Ok, this is another silly one. I’m an electrical engineer, and as I was cleaning up my desk after completing a new design, it dawned on me that I know & can cite the order of colours in the rainbow far better than most people. In EE we use the colours in the visible spectrum as a code for numbers on parts.
What’s a trivial thing that you are *really* good at because of your work?
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Well, I know 2^X and (2^X) – 1 for X=0->32.
I know how TCP options are encoded.
I know how DNS works.
I know how DHCP works.
I work in risk management, contracted primarily by ins companies. Here is some dog bit info bc it’s what I was working on today.
Despite being only 6% of the total dog population in the US, pit bulls are responsible for nearly 70% of all dog attack fatalities.
In a period from 2005-2017, pit bulls killed 284 people in America. The next closest breed was Rottweiler at 45, then German shepherd at 20.
The average dog bite claim in the us (this includes non fatality, which is the majority) pays $70,000. Lawyers are good at getting this money.
Because of their disproportionate involvement in bites and fatalities, which makes them an increased loss risk for insurance companies, pit bulls have been deemed uninsurable by many property and casualty insurance companies.
To get around that, Pit Bull owners started labeling their dogs as other breeds (lab mix, German shepherd mix, etc…)
In response, many insurance companies that insure apartments and rental homes have started banning all large breed dogs.
So if you ever wonder why your apartment won’t let you have a dog over 50lbs, now you know.
I know how archaic modern electronic banking practices actually are from working in fintech. It’s amazing the systems even work at all.
Currently, I’m playing ‘spot the difference’ between rocks and fish in sonar survey data. Fish have a particular organic flow and you can see ‘through’ them to the seabed.
Formaldehyde is an appetite stimulant, which is why you can be elbow deep in a human cadaver at med school and simultaneously be really hungry for lunch.
From cooking, construction, factory work, and growing up in a desert I’ve found that I know a lot about how to make someone disappear.
Permanently.
Just for kicks, look up how much damage can be done to a human body with 40 lbs of sodium hydroxide. Just add water.
That 9 / 11 was a controlled use of a directed energy beam.
I can make surface area calculations very fast and easy, as well as guestimate distances without measuring them first pretty close.
And most importantly, I can switch from metric to feet without breaking a sweat xD
The term “debugging” was originally checking the old school tape machines for bugs and obstructions. For the tapes and the punch card machines. The early super computers.