• LoudWaterHombre
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    09 months ago

    Do you really think people could make programmable microchips and processing units before they figured out physics?

    • @AngryCommieKender
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      9 months ago

      No, but mechanical computers existed before microchips. They just weren’t terribly useful

      • @SkyezOpen
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        59 months ago

        Once I get my mechanical computer to run crysis we’ll see who’s laughing.

        • @AngryCommieKender
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          9 months ago

          Not necessarily. We had the theory of mechanical computers well before both calculus and physics.

      • LoudWaterHombre
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        -29 months ago

        What kind of argumentation is this? Are we talking about mechanical engineering or computer science? Please don’t bent reality the way it fits your shape.

          • LoudWaterHombre
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            -29 months ago

            I know what mechanical computers are. But computer scientists will not be building them 'nor program them, it’s not what computer science is about when you go to a university to study it.

            • @AngryCommieKender
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              39 months ago

              I presented a hypothetical, and showed how it could work. You’re the one insisting that there’s only one way to do things. You’re being Western Centric.

              I’m well aware of what you study when you study computer science, I majored in that and Music Ed at Transylvania University.

            • @[email protected]
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              39 months ago

              computer science teaches you the theories of computation which absolute starts with mechanical computers.

              if one didn’t study Turing’s tape machine in their compsci program then they should demand their money back.