Time to rewatch The Wire again…

And your opinion is that software is not a valid engineering discipline?

I am not familiar with the curriculum of every single accredited engineering program in Canada, and few people are. I am fairly confident that I do not know as little about them as you do, however.

You can see the CEAB accredited programs and decide for yourself if they meet your personal criteria – they all seem to include a substantial variety of advanced mathematics.

I’m sensing that you may be an engineer in another discipline who feels jealous that the horde of unregulated software engineers are diluting your title. It’s a valid concern in my opinion, and one that is shared by organizations like PEO who have and will take action on people using the term incorrectly, although their resources and jurisdiction are obviously limited. The key differentiation is between a licensed, professional software engineer with a stamp, and a software developer who was given “engineer” in their title at work.

CAEB accredites Canadian university programs, including civil engineering programs, electrical engineering programs, and yes, software engineering programs. In addition, provincial engineering organizations such as PEO require that all professiomal engineers are employed as engineers in training (EIT) for a period of time, have passed an ethics exam, and are in good professional standing.

TL;DR: yes, officially recognized software engineers are real engineers in Canada.

I’m not sure what you mean about hammers, but I mean build as in implementation, not build as in compile.

“Software Engineer” is a title that is licensed by professional engineering organizations in Canada. Would you acknowledge that it’s “a thing” in Canada?

A programmer builds the software. An engineer designs it.

It’s a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, I have much less time and patience for personal software projects. I prefer to do carpentry or sports as a change of pace. On the bright side though, the experience I’ve gained from working professionally makes the projects I do tackle go much more smoothly than when I was an amateur.

I too enjoy actually writing code. I feel fortunate that I was able to make a career out of something I enjoy so much. I am not sure that most people had that experience. Alas, it seems like the industry is paying me to set up guardrails and supervise AI agents. I am not sure how long this will last, but at least I know that I will always be able to enjoy programming as a hobby if nothing else.

Is there an American defaultism community on Lemmy yet?

10 IF NOTHING CHANGES:
20    NOTHING CHANGES
30 GOTO 10

searches “Plurubus season 2” for the tenth time this year

Yep, which is also why paper ballots are still the de facto standard for democratic elections. Digital voting which is verifiable and yet anonymous is very difficult to get right, especially when it needs to be accessible enough for every citizen to understand.

I have heard good things about Aegis as well, although I went with Ente myself.

You can pop out threads with a command click in Slack, but I don’t know if you can change that to the default behaviour.

ISO-8601 master race

(e.g. 2026-04-24 for the uninitiated)

A 2026 Ford Satellite

I’m just chillin’ in Cedar Rapids.

Until recently I thought that human waste wasn’t used for fertilizer, but I learned that it is. The water treatment plant separates the solids out, composts them, and then it’s sold as “biosolids” to spray on the crop fields.

Let this be your reminder to wash your veggies before eating them!