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[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 week ago (5 children)

To be pedantic, that's still covered under E

[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 days ago (6 children)

I don’t know of a single engineer who has never built a trebuchet.

I’m not even a “proper” engineer and I have like, five desktop trebs, 2 ballistae and some other odds and ends (3d printed, of course,)

It’s like, a right of passage or something.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I have a scar over my eye from a trebuchet I built in high school, then I went to college for engineering, so that checks out

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

yeah. Gotta be careful with them.

even the desktop variety has a lot of energy in the system.

[–] vaultdweller013 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Probably better than the scar my cousin has on his thigh from an ad hoc fulcrum catapult.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Uhoh, this about to turn into that scene from Lethal Weapon where they are comparing scars...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

I’m a software engineer, but now I feel like I need to build a trebuchet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I’m a software engineer and I built a trebuchet during lockdown to launch Easter eggs at the neighbours’ gardens since we weren’t allowed to go see them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The plastic candy-filled kind…. I hope.

Or. I hope they weren’t very good neighbors….

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

No, tiny bits of hidden software. It’s not a very efficient way of distributing code, but it was fun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Rember kids, if you find a USB stick in your easter egg, run home and plug it in to get free candy in Roblox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah. You’re not allowed to stuff Easter eggs for Easter.

Also, we’ll add “get the Halloween candy”, too. Probably give people apple 2’s or something,

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I'm a machinist, which is kind of engineer adjacent. We make cannons.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Cannons are just trebuchets with extra oomph

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Cannons are fun too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

In CNC as well, can confirm, cannons are made

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

btw, it's a rite of passage.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Mother, 33, stops being a scientist to do science.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

~~science~~ engineering

Siege engineering to be precise

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And M. A lot of M actually. And S. Also T. Put some A in it to make it not threatening.

[–] Willy 1 points 6 days ago

no M here. you can just launch shot and need no M to explain it. have you ever had fun?

[–] Lucidlethargy 1 points 6 days ago

I mean, if this were 1400 AD, sure...