TL:DR;, Engineer is a title, granted by the state, not something you get for having an Engineering Degree
Except that Oregon has it simple, you have to be a LPE - Licensed Professional Engineer. That is a NATIONAL license. You take 4 years of approved schooling, and then sit the two LPE exams, and you are an LPE. Interestingly MOST of the exam is Civil Engineering (things like slump of concrete) They are not the only state that registers engineers, and almost all of them it as simple as be an LPE, and register Were you see this - real example. Want to put a ham radio tower in your yard? SOME municipalities require the drawings for installation to be "wet stamped" - aka the fact that the Mfg of the tower has down all the numbers that the design is good to XXX, and that the footing should be X sized, they require an LPE from that state to review the drawings, and stamp the drawings with his OK (they can not be photocopied) - aka they are "wet stamped"
Thing is, when an LPE signs off on plans, he is taking the legal responsibilities for those plans. Things go wrong, it is HIS/HER (I'll use he, as the vast majority of LPEs are male) ass on the line for lawsuits and possible criminal responsibility, NOT the company he works for!
This by the way is why we are not "software engineers". If we WERE, it would require a certified Engineer to sign off (first we'd have to agree to what a Certified Software Engineer IS), and that Engineer would be taking legal responsibility for any flaws in the software (not the company, although they may provide his insurance as a benefit)
It is a bit like being a "Member of the Bar" - the degree doesn't mean crap till they are admitted to their local Bar - and you can be Disbarred, and you can't call yourself a lawyer or practice law until you are a member of the bar - You'd have a law degree (JD) but not be a lawyer
BTW, where my daughter is going to school, as an example you can take Mechanical Engineering - which is recognized by some large number of states, and allows for you to sit LPE Mechanical Engineering Technology. Only a very small number of states allow this one for you to be called an Engineer.
He can post whatever he wants, but in a lot of states, you can't use the term engineer without registering (and folks, this is why the title "Software Engineer" is Bull). Basically the state wants you to have your Professional Engineering license, which requires certain schooling, and then taking the tests. Joke? Unless you are doing civil engineering, it is generally not REQUIRED, but you can't call yourself an Engineer. You may have a PhD in say Electrical Engineering, but you can't use the term "Engineer"
Unless it is a status email or email where the party I'm emailing knows the info has to go to the boss (as he may want say) I don't CC, but frankly over the years, I've done this when, frankly I _DON'T_ trust the person! I've had more than one situation over the gasp 40 YEARS I've been working where you'd tell coworker X, and they would deny you did, and you'd have to jump through hoops to make your manager (and sometimes their manager) believe you The problem is often solved by "CC:Their Manager, Your Manager" Gee, you mean it makes the person say "CharlieG doesn't trust me" - well DUH.
I won't do it until the first time I'm under the bus because of you, but after that, I'm trying to not only cover MY ass, but also send the message "No, I DON'T trust you" - not only to you, but to my manager and YOUR manager that I no longer trust you. BTW, there was also probably an email to my manager (in my case, my 'manager' is the CEO), and your manager about why they were being CC'd (aka how you threw me/the project under the bus) that YOU were not CC'd. When you get to the level I'm at, this is usually about a person who reports to a fellow manager, and the CC/BCC might even be going to the CEO/HR as part of a documentation trail
Had a friend who had a pet, then upgraded to a CBM-8032. Sigh, which I could have afforded them, the best I could do was the Vic-20. I did spring the what, $300 or so for the 300 baud Commodore modem, and I forgot the name of the terminal software that used graphics to give you 64 columns. Allowed me to NOT use the keypunch machines in college, but to log in - they gave me a 'terminal account' because I had my own terminal - my account was locked that I could not use an on campus terminal
Commodore Vic-20, with the 5 K ram cart, and a modem - you do NOT want to know what this cost in 1980. I upgraded to the C64 when it came out. By then had two 1541 disk drives
Um, there is a local block that admittedly had a major speeding problem (through a park), and in the active section of the park, they put in no less than 5 speed bumps, about 50-75 yards from each other. The road USED to have a 30MPH speed limit, but was lowered (Like the rest of NYC) to 25MPH. If you take those speed bumps at even 20MPH, you WILL take out your suspension even in a truck with a heavy duty suspension. MAX you can take those bumps safely is 10MPH. Now 1-2 of them would keep you down to 25MPH for the whole stretch, but 5? Come on guys. Folks are now bypassing taking streets with houses and kids - at 25-30MPH. They effectively lowered the max speed of the safest road to 10MPH, and left the road with the kids at 25MPH - smart move
Does it shock anyone? Most folks just want to use their phones, use the email and SMS, and play a few games. They can't be bothered. Heck, a lot of folks have to have techy person setup their email other than a Gmail/Apple email, as they have no clue, and they have NO clue how to change their password either
If there is a regular enough problem that is short enough to bypass on local streets, maybe said traffic engineers should spend their time actually FIXING the problem that is causing the traffic jam
agreed. But when 99% of the people have just read 1-2 papers, and there is "consensus", without anyone reproducing any of the experiments, the opinion of the 99% is worth about what my opinion is - aka nothing
The problem is, there is often consensus without duplication, or actual peer review. "If X says it is so, then I agree". The RIGHT answer is "I don't know, but X says it is so" Consensus without duplication of experiment, or at LEAST running your OWN models on the other person's RAW data (if it is too hard to duplicate the data) is herd following
And most of those 60K plus workers are machine learning people earning less than 130K/year? The program cuts won't hurt those guys. They WILL hurt the guys coming in at 60K (the minimum) who are replacing the 45-50 year old programmers earning 100-140K, that they are replacing at less than half the cost, that said 45-50 workers have to TRAIN to do their job
Heck, Yesterday's news (from Friday's release) that there was a "bug" that under reported Not for Profit university student loan default rates, but the same bug didn't effect "for profit" schools, and almost the entire difference in the data was the bug. But because of that, we don't hold not for profit schools to the same rules as for profit. Gee, maybe it is because some of the biggest names, including Ivys would have been charged...
Back before Windows 3.1 (Yes, I was running windows then, in fact I was on the 3.1 beta) there were no GPFs, they WERE UAEs (unrecoverable application errors). The screen was green
BTW, there was actually a joke on the Beta forums, when one of the Devs said "I promise you will NEVER get another UAE, but that is because we renamed them GPFs"
I have a friend who did it for a workshop. His trick? He bought a Reefer (refrigerator) box - already insulated, has a cooling system, that already had shore power!
Hate the Aeron, but I'm a big guy. I don't really like mesh chairs. I happen to like Bodybilt
Back when I used to get this asked all the time it was
1)Good chair 2)Good Monitor - back then, multi monitors was unknown, today I'd say monitors, and I'd say budget putting them on VESA arms 3)Good keyboard. I have a bunch of model Ms - the original IBM ones feel slightly better than the current Unicomps, even if made with the same molds/gear. Three of them are back at Unicomp right now getting cleaned/overhauled. How many companies will clean/restore a 25 year old keyboard (One has a Mfg date in 1992. another 1999, one early 2000s) 4)Good mouse, but these days, that is easy
Basically it comes down to ergonomics
Now as you are building a building, put that rack, and anything like it in it's own room/closet, and SOUNDPROOF it. You'll be shocked how much noise really effects things. It is part of the reason I build my own PCs, to put the quiet gear in, not necessarily the fastest. I don't need blazing video, a nice, relatively slow card that is silent is more important to me
I used to be an audiophile, so you would think I want super audio - nope, just background.
A quiet HVAC system if you are building your own building.
Good lighting. I've had bosses look at me strange when I show up with my own tracklight to setup what I like Basically it is "Make your work space someplace you want to be"
Local time is local time - tied to the sun - somewhat arbitrary - and if I need to exchange time with someone/store a time, I store it in UTC - and maybe with a time zone too, so that we can back figure local time
Oh, and by the way, they ASK nicely for me to not take photos, I won't, and my cell phone is on mute anyway. Ask me to lock it up? That means you don't trust me enough to not use the phone when you asked me to. I really don't stay friends with people who don't trust me to honor their wishes. I'll look at whomever is saying I need to lock up the phone and say "no" - they insist, like I said, I walk out, and at this age, my gift, which is usually in the high 3 to low 4 figure check gets ripped up, and I go home. I will also tell them exactly what I felt in a nice letter, and like I said, tell their parent (who is probably the reason I'm being invited) exactly how I felt. Like I said, ask me not to take out the cell phone, no issue - tell me to lock it up means you don't trust me, fuck off
Really, as I said, it is more likely that I'll be ASKED to bring my camera, and if I know the bride/groom well enough I will. There is more than one bride out there who, in addition to the check, got my bill, and a "Paid in Full" written across it, and they have MY album displayed, not some other photographers
First of all, 1)I won't be taking photos with my cell phone and 2)Guess what? If I am taking your wedding photos, I'm not a guest, unless I really like you. I get PAID to do that (Part time professional photographer)
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Thank you for the correction - I more meant that the LPE exams are "Nationwide", but then you have to register for each state - My bad
TL:DR;, Engineer is a title, granted by the state, not something you get for having an Engineering Degree
Except that Oregon has it simple, you have to be a LPE - Licensed Professional Engineer. That is a NATIONAL license. You take 4 years of approved schooling, and then sit the two LPE exams, and you are an LPE. Interestingly MOST of the exam is Civil Engineering (things like slump of concrete)
They are not the only state that registers engineers, and almost all of them it as simple as be an LPE, and register
Were you see this - real example. Want to put a ham radio tower in your yard? SOME municipalities require the drawings for installation to be "wet stamped" - aka the fact that the Mfg of the tower has down all the numbers that the design is good to XXX, and that the footing should be X sized, they require an LPE from that state to review the drawings, and stamp the drawings with his OK (they can not be photocopied) - aka they are "wet stamped"
Thing is, when an LPE signs off on plans, he is taking the legal responsibilities for those plans. Things go wrong, it is HIS/HER (I'll use he, as the vast majority of LPEs are male) ass on the line for lawsuits and possible criminal responsibility, NOT the company he works for!
This by the way is why we are not "software engineers". If we WERE, it would require a certified Engineer to sign off (first we'd have to agree to what a Certified Software Engineer IS), and that Engineer would be taking legal responsibility for any flaws in the software (not the company, although they may provide his insurance as a benefit)
It is a bit like being a "Member of the Bar" - the degree doesn't mean crap till they are admitted to their local Bar - and you can be Disbarred, and you can't call yourself a lawyer or practice law until you are a member of the bar - You'd have a law degree (JD) but not be a lawyer
BTW, where my daughter is going to school, as an example you can take
Mechanical Engineering - which is recognized by some large number of states, and allows for you to sit LPE
Mechanical Engineering Technology. Only a very small number of states allow this one for you to be called an Engineer.
He can post whatever he wants, but in a lot of states, you can't use the term engineer without registering (and folks, this is why the title "Software Engineer" is Bull). Basically the state wants you to have your Professional Engineering license, which requires certain schooling, and then taking the tests. Joke? Unless you are doing civil engineering, it is generally not REQUIRED, but you can't call yourself an Engineer. You may have a PhD in say Electrical Engineering, but you can't use the term "Engineer"
Unless it is a status email or email where the party I'm emailing knows the info has to go to the boss (as he may want say) I don't CC, but frankly over the years, I've done this when, frankly I _DON'T_ trust the person!
I've had more than one situation over the gasp 40 YEARS I've been working where you'd tell coworker X, and they would deny you did, and you'd have to jump through hoops to make your manager (and sometimes their manager) believe you
The problem is often solved by "CC:Their Manager, Your Manager"
Gee, you mean it makes the person say "CharlieG doesn't trust me" - well DUH.
I won't do it until the first time I'm under the bus because of you, but after that, I'm trying to not only cover MY ass, but also send the message "No, I DON'T trust you" - not only to you, but to my manager and YOUR manager that I no longer trust you.
BTW, there was also probably an email to my manager (in my case, my 'manager' is the CEO), and your manager about why they were being CC'd (aka how you threw me/the project under the bus) that YOU were not CC'd. When you get to the level I'm at, this is usually about a person who reports to a fellow manager, and the CC/BCC might even be going to the CEO/HR as part of a documentation trail
Had a friend who had a pet, then upgraded to a CBM-8032. Sigh, which I could have afforded them, the best I could do was the Vic-20. I did spring the what, $300 or so for the 300 baud Commodore modem, and I forgot the name of the terminal software that used graphics to give you 64 columns. Allowed me to NOT use the keypunch machines in college, but to log in - they gave me a 'terminal account' because I had my own terminal - my account was locked that I could not use an on campus terminal
Commodore Vic-20, with the 5 K ram cart, and a modem - you do NOT want to know what this cost in 1980. I upgraded to the C64 when it came out. By then had two 1541 disk drives
Um, there is a local block that admittedly had a major speeding problem (through a park), and in the active section of the park, they put in no less than 5 speed bumps, about 50-75 yards from each other. The road USED to have a 30MPH speed limit, but was lowered (Like the rest of NYC) to 25MPH. If you take those speed bumps at even 20MPH, you WILL take out your suspension even in a truck with a heavy duty suspension. MAX you can take those bumps safely is 10MPH. Now 1-2 of them would keep you down to 25MPH for the whole stretch, but 5? Come on guys. Folks are now bypassing taking streets with houses and kids - at 25-30MPH. They effectively lowered the max speed of the safest road to 10MPH, and left the road with the kids at 25MPH - smart move
Back when I was having serious pain issues, m MD prescribed me Tramadol. You know what it did? NOTHING that I could tell anyway. Had no effect on me
Does it shock anyone? Most folks just want to use their phones, use the email and SMS, and play a few games. They can't be bothered. Heck, a lot of folks have to have techy person setup their email other than a Gmail/Apple email, as they have no clue, and they have NO clue how to change their password either
If there is a regular enough problem that is short enough to bypass on local streets, maybe said traffic engineers should spend their time actually FIXING the problem that is causing the traffic jam
agreed. But when 99% of the people have just read 1-2 papers, and there is "consensus", without anyone reproducing any of the experiments, the opinion of the 99% is worth about what my opinion is - aka nothing
The problem is, there is often consensus without duplication, or actual peer review. "If X says it is so, then I agree". The RIGHT answer is "I don't know, but X says it is so"
Consensus without duplication of experiment, or at LEAST running your OWN models on the other person's RAW data (if it is too hard to duplicate the data) is herd following
"The Robot isn't licensed, so they are illegal" - now that it is the Wall St types, they will sing another tune
And most of those 60K plus workers are machine learning people earning less than 130K/year? The program cuts won't hurt those guys. They WILL hurt the guys coming in at 60K (the minimum) who are replacing the 45-50 year old programmers earning 100-140K, that they are replacing at less than half the cost, that said 45-50 workers have to TRAIN to do their job
When say a Ham radio operator starts operating on 2.5 Ghz at high power. The ham has legal priority. Too bad, so sad
LG screwed up
Heck, Yesterday's news (from Friday's release) that there was a "bug" that under reported Not for Profit university student loan default rates, but the same bug didn't effect "for profit" schools, and almost the entire difference in the data was the bug. But because of that, we don't hold not for profit schools to the same rules as for profit. Gee, maybe it is because some of the biggest names, including Ivys would have been charged...
Back before Windows 3.1 (Yes, I was running windows then, in fact I was on the 3.1 beta) there were no GPFs, they WERE UAEs (unrecoverable application errors). The screen was green
BTW, there was actually a joke on the Beta forums, when one of the Devs said "I promise you will NEVER get another UAE, but that is because we renamed them GPFs"
I have a friend who did it for a workshop. His trick? He bought a Reefer (refrigerator) box - already insulated, has a cooling system, that already had shore power!
Hate the Aeron, but I'm a big guy. I don't really like mesh chairs. I happen to like Bodybilt
Back when I used to get this asked all the time it was
1)Good chair
2)Good Monitor - back then, multi monitors was unknown, today I'd say monitors, and I'd say budget putting them on VESA arms
3)Good keyboard. I have a bunch of model Ms - the original IBM ones feel slightly better than the current Unicomps, even if made with the same molds/gear. Three of them are back at Unicomp right now getting cleaned/overhauled. How many companies will clean/restore a 25 year old keyboard (One has a Mfg date in 1992. another 1999, one early 2000s)
4)Good mouse, but these days, that is easy
Basically it comes down to ergonomics
Now as you are building a building, put that rack, and anything like it in it's own room/closet, and SOUNDPROOF it. You'll be shocked how much noise really effects things. It is part of the reason I build my own PCs, to put the quiet gear in, not necessarily the fastest. I don't need blazing video, a nice, relatively slow card that is silent is more important to me
I used to be an audiophile, so you would think I want super audio - nope, just background.
A quiet HVAC system if you are building your own building.
Good lighting. I've had bosses look at me strange when I show up with my own tracklight to setup what I like
Basically it is "Make your work space someplace you want to be"
That China will reduce the sales of iPhones, that are manufactured in... China
People pissed off a Republican was elected did this before, starting with South Carolina, 1861 - tell me how that worked out
Local time is local time - tied to the sun - somewhat arbitrary - and if I need to exchange time with someone/store a time, I store it in UTC - and maybe with a time zone too, so that we can back figure local time
AGAIN
And this time openly admitting it. Time to bring back either the MX to replace the MinutemanIII, and re-MIRV the MMIII while we are waiting
Oh, and by the way, they ASK nicely for me to not take photos, I won't, and my cell phone is on mute anyway. Ask me to lock it up? That means you don't trust me enough to not use the phone when you asked me to. I really don't stay friends with people who don't trust me to honor their wishes. I'll look at whomever is saying I need to lock up the phone and say "no" - they insist, like I said, I walk out, and at this age, my gift, which is usually in the high 3 to low 4 figure check gets ripped up, and I go home. I will also tell them exactly what I felt in a nice letter, and like I said, tell their parent (who is probably the reason I'm being invited) exactly how I felt. Like I said, ask me not to take out the cell phone, no issue - tell me to lock it up means you don't trust me, fuck off
Really, as I said, it is more likely that I'll be ASKED to bring my camera, and if I know the bride/groom well enough I will. There is more than one bride out there who, in addition to the check, got my bill, and a "Paid in Full" written across it, and they have MY album displayed, not some other photographers
First of all, 1)I won't be taking photos with my cell phone and 2)Guess what? If I am taking your wedding photos, I'm not a guest, unless I really like you. I get PAID to do that
(Part time professional photographer)