• @[email protected]
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    7311 months ago

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

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      11 months ago

      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.

      • @Got_Bent
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        1111 months ago

        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.

    • @Mamertine
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      3211 months ago

      It’s frustrating because they’re so literal when following instructions. I wish they’d do what I want, not what I said.

      • Lemminary
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        1511 months ago

        The trick is to say what you mean ☝🤓

    • @EatYouWell
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      711 months ago

      That really isn’t a bad metaphor for how the computer processes code.

      • @RizzRustbolt
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        1411 months ago

        That’s why I’m constantly shoving cookies into the case. So the computer gnomes are happy.