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As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] prime_number_314159 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In my mind, the line is that an engineer is someone that can commit a crime by doing their job incompetently. If the only things at risk are your job and your pride, that's a different thing.

"I program all day, so there's a lot of trial and error. My friend is a negligent civil engineer, so there's a lot of error and trial."

[–] captainlezbian 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ooh the EEs will haaaaaate that lol. I generally disagree with that statement but I also totally see it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

If you're an electrical engineer who works in a nuclear power plant and your incompetence leads to a meltdown, you're going to go on trial. Possibly also if you're doing software engineering for the control systems of that power plant.

If you're a software engineer who works on Lemmy, not so much.