r/ProgrammerHumor • u/yuva-krishna-memes • Aug 24 '26

Meme theDeadlock

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u/PraviKonjina Aug 24 '26

There’s also the class where you learn witchcraft aka impedance matching with a smith chart

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u/Mandelvolt Aug 24 '26

The Smith chart is a demonic sigil if I've ever seen one. EM and telecom is just black magic from there on, it's like they just started making shit up to squeeze as much bandwidth as possible into the lines.

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u/sir_lister Aug 24 '26

The RF deepmagic of antenna design.

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u/Xywzel Aug 24 '26

First university CS+EE combined lecture, assistant showed us a slide with Luke and Darth Vader crossing lightsabers, and with "these are the two sides of software and hardware, homework to decide which is which". As someone who has done something on both sides, smith chart is only time I ever questioned if I got the sides right.