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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The longer I’m in IT, the more I realize that the adeptus mechanicus might be on to something with beseeching the machine spirit.

[–] peopleproblems 30 points 1 year ago (7 children)

A lot of people think I'm joking when I say I'm a good at what I do because I'm a witch doctor with computers. Software Engineering requires experience with the occult, at a minimum.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually had a concept for a fantasy world, where magicians craft spells much the same way software devs do. So you make your spell and publish it to the ether, and then anyone can invoke it using the magic word (package name), assuming the have the right dependencies available (eye of newt or whatever). But spells might have bugs. So if you used eye of red newt while the spell smith built it with the expectation you had eye of blue newt you might get unintended consequences

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i mean it's pretty common for runes to just be conceptual programming languages and if you do something wrong then instead of having a lighter you get a bomb

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