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>>dang+yy1
A brick can't fix itself in case of problems. Just grab a brick, put it in a corner of the room and you'll see. It stays there doing nothing, it's kind of amazing how little it can do.

>>belter+(OP)
Stub for arguing about what "bricked" means. These comments were originally replies to >>36941191 , but we moved them because the offtopic discussion was choking the thread.

Normally I'd have marked the entire subthread offtopic, but hutzlibu's comment deserves to be at the top, even if it does use the word "bricked" wrong.

>>glimsh+go1
There is also such a thing as subtlety and nuance. Words borrowed from physical objects do not need to have, and in general do not have exactly the same meaning when applied to software.

I would love to see a picture of your computer pulling itself up by the straps on its physical boots the next time you press reset. Bleeding when a process is "killed".

Even something as superficially similar to real-world behaviour a "queueing" is implmented in a very different way in software, for the most part.

>>deepsp+WX1
You can also see nuance in humor, in particular when recognizing a joke.