Forbidden magic

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• USSMojave@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  As someone with formal education in electrical engineering, electricity is magic and we are wizards

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  • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • portuga@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      HAIL ERIS

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Just remember to include a 666 timer

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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    • Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      How many goddamn ads can you fit into a wiki?

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    • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yep that’s what I use. I bought them in an IKEA, but it seemed like I was walking around forever

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• 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    yo what the fuck does any of this mean 🔥🔥

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    • 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• DScratch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Then software engineers harness that evil in mazes of their own.

  At least that’s what the code I’ve read looks like.

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  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    BuT tHe CoDE iS seLFeXplaNAtoRy!!

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• Im_old@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  you should really read “the laundry files” by Charles Stross. It’s a whole series of stories on this topic basically

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  • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• RGB@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Don’t share this with the Republican conspiracy theorists or they are legitimately gonna start spreading that on their Q boards.

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  • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Honestly, does he know how dumb they are? They’ll ban voltage or some shit.

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    • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Make America run on vacuum tubes again!

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    • Doombot1@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Lmao, do it… would love to see what that entails

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    • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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!

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Have you read Childhood’s End by Arthur C Clarke?

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      No, what is that?

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  • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Heretical machine spirits

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Just sooth them, quarterly earnings report is due

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• Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The demons tell me they like it

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• QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  SMT?

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    SMH. What a DIP.

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  • Akuji@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Glad to see I’m not the only one who thought about that 😅

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• Mandy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The dark mechanicus at work I see

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• AVincentInSpace@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  none of the things in this picture involve silicon in any way

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• BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  So that’s why Windows Explorer has to be restarted every 30 minutes!

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Eh what now?

    I have to restart explorer.exe a few times a year but not more than that.

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• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  With how small feature sizes are on chips, I wonder what sort of easter eggs the designer have hidden in them.

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