It remains an open question whether tungsten is mundane in the cold-iron sense (being tough, cold and heavy) or is in fact magical (as macroscopic amounts seem to have a calming influence on the human psyche)
The resulting decrease in background magic enabled the Industrial Revolution and since then, all that steel above ground has been very effective at suppressing it further
It’s not that Magic died, Faerieland just suffered an apocalyptic war in the 1700s when the Rosicrucians upset the balance of power
https://traditionsofconflict.com/blog/2019/10/4/sacred-metal, and now consider computer programming (especially the terminology of wizards/gurus, programming as magic, the SICP cover &c!)
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What if i told you for a browser it doesn’t matter what the extension is.. it will use the file magic mime value instead.
If Linux is not magic…
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The most magical words in all of computing…
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ROI of Docker Desktop vs. DIY: Considerations, Risks, and Benefits for Business
Docker simplifies application development and removes complexities for developers. This allows software teams to accelerate their productivity and spend more time on delivering value that’s core to their business. One of the ways we do this is by providing a magically simple developer experience with Docker Desktop. We wrote about the magic behind the scenes […]
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listen to the first chapter of Beach House’s <i>Once Twice Melody</i>
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The GPU that comes in the SoC seems incredible, even hard to believe. Apple is doing magic here.
listen to MUNYA’s magical rendition of Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight, Tonight”
Montreal’s MUNYA shares an unexpected cover of the iconic 1995 Smashing Pumpkins song “ Tonight Tonight”, beautifully reimagined in her signature dreamy, “new synth folk” style… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
The Magic Behind the Scenes of Docker Desktop
With all the changes recently quite a few people have been talking about Docker Desktop and trying to understand what it actually does on your machine. A few people have asked, “is it just a container UI?” Great developer tools are magic for new developers and save experienced developers a ton of time. This is what […]
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Windows 96 – Expect
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Conspiratorial Thinking and “Multiple Outs”
How to do magic tricks…Magicians have this concept called “Multiple Outs.” It’s actually how you can do simple magic tricks. Suppose you have a person pick a card and say you will guess the suit of their card.
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the ‘magic circle’ sine wave algorithm: [[https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/Digital_Sinusoid_Generators.html]] #links
Joneworlds is probably my favorite thing on gemini. Cute, mundane magical realism fantasy. gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/users/joneworlds/
Still on stay - cation. I love the magic of this place.. I’m going for a walk with dog to clear my head
Just took a raw photo with Halide for the first time. It looks pretty awful compared to its companion JPEG because it’s horribly noisy. Not sure what magic turns awful raws into better-than-JPEG images. Probably lots of know-how.
moss grows on the polewards side of trees because aurorae are one of the most powerful sources of magical energy
Today in Shield Hero: Magical Deepfake
It’s a real shame most people will be turned off by the low production quality & drop Maho Shojo Spec-Ops Asuka early. Despite being extremely flawed (including in the plot dept), it’s an interesting take on the edgy magical girl genre (usually filled with Madoka clones)
Band name of the day: the magically unhinged
A lot of people are going to start watching Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, and then say ‘this looks like trash’ and stop watching it. They’re right, and it’s a shame. Higurashi had the same problem.
I really like the concept of Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka: a mahou shoujou show where the focus is firmly on the combat PTSD of child soldiers. It’s a shame that the production Quality was melting from frame 1.
The magical thinking of guys who love logic | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7083/the-magical-thinking-of-guys-who-love-logic
Harry Potter and the Concept of Magic https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2007/07/06/harry-potter-and-the-concept-of-magic/
Leonhard Euler’s Magical Consonance Formula - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Dvfv_ASVg
Why Professional Magicians Don’t Like Magic Kits https://tedium.co/2019/01/17/magic-kit-controversy-history/
Monopoly vs. the Magic Cape https://longreads.com/2018/12/05/monopoly-vs-the-magic-cape/
Band name of the day: american magic & dread
It is not that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, but that anything is indistinguishable from magic from the perspective of the sufficiently ignorant. Clarke assumes we will lose the red queen’s race with polymathy.
Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
Raildex spicy take from a magic practitioner with an engineering degree: watch Railgun all the way through and skip Magidex completely. Ignore Touma when he appears in Railgun. He has never once done anything interesting.
Search https://qz.com/1454785/a-millionaire-couple-is-threatening-to-create-a-magic-mushroom-monopoly/
Bad idea of the day: drawing a unicursal hexagram in the center of the Magic Roundabout in Hartfordshire
The Magic Leap Con https://gizmodo.com/the-magic-leap-con-1829716266
How to Suffer Well: Sympathetic Characterization in Madoka and Magical Girl Site - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kmaba2TopE
The workflow app on iOS is magic. I now have a button that asks me to select a picture, then converts it to png, resizes it, strips the metadata, scps it to my jumphost, scps it further to my gopher jail and into my paste directory, constructs the http proxy URL and opens it in safari. All without user-interaction. Now I can share my mobile life with you guys! Prepare for cat pictures!
CABINET // The Illusionistic Magic of Geometric Figuring http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/26/wertheim.php
Humans are natural magic-users because their cognition is grounded: Whenever they meet an ungrounded cognition (say a spirit), that spirit is grounded through them and the resulting flow of energy can be harnessed
Solar eclipses are hard to come by on Earth but common in space, so offworld magical research stations modeled after orreries offer bespoke nights, engineered syzygies, and break new frontiers in topological astrology
life hex: sick of dating sites? Instead of trusting a pickup artist, trust Furfur, Earl of Hell. Just remember to put him inside a magic triangle before asking him for relationship advice
The Lost Magic of Traditional Anime Production - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Lm5P-mJCk
The CIA made a Magic: The Gathering-style card game for training agents, and we played it - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/21/17374054/cia-collect-it-all-declassified-training-tabletop-card-game
a magic system where practitioners slowly adopt the form of whatever their mind is, because even when you form the world with your mind, you’re still part of that world and your mental habits leak
General Magic is a film about the â90s startup that imagined the smartphone - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/22/17233362/general-magic-movie-review-documentary-silicon-valley-tribeca-2018
countercomplex: Bringing magic back to technology http://viznut.fi/texts-en/magic_back_to_technology.html