It certainly makes for good HN discussion fodder :) FWIW, I've had the "Real Engineering" discussion before -- way more in depth than you illustrated here. My

It certainly makes for good HN discussion fodder :) FWIW, I've had the "Real Engineering" discussion before -- way more in depth than you illustrated here. My grandparent response above is probably a bit of pent-upness towards those discussions more than anything about your article in particular.