Comment on I knew it all along!

li10@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • funnystuff97@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.]

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    • peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wantes 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

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      • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        i could never work in hardware. i’d feel too bad for all the very small people i’d be shoving in the computers

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      • funnystuff97@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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…

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  • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Computer engineering is precisely the crossover between EE and CS. In many places it is a program within the EE department.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah circuit design was EE where I went to school. As a CS undergrad we had to take something called Computer Architecture where we learned about that stuff. But it was just one class, so pretty general coverage. Some CS grad stuff touches on it too (like networking.)

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s because they’re lying idiots, not computer engineers.

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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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.

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      • Kanda@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You should watch the movie “Bruce Almighty”

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• techognito@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Let me engineer you a new password”

  Yuo, sounds about right

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t buy it. How would one of those know about the very tiny people?

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  • Setarkus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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• Infynis@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sometimes, but it is a real engineering discipline. It’s a hybrid of electrical engineering and computer science

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