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I try to spice it up with some VB Macros but it's still ultimately just a spreadsheet. (sopuli.xyz)
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So many spreadsheets.

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[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 weeks ago

As an engineer, this hits close to home.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Engineers: So we had all this complicated theory, but no one can calculate that stuff by himself. Here's a linear aproximation formula and 50 pages of tables where you just look up the values for the factors given certain conditions.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

The complicated math is for the one guy who made the tables and charts. The rest of you just look it up. It's fine, it's how we've always done it. Even sending people to the Moon had lookup tables for precalculated things. Although those guys were legend, ever try to use a sliderule?

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

When your "calculator" is a room full of women, mostly black, it is kinda hard to fit them all into the orbiter.

Edit: I just realized that the "mostly black" came off like I was saying that us part of the reason they would not fit in the orbiter. I was trying to acknowledge the impact and importance of these black women in history, but I am autistic and fail hard at SQ communication.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

I comprehended it as meant, and you're right, give credit where it's due.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Depending on the field, later in your career you can often skip the spreadsheets and get away with just saying, "That looks close enough,." If you have enough seniority people will assume you know what you're talking about.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Join the technicians in the field who get to laugh at engineers, its more rewarding

Edit: sales get the commission tho :(

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

"Be a Mechanical Engineer, then you get to hate nearly everyone including yourself." A Mech. Engineer told me this after we both had a really long day. If you pay attention to those guys, you'll find that they know more than most because they play the parts of Engineer, Tech, and Liaison

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

There's a reason we called it Anger Mech in school

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Thats the great thing abput being a electrical engineer, people wont laugh at you but they will ask you to fix their house wirering. And once you just look at a pcb and casually tell them what the parts off it do you blow their mind.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

As an engineer, this is missing a first bump where you stop doing "basic operations" still in school, and develop an intrinsic fear of "numbers and counting".

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

As another engineer, not at all 🤨

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Computer engineer checking in. Same here!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Hopefully you utilize Python instead of Excel for data management. Unless you have non-engineers or tech-illiterate people on your team or adjacent teams lol

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Why not both. I once wrote an abomination that read and wrote data into a Google Spreadsheet, interacting with formulas in the spreadsheet in the process.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Jesus Christ

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I hope there's a place worse than hell

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh Lord. Before I found power bi 15 or so years ago I made interactive speeadsheets that did a lot of querying directly towards sql based on a set of input cells. Did a lot of crunching on the data merging data fetched from different database etc before presenting them in their own sheets. The worst part is that it was a huge leap from what we did earlier. Then I would write sql queries and dump the result to Excel every time management needed data.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I mostly use sql for data management stuff through c# .NET. But there is a lot of Excel and power bi towards the numbers people.

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