My hairline has started receding very rapidly. There’s there’s these fine hairs all over my desk, and I see the photo I took when joining directly before turning on my camera every meeting.

Be nice.

Jesus Christ. Just be nice.

Why is no one on Lemmy nice.

Again, who is saying that? I don’t find janitorial duty shameful neither do I find sanitation engineer shameful. That’s you

I guess you’d also rather be called butcher or barber than surgeon?

After all, rebranding implies you’re ashamed.

My bologna has a first name…

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Tell me about it…

I left my more mature company for a startup.

I feel like Tyler Durden sometimes.

A more standard definition in my tenure in academia is that scientists solve problems because they want to know the answer. Engineers solve problems because they want the problem to be solved.

In any case, the difference is just, heh, academic.

I’m very much the latter.

Who is saying that?

There’s too much virtue signaling here. No engineer thinks poorly of the trades. That’s the point of the conversation.

I just made a joke about how burger flippers can be called engineers, and I have a PhD.

Agreed.

I might also argue that those people are all still engineers.

Engineer just means “problem solver”. Everyone gets paid for solving problems.

The real question in my head is how far does this go?

Sometimes the problem is that these burgers need flipping. Protein disk translocation engineers? I’m cool with that.

I always thought about going to be a farmer. Then I watched some videos from farmers and realized they are also engineers.

A large faction of engineers, especially software-type engineers, have these types of hobbies.

I’m sitting here right beside the heirloom quality (compared to most furniture) coffee table I made in my garage with my nearly complete wood shop.

I make stuff in two ways in my day job. I design something and someone else makes it, or it’s just some idea as software.

Engineers are a type. We’re just wired differently from most other people.

Try the pasta…

I’m glad you asked. Mind if I ask you how old are you, and where are you from?

Fine, but why is this here?

Duct tape, as in the grey fiber reinforced tape that we typically think of, is not really a good solution for actually taping ducts.

When you are taping ducts, you typically want to use some type of foil thing, like this, but there are many varieties.

Of course, tape for ducts is, kinda, duct tape by definition. As you can see by how it’s categorized on the home despot site.

And you can reuse them, especially for something like this.

I’ll warm up the probulator.

A fresh ham? In a crock pot or smoker?

This post got me craving soup, so I made another post on cooking. Care to continue the discussion there?

There’s something wrong with the way your soup was prepared.

Diced carrots, onion, celery. Saute in butter until ready. Add rinsed split peas, a few bay leaves, salt and pepper. Ham and a ham bone really make this, but make sure there’s not too much ham. That means too much salt. Put those in and cover with (ideally home made, no salt) stock. Cook until done. Remove bone, return meat and cartilage to soup.

So much fiber, so tasty. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions (I really, really despise green beans), but some opinions are less good than others.

There’s nothing that can possibly be bad in that.

Pasta fagioli for me.

The texture of pasta and beans together is just all wrong.

Anyway, if you make homemade stock, that stock plus anything is delicious soup.