| ▲ | revnode 5 days ago |
| Engineering only exists within industry. Everything else is a hobby. |
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| ▲ | uoaei 5 days ago | parent [-] |
| That's simply not true. Engineering can exist outside industry. "Stuff costs money" is not a governing aspect of these kinds of things. FOSS is the obvious counterexample to your absurdly firm stance, but so are many artistic pursuits that use engineering techniques and principles, etc. |
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| ▲ | revnode 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Industry includes FOSS and artistic endeavors, anything that’s done professionally. My intent was to exclude research efforts, which is fundamentally different from engineering, which is a practical concern and not a “get it to just work” concern. | | |
| ▲ | uoaei 4 days ago | parent [-] | | That's an interesting question, the question of whether engineering per se is strictly pragmatic. I personally think drawing a hard line between research and engineering is a misstep and relies too heavily on a bureaucratic kind of metaphysics. |
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