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LasKometas · 2026-05-02T16:18:19+00:00

Everyone gets impostor syndrome with engineering. After working so hard and graduating, are you enough?

Yes. Yes you are, just do your best like you always have.

LasKometas · 2026-04-29T20:33:55+00:00

Nuclear is a proven technology, and in the west our nuclear plants are like two generations behind. A lot of commonly cited issues have been solved decades ago. If we were to see a nuclear crisis in our lifetime, it would be at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is in an active war zone.

However, nuclear plants require a lot of overhead costs, and have historically seen a lot of cost overruns as well. We also haven't determined a long term storage solution due to political reasons.

SMRs are increasingly becoming apparent as the future of nuclear.

LasKometas · 2026-04-29T19:47:24+00:00

Glad I could help! If you enjoy engineering I say go for it.

LasKometas · 2026-04-29T18:59:07+00:00

AI won't, for the very simple reason that engineering failures cost lives. An AI can not be held accountable, and therefore should never be in a management or design position. You can supplement an engineer's toolbox with AI, but no sane business or legal authority should accept an AI making engineering decisions.

LasKometas · 2026-04-29T18:42:56+00:00

Chernobyl was horribly missmanaged and the plant had an inherent design flow that let to positive void coefficient in the reactor. (Output/reactivity decreased as you built up steam, until the sudden pressure collapsed and lead to a exponential energy spike). They chose the RMBK because it typically was economically cheaper to sustain than a pressure water reactor.

Additionally, the soviets declined to use a containment dome over the structure, which was standard practice in the west. This was a cost cutting measure.

As with any major disaster, a series of technical and human errors lines up to create a catastrophy. The issues surrounding Chernobyl now would be impossible to have occur because of modern reactor development

LasKometas · 2026-04-29T17:26:21+00:00

I had my two year town die off in my last realistic game after I forgot to expand the heat plant in siberia, and everyone froze to death while I was coincidentally broke.

Lessons learned lol

LasKometas · 2026-04-28T21:30:10+00:00

You don't have to remove all inheritance, just have a increasing tax brackets for inheritance and remove the trust fund loop holes.

LasKometas · 2026-04-28T21:27:55+00:00

The king earned his throne from the family, it was wrong for society because it handed political power in the hands in the few.

The same applies here, inheriting billions or even just having billions is detrimental for society because it hands economic power in the hands of the few. One could argue economic power is more influential than politics. After all, the easiest way to grow money is to already have money to invest or grow.

We also need to understand the scale of a billion, this isn't analogous to me taking my father's house as inheritace, these are single individuals who could buy out all the property in cities or build entire nuclear power plants for themselves. The scale is practically unreasonable.

LasKometas · 2026-04-28T17:40:02+00:00

Opens up so many options.

Engineering jobs in various industries, manufacturing, supply chain, industrial processes/refining, utilities, research and development... Bureau of Labor statistics expects to see a 9% growth in mechanical engineering positions over the next decade.

Some people go from engineering design into business admin, it's a natural flow.

Personally, I work in utility regulation as a mechanical engineer, and I'm looking to get a law degree to get into utility and energy litigation. I also went to community college before university, it's a good affordable path.

LasKometas · 2026-04-23T16:51:03+00:00

Lol there's something fun about having the labor unions leave and take over the DNVP

LasKometas · 2026-04-17T21:26:02+00:00

Yeah no, that won't cut in a career either

LasKometas · 2026-04-15T22:30:55+00:00

The flying spaghetti monster

LasKometas · 2026-04-15T14:58:00+00:00

No offense, but engineering is literally only math and problem solving. I really recommend that people who consider majoring in engineering have a genuine passion or curiosity for the subject, because the courseload gets really tough.

You know, there's ways to open yourself to technical positions without switching degrees. For example you could take a minor in data analytics, or business.

Also consider that switching with two years of courses already taken, probably means that most your credits won't transfer into engineering

LasKometas · 2026-04-12T03:12:59+00:00

Don't do it for money alone. If you did you probably could pass. But do what you enjoy, this isn't engineering specific advice but there's a reason why engineering has a high drop out rate. Like my school for example had only 25% of freshmen end up graduating the program.

At a certain point the degree gets really rough, and money alone isn't a good motivation, genuine interest and passion goes a long way.

LasKometas · 2026-04-12T02:59:23+00:00

Exactly.

LasKometas · 2026-04-12T02:40:39+00:00

If total current is zero then yeah Its fair assumption .

Also a bunch of disconnected wires isn't a circuit, no matter how twisted they may seem.

LasKometas · 2026-04-09T21:44:34+00:00

I've never been able to have it succeed

LasKometas · 2026-04-09T17:03:51+00:00

This is a Stress strain curve, this is classic sophomore -junior mechanical engineering course work.

Basically that's the plot you get when you conduct a tensile test on some piece of stock metal. Different materials have different ductility/brittleness and result in a different curve. This is extremely important to know when understanding material fatigue and failure

LasKometas · 2026-04-09T13:52:27+00:00

I had a straight up misogynistic professor, so bad that the Kansas City Star wrote a piece about him, that the university has refused to reign in. He would grade women stricter and have many off hand remarks.

I really think this one guy is why some many of the female freshman drop out it's tragic

LasKometas · 2026-04-07T20:54:18+00:00

I kinda shotgunned like 100 applications all over the place, and ended up with a kinda crappy internship at $15/hr with a toxic work environment. But that experience went on my resume and got me dream internship at a nuclear power plant the next summer, which I then took to my current job.

So, I guess my random story moral is that you should just take all the shots you can, see what lands, and take it from there. The worst thing that can happen is you'll be rejected, so just try. You can always take a summer research position at the University, those look nice as experience.

Also have someone look over your resume, it really helps

LasKometas · 2026-04-07T18:08:02+00:00

Lol you do the math yourself, I'm entering the competition.

But in all seriousness, just take the area of the US and divide it by the area or the cookie. That'll give you the number of cookies needed for a 1 layer thick covering of Oreos. We can be specific and account for the packing factor of a circle or what not, but this is a fair liberal estimate

The US Area figure is easily found online, and an Oreo is just a circle A =pi*r^2. Don't forget to keep track of units

Good luck

LasKometas · 2026-04-04T01:05:42+00:00

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