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   Pete Keen (zrail@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Apr-2026 21:20:16 JST Pete Keen

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs eh, I think there's actual engineering and science going on. It's not common but it's there.

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     Howard Chu @ Symas (hyc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Apr-2026 22:15:14 JST Howard Chu @ Symas

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @zrail @thomasfuchs definitely. But most people in computing have almost zero exposure to actual computer science.

     Meanwhile, yes, my degree was in Computer Engineering, in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at UMich's College of Engineering. I practiced real software engineering, at UMich, at JPL writing software for the Space Shuttle, and elsewhere. But I'm also just a hacker at heart.

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     Howard Chu @ Symas (hyc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Apr-2026 22:21:08 JST Howard Chu @ Symas

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs @zrail Fortran. I was a maverick and used C, and eventually helped write JPL's C Coding Standard.