• FuglyDuck
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      3910 hours 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.

      • @dave@feddit.uk
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        43 hours 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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          13 hours ago

          The plastic candy-filled kind…. I hope.

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

          • @dave@feddit.uk
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            53 hours 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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              23 hours 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,

      • @Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net
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        179 hours 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

      • J'Pol
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        99 hours ago

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

    • Annoyed_🦀 A
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      48 hours ago

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