Just remember to include a 666 timer
Forbidden magic
Submitted 6 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
lud@lemm.ee 6 months ago
scp-db.fandom.com/wiki/666_timer
I like the the manufacturer is listed as unknown when the picture shows it’s obviously made by Texas instruments. There are not a lot of companies with a logo the size of Texas that makes ICs.
Aqarius@lemmy.world 6 months ago
How many goddamn ads can you fit into a wiki?
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Yep that’s what I use. I bought them in an IKEA, but it seemed like I was walking around forever
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
The nanometer-scale sigils are getting increasingly elaborate, presumably because the tinier demons are better at escaping.
Case in point, check out the “increasing need for mask correction” image in this article: …ieee.org/…/inverse-lithography-2659629907
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
yo what the fuck does any of this mean 🔥🔥
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I only have a vague understanding. The technique used to manufacture integrated circuits is called photolithography. Basically, these circuits need such tiny features etched into them that we can’t do it through traditional means. Instead, we draw a picture of the circuit we want, hundreds of times larger, shine a light through it, and use lenses to shrink the pattern down to size. This big pattern is called a “mask”.
So what’s the deal with the demonic sigils above? As we make our circuits smaller, the physics gets stranger. For instance, there’s this effect called quantum tunneling where electrons just teleport to a part of the circuit we would not expect based on classical physics. Due to these kinds of effects, we have to do crazy things to the masks if we want the circuit to behave correctly.
Disclaimer: I am not an electrical engineer and I have no idea what I’m talking about.
DScratch@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Then software engineers harness that evil in mazes of their own.
At least that’s what the code I’ve read looks like.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
BuT tHe CoDE iS seLFeXplaNAtoRy!!
Im_old@lemmy.world 6 months ago
you should really read “the laundry files” by Charles Stross. It’s a whole series of stories on this topic basically
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Seconded. This is an excerpt from a comment I made the other day about it:
If you like making fun of quiverfull ministries, programming, Eldritch horrors, British humor (humour?), spy thrillers, agitated engineers, vampires that don’t exist, bloodthirsty elves, and a thinly veiled story about anthropomorphic climate change then this is the series for you.
Entities from other realities are listening and waiting for our computers to summon them.
RGB@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Don’t share this with the Republican conspiracy theorists or they are legitimately gonna start spreading that on their Q boards.
Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Honestly, does he know how dumb they are? They’ll ban voltage or some shit.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Make America run on vacuum tubes again!
Doombot1@lemmy.one 6 months ago
Lmao, do it… would love to see what that entails
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 6 months ago
I’m trying to get them to ban carbon emissions by saying its hell matter heating the atmosphere. Proof: 6 protons 6 neurons 6 electrons!
JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 months ago
I once tried writing a bit with demons being like the “demons” sometimes used in philosophy where they’re more like mysterious, reality altering things that sort of hide between our understanding of the universe and the unknown as opposed to scary monster things. It didn’t really go anywhere. The person I was writing with vanished on me. I still think it’s an interesting concept though and it sort of fits this post.
Klear@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Huh. I always through Maxwell’s demon was created by Maxwell himself.
What next, are you going to say that this is not his cat?
sirico@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Heretical machine spirits
GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Just sooth them, quarterly earnings report is due
Voyajer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The demons tell me they like it
QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
SMT?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
SMH. What a DIP.
Akuji@leminal.space 6 months ago
Glad to see I’m not the only one who thought about that 😅
Mandy@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
The dark mechanicus at work I see
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 6 months ago
none of the things in this picture involve silicon in any way
BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 6 months ago
So that’s why Windows Explorer has to be restarted every 30 minutes!
lud@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Eh what now?
I have to restart explorer.exe a few times a year but not more than that.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
With how small feature sizes are on chips, I wonder what sort of easter eggs the designer have hidden in them.
USSMojave@startrek.website 6 months ago
As someone with formal education in electrical engineering, electricity is magic and we are wizards
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m making this comment from a magical device that sends bottled lightning though rocks inscribed with very exact runes in order to display information from people all over the world.
portuga@lemmy.world 6 months ago
HAIL ERIS