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Embrace the Grind - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

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Sometimes, programming feels like magic: you chant some arcane incantation and a fleet of robots do your bidding. But sometimes, magic is mundane. If you’re willing to embrace the grind, you can pull off the impossible.

Embrace the Grind There's this card trick I saw that I still think about all the time. It's a simple presentation (which I've further simplified here for clarity): a volunteer chooses a card and seals the card in an envelope. Then, the magician invites the volunteer to choose some tea. There are dozens of boxes of tea, all sealed in plastic. The volunteer chooses one, rips the plastic, and chooses one of the sealed packets containing the tea bags. When the volunteer rips open the packet … inside is their card. ⚠️ If you don't want to know how the trick is done, stop reading now. The secre

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