Atrocious clickbait title. Chimps were found to prefer flexible stick sources to get ants. That's it.
Chimpanzees act as 'engineers', choosing materials to make tools
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#13Up next, a story about how ants act as 'engineers' - choosing soft-enough-to-dig ground, that is not waterlogged, to build their nests.
After that, maybe a story about plant 'engineers', growing toward the sun.
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#14Up next, a story about how ants act as 'engineers' - choosing soft-enough-to-dig ground, that is not waterlogged, to build their nests. After that, maybe a story about plant 'engineers', growing toward the sun.
All the while programmers are not engineers but craftsmen, because... we don't use slide rules or something.
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#15Damn we gotta ante up, if they're taking away my title of engineer and giving it to chimps, guess I'll just find a job where they can issue me "Doctor" job title. "Doctor and Principal Cybersecurity Engineer" sounds good.
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#16Up next, a story about how ants act as 'engineers' - choosing soft-enough-to-dig ground, that is not waterlogged, to build their nests. After that, maybe a story about plant 'engineers', growing toward the sun.
All the while programmers are not engineers but craftsmen, because... we don't use slide rules or something.
I think it's more that we don't follow ethical rules or something
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
All the while programmers are not engineers but craftsmen, because... we don't use slide rules or something.
I think it's more that we don't follow ethical rules or something
It's because there's no liability. In my country you need liability insurance to be an engineer.
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#18I thought this would be more relatable, like, "chimpanzee engineers found pretending to managers about estimates, chimpanzee managers found pretending to listen".
“Chimpanzee closes Jira ticket, with acceptance criteria met but product not functional.”
“Chimpanzee ticks unmet acceptance criteria and closes ticket, knowing those with power don’t care and those who care don’t have power.”
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#19fruits: lower, tastier, juicier. Choose two
The ones on the higher branches are for crows to pluck.
Maybe a few of the best will fall when a storm comes but by and large these rot in the sun.
It’s strange how much animals love fruit. All fruit.