• FuglyDuck
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    513 months ago

    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]
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      223 months ago

      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

      • FuglyDuck
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        63 months ago

        yeah. Gotta be careful with them.

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

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      93 months ago

      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.

      • FuglyDuck
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        23 months ago

        The plastic candy-filled kind…. I hope.

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

        • @[email protected]
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          73 months ago

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

          • FuglyDuck
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            33 months 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,

          • @helpImTrappedOnline
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            33 months 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.

    • jawa21
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      83 months ago

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