top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 87 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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 CUBE

  • source
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 73 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Programmer here. Can confirm. Coding is just a list of instructions we send to the tiny people inside so they know what to do.

  • source
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I say that computers work because we tricked some rocks into thinking by carving special runes into them.

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's not that magic doesn't exist, it's just that our current spells and rituals are rudimentary.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    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

  • source
  • parent
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 46 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The smoke that comes out of computers sometimes is caused by the little people getting pissed off and lighting little fires out of protest.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [+] 39 points 2 years ago (4 children)
  • [+] 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)
  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.]

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    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

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
  • load more comments (7 replies)
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Haha what? There are no small people in computers, what are you talking about?

    sweats

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Education and wisdom are two separate stats, this guy didn't roll very high on Wis.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Who wants to bet he's just a Helpdesk tech and has no idea what an actual computer engineer is?

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    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.

  • source
  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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?

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Do the little people have pointy hats?

  • source
  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Get him! Get the geologist and silence him! He's unveiled the truth and now they'll take our tiny people away from us!

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 17 points 2 years ago
    [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    the response fits perfectly 👌

  • source
  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    No, computers work because there are very tiny rocks inside that vibrate when connected to electricity.

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Inside every computer there's a little person

    A very wholesome and talented person

    And he loves you

    This is his song

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    At least he used "affirm" rather than "confirm".

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What's up with all the boxes around the text?

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Reach inside your computer to discover the shocking truth...

  • source
  • load more comments
    view more: next ›