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Garbage Trucks Now Have AI Cameras To Score Your House and Clock Code Violations (www.thedrive.com)
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[–] 136 points 10 hours ago (10 children)

The engineers behind these things need to be heavily blacklisted. “Oh yeah, Justin. He was one of the software engineers behind the garbage truck cameras. Toss his resume in the trash. Erica worked for Flock, toss hers too.”

Employers are already doing this, but I’d love to see it become more prevalent.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

    You'd have to make engineer a protected title for that and enforce membership and chartership with your locally recognised engineering institutions to allow working under the title. They do that in Queensland Australia. It's not enforced in our other states, which is odd given Queensland is Australia's Florida ..

    Getting a job as an engineer in the UK was hard work because every ridiculous job and it's dog was claiming to be an engineering role. The guy terminating a wall socket for your internet connection: telecoms engineer apparently. Rough gig for having burnt 5 years at university ..

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  • [–] 13 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    I'd like this but for the news. Want to say your broadcast is news? It has to adhere to factual standards then. Otherwise it's entertainment.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 hours ago* (2 children)

    We have this in the states but the title is Professional Engineer. Which is the best way of going about it because making “Engineer” a protected title on its own makes no sense.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 hours ago

    PE is a funny sore spot for me. It’s almost impossible to obtain if you’re not working with other PEs, which is unfortunately the vast majority of engineering roles. I think we have one in my company and he’s in a different state. I have a master’s degree in EE and 15 years working as an RF engineer, but I’ll still see a handful of people saying we’re not real engineers because we’re not holding a PE license we’ll never need.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago

    A professional engineer would be someone who's chartered with a recognised engineering institution (Engineers Europe and it's related Orgs in Europe, Engineering Council and related orgs in the UK, Engineers Australia in Australia etc) and the title would depend on the what the institution want to call them. The professional instution outlines ethical and behavioural requirements to maintain membership.

    An Engineer usually refers to someone who does a job related to design and planning for a technical discipline (civil, mechanical, structural, electrical, software etc). The job role usually requires a degree in he engineering disciple, but if you were a particularly fantastic and experienced technical person you might be able to fill the role without one. There will likely be areas of knowledge where you'd be lacking in that case though.

    I'm saying the job role could be made to require the chartership to help enforce adherence to the ethical requirements of those governing institutions.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 hours ago

    Not gonna lie... If I got a good candidate, who is well qualified and not asking a ridiculous salary... I would hire them even if they worked for these evil companies.

    They won't be working for them anymore if I hire them anyways.

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