Professorozone

@Professorozone@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I play like that because I’ve used flight simulators. I have no idea why people play the other way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨quiet place⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I asked a colleague (we’re engineers) once when she told me she was seeing a stupid movie, “Doesn’t it bother you when they totally ignore physics?”

  She said "It used to but then my boyfriend told me to get over it, it’s just a movie. And I did. " LOL.

  I didn’t like those movies but hey, sit back and enjoy if you like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨quiet place⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the dumbest movies I’ve ever seen.

  The entire US army can’t defeat these creatures but this woman solves the whole problem with a loud speaker and a shot gun.

  Sorry for ranting, but damn, it’s one of my biggest movie disappointments, right up they with, The Phantom Menace and Valerion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, but the OP asked about boucy balls, not bouncy balls. Nice try though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name this minivan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Catfish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing says that Linux could eventually evolve into the same thing or fail to ever really function for the masses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked for four companies in my professional career, three defense contractors and one commercial company, all in the US. But I interacted with countless others both US and international and I would have to say, your experience is definitely the exception. You should definitely be happy you had such a great experience. I find it’s difficult NOT to have pressures to cut corners or just under-design. Cost, physics or customer expectations frequently turn that pressure up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, I don’t wish to be insulting but with a comment like that, I find it hard to believe you worked in any business. While engineers maintain some level of control over product design, like making the product actually function (although I’ve even seen that thwarted by management) they do not usually have the last say in things like ergonomics, interoperability, improvements that cost extra, appearance, business development and many other design parameters.

  By management I should point out that I am including anyone who is above the design engineer in the process.

  I’ve seen business development guys promise customers impossible functionality because “that’s what I thought they would want.”

  I’ve seen schedules created by systems engineers that could not be met if we lived in a Star Trek universe.

  I’ve been in meetings where production logic was similar to; if one woman can give birth to a child in 9 months, nine women can give birth to a child in one month.

  I’ve seen budgets slashed to the bone or critical people removed from projects for a host of reasons, good or bad.

  In an actual example I was in a meeting where the manager of business development didn’t know what the term PC Card slot meant. When he was presented with the product design in a meeting, he asked where the PC Card slot was. So the engineer pointed out that it was internal to the unit, on the motherboard where they were always placed. He did not like this because there was no actual slot on the outside. When it was pointed out that that wasn’t really possible without completely redesigning both the motherboard and the enclosure he insisted we put a slot on the outside. When told that the PC Card slot couldn’t be reached from ANY slot on the outside of the enclosure he made us redesign the end plate to incorporate a PC Card shaped slot that served no purpose except to stroke his ego, and add a costly change to a product with existing tooling and necessitate a PC Card slot sized plug to seal the unit against moisture be designed. We, from that day forward, referred to that end cap as the vanity plate.

  Yeah a good manager would do all of those things you said assuming his manager doesn’t stop him, but that’s the point, managers suck. That’s why we hate then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad was a marine engineer (ports, harbors, that kind of stuff) and he used to say an architect is an engineer with his brains knocked out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As an engineer I can understand that.

  It can be a little like a dentist and a dental assistant. The assistant does all the work but the dentist gets the Porsche.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Engineers hate managers.

  Remember next time you get a shitty product, don’t blame the engineer who designed it. Blame the manager who forced him to do it that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Out of 10. Be specific!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  Limited usefulness because it’s too narrow. Don’t like the asymmetry. Appearance looks a little crude. I wouldn’t want one. Tines seem overly sharp.

  Probably good for getting olives out of jars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This Social Media?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the way I use it. I’m here to get news and entertainment. Without Lemmy, I would just do it piecemeal instead of coming to one place. There definitely is a social aspect but would you call YouTube social media? There is a comment section there too.

  I do think an argument could be made, but it’s not in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's hear it, little lemmings.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm tough choice. I doubt I would be able to understand DaVinci or Newton. I would prefer to berate Edison. I wouldn’t want Curie to irradiate me. Tesla was awesome but kind of nutty. I didn’t know Enough about Bohr. So probably Feyman or Einstein. I read Feyman’s book so I think I would have a lot to talk about. But I think the win would go to Einstein for me. I just have to know how he came up with it all by just sort of thinking about it. I would hope he would have the best chance of explaining it in a way I could understand. Plus I speak German, so if all else fails we can just talk about spetzle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t see that. I was busy looking at his shirt because I didn’t even know what it meant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, I just see a bunch of people standing around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Again… You serious?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You serious?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Society needs to keep score on positive impacts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So if one pedophile flies another pedophile on a private jet to party with children, did that positively impact the pedophile in question?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not true. Our government cares about something. They care about ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the maximum number of potatoes you could grow in your house or on property you own before it becomes a crime?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard they passed a law essentially making it illegal to grow food at home because you would be required to have all of the measures in place that only real farms could afford. It’s not really enforced but technically on the books. I don’t know. It could be conspiracy theory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are alone. Most people were disappointed. There were too many thing that were set to automatic. It was kind of hard to even play the game. More like just watching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is going to show my age but Master of Orion 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does trump know he cheats at golf?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ummm, when you win a golf tournament you’ve never played in… You know you’re cheating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup women never lie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL. Yeah, we’re animals man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolute agreement there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be. Really thought it was pizza. Gonna be hard to unlearn this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm, I’ve “known” that for a long time. I know pizza in Italy is not the same as pizza in America and is typically eaten with a fork and knife. Maybe that’s what I was thinking or maybe I’m confusing it with a different supposedly Italian food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My world is so much better because of immigrants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You make a good point.