Topic: Engineers became dumb when they stopped using slide rulers.
+Anonymous A — 11 months ago #66,124
Engineers became dumb when they stopped using slide rulers.
Think about it. So many complex systems, like idk, car suspensions and airplanes, not even talking about electrical stuff, all this back in the day were designed using sliding ruler and graphs... And it all worked.
Engineers had a hands-on experience of designing systems and thus understood their shit on the intuitive level.
They could design parameters of a system without thinking.
And nowadays? Just bunch of monkeys putting random values in matlab or any other simulator (which is based on numerical methods) praying it would work.
Think about it. So many complex systems, like idk, car suspensions and airplanes, not even talking about electrical stuff, all this back in the day were designed using sliding ruler and graphs... And it all worked.
Engineers had a hands-on experience of designing systems and thus understood their shit on the intuitive level.
They could design parameters of a system without thinking.
And nowadays? Just bunch of monkeys putting random values in matlab or any other simulator (which is based on numerical methods) praying it would work.
+Anonymous B — 11 months ago, 4 hours later[T] [B] #660,226
I'm waiting for them to AI-ify it. I can't wait for cars with frog legs for suspension or melted wings on planes.
+Anonymous C — 11 months ago, 7 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[T] [B] #660,255
Loved just loved using one. EXCEPT that one time running to classroom for test and I dropped it. Fixed it in time but damn made my heart beat to max at test time.Alas them were the days.
+Anonymous D — 11 months ago, 4 hours later, 16 hours after the original post[T] [B] #660,263
@previous (C)
I have to admit, even the big calculators were cool (graphing and regular) the non-technical kids used.
I have to admit, even the big calculators were cool (graphing and regular) the non-technical kids used.
+Anonymous E — 11 months ago, 9 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #660,302
just imagine where we'd be today if engineers still used slide rules and corporations weren't trying to force yearly obsolescence