Comment on dream job

• Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• dave@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The plastic candy-filled kind…. I hope.

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

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    • dave@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Rember kids, if you find a USB stick in your easter egg, run home and plug it in to get free candy in Roblox.

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah. You’re not allowed to stuff Easter eggs for Easter.

        Also, we’ll add “get the Halloween candy”, too. Probably give people apple 2’s or something,

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• Kryptonidas@lemmy.wtf ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cannons are just trebuchets with extra oomph

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cannons are fun too.

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  • BugleFingers@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In CNC as well, can confirm, cannons are made

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• Deebster@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  btw, it’s a rite of passage.

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• Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I designed and 3D printed a Ballista…

  Same-same, right?

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