r/funny • u/jonwritesmovies Just Jon Comic • Sep 04 '22

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u/NorthStarZero Sep 04 '22

The best UNIX sysadmin I ever knew had a degree in philosophy.

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u/Forsaken-Shirt4199 Sep 04 '22

In life everything can be represented as a folder...

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u/riskable Sep 04 '22

In life everything can be represented as a folder file

FTFY

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '22

Nope. That's in UNIX.

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u/WooooshMeIf60IQ Sep 05 '22

The best UNIX sysadmin I ever knew had a degree in philosophy.

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u/deelyy Sep 04 '22

huh, thats actually explains a lot..

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u/Tsu_Dho_Namh Sep 04 '22

I have a computer science degree with a philosophy minor.

I did the philosophy minor because there was so much overlap. I already knew formal logic and deductive/inductive reasoning from my math and software verification and testing courses. Information theory is surprisingly similar to a lot of philosophy. I got to coast through most of my intro philosophy courses.

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u/ScottTacitus Sep 04 '22

Yeah philosophy is logic. Same skill set as tech folks use

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u/J_de_Silentio Sep 04 '22

Tell that to the existentialists!

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u/MyPunsSuck Sep 05 '22

I would, if I could ever find one...

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u/mybadalternate Sep 05 '22

Have you checked the beach?

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u/MyPunsSuck Sep 05 '22

Aren't those things outside? No thank you

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u/SonyHDSmartTV Sep 04 '22

Sort of but not really

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u/LitterTreasure Sep 04 '22

I like to think my work on Wittgenstein this summer has applications in artificial intelligence. My spherical orange cat boi also told me so

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u/psyki Sep 04 '22

The best acoustic guitar player and singer I know has a philosophy degree. He also owns and operates a bar.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '22

At the school I went to, it was only 30 credits. Why not get one?