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  • masterspace@lemmy.catoProgrammer Humor@programming.devWelp
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    16 days ago

    Yeah, I’ve looked it up and this is definitely the case, I’ve also had both Canadian and American employers refer to my position this way continuously with no repercussions (I similarly have an engineering degree in another field and was an eit and am now in software).

    It’s weird because if the provincial engineering societies were serious about enforcing their rules, it would take them ZERO effort to find thousands and thousands and thousands of violations through like a single LinkedIn search. The fact that they dont put in such a minimal amount of effort kind of signals they don’t care about the rule.



  • They can do pre-fabricated architecture, but they haven’t cracked it.

    Current prefabricated construction (especially in the context of homes / housing) is still limited in terms of customization and/or requires a huge amount of manual architecture / engineering work, and the consumer facing customization software is still pretty garbage.

    People still often use contractors because they want the level of customization they bring, even when off the shelf options are available.

    Don’t get me wrong I have massive faith in prefab construction in terms of infrastructure projects like bridges and elevated guideways etc where you have a design team doing them all up front and sending them off to be made at a factory and assembled on site, but I haven’t seen anything in terms of home construction that seems revolutionary from prefab yet.


  • It really feels like the wrong technology for the job.

    What 3D printing is great at is having one machine, that can produce a billion different parts.

    i.e. with my one printer, I can print hooks, or replacement parts that no longer exist or custom organizer that fit exactly my stuff and situation.

    It’s fantastic for printing a massive variety of low volume parts / one offs.

    It’s not great at printing those things cheaply, or in modular parts (it can be done but it’s often not because it’s a lot of extra effort for one offs). Which in housing, people want cheap (because it’s the most expensive thing they’ll buy), and they want it to be adaptable and changeable.

    If anything I suspect an actual housing revolution could come from pre-fab housing, made of a highly customizable and modular component system, and slick design software, but no one has cracked all the pieces required to implement that yet.





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    Yes, and at that point, both sources will be meaningless in the context of who the most hated president is.

    They will also be meaningless because the same polls were not carried out during previous presidencies, so there is nothing to compare them to, nor was there the same information ecosystem.

    At present he won’t go down as the most hated President of all time in the long run, and if Trump goes down as the most hated president, during his time, it will only be because social media didn’t exist during Andrew Jackson’s time.


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    1 month ago

    or steal billions.

    Yes, billions of dollars was funneled from the US government, to defense contractors like Haliburton, explicitly to prop up the corporations of Bush and his friends like Cheney.

    He is responsible for over a million US exes during COVID. over 1.2% of Americans did not survive his first administration and died directly due to his ego.

    I mean fair point, but his COVID policy was also a direct reflection of the will of a huge amount of the American public. Fox News has more deaths in their hands because of COVID then Trump does if you want to be honest about the origin of the anti-vax attitude. It certainly didn’t start with Trump, though he was in a position to influence change and he didn’t.



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    Honestly at this point this is the most rationale take I’ve seen in this thread.

    I think he’ll be somewhere between Nixon and Gorbachev, like you said, seen as a scumbag that no one will defend, and someone who made the world worse by breaking longstanding traditions and norms that won’t get unbroken, but unlike Nixon and more like Gorbachev I think he’ll be seen as someone who inadvertently caused American power and standing in the world to crumble.






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    Lmfao, honestly, this thread is making me realize that Trump has a point when he talks about Trump derangement syndrome.

    Multiple comments now have compared him to Hitler, which makes you either ignorant of present day reality or grossly ignorant of history.

    Like honestly, “casually murdered 150 schoolgirls”. Do you know how many fucking innocent children Bush got killed in Afghanistan and Iraq?? It’s more than 150.