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
More about the Time Cube (warning: you’ll probably end up with more questions after reading it)
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.
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.
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
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.
