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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Which are used to calculate stresses for dams, fluid dynamics for planes and ships, capacity and load simulations for power, and to compile and operate servers.

Software engineers are the pinnacle of engineering.

Check out this book on Amazon (or your library) to see just how clever and useful we really are.

https://www.amazon.com/Software-Engineering-Foundation-of-Modern-Society/dp/B07X66DCLM

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you need a book to tell you how useful you are, chances are, it's claims might.be a bit overblown. The profession that has most of those.books written about them are managers after all. Just saying.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You didn’t click it, did you?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

We are useful?? Thanks You Man I hope my parents also understand that Software Engineering is also a real Engineering

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This person really went and promoted Amazon. Thank you for supporting your family business

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

(click the link)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meh. There's a saying in my field: "anyone can build a bridge, only an engineer can make one that barely doesn't fall down".

Humorously reductive as it is, software is what makes that "barely" thinner than human calculation would normally yield. So... Yeah. Not what I'd call a pinnacle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you look at the book I linked?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No cuz, the link doesn't properly load 😂

E: try searching for just the ASIN: B07X66DCLM and note that I'm using the one you provided!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahh. It’s a boutique link that points to Amazon Digital Purchase of Rick Astleys Never Gonna Give You Up.

E.g. my post was a red herring

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it loaded after searching the ASIN hahaha