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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • As a non-software engineer, feels weird that they’re making this distinction.

    I don’t have much to do with engines either.

    I take engineer to mean: designs stuff that does some task, involving SOME kind of calculation.

    Visual designer: not an engineer

    Piping designer: not an engineer (although this one felt weird, that’s what the piping designer corrected me to say, so)

    Chemical engineer: ya

    Mechanical engineer: yeah

    Software engineer: totally different flavour, but still yeah

    Language is what we want it to be.

    Web designers presumably still need to script things, I reckon that counts 👍






  • Growing up bilingual in German and English, can I just say german’s “7 + 90” is pretty dumb too.

    397 is 300 + 7 + 90: 100s 1s 10s. For bigger numbers you’re doing it repeatedly.

    In German for every set you’re saying the digits and tens in the wrong order. You get used to it, but only if you grow up in Germany (I didn’t), else it forever does you head in reading numbers.


  • This is why I truly believe letting private companies administer ANY healthcare is a risky proposition.

    A replaceable contractor or supplier is fine, but fully relying on a company to not go bankrupt, with something as invaluable as eyesight, is just plain stupid.

    Government should have bought-out the company. I feel like society owes it to the people who got the implants. Ideally all healthcare and any critical software should be government owned or maintained so that there is never a risk of going bankrupt.

    Private health is such a scam.