Comment on dream job

Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I don’t know of a single engineer who has never built a trebuchet.

  I’m not even a “proper” engineer and I have like, five desktop trebs, 2 ballistae and some other odds and ends (3d printed, of course,)

  It’s like, a right of passage or something.

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  • Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I have a scar over my eye from a trebuchet I built in high school, then I went to college for engineering, so that checks out

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      yeah. Gotta be careful with them.

      even the desktop variety has a lot of energy in the system.

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Probably better than the scar my cousin has on his thigh from an ad hoc fulcrum catapult.

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      • Test_Tickles@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Uhoh, this about to turn into that scene from Lethal Weapon where they are comparing scars…

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  • dave@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’m a software engineer and I built a trebuchet during lockdown to launch Easter eggs at the neighbours’ gardens since we weren’t allowed to go see them.

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      The plastic candy-filled kind…. I hope.

      Or. I hope they weren’t very good neighbors….

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      • dave@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        No, tiny bits of hidden software. It’s not a very efficient way of distributing code, but it was fun.

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  • Kryptonidas@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’m a software engineer, but now I feel like I need to build a trebuchet.

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  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’m a machinist, which is kind of engineer adjacent. We make cannons.

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    • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Cannons are just trebuchets with extra oomph

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Cannons are fun too.

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    • BugleFingers@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      In CNC as well, can confirm, cannons are made

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  • Deebster@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    btw, it’s a rite of passage.

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  • Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I designed and 3D printed a Ballista…

    Same-same, right?

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Mother, 33, stops being a scientist to do science.

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  • evranch@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    science engineering

    Siege engineering to be precise

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• Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  And M. A lot of M actually. And S. Also T. Put some A in it to make it not threatening.

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  • Willy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    no M here. you can just launch shot and need no M to explain it. have you ever had fun?

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I mean, if this were 1400 AD, sure…

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