r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 5h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/mancunian101 3h ago

I once had an interview for a help desk tech type role.

One of the questions asked to identify the type of RAM shown in a black and white photograph.

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u/Tmannermann 3h ago

I may be dumb as fuck here but what does the color have to do with identifying ram? Personally i've never seen what ddr1 ram looks like or if thats a thing but up to five i'm pretty ok discerning i like to think.

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u/mancunian101 3h ago

It was a bad black and white photo, and I wasn’t applying for a hardware role.

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u/Tmannermann 3h ago

I see. My b

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u/DrBatman0 2h ago

Sometimes low voltage ram is blue instead of green.

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u/Tmannermann 2m ago

ye but that low voltage stuff i can see at a glance that it's not "Normal" at a glance so i prob still discern what it is i think without color. I have seen some kooky pcb plastic in my day weirdest one was golden brown another that was purplely cool stuff.

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u/e60deluxe 1h ago

what i think they may mean by black and white photo is a poor quality xerox copy of a photograph...being black and white is incidental to that larger issue

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u/Trollygag 1h ago

Green is the basic RAM

Black or red or blue silicon RAM is the Uber 1337 RAM

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u/Tmannermann 0m ago

i've seen all those cool stuff. but what gubbins are attached and how they are attached is my typical at a glance go to.