also really wanted to play as wizards. If LARPing and/or D&D were a thing at the time they might not have become a thing

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feddit.org

Curses is a Python standard library module (for those who like me have never had anything to do with Python).

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sh.itjust.works

Actually, curses is much older than Python. It's a generic library to allow standardized output on non-standardized text terminals. If you see text based user interfaces on Posix systems, you can be 99% sure that it's based on curses (or its successor ncurses).

Developed for C in the late 1970s, it now has bindings for dozens of languages from Ada to Zig

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piefed.social

Do people still use original curses and not ncurses (which is a bit newer than python)?

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I'm not too deep into the history of curses, but as far as I read, ncurses was just a rebranding of pcurses when a new maintainer took over. And pcurses is an open source clone of curses from 1983.

So whether python or ncurses is newer depends on if you consider the renaming as the birth of ncurses, or the date when its first line of code was written.

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It's a console tool for image manipulation. Basically Photoshop with a command line interface. It's working in the background of a lot of other software for image editing. Though it had problems with an unstable CLI interface in the past, so if you plan to use it in scripts, you might want to look at graphicsmagick which is a fork aiming for a more stable API.

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Don't forget Suuuupeeer Intelligence by Vibe

Mere mortals exceed these planes!

Yes, exceed... Such is this magic.

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I like how there's a daemon on my phone thanks to Pegasus II that tells the Pentagon when I am playing with my penis. This is a significant upgrade to the Garden of Eden and I think we should continue on this path as a global community.

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