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What's a CS piece of knowledge that has fascinated you a lot?

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    When bomb-defuse maps were first added, you could plant the bomb anywhere instead of the two sites like it is now.
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    @electrineer I had to search to ensure myself this wasn't actually a computer science topic. Well done!
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    That most CS courses are woefully lacking in social training and that for most team setups social skill is almost as important as having skill.
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    Fish tank screensavers
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    Later, went to a higher place with the flying toasters evo.
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    Sockets
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    @electrineer I see that you pre-ordered CS2
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    I am a simple man - i find spawning as such pretty fascinating there are so much obscure edge cases around spawning, securing the spawn, communicating with the spawn. Enemy campers are often a problem too.
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    It always fascinated me how simple it really is and how complicated we've made it. Mostly by implementing safeguards from our carelessness, stupidity, arrogance
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    Floating point numbers (because they're such a simple idea yet so difficult to store and dangerous to use).

    Can't think of any more at the top of my head. Maybe neural networks
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