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WastedJobe@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I propose engineers not be allowed to name things. Not everything needs to be an “engineer”

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  • Doombot1@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What are you, an engineer engineer?

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    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now hiring for an Engineer². Don’t apply if you dont have 20+ years experience with LLMs

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We aren’t the ones who did that. You need to have taken statics and thermo otherwise you’re just a sparkling tradesperson

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      an enginear

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    • AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What if I took statics but swapped thermo for emag theory? I feel like that’s pretty even.

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    • lightnegative@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hey, don’t knock the Sandwich Engineers at Subway. They do the Lord’s work

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• Steve@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most mad scientists are actually mad engineers.

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• NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As someone with an engineering degree and a science degree, scientists are absolutely nothing like engineers.

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  • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’ve got some things in common.

    Technical aptitude. Complete unawareness, or purposeful neglect, of social norms. Science related dad jokes.

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    • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True, but I mainly mean in terms of their attitude towards research and their level of skepticism and critical thinking when presented with new information.

      Engineers are always thinking in terms of “how can I make this work?” and scientists are trained to think in terms of “where does this theory/method break?”

      This means that in general, engineers are far more likely to assume one positive result is significant, whereas scientists are far more likely to be looking at and looking homes in experiment methodology. This is a generalization, but in my experience, engineers are far more likely to fall for pseudoscience BS. Granted, my experience is mostly in chemistry and chemical engineering, but this idea in general has been a topic of discussion and research in peer-reviewed literature for years.

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      • Literati@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Similarly, from an engineer’s perspective, scientists are a great addition to the working group when you need to find the flaws in the system, but awful when you actually just need something to go into the real world and work 80% of the time ;)

        Especially when you’re time constrained.

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  • PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Doing research, I used to work with mathematicians, engineers AND physicists on a daily basis for years. Physicists were the least fun. Most of them seemed to think of themselves as a sort of Jesuits of Science. As in: “I just figured this out, and already it’s set in stone, why do you even argue with me?” Mathematicians and engineers were a lot humbler, more down-to-earth. Also, some of them were astonishingly edgy in a very positive way, and I like that.

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• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve heard applied mathematics used for us physicists but that one’s new, nice

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• oce@jlai.lu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are different kinds of physics researchers and it doesn’t look like what physics lessons show in university, which is mostly theory. Most are not theoricians, they work on experiments and analyze results, they design and build instruments similarly to engineers. It seems the main difference is the kind of question they want to answer to: scientific question vs client need.

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• mypasswordistaco@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What of experimental physicists?

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Theory engineers” would be precise and correct.

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  • mypasswordistaco@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not at all. People (engineers?) seem to forget that experimental physicists exist

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