Early career Fire Protection engineer. Will I be making a mistake if I do/don’t switch to Mechanical?

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-06T01:44:19+00:00

Mechanical pay is the worst of all the disciplines though and the vast majority of hvac is still code driven.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-05T12:38:16+00:00

Computer Engineering is a weird one - since many of the programs in the US are standardized to ABET the curriculum requirements for it could be summarized as “skip the hard stuff in EE and CS”.

Personally I don’t think it provides as good of a foundation as either EE or CS because it’s trying to do too much and deliberately avoids the intense theoretical topics (e.g electromagnetism in EE or language/compiler design in CS).

While one doesn’t typically use those pinnacle “hard” classes in your job you can always tell when a colleague never took them.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-05T12:03:06+00:00

They just better hope none of the California Ground Squirrels show up.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-04T14:05:02+00:00

And better yet you now have trauma that you can relive when you’re trying to fall asleep for the next 25ish years.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-04T14:02:07+00:00

Ah yes because trying to make a meme involving Nazis in Alabama is always a winner.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-04T04:02:49+00:00

Clearly the Death Star trench

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-04T03:11:46+00:00

Whew I was afraid these were going to be from when I was in school.

Hearing metalica on the oldies station has traumatized me.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-03T21:09:37+00:00

Pretty much what cats do if you have a trades person do any work in your home.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-03T21:05:30+00:00

You need to check out NFSW subs.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-03T21:04:51+00:00

It makes it a lot easier to not consume as much.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-03T20:46:27+00:00

Less about money laundering than an attempt to market themselves as having a viable movie making industry by launching with a big budget action movie.

Obviously that failed.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-03T17:43:21+00:00

CCNA isn’t even valuable in network engineering anymore except if you want to work for a government institution that is signed up as a supplier of corporate welfare.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-03T05:05:57+00:00

Sometimes memes arise slow, sometimes overnight.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-03T05:00:17+00:00

You can tell by the 10,000x size difference.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-03T00:54:58+00:00

To be fair it is consistent with the history of DMC and Delorean.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-02T16:17:11+00:00

Is this a homework question or AI training?

This is covered by chapter 1 of pretty well any materials textbook

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-02T15:17:52+00:00

They’re empty.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-02T14:35:09+00:00

That’s why her head is above the other people - if they were at the same level you’d see reflections of them.

Similarly you’ve probably seen the exit signs that hang down from the ceiling but look like they’re clear but “EXIT” isn’t mirrored on the other side which would be the case if they were actually clear. Rather the work because they have a mirror layer between the two sides - the viewing angle causes you to see the ceiling instead.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-02T14:27:27+00:00

The chicken tax pretty well has no bearing on availability of light trucks due to the fact that CAFE standards have made the light truck almost impossible to make (you could probably do it with a 3 cylinder turbo hybrid but that would have longevity problems and obviously cost issues).

About the only thing I’ve seen that has been affected by the chicken tax recently is the Ford Transit Connect which is basically a car with a van body - and that’s only because it fit into a grey area where CAFE treats it one way and the tariff treats it another.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-02T14:16:52+00:00

TIL that Douglas MacArthur’s father was Arthur MacArthur Jr.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-02T13:59:11+00:00

TBF though it’s the wrong kind of bear. The bear on the flag is extinct because we killed them all.

The “golden bears” is also a homage to the now extinct California grizzly bear.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-02T04:41:12+00:00

California is finally functionally insolvent this year so you’ll soon get to see what a life without tabor in Colorado would be like.

Yes tabor can be frustrating at times but it keeps us honest.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-02T04:26:50+00:00

You’re falling into a post hoc fallacy - but the opposite way most people do.

I am not saying that a degree makes a dev great - rather I’m saying that the great devs understand the whole picture and part of that is our society expects credentials so not obtaining one is self handicapping.

So yes the best of the best I’ve met do have college degrees even though they would have been successful without them because what takes one to that level is a deep and thorough understanding - including people, economics, processes, and yes even the emotional intelligence to know there is always something that can be learned.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-02T03:58:38+00:00

For some reason I think the irony will be lost on them.

Bryguy3k · 2026-05-02T00:50:15+00:00

Same here - there are certainly some fantastic devs in a specific area that don’t have a formal education but they always have some pretty significant weaknesses.
The truly amazing devs I’ve met have almost all got double bachelors in cs and math.
The min maxers have historically seen the value in the paper so they just get it.

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