thoughtfulRock
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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You take a rock, put complex engravements on it that no one understands, and than use lightening so you can bend it to your will.
Rocks thinking is probably the only part of CS that I look and think “sorcery” because its almost as magic.
I thought it was sand
We tricked it into doing math
yourBrainIsJustGoodOldMeatballAndElectricity
Its really just a cool rocks with “runes” on it shocked with lightning’s
And it works
Everything we see online is just 0’s and 1’s
Wasn’t lightning that Frankenstein used to make his monster alive? I guess that’s the key.
Actually you have to flatten the rock and spray it with poisons and sunbath it multiple times.
It does not think; it computes.
Humans are manipulative, they didn’t even spare the rock /s
Lets not forget the complex runes that you have to engrave into it to make it think
A rock that we tricked into doing calculations, to be more precise.
The post forgot to mention that the rock came from outer space and had to trigger a mass extinction in order to force human beings into existence so we could rearrange the asteroid to do math.
Edit: fix typo
Just be careful the thinking rock doesn’t get too hot. They can get dumb or even die if they overheat. You feel really dumb if you manage to kill a pet rock. Ask me how I know.
Not exactly the “magic skeleton” level of cringe, but it’s getting there.
using anything with a modern screen = looking at a big array of small red green and blue lamps and being tricked into seeing other colors
Sentient bags of carbon passing the flame to slices of silicon. Makes me a little weepy
Isn’t the thin that makes it work that some rocks grow when lightning’d?
By “We” he means humanity I suppose, not like a royal we.
CRYSTALS! Crystals vibrate with the energy!!
Keep in mind: Electricity is just sparkling amber.
it doesnt even think, its just the worlds most complex Counting Frame
“I’m just a caveman” vibes
“If it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid”
There’s a simplified tutorial on how to make CPUs on YouTube
I have no idea how to program, but hats off to those willing to tingle the gods’ telegraph.
Magic smoke is important too, you have to add that.
pet rocks were never just a fad
“First you have to flatten the rock”
No, first you have to grow the rock in a perfectly pure crystal, and then slice it wafer thin.
I work in MEMS, which is basically shaping silicon crystals into small moving 3D-structures. It’s quite complicated, but easily enough to understand. What we make is typically 10000 times larger than the stuff inside processors and RAM. It blows my mind.
Whenever I read fantasy books, I like to think that “magic” is actually just programming languages manipulating the remnants of a civilization that destroyed itself. Like Harry Potter was just using voice commands on an ancient Alexa.
the OP SweetBabe771 is a bot
Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/uiyaz4/thoughtful_rock/
Nah if you actually learn about CPU architecture you find out that there is nothing hacky about it; it is probably by the grace of its perfect design that your hacks work in the first place.
i mean, if it’s a hack, and it works is it really a hack?
yes, yes it is, but why does my teacher complain when we get an assignment with the express purpose of “get it to work” and i get it tow work, but i don’t “follow the diagrams for it, so it’s a hack” it worked as the only group, all functions where there, but due to a diagram difference, it was “not good enough”