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 😔
TIME CUBE!!!
“Computer engineer”
Sounds fancy, but it usually means someone who answers calls and resets passwords.
Uh… no? Well, maybe for the guy in the picture because they’re clearly dumb, but “computer engineer” sounds more like chip design and circuit layout than even software engineering, let alone basic IT work…
Basic IT work is wholly and completely different than any kind of computer-related engineering.
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.
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.
That’s because they’re lying idiots, not computer engineers. I can call myself a beutiful woman, but that doesn’t make it true, nor would me calling myself a beutiful woman EVER change what “beutiful woman” means to others.
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.
“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
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.
pretty much
That really isn’t a bad metaphor for how the computer processes code.
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
This made me laugh way harder than it should have.
So it works by inserting expensive wine and smelly cheese?
Out of cheese error?!
So-so-so so-li-da-ri-té
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.
I say that computers work because we tricked some rocks into thinking by carving special runes into them.
…don’t forget it wouldn’t have worked if we hadn’t tamed lightning and channelled it into the runes.
funnily far more true than many might believe
It’s not that magic doesn’t exist, it’s just that our current spells and rituals are rudimentary.
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.
Who wants to bet he’s just a Helpdesk tech and has no idea what an actual computer engineer is?
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
Reach inside your computer to discover the shocking truth…
Get him! Get the geologist and silence him! He’s unveiled the truth and now they’ll take our tiny people away from us!
Salem hypothesis adjacent
What’s up with all the boxes around the text?
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Why does it make everything crooked?
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No idea. I found it elsewhere and it made me laugh.
Bloody sand tender
Inside every computer there’s a little person
A very wholesome and talented person
And he loves you
I expected this to be a rickroll. Got diappointed.
