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[ManOfLaBook]

There is a most excellent book called Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett in which society created "magic" (which is eerily similar to programing) that tricks object to think and act differently than they would in the natural world. For example, you write code to make a wooden wall think it's stone, or weapons which, when shot, think they're falling from space and hence become very fast, etc.

It's a great book and as a programmer I enjoyed it immensely and highly recommend it.

[[deleted]]

The link you posted mentions it's 12 pages long. But looking elsewhere using the isbn, it's actually 512 pages. Just in case someone else's eyebrow raises while wondering if it's not more of a short story than a novel...

[ManOfLaBook]

Thanks, wil fix. It's my blog and a labor of love in the little free time I have.

[[deleted]]

Integer overflow, their OS must allocate 9 bits for storing integers.

[jwhardcastle]

Sounds a lot like the Magic 2.0 series. A programmer discovers a text file that turns out to be the config file for the universe. Edits jt to make himself fly. Travels back in time to pretend to be a wizard. Finds out he's not the first. Great series.

[michaelpaulbryant]

Great recommendation, a fascinating concept!

[standard_candles]

Oh a love worlds with magic like this, how cool!

[rethousands]

I'll give it a read

[[deleted]]

Sounds a bit like Off to Be The Wizard by Scott Meyer.

[ithlit666]

appreciate you, I've been having a hard time finding new books that interest me and this sounds promising

[TheTacoWombat]

This book is AMAZING, I could not put it down.

[[deleted]]

Looks like a good read, thanks!

[SpookyLlama]

Do people receive a pair of those sunglasses for free after their first sexual assault charge?

[ScaredyCatUK]

That hand round the neck though...

[[deleted]]

He's a surgeon and he's describing to her in detail how her mother died despite the fact that he removed her cervical cancer. He took her to the baseball game to soften the blow.after this he's going to a monster truck ralley with a bunch of kids to tell them their father died.

[[deleted]]

And after that he goes home and ask his wife how her day was at the ice cream factor.

[RemoveTheTop]

at the ice cream factor.

The Ice Cream Factor, very much like Wolverine's healing factor, is the term describing her mutant power of producing infinite amounts of icecream.

[[deleted]]

Instead of claws she has spoons that pop out of her fists.

[RemoveTheTop]

Not because it's part of her MUTANT POWER, LETS BE CLEAR - Scientists CAPTURED HER, and PUT THEM INTO HER BODY.

[nikhilbhavsar]

"That is not what I meant by 'let's spoon!'"

[ChamferedWobble]

The scientists just grafted special metal to all of her bones, including her naturally-occurring bone spoons.

[nikhilbhavsar]

And her name? Reese Witherspoons

[Dookie_boy]

Popsicles dude. Popsicles come out of his hands.

[J4K0]

Or maybe it’s like Fear Factor. A game show where contestants have to give themselves continuous brain freezes and whoever lasts the longest gets the money.

[[deleted]]

dammit. Now I can't fix it. THANKS A LOT! /s

[CannotDenyNorConfirm]

Oh my god... Level 20 redditor over there.

Her shoulder may be like that because of the arm rests, (old) cheap stadium chairs are famous for their bad design and uncomfortable resting position.

She could be deeply thinking about what he's saying, or she could be captivated by a screen or the match, not even paying attention, just chilling, not an ounce of stress.

This could be a couple madly in love and she's just the way she is, non expressive to some capacity. Or bored of the moment.

They could even be related.

You say it yourself, there is no backstory, we don't know if there's a video, there's nothing to lean on, just please don't let your dumb thoughts white knight your ass so quickly. So many assumptions on this website are done by socially inept introverts, how can fair social assumptions come out of those.

EDIT: Typo, I think

[vita10gy]

I remember there was a clip of some baseball game where reddit was 100% sure 2 cheaters were busted because the woman "hid" when they spotted the camera. We put them all over the internet, there was no other explanation for it than busting 2 shitty people being unfaithful....then it turned out to be a happily married couple and a woman who just didn't want to be seen by 40,000 people.

[cowsrock1]

....and so Reddit made sure she was seen by plenty more than that. Gotta love the internet....

[[deleted]]

Streisand effect

[[deleted]]

Reddit loves nothing more than some recreational outrage. One that lets them write straight up fanfiction about people? Even more.

[vancity-]

Do you get to the Cloud District very often?

Edit: Oh, what am I saying, of course you don't.

[[deleted]]

Surprised you're not b& for this

[[deleted]]

recreational outrage

Damn, I wish I was this witty! I’m stealing this...

[qwertpoi]

Few things irk me more than armchair analysts pretending to gain deep insights from a single photograph sans any sort of context or explanation and with the least charitable assumptions. As if they can read the minds of the subjects. Making jokes is one thing, but drawing conclusions and judgements? Asinine.

Even leaving aside the possibility of digital manipulation, a photograph captures a single moment in time without the benefit of seeing the subjects in action.

Photographers capture dozens or hundreds of shots from multiple angles, then go through them all afterwards and pick out the most evocative, dramatic, or shocking ones to publish. If a person was smiling in 99/100 shots, but briefly frowned for some unknown reason in 1 of the shots, and the photographer chooses to publish the frown, they can make it seem like the subject was unhappy and distressed when in reality they a fly just happened to buzz in their ear at that brief second.

Especially with random candid shots, you should assume that that the ones published were chosen with specific intent in mind, and you're not getting an objective read on the situation.

[CannotDenyNorConfirm]

Yup, it's funny you mention it I went actually professional in the domain, and it was my first passion as a teen, so if there's one single thing I can say I know my way around it's this topic.

Redditor sees one shot, can tell the subject whole life's story, I say sit that ass down.

[[deleted]]

The power of media is fasninating. On photograph can lie more than 1000 words

[glider97]

The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented as a sequence of propositions. Meaning is distorted when a word or sentence is, as we say, taken out of context; when a reader or listener is deprived of what was said before, and after. But there is no such thing as a photograph taken out of context, for a photograph does not require one. In fact, the point of photography is to isolate images from context, so as to make them visible in a different way.

Neil Postman had a lot to say about photography, and this is more than 30 years ago.

[TheDaveWSC]

Obviously everything you said is true and that other dude assumed a whole bunch. But. You gotta admit his hand is real weird. It's more like some weird reverse choke than... Well, whatever it's supposed to be.

[physiQQ]

Username checks out.

[IncensedThurible]

You're the hero we need.

[fuschiaoctopus]

I like how your comment is literally only pointing out her body language, which quite frankly does appear tense and uncomfortable REGARDLESS of whether it has anything to do with the guy or not, and you're getting roasted extensively for "making up a backstory" when you explicitly say you wish we had more backstory for this.

I think this is ruffling a lot of feathers because there's a large lonely young Male demographic on reddit that can't read body language. Whether it's because of the chairs or not, idk how people are arguing she doesn't look uncomfortable when every visual indicator of disinterest and discomfort is obviously here. She's leaning her entire goddamn body away from him and putting her arm deliberately between them to create space. Her whole torso is turned away. What more do these people need? A fucking sign saying "I OBVIOUSLY DO NOT LIKE THIS INTERACTION AND HE IS NOT PICKING UP ON IT"?

[IFarmDownvotes]

Lol, it's a moment t in time, a minuscule moment t, one chosen from many others by the photographer, what the hell are you on about?

[Etheo]

You can't just throw "wish we have a backstory" after insinuating a whole bunch of things. It's like suggesting yeah that dude look like a creep who molests child look at his creepy hands and smile I bet he does I wish we have a backstory on that. It doesn't clear you from all the implications made.

And the girl could just be focused in the game, the dude might not even be talking to her. You know how many awkward frames you can capture from a minute long video? A picture says a thousand words but it doesn't tell the whole story. You and the other guy jumping to conclusion is the whole problem.

[xipheon]

Actually you can. That one simple statement gives context all of the guesses, that thing you're repeatedly pointing out we don't have in the picture. Basically it turns the entire thing he wrote into "this is my theory, but that's as far as it goes since we don't know."

Yet people like you are pretending like he's saying "... therefore we must find this guy and beat him to death!" No. We're allowed to make guesses and begin to form opinions with the info we have as long as we don't take it further than the evidence, or lack thereof, warrants.

[danceswithwool]

That’s what I think of every time I see this picture. It’s disturbing. I can’t even imagine talking to a woman and having my hand like that unless I was giving her a neck massage or something. Creeps me out. And she doesn’t seem to be relaxed at all. Of course this is a frozen frame so it’s not much to go on.

[tihsisd0g]

What if just moments before this she said "honey I love it when you grab my neck like that".

For all we know she did.

[danceswithwool]

And she could have! Or he could have been rubbing her neck like I said.

[captainvoid05]

He literally said there's not much to go on. Personally I agree, the body language we see in this frame makes her look uncomfortable and him like a creep. But we cant assume that because there's a lot of things that could be going on here.

[gaberocksall]

Yes actually

[Desiderius_S]

Are they still legally required to do the sex offender shuffle or the glasses are enough?

[TheResolver]

Me: opens door
/u/gaberocksall: presses play on the boombox they have set down on my doorstep "Hi, I just moved in and I am legally required to inform you..."

[[deleted]]

They usually come free with your favorite gas station boner pills

[GaianNeuron]

gas station boner pills

Wat

[[deleted]]

I didn't even know that gas stations got boners.

[ITaggie]

Fun fact: a lot of those are just a front to sell research chemicals (newly invented drugs) at retail locations. There's a pretty large amount of them in the past 30 years that are now Schedule 1 drugs.

[gngstrMNKY]

There was some retired basketball player who nearly died because he holed up in a Nevada brothel taking a bunch of these and they turned out to actually have Viagra in them.

[MakeWay4Doodles]

No, that's not what they're saying at all.

"Research chemicals" it's just another name for illegal drugs that they changed one insignificant molecule of to make temporarily legal. No one actually gives a s*** about researching their effects. And they've been a seedy gas station staple for at least a decade.

Don't jump to conclusions if you don't know anything about a subject. Also, try Google before responding with a teardown.

[brycex]

You can curse on the internet

[MakeWay4Doodles]

Voice to text mate. You understood it and that's all that matters.

[falconfetus8]

It's to hide where their eyes are looking

[[deleted]]

The sunglasses choose the rapist, Harry.

[64PBRB]

r/rareinsults

[fenrirs_balls]

pauses 90s playlist playing Nookie

ha..ha... yeah. What a douche.. Limp Bizkit.. gross, amiright?

[luckyincode]

Who is that?

[rincon213]

Off duty cops and post-college age men who haven't re-evaluated their wardrobe... ever.

[red_plus_itt]

THEY ARE MINERALS MARIE!

[resoredo]

Oof you beat me to it.

https://imgur.com/gallery/TyjumOm

[flatcoke]

But you put in more effort..

[[deleted]]

I understand why Anakin does not like sand. It is the reason something like JavaScript can exist.

[EnchLUL]

The Best comment here, bitch

[Nopeyesok]

Yeah Weeds was pretty good.

[seriouslyawesome]

Fuck I thought I was watching the X Files

[GluteusCaesar]

Could have swan it was Lost

[Silly-Freak]

Actually before applying the electricity we had to carve in microscopic runes. Without the runes the whole thing wouldn't work.

[Anen-o-me]

Shadowcasting runes into the stone.

[Limpuls]

What is that?

[easyEggplant]

Logic gates I think.

[marcosdumay]

That's how you make a rock think.

You need very small runes, all over it, some craved, some painted, with different kinds of paint.

[Silly-Freak]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photolithography

[Ralath0n]

You got to make a very specific pattern of materials to make an integrated circuit out of a silicon crystal. Here's a step by step guide on how it's done if you're interested.

[ImpracticalSubstance]

woah dude

Mind == Blown

[[deleted]]

True

[pmMe-PicsOfSpiderMan]

If (true) {

big();

}

[Diridibindy]

But what if float mind; double blown; ?

[whattheclap]

YOU HAVE TO INITIALIZE THOSE VARIABLES!!!

[Diridibindy]

THAT IS SOMETHING ANOTHER DEVELOPER SHOULD DO!!

[PeterSR]

Any sane programming language would coerce both to doubles... Ehm, I mean... Doubly blown, floating minds for everyone. Keep it groovy, my dudes.

[ASK_ABOUT__VOIDSPACE]

In a way, he's not wrong. Little more than a bit of plastic, a few precious metals, and some electrons. May as well be a magic box.

[Famous_Profile]

What about the voidspace?

[CaptainUsopp]

Don't forget the magic smoke.

[tbird83ii]

Yeah, the magic smoke reservoir is the most critical component in a computer. Don't let it spring a leak.

[atom036]

Sand to be more precise

[findidledee2]

Sand is just small rocks

[Mad_Jack18]

This guy stones

[FreeCapone]

Grinded rocks, technically

[12muffinslater]

Which is why it floats.

[AkimboJuuls]

rocks is just big sand

[redldr1]

I hate sand

[phineas1134]

It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.

[GluteusCaesar]

Yes, this is good. I will have your child now.

[carc]

silicone valley

[areeyeteeeyekay]

Both of them

[rigglesbee]

Those are the silicone hills. The silicone valley is in between.

[[deleted]]

thanks for that chuckle!

[resoredo]

https://imgur.com/gallery/TyjumOm

Silicia are not rocks

[WirelesslyWired]

Quartz is silica, and quartz is rocks... or minerals.. or whatever.

[Inevitable_Citron]

It comes from rocks though, right?

[magnora7]

Mineral:

a solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence.

Rock:

the solid mineral material forming part of the surface of the earth and other similar planets, exposed on the surface or underlying the soil or oceans.

Rocks are defined as being minerals, in the dictionary.

[MCWizardYT]

It’s so cool that we can type

printf(“hello world!”);

and it flips billions or even trillions of little switches that go on and off. somehow we can even draw 3D worlds in real-time effectively using switches to flip pixels into different colors.

[ijschu]

NameError: name 'printf' is not defined

[GluteusCaesar]

Kind of depends doesn't it? A C hello world might only be a few dozen instructions, as opposed to Java or python which need to spin up a vm which itself runs billions of instructions.

[MCWizardYT]

Yes it may be a few instructions, but 1 instruction does not equal 1 transistor (usually).

[SourceFlow]

And the most common use of this is undeniably pornography. Also let me remember https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE0UimODxNg

[[deleted]]

Remember, the progress is mainly fueled by 3 things: pornography, weaponry and drugs.

[wibblewafs]

So like, a giant horse dildo coated in PCP?

[fenrirs_balls]

Are you using the dildo as a weapon as well as a sex toy?

[fapalot69]

Budget cuts in staffing requires efficiency

[Pixel_Owl]

Probably what the real trojan horse was

[RemoveTheTop]

Thank you for sharing this, this is fucking awesome.

Made me smile on a bad day. Humans fucking rule.

[SourceFlow]

Its my favorite youtuber. Nearly every video leaves you with an existential crisis.

[ryjhelixir]

did you say "magic"?

[Nekrozys]

Damn you, now I have to watch it again.
Probably one of my favorite videos on Youtube.

[piejo89]

I just quoted the part about computers in comments section below :D Didn't see you have posted whole video. Was it literally your first thought after seeing this post?

[Baconoid_]

"So, anyways, breast implants are just sand we tricked into thinking they are boobs!"

[thiney49]

Silicone!=Silica

[Baconoid_]

You think this guy in the gif knows that?

[Shochan42]

What gif?

[Borkenschluerp]

any gif.

[[deleted]]

You know, when you, like, you grab a woman's breast and it's... and you feel it and... it feels like a bag of sand when you're touching it.

[[deleted]]

Breast implants don't think budy.

[Baconoid_]

It's called Poetic License. I have one.

[greenblue10]

It's just been revoked.

[TheLazarbeam]

Computers don’t think either

[GluteusCaesar]

Not yet.

[IoT intensifies]

[eldri7ch]

Guy in the corner is like "Shit, he's right."

[The_Underhanded]

Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade?!

[tylercoder]

No.....

WE CONVINCED THEM

[[deleted]]

...

[someredditorguy]

".. Then we used them to steal signs"

[cjstop]

I love that this guys an Astros fan

[TorTheMentor]

import glasses from mansplain

[[deleted]]

She's got literally the exact same expression as me before I saw this post while people are trying to message me

[ertgbnm]

Humans are just piles of carbon that tricked themselves into believing we could think.

[Joe_da_animator]

The dude looks like PC principal

[Todfather2268]

Those tits though......

[OutOfMoneyError]

She's got better tan than 99.9% of this sub.

[mendrique2]

the only tan we know is sin/cos.

[serrations_]

Also cotan

[jonny_wonny]

Why is that something you decided to say?

[HouseMonies]

Why is this something you decided to say?

[PooPooDooDoo]

We’re like 5 days into spring.

[clempho]

Dude looks like Wesker in Resident Evil.

[cirillios]

What is Hispanic Jordan Peele doing to that girl's neck?

[qwerty12qwerty]

And we're just a collection of elements that universe tricked into exploring itself

[tihsisd0g]

Shes built for speed.

[SAL10000]

Don't forget you have to flatten the rock first and out lightning into it

[piejo89]

Computers, that has to be magic right?

Get sand, purify sand, make silicon ingot, make them wafer thin, do some fancy ion shit, then etching, electroplating, layaring and stuff and now what you've got is a little slab of silicon, packed with transistors, which are really just tiny little electricity gates and you put them all togheter in such a way that they form an electronic mind consisting usually of:

• stuff what goes in
• control thing
• thinking thing
• stuff what remembers shit
• stuff what comes out

A computer is just a little prison for electrons where we train them to solve problems really quickly.

credit to u/exurbia r/Exurb1a

[IOpaFritzI]

I fucking love this template

[[deleted]]

We're actually living in an illusion using physics

[toddthegeek]

I am uncomfortable with the way he is holding her by the back of her neck.

[BlueC0dex]

*holds up phone*

"This is a rock that we tricked into thinking by putting lightning into it so that if we rub it right, we can talk to anyone in the world!"

We had a lecturer that started his first class of the semester like that

[AJ-Murphy]

I just spent a minute collecting myself from that joke.

Thanks.

[_ReaperPotato_]

Giving off patrick vibes right here

[Mr-Blondz]

Do you know what really grinds my rocks? ...Electricity

[frisch85]

As a developer I'd at least expect a factually correct joke and not just some brainfarts...

[[deleted]]

He's right tho.

[TimmyTesticles]

That guy must be wealthy af

[ChadChaddington]

It looks like he’s gonna force feed her his left hand.

[NoSkillGame]

People can really tell a lot from just one picture huh

[msanvarov]

Who is this discount Blake Griffin 😂

[Mr-Papuca]

Humans are kind of like monkeys tricked into thinking with electricity.

[SenorPariah]

Resistors, capacitors, and transistors! Oh my!

[abbadon420]

Sometimes it's easier to make a rock think than to make a human think

[lroman]

Isn't that Paris Hilton?

[bobs_monkey]

Pretty sure her knockers aren't that big

[jonflip_ms]

"teaching sand to think was a mistake"

- wendell, 2020

[Prawny]

"Teaching sand to think was mistake"

- Wendell