engineering jokes

[bat]

This one can't be understood by everybody lol

[Sorama]

I wished she sent me signal like this one.
With no harmonics.

[coppice]

I wished she sent me signal like this one.
With no harmonics.

No harmonics means no information. So, its not really a signal, other than showing the sender exists.

[Sorama]

I wished she sent me signal like this one.
With no harmonics.

No harmonics means no information. So, its not really a signal, other than showing the sender exists.

The unbearable lightness of … no signal.

[wraper]

[coppercone2]

a circuit board is essentially a pipe

its alot of this


and some of this

[BU508A]

Translation:
"I <3U"    # this means "I love you", where the <3 is a symbol for a heart. I had to google that. 
"How can the current be less than three times the voltage?"
Jochen, 38, electrician

[brucehoult]

resistance is futile!

Or, anyway, greater than 1/3.

[Bud]

"I <3U"    # this means "I love you", where the <3 is a symbol for a heart.

I did not know that until today, lol. To me that was a symbol for an erected organ, lol. With that, I <3 U  takes a different meaning.

[brucehoult]

"I <3U"    # this means "I love you", where the <3 is a symbol for a heart.

I did not know that until today, lol. To me that was a symbol for an erected organ, lol. With that, I <3 U  takes a different meaning.

LotsOfLove!

[BU508A]

Once some scholars were sitting at a coffee shop. They saw 2 people entering a house and after a few minutes, 3 people leaving the same house.
Statistician: "That data is wrong."
Biologist: "There must have been reproduction."
Chemist: "There must have been fission reaction."
Engineer: "That house must have a secret pathway."
Astrophysicist: "The house must have a wormhole."
Quantum Physicist: "No, The house must have a quantum tunnel."
Philosophy Teacher: "Those people were very upset. So now the house must have positive energy. So if a person goes to that house he will be happy."
Mathematician: "No, if a person goes into the house, the house would be empty."

[TimFox]

Pedantic English teacher:  “The data are wrong.”

[Nominal Animal]

A nefarious former Toaplan employee: "All your data are belong to us."

[harerod]

Do you pronounce it data or data?

[TimFox]

I pronounce them data.

[Analog Kid]

Pedantic English teacher:  “The data are wrong.”

[not a joke, sorry]

Data is like water, a collection of individual molecules.
We don't say "the water are cold", so why in the world would we say "the data are wrong"?

[TimFox]

Because "data" is the plural of "datum".
Consider a list of peoples' ages:
17, 22, 25, 32, etc.:  each number is a datum.
The full set of these values is "data".
The data are 17, 22, 25, 32, etc.
It's useful in careful writing to distinguish the singular and plural, just like the difference between "statistic" and "statistics", where Latin need not bother you.

In one English translation, Psalm 137 starts  "By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion."
In modern English, the term "headwaters" is the source of a river, usually stated as plural.                   '

[Analog Kid]

So; "wata" (Brooklynese) is the plural of "watum"?

[themadhippy]

Psalm 137 starts  "By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion."

looks like  someone ripped of boney m,then theres  the alternative mix

"There's a dentist in Birmingham, he fixed my crown And as I slept, he filled my mouth with iron"

[TimFox]

So; "wata" (Brooklynese) is the plural of "watum"?

No.  "Waters" is the plural of "water".
A "data set" is a popular term for a "set of data".
If data were singular, a "set of data" would be an awkward phrase.

[Analog Kid]

So; "wata" (Brooklynese) is the plural of "watum"?

No.  "Waters" is the plural of "water".
A "data set" is a popular term for a "set of data".
If data were singular, a "set of data" would be an awkward phrase.

Aha, gotcha!
I reverted back to joke territory and you missed it.
Hah!

[harerod]

Do you pronounce it data or data?

I pronounce them data.

I understand, you being American. To clarify, "it" referred to the "the word data", not its grammatical number.

[TimFox]

Do you pronounce it data or data?

I pronounce them data.

I understand, you being American. To clarify, "it" referred to the "the word data", not its grammatical number.

Gotcha!  I was back in joke territory.
By the way, “being” is a gerund, so it’s “your being American”.

[harerod]

...Gotcha!  I was back in joke territory.
By the way, “being” is a gerund, so it’s “your being American”.

Thanks, something felt "off", but I couldn't put my finger on it. 

[TimFox]

...Gotcha!  I was back in joke territory.
By the way, “being” is a gerund, so it’s “your being American”.

Thanks, something felt "off", but I couldn't put my finger on it. 

I wonder if schools still teach gerunds in this modern age.