• MrMamiya@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Ancient engineers: let’s make it work.

    Modern engineers: we need to make sure it breaks at approximately 36 months to ensure low ability to claim warranty while also ensuring the customer believes it could have been a fluke.

    Or, roughly translated into engineer speak…”anyone can build an aqueduct, it takes skill to build an aqueduct using the minimum amount of material required”.

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      I’ve never met an engineer who wanted to intentionally design products to break.

      The beancounters on the other hand…

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        It depends on the way you think about it. When designing, I want all my parts (other than user replaceable wear components) to fail at the same time. That means nothing is the weakest link, failing earlier than the design otherwise could handle.

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    Anyone can design a 70 mile long aqueduct. It takes a skilled engineer to design a 70 mile long aqueduct using the minimal amount of materials necessary.

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    As I learned in engineering school…

    “Any idiot can build a bridge which doesn’t fall down. It takes an engineer to build a bridge which bearly doesn’t fall down”

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    Bahaha! You think an engineer even knows how to work autocad?

    Maybe 10 or 20 years ago, this mighy apply. At this point they leave the hard work for everyone else to figure out and draw up.

    They just grab thier stamp.

    (This, at least, applies to one’s in the US. I apologize to any one who actually applies their degree to their field)