Edit: for the record, Fuck AI

Image of a bell curve.

The left side has a dumb man saying "Computers have magic elves inside"

The center has an angry nerd saying "Computers are deterministic logical systems. They give the same outputs for the same inputs"

The right side has a man in a hoodie saying "Computers have magic elves inside"
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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I still remember the time a bug was fixed by adding a comment on a previously empty line

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    Computers are fucking weird.

    Back in the dark ages of late 90s/early 00s computing, I figured out that I could reliably crash a computer with a c++ script that printed char 7 (system bell) in a while loop, but if I added a semicolon in the next line the system would be fine.

    It was fun putting the first exe as the shortcut on lab computers, as people would be sooooooo confused when their computer spazzed out and beeped at them at an ever slowing cadence when they tried to open a normal application. Never bothered how to do it on dual core systems, because I couldn't be forked.

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