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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Some pleeb shouted at me, "I thought you were an engineer!" And I shouted back, "A software engineer!" while I hammer a nail with my shoe.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Ah, a C programmer.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m a regular engineer and yeah I pull such shit. Listen, there’s a reason I tell everyone not to do what I do.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The difference between a regular idiot doing a dangerous job and an engineer doing a dangerous job is the engineer knows which parts of the job he's risking imminent death on. There may often be no other difference.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When it comes to an engineer doing a dangerous job in a domain other than his or her own, I would say that all the engineer knows is how bad things can be fucked up when one is trying to do expert stuff outside one's own domain, because they've been in a position were they were the experts and some non-expert was saying things and trying stuff for their expert domain.

After seeing others do it in one's own expert domain one generally realizes that "maybe, just maybe, that's exactly how I look outside my domain of expertise to the experts of that domain when I open my big fat mouth".