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    Only thing dumber than a mechanical engineer is an electrical engineer trying to design a housing.

    You want to understand the deep magic, talk to electricians and technicians.

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        Yup. Thing is, it’s known that ‘machinists’ coming out of trade school aren’t worth a damn for years. The same is true of enginneers, yet they turn them loose on CAD and they create designs that make everyone miserable.

        This is one of the big problems with SpaceX/Blue Origin/Firefly. The designs are piss poor because the majority of their engineers are green.

        Engineers shouldn’t have design authority until they’ve spent a few years manufacturing.

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          They are required to have a minimum of three years of design experience and have to pass a PE exam before they are allowed to verify their own designs.

          Up until that point, all of their designs are required to be sealed by another PE.

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            My bad, not design authority as that’s a specific thing. They are allowed to design and the guy rubber-stamping often doesn’t catch much.

            Ultimately, this is a religious issue. Engineers are heathens that should be burned at the stake. Occasionally, you meet a good one who’s been housetrained by the people that actually do the things.

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              I can say the opposite. I have had craft, in the field, make design choices without engaging the engineer, and now the client is angry because shit isn’t working right, because someone made a command decision in a silo.

              Drawings are never perfect. Most of the time, engineers are working off client provided drawings that aren’t very accurate, so the assumptions are bad when the shovel hits the ground.

              That is neither the craft, nor the engineer’s fault.

              I am an EE and I can’t magically know that the last guy to hang an antenna put it 10’ higher than he was supposed to and the client doesn’t want to pay for a site visit.

              So now my tower climber is pissed because he has to make multiple climbs, take photos and then wait with his thumb up his butt, while I am trying to get the client to agree to a plan, and he is going to blame me.

              Now I am a Construction Manager, and I get pissed at the engineer when he provides drawings that don’t give even half the info I need.

              I’ll buy the material, no problem, but you need to give me a fucking BoM because I don’t know what your design criteria is and I am not going to guess.

              I’m sure as hell not going to let my craft buy whatever coax connection is available, and fits, to connect a feedline.

              They don’t know what actually goes into that.

              Likewise, an engineer can’t tell if an existing conduit has enough room to snake a new cable because the cable schedule isn’t always accurate. But then my craft doesn’t know how to calculate conduit fill b because they don’t know the types/level of voltages in the existing lines.

              I have also NEVER known an electrician who, when first laying eyes on a job, not complain about the terrible work performed by the previous electrician.

              Working brownfields is always going to be a pain and everyone loves to bitch when the job ends up being harder than it should have been.

              I will say this. I love being a construction manager 100 times more than being an engineer, but having that background is fucking invaluable because I can spot problems from further away and can usually resolve them quickly.

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                I appreciate the in-depth response. I was really just having some fun trolling engineers. You’ve been around the block so you understand the arrogance inherent in pretty much anything technical. It’s totally immature but it also makes me grin.

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    Yeah but it’s too realistic, I want something convenient! Let me read one book and gain the power to create floating ice! Not read like 5 giant books and stufy for years so that I can create a microwave 😔

    No shade to microwaves, one of my favorite magic items

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    It’s chemicals that make signals jump between neurons in your head. Electricity acts entirely withing single neurons.

    Also, that’s a control spell, not a summoning one.

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    For me, the weirdest thing is that when a charged particle moves through a magnetic field, it experiences a force perpendicular to the direction of motion; this results in the particle tracing out a curved path through the field. Like … what the actual fuck? Why in hell would the universe be this way?

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      That’s… huh…

      Hey!!! Physicists!!! Can we get your input???

      (Unless you’re a physicist, in which case… fuck)

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        I mean, imagine if friction worked like this. You’d push a heavy object … and it would move to the left (or maybe the right?) like it was on ice.

        FWIW I do have a Physics undergraduate degree. It doesn’t help in this case.

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          Well, shit hahaha but yeah, that would be weird as hell. I bet it has something to do with how electrons get aligned, but… I don’t know much beyond electrons moving between their shells

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      Why in hell would the universe be this way?

      Bcz it’s a simulation, or god is fucking with us. Who knows which one it is 🤷‍♀️