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  • See i didn’t have that experience. I come from a long line of electrical engineers, and went to a Catholic private university.

    The EEs, save for my mother, are ultraconservative. So I knew what to expect. I went for computer engineering, so my first job out of college was in a contract design services company that was mostly old white men.

    When I got into my current career, which became entirely software focused, I was surprised to see such an array of conservatives, but found many more progressives than previously.

    What I have observed in my 12 years of career is that the conservative individuals are very rigid black and white thinkers. In fact, when my cousin was diagnosed with autism, my uncle remarked that it was pretty weird that every engineer he met seems to fall into that diagnosis. There was already a quiet joke in the family that what they now call Autism was what they called engineers in the 60s-80s.

    That’s not to say autistic individuals are more likely to be conservative - but almost every conservative engineer I know falls right into this description. Interestingly, I know that ASD also has a large crossover with the LGBTQ+ community. It would make sense to me then, that this “programming socks” meme started.

    It all seems to be based around who can accept change and who cannot. This, to me, explains why there are far more progressive programmers than conservative, and the opposite is true for other engineering fields.






  • I didn’t work on the FCC software, I wrote software to test the assembled FCC box, but the feeling was… Similar. I think it was a Moog product that went in an Embraer or the Chinese C919.

    I had 150+ connectors, and they had to provide me values to send to every one of them, and then what to measure on every single output to make sure that there were no shorts, no opens, and no damage to a single component inside of it.

    I had an interview to work on the platform of a weapon system, obviously would require clearance. I got the job. I went down to check out living possibilities, and while I was there, Saudis had bombed a bus full of kids. I figured out that I’d be working on and air to air missile, but the mere thought that I’d be attached to something delivering death sent me into a panick attack that forced me to decline the job. I now work on healthcare systems. It’s a fuckload nicer knowing I’m making people’s lives easier and and saving lives rather than risking them.









  • Sure! It doesn’t do anything yet, I just have a text file with how I’m intending to architect it.

    It quite literally started two four (edit: I can’t keep track of time) days ago.

    I’ll configure a repo, stick this in a file, and push it. I’ll reply with another comment so you (and others) can look it up.

    I’ve come up with some crazy stuff. Instead of something like “class” to indicate a class, it’s

    🏫 Followed by the emoji name of the class like 🖼️📁. So it will need to be able to handle operators in the name it’s amazingly gross! Properties and methods will also be emoji names, like to get the 🖼️📁 “File Name” it would be 📁💳.