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by dimaor 914 days ago
How is this called engineering where there is no material with properties that can be worked with?
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adleyjulian 913 days ago
Financial engineer, software engineer, social engineering... etc are counter examples to requiring physical materials with properties.

Even from an etymology standpoint engineer comes from the Latin ingenium meaning clever.

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dimaor 913 days ago
software engineers work with the chips, which have an API and from my POV it is a property.

that is a portion of what I have been referring to.

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minimaxir 914 days ago
What's social engineering, then?
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dimaor 913 days ago
I think I have been misread, the whole point of my comments is to realize that anyone can staple engineering and make you think this is something someone actually thought and went through, which is usually, not.
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dimaor 913 days ago
not a science. joking, friend.

I am not really sure how to answer this question, seems like a bunch of skills.

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