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Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) by ryanmonroe on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @03:46PM (#18243026)
Well you have to make your decisions based on something right? I'm not sure what you're advocating here, unless it's that we shouldn't think about life decisions too hard. The fact that math is involved doesn't automatically mean the reasoning is shallow.
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Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) by Apocryphon on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @03:49PM (#18243046)
It's referring to the engineer's disease:

https://ask.metafilter.com/297591/Origin-of-the-term-Enginee...

You see it in popular commentary sometimes- the ideas of engineers, often specifically software engineers, claiming unique knowledge by deriving from first principles, in fields they are but laymen in.

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Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) by Kiro on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:09PM (#18243253)
I rather trust an engineer in random subjects than anyone else that is not a professional in the field.
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Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) by Apocryphon on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:17PM (#18243342)
Why? Why not doctors? Physicists? Geologists? Scientists of other disciplines? Mathematicians? Statisticians? Why give engineers- and I presume, software engineers, specifically- that extra credit?
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Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) by pathseeker on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:47PM (#18243649)
Clearly because software engineers are the only people gifted with the true ability to reason. All other lowly professions just memorize facts in books. /s
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Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) by Kiro on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:50PM (#18243686)
People really seem to hate software engineers here.
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Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) by Apocryphon on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:16PM (#18243889)
People dislike arrogance, and are embarrassed by peers giving their field a bad name through arrogance.
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Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) by pathseeker on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:49PM (#18243673)
>Well you have to make your decisions based on something right? I'm not sure what you're advocating here

Um, don't make-up stupid reasons to do things and justify it with math while ignoring the advice coming from experts in human biology.

The GP's same line of reasoning could be used to justify doing cocaine every night. Think of all the extra time you are getting!

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Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) by rconti on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @05:47PM (#18244134)
It's the same kind of thing we get with politics, where people decide what they believe, and then work backwards to acquire evidence for it.
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Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) by rhacker on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:03PM (#18245128)
It's not just politics. We're so hard wired with everything.
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