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I'd wager good money the exact opposite is true.

Big factories should be better regulated and more professional leading to less accidents. It's the weekend dad with a beer in his hand trying to get something done quickly that saws through their tendon and fucks up their wrist.

Also python is definitely not as simple as a hammer and hand-saw.




Allow me to direct your attention to one of the internet's hidden gems:

https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow...

Beyond that, these metaphors have gotten too out of hand to have a meaningful conversation :)


If you let an arrogant idiot loose on a 15kw CNC machine, they will without a doubt cause a massive injury to them, and given the power to others. If you let them loose on a pillar drill they might get a scratch and a broken bit.

Of course no company would ever let a newbie loose on a multi million pound CNC machine without a battery of training.

And this is where the engineering part of "software engineering" falls down. Companies rarely provide training, documentation or audit trail for junior devs.

All something required if you were doing real engineering.




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