I knew it all along!
Submitted 6 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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li10@feddit.uk 6 months ago
[deleted]MotoAsh@lemmy.world 6 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.
funnystuff97@lemmy.world 6 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.]
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Computer engineering is precisely the crossover between EE and CS. In many places it is a program within the EE department.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 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.
techognito@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“Let me engineer you a new password”
Yuo, sounds about right
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t buy it. How would one of those know about the very tiny people?
Setarkus@lemmy.world 6 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
Infynis@midwest.social 6 months ago
Sometimes, but it is a real engineering discipline. It’s a hybrid of electrical engineering and computer science
ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I say that computers work because we tricked some rocks into thinking by carving special runes into them.
Saltblue@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s not that magic doesn’t exist, it’s just that our current spells and rituals are rudimentary.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 months 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
nugmeister64@lemmy.world 6 months ago
funnily far more true than many might believe
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
…don’t forget it wouldn’t have worked if we hadn’t tamed lightning and channelled it into the runes.
negativenull@startrek.website 6 months ago
The smoke that comes out of computers sometimes is caused by the little people getting pissed off and lighting little fires out of protest.
match@pawb.social 6 months ago
Oh no! The tiny people in the computer are French
VinnieFarsheds@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So it works by inserting wine and smelly cheese?
pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This made me laugh way harder than it should have.
EfreetSK@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Haha what? There are no small people in computers, what are you talking about?
sweats
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Found the small person.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Education and wisdom are two separate stats, this guy didn’t roll very high on Wis.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
MellowSnow@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Unfortunately so. There should be more emphasis on the why and how rather than the what.
Syrc@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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?
cooopsspace@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Intelligence and wisdom.
Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Who wants to bet he’s just a Helpdesk tech and has no idea what an actual computer engineer is?
Mamertine@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m a data engineer and I have no idea what a computer engineer is.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 6 months ago
You, but actually knows things.
iusearchbtw@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 months ago
I’m a computer engineer and I affirm you the earth is flat.
loutr@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I know an engineer who’s into all kinds of bat-shit conspiracy theories…
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
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
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
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?
satans_crackpipe@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That would require multiple monitors and rave music.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You can just dig all the way down to bedrock, right? Should be easy if you kill all the creeps and spiders
Wogi@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Do the little people have pointy hats?
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Get him! Get the geologist and silence him! He’s unveiled the truth and now they’ll take our tiny people away from us!
Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Probably working for Big Geology and the mainstream media!
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 months ago
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 6 months ago
No, computers work because there are very tiny rocks inside that vibrate when connected to electricity.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t bring your so-called science mumbo-jumbo around here!
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 months ago
I trapped lightning in a rock, and taught it to do math.
Computers are arcane wizardry.
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s why geologists are the experts in this matter.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 6 months ago
[Inside every computer there’s a little person
A very wholesome and talentes person
And he loves you](youtu.be/1s7XMiOfuh8?si=7CLLlluDU_8F-13F)
spare_muppet@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I was really expecting a Rick roll here, this is even better
mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
I love 'em more
nilclass@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
I expected this to be a rickroll. Got diappointed.
victorz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
At least he used “affirm” rather than “confirm”.
elephantium@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Reach inside your computer to discover the shocking truth…
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What’s up with all the boxes around the text?
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 6 months ago
[deleted]BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Why does it make everything crooked?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No idea. I found it elsewhere and it made me laugh.
LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Salem hypothesis adjacent
aggelalex@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m a computer engineer. Don’t trust us guys.
sirico@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Bloody sand tender
Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t know what that means but it sounds hilarious
blahsay@lemmy.world 6 months ago
John Davis is the secretary of the flat earth society*
- And has taken idiocy to previously undreampt heights
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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
flicker@kbin.social 6 months ago
It has been so, so long since I last saw the Time Cube. Thank you.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
so true 😔
Railing5132@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What in the schizophrenia word salad did I just read?
Syrc@lemmy.world 6 months ago
More about the Time Cube (warning: you’ll probably end up with more questions after reading it)
Klear@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Exactly that.
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
TIME CUBE!!!
simin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
your daily lemmy shitposting