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Re:Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously compl... by arethuza on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @04:48AM (#22307433)
"I avoid new technology, exactly because I'm an engineer."

I would never call myself an engineer, although I have worked in environments where there were lots of engineers (not in the software world) and one definition of "engineering" that I heard was:

"Meeting the requirements while doing as little new as possible"

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Re:Apple engineer killed in Tesla crash had previously compl... by rwmurrayVT on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @09:04AM (#22308869)
That's a very accurate definition in the mechanical world. Every junior engineer with an overly complicated, cutting edge, unproven idea gets shot down pretty quickly. In our shipyard safety is more important than anything else. After that is cost.
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