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Whatever else she also is, she's absolutely a social media personality.

> full-blown engineer

This, I seriously doubt. As far as I know she's very deep in the DIY/maker scene, but I don't think she's been flashing around a PE cert. Or maybe we have a difference of opinion what a "full-blown engineer" is.

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Naomi Wu is not a US citizen (the English name is a pseudonym). The NSPE is a US-only entity.

There's a lot of engineers out there who wouldn't count as engineers by that metric.

i'm an engineer and i'm not even sure what "PE cert" stands for. certification means very litte.

A Professional Engineer certification can mean "We trust you to work on things where human lives may be at stake". Gatekeeping engineers use this to exclude everyone else. If your screw-up doesn't cost human lives then you're not a real engineer.

> If your screw-up doesn't cost human lives then you're not a real engineer.

This is such a ridiculous, asinine, and outright wrong assertion that it warrants no reasoned response.

In that case please follow the site guidelines, which ask you not to reply.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29023822 also broke the site guidelines. That's not cool, regardless of how bad other comments are or you feel they are.

Would you please review them and take the intended spirit of this place more to heart? We'd appreciate it.

I'm fairly sure the post you're replying you was interpretative-facetious.

I got that, it was directed towards the engineers who act this way. I've met too many of them as well.

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