• Garfunkel@lemmy.caB
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    9 hours ago

    Meanwhile I, systems engineer wonders why the IT dude called himself an “engineer”

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      7 hours ago

      it dude? lol. i make robotics. including computer vision and ml. worry not. i’ll think of you every time an algorithm gets too many layers and starts to smell like an ai.

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        7 hours ago

        Computer vision and machine learning has little to do with robotics, but alright since you seem to work with know something about thermodynamics and are not a sys_admin like all the desk jockeys, i ll be nice and call you the E word.

        But robotics itself is such a small niche that random people invoke because they see it in movies that I am skeptical to believe it as a systems and automation engineer, that s basically as close as 95% of engineer will ever get to robotics unless you re in China (mechatronics is not robotics btw) or work for Kuka/ABB…

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          7 hours ago

          lol. say that to my 6 axis machine that picks and pours and places.

          bad bot. try again.

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            7 hours ago

            So we went from “i make robotics” to figuring out you re a CNC operator typing in G-code…? listen man, pure theoretical engineering and using mastercam or whatever MCAD/CAD software to cut up some chunk of 6061 aluminium or soft steel is not the same, and I say this as someone who has done both.

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              7 hours ago

              lol. no. i work in sample processing. so the bot (denso mostly), while running mostly via java (i wish it wasnt but its before my arrival) and modbus comms, also uses mv to determine orientation which informs the movement. no g code.

              i never used g code. i’m old. grew up with dad running bridgports manually.

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                6 hours ago

                Really cool to hear and my mistake, I am used to people pretending to be engineers far more often than being engineers, If I can ask, what s the denso for?

                Also Bridgeports are dope, I loved to machine steel at the labs in school, but Im a bit younger haha, the bridgeports were 75yo, tried to tear my arms off because who needs machine security? and my profs would tell me to stick to them “because you ll be a sissy if you spend all your time on the rinky dink newer chinese mills”