>Birthday party for my little cousin >Aunt asks me how a computer works because I'm a software engineer >Explain digital circuit design, NAND gate universality, outline of Von Neumann Architecture, layers of abstraction with {circuit, machine code, assembly language, programming languages}, all managed by the Operating System which decides which programs run when, mention how technically one program only runs at a given moment per core and it's just so fast you don't notice
>Jock cousins start laughing at me >Do a snort and pretend to push up their glasses >Repeat some words I said but in a nasally voice >Aunt can't hold back her laughs but she tries to hold them back after and says "stop it" while giggling
Normies don't deserve technology I hope we go back to the stone age
My grandmother wanted help with her computer, but she uses that stupid Windows thing and I know nothing about it.
Elijah Hill
Things that never happened
Grayson Morales
I... uhm... it just... transistors, logic gates... turing
Joshua Smith
>Yeah so like *internal mental images of grand architectural designs and generic computational techniques* *should I tell them about SISD vs SIMD vs MISD vs MIMD* *should I tell them about functional programming languages and the code quality standards of C++* >Basically like, it's all just circuits, except >It's like a special type of circuit *should I tell them about compiler design and how revolutionary C was and how Dennis doesn't get enough credit and Steve Jobs is a sham?* >...And yeah that's it basically
Parker Hernandez
Why would you feel bad about it? Just fucking respond with: "Well, I guess someone isn't smart enough to understand and appreciate things anyway, am I right cousin?" with a smug face and voice.
The only thing worse than them teasing you about your knowledge is you being ashamed of knowing your shit. Grow a pair OP.
Juan Torres
This. Why is it even a problem, just give them a Chinese burn and slap them on the butt
Hudson Green
Wow you sure do know how to make people laugh at you more.
Practical demonstration is recommended. Put your hand out - "Give me your smartphones". When they refuse follow up with "Looks like you need this knowledge after all"
Juan Scott
lmao just walk past it, normies can't hurt you
Jason Lewis
how many smarphones have you produced, user?
Gabriel Moore
You learned a valuable lesson that day: Never reveal your power level. Just them it runs on magic. (As it does, for all they know)
Jonathan Thompson
you deserve this, thinking anyone would enjoy lecture about how shit works instead of simplifying things to few sentences is naive, well you've learned your lesson so you know how to do it next time
>Aunt asks me how a computer works >Do I > >a) Make a joke and laugh it out >b) actually attempt to explain something that took me 4 years of uni to understand
All you had to say was: >I wonder how much more a year I make more than you.
You have to turn it around on retards
Nathan Wilson
Never happened to because my relatives aren't terrible people.
Isaiah Hernandez
>"Now, pass me that hot piece of ass." FTFY.
Xavier Powell
>family member asks how computer works >explain them in detail as much as I can >notice that she's confused >dumb down my explanation comparing it to real world situations >less confusion >to the rest of life thinks I'm smart >does not dare to engage with me in meaningful conversation because doesn't want to look stupid >not even working in IT oh well
Matthew Morales
What's windows? Do you mean the thing people use because they hate fun?
Ethan Adams
None of this crap is essential to understanding how a computer works >explain how data and programs can be represented as numbers >explain how hardware can represent those numbers There, done.
William Gonzalez
It's always pretentious autists like these who obfuscate and do mindless namedropping for the sake of their ego. They usually don't know much beyond the basics and are horrible workers/producers as well.
Too bad these autists flock here for their shitposting.
Your aunt is just a brainlet, I had many good discussions with non tech people, explaining tech and programming to them.
Of course everyone here thinks OP fucked up by trying to have an actual intelligent conversation about something SHE asked him, instead we should all just pander to some normie lowest common denominator, sasuga Jow Forums
Kayden Powell
you aren't socialized enough. Did you really expect her to take all that in? You sound more like you are trying to show off how much you know. That is why they are laughing.
You could have just said "they are made of millions of electric circuits that do math", and that would have been enough.
Juan Johnson
jimmy was wrong here. wht if it was sodium reduced salt? then its not just nacl
Dominic Brown
>taking an obvious shitpost seriously You're the one who isn't socialized
Justin Watson
>sodium reduced salt what is that? chlorine gas?
Jaxson Jones
well what are you gonna say when she his you eith the "yes but how does electron move around" or "how is the inout quantified to the outout"
Jackson Harris
everytime someone says his. nacl + kcl
Jace Ortiz
>sodium reduced salt Are americans really this fucking guillible?
Grayson Sanchez
Fuck off, helper is in no way related to r*ddit
Jace Wood
But at least we get laid brah *dabs*
Justin Evans
>one jock cousin is a professional athlete taking home $350k a year >the other runs his own gym and is pulling in $140k a year in profits >your code monkey job gets you $80k, while 95% of the revenue you generate goes straight to your boss, who only employs you because he's a fan of your first cousin who secretly put in a good word for you
Ryan Miller
>software engineer programmer
Stop putting on airs.
Jonathan Long
Obfuscate and mindless name dropping? Everything in OP is necessary to explain it
Oliver King
you sound like a nerd
Robert Jones
When they are broke working "trades". And you're a software engineer owning porsches. You get to ask them how much they made banging rocks together. Then laugh.
Henry Cox
Nerd rage
Evan Price
>I'm a software engineer >that's a hardware question >put 'computer' into your iphone's wikipedia app
The fact that you can't articulate this in a succinct and easy to understand manner is exactly why you're an engineer and not management and never will be
Tyler Sullivan
Dumb frogposter. If you can't explain it in you don't understand it as well as you think.
your fault for not dumbing it down if you ever find yourself explaining stuff to people not on your field, imagine you're talking with a 10 year old, don't use terms that would require you to go on entire tangents just to explain how they're kinda related you can list each and every piece that makes up a car, but you'll get a far more interested audience if you start with "there are literal gas explosions in there that move shit around, everything else is clockwork magic, there to keep the cycle going"
Asher Murphy
Okay help me then
>You know handheld calculators where you can do math and stuff >It's like that except instead of pressing buttons you can give it a metaphorical piece of paper that presses the buttons automatically, and it can loop back and forth >This lets it calculate anything - everything you see a computer doing is the result of complicated loops of various calculator button presses, even the monitor and sound
