I’m sure there are great screenwriters who don’t know the first thing about cameras or projectors. They can still write good screenplays.

Nerdom is a spectrum. You’re not on either end of this one.

I’ve taught upper level comp sci at a STEM school and I think a majority of my students wouldn’t know what they were looking at in this picture.

People who’ve written doctoral theses on machine learning and and natural language processing have asked me for help building their gaming rig.

Not to say its universal, but the Venn Diagram of programmers and hardware nerds is far from a circle.

I’m not judging. Just observing that a lot of programmers I know wouldn’t understand what’s happening in this picture so maybe it isn’t really programmer humor.

You get no shade from me. My only beef is with programmers who act like they are experts in all things computer when they aren’t.

BTW, the issue in the picture is that the CPU cooler is attached to the wall of the case instead of the CPU. It shuts down because modern hardware will usually turn itself off when it overheats to mitigate the risk of permanent damage.

Then you’re a typical programmer, at least in my experience.

Most programmers I know wouldn’t understand what they’re looking at here.

This is sysadmin humor maybe?