I knew it all along!

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 ☝🤓
That really isn't a bad metaphor for how the computer processes code.
They don't always listen, though.
- That's why I'm constantly shoving cookies into the case. So the computer gnomes are happy.
pretty much

I say that computers work because we tricked some rocks into thinking by carving special runes into them.

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.

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.
- You, but actually knows things.
- I'm a computer engineer and I affirm you the earth is flat.
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.