Computers are powered by magic smoke.
When the smoke escapes, the computer doesn’t work anymore.
Also, the earth isn’t flat.
EARTH HAS 4 CORNER
SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY
TIME CUBEIt has been so, so long since I last saw the Time Cube. Thank you.
If a Man cannot tear a page
from the marshmallow and burn it -
then he cannot be a scientistso true 😔
What in the schizophrenia word salad did I just read?
More about the Time Cube (warning: you’ll probably end up with more questions after reading it)
Exactly that.
TIME CUBE!!!
your daily lemmy shitposting
Programmer here. Can confirm. Coding is just a list of instructions we send to the tiny people inside so they know what to do.
Electrical Engineer here. Electrons are people too! Very tiny, quantum people, with very tiny, quantum hopes, and very tiny, quantum dreams!
Science cannot disprove this.
I hear electrons are really flaky. You tell them to show up at a specific place and time, and you just never know. Always getting involved in one entanglement or another.
It’s frustrating because they’re so literal when following instructions. I wish they’d do what I want, not what I said.
The trick is to say what you mean ☝🤓
That really isn’t a bad metaphor for how the computer processes code.
They don’t always listen, though.
That’s why I’m constantly shoving cookies into the case. So the computer gnomes are happy.
pretty much
I say that computers work because we tricked some rocks into thinking by carving special runes into them.
It’s not that magic doesn’t exist, it’s just that our current spells and rituals are rudimentary.
I’d say it’s that the information on how it works is out there and not secret. If I want to turn lead into gold that knowledge is available to me, I just need access to a nuclear reactor and to learn a fuck ton of stuff.
Also the fact that it’s all very math dependent doesn’t help. The “when will I use this” subject is the biggest prerequisite to magic
funnily far more true than many might believe
…don’t forget it wouldn’t have worked if we hadn’t tamed lightning and channelled it into the runes.
The smoke that comes out of computers sometimes is caused by the little people getting pissed off and lighting little fires out of protest.
Oh no! The tiny people in the computer are French
So-so-so so-li-da-ri-té
So it works by inserting expensive wine and smelly cheese?
Out of cheese error?!
This made me laugh way harder than it should have.
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As a computer engineer who works with FPGAs, thank you. I can’t tell you how many times someone comes to me with a CS question and I’m like, I dunno! Ask a CS person! I hardly know Python. [Admittedly, I really should learn.]
I wanted to work with FPGAs.
Got set up on designing test systems.
Now I do .Net and Angular.
I miss hardware from the standpoint that it really makes sense. I don’t miss hardware when the magic smoke comes out because I fucked up
i could never work in hardware. i’d feel too bad for all the very small people i’d be shoving in the computers
FPGAs are where it’s at, and the job market is surprisingly pretty open right now. Everybody’s sleeping on them, everyone wants study CUDA cores or architecture or… ML hardware accelerators or whatever. If you can transition to RTL design or even silicon engineering, it’s a good industry to be in.
Now, me personally, I’ve never made the funny magic smoke come out from one of my FPGAs, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve fucked up an entire pipeline because I thought a series of logic would take 3 cycles but really it took 2 and now my entire data path is wrong and somehow I missed it in simulation and now I’ve gotta rearchitect everything and running synthesis/P&R takes a goddamn century to run and this is like my 5th time programming my board and…
It’s been so long since I’ve touched RTL and the last time I used VHDL/Verilog was college.
I probably could get back into it, but I’d only be qualified as an entry level, and I’m 10 years into software industry making a comfortable salary, I don’t know that I could take the pay cut due to other life shit.
It doesn’t really matter what I’m doing, just being able to play pokemon all day with my son while I’m on PTO today makes it all worth it.
Computer engineering is precisely the crossover between EE and CS. In many places it is a program within the EE department.
Yeah circuit design was EE where I went to school. As a CS undergrad we had to take something called Computer Architecture where we learned about that stuff. But it was just one class, so pretty general coverage. Some CS grad stuff touches on it too (like networking.)
You’re arguing that words don’t mean what many people use them to mean. Most service desk techs that I know have “computer engineer” in their LinkedIn.
And that’s coming from me, a person with a B.E. in computer engineering. I hate that it is what it is, but it is.
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You should watch the movie “Bruce Almighty”
That’s my point. What it means to others is key. There are more “computer engineers” than actual computer engineers. The way language works, and by volume, the phrase is now accepted as overloaded. You can’t cling to the first definition in the dictionary and say the second definition is a lie.
this is definitely not true. Computer Engineering is a relatively common major even
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Language is however people communicate, fam.
And in the corporate IT space, we hire hundreds of “computer engineers” to do laptop builds.
“Let me engineer you a new password”
Yuo, sounds about right
I don’t buy it. How would one of those know about the very tiny people?
You mixed that up, computer engineers know that the earth is flat, it’s geologists who know about the tiny people making all our electronics work
Sometimes, but it is a real engineering discipline. It’s a hybrid of electrical engineering and computer science
Haha what? There are no small people in computers, what are you talking about?
sweats
Found the small person.
Education and wisdom are two separate stats, this guy didn’t roll very high on Wis.
In the U.S., education is mostly about being able to regurgitate what you’ve been told. Wisdom is, as you suggested, not necessary for that.
Unfortunately so. There should be more emphasis on the why and how rather than the what.
In the U.S., education is mostly about being able to regurgitate what you’ve been told.
Wait, are there places where it’s not?
I don’t know. I’ve only been to school in the U.S.
Intelligence and wisdom.
Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
Who wants to bet he’s just a Helpdesk tech and has no idea what an actual computer engineer is?
I’m a data engineer and I have no idea what a computer engineer is.
I’m a computer engineer and I affirm you the earth is flat.
You, but actually knows things.
I know an engineer who’s into all kinds of bat-shit conspiracy theories…
I work in 1st level support, and we don’t want anything to do with this guy. He’s too stupid, even for us lol
I am a tool and die maker and I affirm that heart attacks are caused by tiny, airborne sharks that sound exactly like Steven Crowder on helium. When you breathe them in they go to your heart and literally attack it.
I’m just a medical student, but as a computer engineer can’t he just hack into the mainframe and reveal that the earth is flat?
That would require multiple monitors and rave music.
You can just dig all the way down to bedrock, right? Should be easy if you kill all the creeps and spiders
Do the little people have pointy hats?
Get him! Get the geologist and silence him! He’s unveiled the truth and now they’ll take our tiny people away from us!
Probably working for Big Geology and the mainstream media!
the response fits perfectly 👌
No, computers work because there are very tiny rocks inside that vibrate when connected to electricity.
Don’t bring your so-called science mumbo-jumbo around here!
I trapped lightning in a rock, and taught it to do math.
Computers are arcane wizardry.
That’s why geologists are the experts in this matter.
