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How to open a textbook (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't you also need to know physics in order to make a mechanical computer?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_computer

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 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] 3 points 7 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.