I try to spice it up with some VB Macros but it's still ultimately just a spreadsheet.

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• N4kt0@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As an engineer, this hits close to home.

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  • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Engineers: So we had all this complicated theory, but no one can calculate that stuff by himself. Here’s a linear formula and 50 pages of tables where you just look up the values for the factors given certain conditions.

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  • iii@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As another engineer, not at all 🤨

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  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Depending on the field, later in your career you can often skip the spreadsheets and get away with just saying, “That looks close enough,.” If you have enough seniority people will assume you know what you’re talking about.

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  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Join the technicians in the field who get to laugh at engineers, its more rewarding

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    • Quatlicopatlix@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thats the great thing abput being a electrical engineer, people wont laugh at you but they will ask you to fix their house wirering. And once you just look at a pcb and casually tell them what the parts off it do you blow their mind.

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    • EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Be a Mechanical Engineer, then you get to hate nearly everyone including yourself.” A Mech. Engineer told me this after we both had a really long day. If you pay attention to those guys, you’ll find that they know more than most because they play the parts of Engineer, Tech, and Liaison

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As an engineer, this is missing a first bump where you stop doing “basic operations” still in school, and develop an intrinsic fear of “numbers and counting”.

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  • virku@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Computer engineer checking in. Same here!

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    • EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hopefully you utilize Python instead of Excel for data management. Unless you have non-engineers or tech-illiterate people on your team or adjacent teams lol

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• socsa@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It's amazing to be to see these memes where people seemingly declare that all applied mathematics is done by MBA flunkies in Excel. Just in the past year I've done cuda implementations to calculate the intersection of N cones, physics-based EM ray tracing, and fisher-information regularization.

  Christ if there's this population of physicists and mathematicians on here who are yearning for real DSP and numerical analysis jobs, then fucking hit those DMs because we cannot find you on Indeed.

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  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its probably the required degrees that are the problem, not the lack of people who like numbers and would want to have those jobs. Feel free to share how to get into the field quickly though if you know how.

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  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I dropped out of my Physics MS and my shitty job is now inventory spreadsheets. Fucking hate people trying to make them relational databases.

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• General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There is no real math on that graph. It’s just what anyone learns in a good education. Well, that and probability theory, combinatorics, and statistics.

  I’d really expect more from a math student.

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• Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It guy, I have to fix spredsheets that are actually charts on word documents. I can not make them a spreadsheet as it is a miracle they got it that far.

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  • iii@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I must not break the finances.

    If they’re doing calculations in a table in word, then it’s already broken :)

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  • Alpacalypse@crazypeople.online ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Uhhhhhhhh wow. My sympathies.

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• L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Woah woah woah wait hold up. So you’re saying I can just represent these complex multi-variable integral abominations into just stuff like a couple of matrices and vectors???

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• Adalast@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I like to spice up my time with spreadsheets by doing them in Pandas. That way they can be theoretical and it is like mathematical roleplay.

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• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  the best excel video ever

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxBg4sMusIg

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• don@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Human kettlebell here, them squigglies shore is purdy!

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