The first panel is popular media, not computer scientists.
The computer scientist would write papers about how they adapted principles of the alien technology to our stuff.
The first panel is popular media, not computer scientists.
The computer scientist would write papers about how they adapted principles of the alien technology to our stuff.
Because famously you can get Doom to run on things with a screwdriver.
Well you need the screwdriver (with the smorx 5omble bit) to open the maintenance panel and access the button you hold while booting to get the unlocked bootloader, so you can install Linux and then subsequently doom.
Elementary.
He means he got doom running on that screwdriver
I’d argue getting doom to run is a good way to demonstrate understanding of the tech.
Case in point... Doom is not invented, it's discovered!
Now do “full stack” developer
BAM! I got that div centered on this display!
Flex or… tables?
Used that alien package with some python library I've found on the dark web to be able to use it as css
Css grid.
"I deployed an edge compute environment on this thing, so it can run out SSR backend-for-frontend, but we now have a left-pad issue in our supply chain"
The computer engineer already reverse-engineered the architecture?
I think the joke is more he figured out just enough to get it to do what he wanted it to do
Doom is also a cursed piece of software that compels people to make it run everywhere even when it should be physically impossible.
Is there an SCP for this?
I couldn't find any, but someone that's a better writer than me should definitely write one.
I don't get the joke. Wouldn't you need to study the architecture of the alien CPU to see what registers it uses if any and where data goes, and what format the data is expressed in (is it even binary?) so you can write an assembly language for it? Then you would need to write a compiler and then you could get a higher level language going and port Doom. Are we assuming that the alien computer just runs our code?
The joke is that Doom, specifically, will run on anything.
In fact, for many years now, people have been trying to make Doom run on the most ridiculous things possible (printers, refrigerators, pregnancy tests . . .) just for the heck of it. There are worse hobbies.
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