I knew it all along!

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It 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 scientist

so 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 ☝🤓
They don't always listen, though.
- That's why I'm constantly shoving cookies into the case. So the computer gnomes are happy.
That really isn't a bad metaphor for how the computer processes code.
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?
- This made me laugh way harder than it should have.

“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.]
- 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.
"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?
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?

You can just dig all the way down to bedrock, right? Should be easy if you kill all the creeps and spiders
That would require multiple monitors and rave music.