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It's funny because it's true. Every word.

...well, not the bits about planets exploding. I've never written code which did that. Yet. I did once write a program which summoned demons, but never made it work.



Do you work in the High Energy Magic building of the Unseen University? Giving Hex[1] the keys to summon demons sounds like a bad idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_(Discworld)


Or possibly at the Laundry[0]?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atrocity_Archives


> ...but never made it work.

That's what they want you to believe.


Now I think about it, I did notice the CPU start to overheat and a strange sulphurous smell coming from the power supply when I ran the program...




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