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minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·12 hours agoI 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.
minus-squaredave@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 hours agoI’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.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoThe plastic candy-filled kind…. I hope. Or. I hope they weren’t very good neighbors….
minus-squaredave@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 hours agoNo, tiny bits of hidden software. It’s not a very efficient way of distributing code, but it was fun.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours agoYeah. 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,
minus-squareZoboomafoo@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·11 hours agoI 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
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoProbably better than the scar my cousin has on his thigh from an ad hoc fulcrum catapult.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 hours agoyeah. Gotta be careful with them. even the desktop variety has a lot of energy in the system.
minus-squareJ'Pol @lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 hours agoI’m a machinist, which is kind of engineer adjacent. We make cannons.
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 hours agoCannons are just trebuchets with extra oomph
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.
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.
The plastic candy-filled kind…. I hope.
Or. I hope they weren’t very good neighbors….
No, tiny bits of hidden software. It’s not a very efficient way of distributing code, but it was fun.
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,
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
Probably better than the scar my cousin has on his thigh from an ad hoc fulcrum catapult.
yeah. Gotta be careful with them.
even the desktop variety has a lot of energy in the system.
I’m a machinist, which is kind of engineer adjacent. We make cannons.
Cannons are just trebuchets with extra oomph
Cannons are fun too.
btw, it’s a rite of passage.
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