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NireBryce
@NireBryce

you can tell archimedes was an engineer because for example, with regard to levers, he proposes the perfect solution, it's just impossible


DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

Every engineering solution to anything is either:

  • Perfect but impossible
  • Technically entirely feasible but dogshit that bends physics into a pretzel

The best engineers in the world know how to do both simultaneously. Archimedes is the ur-example.


NireBryce
@NireBryce

the best engineers i know accidentally do impossible things because no one thought to tell them it was hard


DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

And thus we demonstrate that "software engineer" as a job title is bogus because the only people doing engineering in software are overworked games developers


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