It looks exactly like c++ and c# and java and probably others.

Which language are we talking here? Cpp? Because typeof hasn’t ever seemed useful to me in how I use cpp or how I have ever really used a language. I also remember it being criticized in java class more than 20 years ago when OOP was solely preached, even for scientific people like me.

Be nice.

Jesus Christ. Just be nice.

Why is no one on Lemmy nice.

My bologna has a first name…

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A more standard definition in my tenure in academia is that scientists solve problems because they want to know the answer. Engineers solve problems because they want the problem to be solved.

In any case, the difference is just, heh, academic.

I’m very much the latter.

Agreed.

I might also argue that those people are all still engineers.

Engineer just means “problem solver”. Everyone gets paid for solving problems.

The real question in my head is how far does this go?

Sometimes the problem is that these burgers need flipping. Protein disk translocation engineers? I’m cool with that.

A large faction of engineers, especially software-type engineers, have these types of hobbies.

I’m sitting here right beside the heirloom quality (compared to most furniture) coffee table I made in my garage with my nearly complete wood shop.

I make stuff in two ways in my day job. I design something and someone else makes it, or it’s just some idea as software.

Engineers are a type. We’re just wired differently from most other people.

Try the pasta…

Fine, but why is this here?

Duct tape, as in the grey fiber reinforced tape that we typically think of, is not really a good solution for actually taping ducts.

When you are taping ducts, you typically want to use some type of foil thing, like this, but there are many varieties.

Of course, tape for ducts is, kinda, duct tape by definition. As you can see by how it’s categorized on the home despot site.

And you can reuse them, especially for something like this.

War dialing. Social engineering. Absolutely.

Also, hackers (except for the screen projecting on the characters faces).

It’s in that place I put that thing that time.

It’s more complicated than that. If your can’t stop your lab from licking a stranger to death, that’s completely different from not being able to stop your pitbull or doberman from mauling a toddler.

Yes, people should be responsible dog owners, but only certain breeds regularly snap and kill or maim.

If you don’t think that dog breed is a good predictor of behavior, you have not spent enough time around dogs.

For thousands of years dogs have been bred for specific purposes. These behaviors are innate. They do not need to be taught. Sure, you can train them to be better, but the behaviors are written all over their genes

My grandparents had shepherds. The dogs had never seen sheep or been taught anything about herding, but they would attempt to herd all my cousins when they were children, then get agitated when the children wouldn’t herd. Here’s some puppies doing it

Here’s some pointers pointing. They have not been taught this (and frankly I can’t imagine even training most dog breeds to do that)

Here’s a boxer dog boxing. Here’s one spinning. They aren’t taught this, and they all do it.

There’s hounds rolling in stink. There’s sight hounds and smell hounds. There’s retrievers retrieving, being irresistibly drawn to water, and carrying around things very gently. There’s huskies being extremely energetic and vocal.

I could go on.

Do you really think that dogs that have been bred to fight other dogs to the death and bear enormous amounts of pain (game) before giving up are not dangerous? You’re mental.

Sure they’re sweet to their owners. That’s because people who breed animals for blood sports are not the kind of people who would have trouble immediately removing from the gene pool any of their animals that are disloyal.

It’s not like it’s just pitbulls. Dobermans are implicated too. They’re guard dogs but for humans rather than predator animals.

People with agendas can play all kinds of statistical games to show what they want to show. In the scientific world, these kinds of tricks stand out. That’s why any non-trivial summary statistic is useless without a large text explaining the methodology.

This is one of those things that is so obvious it boggles my mind that people even question it.

Of course dogs that are bred to murder are dangerous.

Bless the maker and his water.

good question.

Because even trivial things like Fourier transforms (to people like me) are very difficult to understand to those that don’t know them. They took me years to understand. Non scientific software engineers do not understand those. It’s just a different course of education.

You’re also right about old code base as well. Algorithms like these belong in c++ (or C or fortran), and it’s extremely difficult to explain why to people who have no understanding of numerical computing.

It’s just different education.

I’ve been working at my current company for almost a year.

I had no idea it could be this bad.

I actually had to fight/plead with someone to “please read the code”. Guy did get fired though.

Good on you for acknowledging that. 👍

I’ve fixed 20 year old issues that could kill people.

Different requirements. Different solutions.

That’s why it’s great to be an engineer!

Bruh. I fixed software from the 90’s.

Scientific software too. Which is way weirder.

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