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> This is how Lumen was born. Lumen is a tiny menu bar app for macOS that magically sets screen brightness based on screen contents. I hate it when people repl

by sspiff 10y ago

> This is how Lumen was born. Lumen is a tiny menu bar app for macOS that magically sets screen brightness based on screen contents. I hate it when people replace "automatic" with "magic". It's not magic.

thaumasiotes 10y ago
In the wise words of Strong Bad... "The word 'technology' means 'magic'! It's basically anything that's really cool that you don't know how it works."
- supercoder 10y ago
  We know how it works, it changes the brightness based on screen contents.
  - coldnebo 10y ago
    That's what it does, not how it works. I.e., 'What' is just the top-level abstraction. 'How' is the functional composition underneath.
    - xbmcuser 10y ago
      No the guy released the source code so you do know how it works as well
robertfw 10y ago
At least go with automagically, which I take to mean that the mechanism is programmed, but it took some arcane steps to get the damn thing working
userbinator 10y ago
It's the influence of Apple marketing.
pluma 10y ago
It was always my understanding that in programming "magic" is just a shorthand for "I don't feel like explaining the implementation in that much detail right now". The Jargon File defines it similarly: http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/magic.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/magic.html