Rituals For Computer Operation
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&..&&&&&&. Non-Controversial Rituals Include: &.&&&...&.
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&&&.&&.&.& --# Recite A Mantra Or Other #-- .&.&..&.&.
&..&&.&&&& --# Reassuring Message To Make #-- .&&&&.&&&&
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.&&&&&.&.. --# And At Ease #-- &&&..&.&..
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&&.&..&&.& --# Prayer For Solace, To Be #-- ..&&..&..&
..&&&.&.&& --# Left Alone During Their Work #-- &.&.&.&&.&
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.&&&.&...& --# Offer A Cup Of Steaming Tea #-- &&.....&&.
.&..&&&..& --# Or A Meal To The Machines #-- ..&....&.&
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...&&&.&&& --# The Daemons Are Allowed #-- &&&.&..&..
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Would You Consider Code Golf
To Be A Kind Of Prayer?
As In, You Make A Convoluted,
Intricate, Beautiful, And Useless
Artifact. As In, You'Re Using Your
Skills To Ask For Something,
...I'D Ask For A Handful Of Bugs?
Code Has Bugs, Lots Of It.