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import curses
It can hear me? No wonder my code doesn’t proc.
There is also magic smoke if some hardware dies hard enough. :)
I still remember the first time I had to sacrifice a child to get more memory
Have you ever had to remove child from parent using fork? I have…
bro, clone, detach, kill, then fork
Programming is the closest thing to magic we have. Incant the right words and you can do nearly anything.
It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it works. -Terry Pratchett
++????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start.-Terry Pratchett
“Anything sufficiently advanced technology can be mistaken as magic.” -Isaac Asimov (paraphrased, not precise quote)
Isaac Asimov
Of course that also means that any technology that’s distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
No thanks, I don’t support JK Rowling \s
I don’t support CrApple (no /s)
“Definitely not occult magick. Just gotta use
catto trace lines for my headless daemon and track down this zombie orphaned child. Maybe there’s something in the journal about what it bound to before the memory pool told it to sleep. … Why are you looking at me like that?”Technology is indistinguishable from magic
It’s just math. The programmers just like playing wizards.
mathemagic, please.
“Nonsense, there’s an entire field of science behind computers”
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"I could tell what it was before zooming in. Only surprised it’s not boost
Rust has a transmute function.
Curses is a Python standard library module (for those who like me have never had anything to do with Python).
Not just Python. It’s a terminal control library for Unix-like systems (originally BSD, but widely ported).
What’s imagemagic?
Actually, curses is much older than Python. It’s a generic library to allow standardized output on non-standardized text terminals. If you see text based user interfaces on Posix systems, you can be 99% sure that it’s based on curses (or its successor ncurses).
Developed for C in the late 1970s, it now has bindings for dozens of languages from Ada to Zig
Do people still use original curses and not ncurses (which is a bit newer than python)?
Kill and invoke a daemon.
