Computers are powered by magic smoke.
When the smoke escapes, the computer doesn't work anymore.
Also, the earth isn't flat.
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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.
It's frustrating because they're so literal when following instructions. I wish they'd do what I want, not what I said.
That really isn't a bad metaphor for how the computer processes code.
They don't always listen, though.
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
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
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
Computer engineering is precisely the crossover between EE and CS. In many places it is a program within the EE department.
I don't buy it. How would one of those know about the very tiny people?
Haha what? There are no small people in computers, what are you talking about?
sweats
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.
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 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?
Get him! Get the geologist and silence him! He's unveiled the truth and now they'll take our tiny people away from us!
No, computers work because there are very tiny rocks inside that vibrate when connected to electricity.
Inside every computer there's a little person
A very wholesome and talented person
And he loves you
What's up with all the boxes around the text?
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