Monitor the room temperature.

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Different disciplines - different thresholds. But yeah, that’s exactly it.

With software engineering, the unknown space is vast, yet the tools are great. So it’s very easy to start tinkering and get lost in the process.

That’s how engineers think in their free time.

When the specific goal is something I can do manually, and it’s not pressing, I would rather spend time learning how to make a tool to do it. I might not need the tool ever, I do use the knowledge picked up on those forays every day.

It’s because Unix was created by engineers rather than by ui/ux design professionals.

This is somewhat disingenuous. Unix terminal is one of the most ergonomic tools out there. It is not “designed by engineers”, it is engineered for a purpose with user training in mind.

Ergonomics is engineering. UI/UX design is engineering. UX designer that doesn’t apply engineering method is called an artist.