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Other thing about an engineering degree is, if it's a good school, it'll teach you as much about how to go about figuring things out as the specific topics themselves. Not even field-specific technical stuff, but "Here's my goals, how do I figure how to get to them?" or "I don't understand this; what is my strategy for acquiring more information about it?"

(Engineer, for reference.)

Loved legos as a kid. I guess that kind of showed where I was going, huh? Also got lucky that my high school still had design and tech-related electives, so I got a leg up on that before I even hit college.

Worked in a tool & die shop for a small company while I was in college. It was a rough job - small business operating on the razor's edge - but it was a good introduction to real-world manufacturing processes and environments. Having to actually machine and assemble stuff by hand taught me more about designing for manufacturability than any course ever could, and I think every engineer should spend some time making things before they try and design them. Definitely wouldn't call that particular business enjoyable, though.

Got my first real engineering position at a power generating company. Interesting place. Burned literal turns of garbage to generate power and recycle almost anything they could. Very safety-focused. Honestly, if the commute hadn't been absolutely awful, I might have stuck it out with them longer, but "spend two hours of your day driving" was just terrible.

Then found my current position, which is as an engineer at a smaller high-tech company in aerospace. Hours are great, co-workers are fantastic, the job is interesting, I like my boss, pay and benefits are absolute dogshit.

The engineering field is definitely one of those where you're "encouraged" to shop around and switch jobs every few years. I don't know why. It's terrible. Terrible for employees and terrible for businesses, who are perpetually losing institutional knowledge. I don't know why they don't fix this. I'm coming up on the point where I'm going to have to choose between "a comfortable job" and "a well-paying job", and I don't know what I'll do.

TLDR: timing is everything.

Boy do I hear that.

I've always heard that the local/regional airlines are absolutely miserable in the pressure they put on pilots, but also the only good way to get a career started. Do you have a sense that the big airlines are looking to have any kind of rookie hire / training program, or are they content to use the regionals as a filter / feeder unit?

These are all really good reasons to purchase digital media, but the comment above still has a great point that this is super subjective and we can't answer for you. In the end, I echo their sentiment that "if you think the song is worth the price then go for it".

I'm frankly rather concerned about the idea of crowdsourcing or voting on "reliability", because - let's be honest here - Lemmy's population can have highly skewed perspectives on what constitutes "accurate", "unbiased", or "reliable" reporting of events. I'm concerned that opening this to influence by users' preconceived notions would result in a reinforced echo chamber, where only sources which already agree with their perspectives are listed as "accurate". It'd effectively turning this into a bias bot rather than a bias fact checking bot.

Aggregating from a number of rigorous, widely-accepted, and outside sources would seem to be a more suitable solution, although I can't comment on how much programming it would take to produce an aggregate result. Perhaps just briefly listing results from a number of fact checkers?

"...can I join too?"

Another revanced lover here. You're not alone. It takes away nothing and adds so much.

Absolutely!

Sometimes it feels like there's Linus and politics.

Guy sets a bluetooth speaker down on a seat, and then proceeds to do a full gymnastic dance routine right there in the subway car. Plenty of "regular" dancing, but also handstands, hanging from the rails, spinning on the floor, walking on the walls, the works. All well-timed to the music.

Didn't ask for money. Just got off at the next station. Dude just wanted to dance, I guess.

All the awful behavior in this thread, and then here's you and your buddies just genuinely being good people for this woman. I love it.

We are investigating in sort of “Community organized Bias / Fact check” but this commes with their own issues

To say the least. That actually sounds mildly terrifying; it either opens you up to individuals' biases being presented as the community's views, or would makes the decision subject to whoever organizes a "louder" group to dominate the decision making. Both are rather alarming for a community like this.

Not really doing anything wrong. Unfortunately, hunting in wormholes is a very hit-or-miss affair at best, with more misses than hits. I can explain the deeper reasoning behind this in greater depth if you like, but the ultimate point is that the odds of finding a hole with active people in it aren't super high.

What you might be better off doing is finding a wormhole with a nullsec connection, and then hanging out in there. That way you can pop out and harass any locals, using the map to check for nearby activity if there's no one else immediately there.