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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    You’re not much of an engineer if you can’t see how fallacious your argument is.

    Memorizing endless arcane trivia that changes every six months is a parlor trick, not engineering.

    The same way memorizing all the SCPI commands of your oscilloscope doesn’t make you an engineer.

    • milk@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 hours ago

      That’s actually one of the reasons I didn’t like it. It focuses almost entirely on Cisco router/switch/whatever else setup and gives only minimal background on the actual theory behind networking. That wouldn’t be so bad if this wasn’t the extent of my engineering undergrad experience with networking. We didn’t even technically get the certification because apparently netacad doesn’t count despite being the same content