Nokia Data was the leading provider of workstations in Finland in 1989 with almost 20% share. Besides OS/2 they also had at least MS-DOS distributions to their name.
You learn at least Altium, PADS, Eagle and some open alternatives. You learn the specific quirks of all those software. You hate every hour you have to fight with PADS' decades-old bugs and "features".
In addition to LT Spice you probably learn a more specialized simulation software. Who knows, maybe you have to design power elecronics. Maybe antennas. Maybe both. Maybe in the same system. Maybe you are specialized in power electronics and you have to integrate another specialist's design into yours.
You learn about all the basic components, basic circuits and how to apply them. And yes, to "read some data sheets". You learn about the most common IC's and how to apply them, and when not to. And so on. You learn about EMI. You learn about trace lengths, placement, and their myriad of requirements in a multitude of scenarios. You learn about multilayered PCB design and its requirements. And so on.
You learn about having to minimize cost by reducing the components to their absolute minimum. You learn about having to minimize space due to real life demands of where your PCB has to fit. Maybe you even specialize in PCB design, and you apply a specialist circuit designer's schematic to the real world. Or maybe you are said specialist designer. In any case, at some point you need to know both and neither is easy.
Inevitably when you have to lock in your design, the prototypes are manufactured. Perhaps you need to assemble them yourself, certainly at least partially. You may even have just a partial device at first, which you still need to be able to wake up. Without fail, the real world reveals its ugly face to you. Despite all your simulations and meticulous design, something doesn't work like it should. You likely need to have mastery of a table full of expensive measurement equipment, and you need to know what to look for and how to look for it. After you diagnose the issue, you need to know how to fix it. You probably have to fix it manually, likely involving precision soldering work to sub-millimeter pads. After the fix, you don't hit "recompile", you fix the schematic, then the PCB, then wait for weeks or months for the next prototype round. Until then, you need to continue testing the device with hand-fixed prototypes. You need to instruct other people on how to do the same modifications.
Who knows, maybe a pandemic happens, maybe also a war that affects global economy. A chip you used becomes unavailable. There is no drop-in replacement. You have to at least replace the chip, and perhaps the circuit surrounding it. You don't just hit "recompile"...
All the while you likely have one or multiple microcontrollers in the device. You need to interface with the SW architects as well as the developer side. You need to be the datasheet for the software developer - likely you even need to write the datasheet.
All that jazz in addition to the regular stuff everyone has to deal with in one form or another.
I'm not an EE, I'm an Embedded Systems and Electronics Engineer. So I don't know 100% how to explain what they do, although I have some peripheral knowledge. Which is exactly I wrote this. I have just been in my safe firmware developer's bubble, trying to support the people designing the hardware so that they can get their side in order with the MCU's doing what they should. I have immense respect for the people who are able to make the physical side of what I write the code for. Those circuits certainly don't just "pop out".
Both sides always have something to be mastered. Both sides have their different flavors, too, but neither one is easy. Both sides have to learn and apply. Funnily enough, both sides have clear analogues to eachother, and very similar problems, just in a different plane of existence. Oh and this is just one facet of EE like others have mentioned.
Yes, this seems to be such a tiny domain. If you know Maxwell's equations, you know all you need to know about EMI, pcb layout, RF, and more. If you know how to do something other than 'Datasheet Engineering' -- you know how to plan for part substitutions.
I'm trying to make the point that EE is a Fixed Domain, where one only needs to know a very small number of things to be an 'expert' in said domain. This is not the case for CS, which is, basically, all of mathematics that can possibly be applied to computers.
EEs will be one of the first technical professions to be replaced by robots & AI when AI moves up to white collar professions. Mark. My. Words. ;-)
If you look into past NY Times articles of PewDiePie, you'll probably see that they try to paint a certain picture of him. Writing positively of him wouldn't fit their narrative.
What narrative, the narrative that people with large audiences of impressionable young people shouldn't casually say the n-word and pay poor people to write anti-Semitic messages as a joke?
Oh, nice catch. I didn't even notice it was NY Times. They've done a number of hatchet jobs on Pewdiepie; probably jealous that he has a much bigger reach than they do.
The NYT seems to have a bigger reach, but Pewdiepie comes pretty close. Nytimes.com gets approximately 350 / 30 = 11.6 million visits per day[1]. Most of Pewdiepie's videos seem to have between 3 and 10 million views[2], with the average being somewhere around 5 million. Assuming that every nytimes.com user visits once per day and everyone within Pewdiepie's reach views each of his videos once, The NYT has approximately twice the reach of Pewdiepie.
If about half of these visits to NYT are daily users and the rest were once a month then they would have a reach of about 180 million/month. I would say that is a low estimate since I end up on their site once or so a month and most people I talk to (outside the US) make references to their site that imply similar usage internationally.
I'm not sure how frequent this "pewdiepie" releases videos from that youtube link, but if it were once a week then he(?) has a reach of 20 million/month if he has no permanent fans. That seems like a high estimate given that some percentage of the 60 million channel subscribers must look at most videos.
Think past quantitative reach and imagine qualitative. The New York Times reaches heads of state, business leaders, intellectual elites, etc. pewdiepie reaches an audience primarily looking to fill moments of leisure.
As outrageous as that might sound, at first glance, it's not really that far-fetched.
Pewdiepie is still the biggest channel on YouTube, with nearly 65 million subscribers, and 10+ million daily views, he has quite a global reach [0].
While the NYT is pretty much only a thing in the US, with a circulation of around 4 million [1], which afaik also includes it's 3 million subscribers [2].
Sure, the NYT also gets read outside of the US, but I doubt that happens on the same scale as Pewdiepie is consumed outside the US. Ask young people outside the US which of those two they actually know, and consume, and people are far more likely to answer "Pewdiepie" than "the NYT".
I am pretty sure the Protoss tried to curb the Zerg advancement by planetary exterminatus. It was at least mentioned in briefings, if not even shown in a cutscene.
Nokia Data was the leading provider of workstations in Finland in 1989 with almost 20% share. Besides OS/2 they also had at least MS-DOS distributions to their name.