It looks exactly like c++ and c# and java and probably others.

Which language are we talking here? Cpp? Because typeof hasn’t ever seemed useful to me in how I use cpp or how I have ever really used a language. I also remember it being criticized in java class more than 20 years ago when OOP was solely preached, even for scientific people like me.

It’s just modeling humans. I was only a lab TA for two semesters, and I caught so many fake data sets.

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.

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.

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.

I’m hoping most of big tech and media get broken up

It’s just hope though.

It’s the same gas, and it is dangerous. Not as dangerous as actually inhaling smoke or cooking over a wood fire, but a bit dangerous.

All combustion products, including the ones that are created when you cook food on an electric stove, have a camp fire, or are passed by an ICE car are.

Natural gas does burn pretty cleanly. It does doesn’t burn completely into CO2 and water. Other stuff is created too.

💯🐴🔋(umm, staple)

There should be no need to mention these limitations. They sold be obvious to people using them, and of course there are academic discussions of the limitations of every model. I think they’re just not being presented to you because they’re well known.

Anyone who uses models should know that all models are wrong, but some models are useful.

They all want access to the Chinese market.

This doesn’t appear to be anything new. Traffic engineers have been optimizing lights in large networks for decades.

They just have access to all the data they’ve been collecting on you, which is way more than the traffic meter cords can provide.

Who said anything about lying? Why is this place so toxic.

It’s marketing. They are telling you a story to sell products.

Unless you consider marketing lying, which I suppose is one possible interpretation…

Deciding to make or not make a product is not a simple thing. Lots of decisions are part of it.

They just don’t want to talk about it and want you to buy one of their other products.

What do you mean?

They don’t want to make a product. They say “consumers don’t like it”. You ask for evidence. They say it’s confidential, or they deliberately sabotage the availability of the product and say, “see?”

It’s standard marketing.