GarnetFloride

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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
I remember some of that. One of my first jobs was a summer internship where I had to setup the engineering computers. They had AutoCAD and Ventura Publisher and one used expanded memory and the other extended memory. I setup batch files to
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
Fullmetal Alchemist had a plot point where critical information was hidden in a cookbook. So sure why not have that happen in real life.
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Its interesting. Something is going on, obviously, yet you have Brandon Sanderson publishing 400k+ word books that are quite popular. So maybe it is partially a motivational issue?
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | Utah or remote | Technical Writer Core skills: technical writing, information development, knowledge management. Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vou9f9gwqzvn8rmjf7seq/Steve
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
Location: Orem, UT, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Technical writing, Knowledge management, XML, DocSys, HTML, Markdown, bash, PowerShell, SQL Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/v
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
My SIL has a new house, built in the last 5 years, and the kitchen SUCKS. There's a big island in the middle of it that makes it impossible to make a trip to any other part of the kitchen in a straight line and its so big that it is ha
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
I am an amateur radio operator and looking into the history of it, you quickly run into the telegraph, and telegraph operators would talk about things like the weather. It didn't take long before they realized that the weather in a pla
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
I am working on a presentation about meals in space that I'll be giving just before Thanksgiving to some writers. I am also working on cataloging my books. This will be my third try and I'm just using a spreadsheet this time. One
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
Checklist automation is a very powerful tool. Making a script that just calls the checklist that you walk through is the first step because you have to debug the checklist. It's really hard to automate something if you don't reall
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The Animator's Survival guide taught me about project management. The Design of Everyday Things taught me about how people interact with things. Ender's Game taught me to think outside the box. Fairytales taught me dragons can
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
Tom Swift series, they have aged badly but the science adventure parts of it steered me into engineering. Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffery gave me an introvert as a role model.
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Here's the thing, they are making dozens, even hundreds of the same dish, every day. They are going to become intimately familiar with how it's supposed to be. This is on top of having created similar dishes tens of thousands of
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
Location: Orem, UT, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Technical writing, Knowledge management, XML, DocSys, HTML, Markdown, bash, PowerShell, SQL Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/f
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
I first have to proclaim my love for cookbooks. We have over half a bookcase full of cookbooks. Do we use all the recipes from all of them, of course not but there are some great recipes we have found in some of them. We have more than a co
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
I remember a project that used two iPod minis to create 3D (red/blue) videos, so it is possible.
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
Location: Orem, UT, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Technical writing, Knowledge management, XML, DocSys, HTML, Markdown, bash, PowerShell, SQL Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/f
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
I would highly recommend first of all reading "Peopleware" and "Mythical Man-month" which are all about making this type of decision. Since this is data exchange, you need to map out the data flows your company does and
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
I grew something very like that in a company once. That was a glorious time. I was working as tech support and began writing down the answers to problems I was solving with customers because I noticed multiple calls on the same subject and
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
Location: Orem, UT, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Technical writing, Knowledge management, XML, DocSys, HTML, Markdown, bash, PowerShell, SQL Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/f
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
I've looked a bit at military history and it is interesting to see how consistent they generally are. They'll have a squad of about 10, though the variance can be up to 50%, grouped into companies of ~100, grouped into legions of
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
Yeah, that's a big one. In one case I reproduced a bug that had been plaguing us for a decade but could never seem to reproduce when it happened to a customer. Then the lore came out that the original programmer had slapped it together
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It looks like we are in a hiring dark ages. Barely anyone can remember how to actually hire someone. Just this weekend I was talking to an electrical engineer who recently retired. He told his company that he wanted to retire FIFTEEN years
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
Hospitals used to have on-site laundry, for community sanitation and hygiene reasons. of course that was done away with for profit reasons.
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Exactly, they would rather lose a worker for half a day than 20 minutes. Talk about penny wise and pound foolish.
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Surprise, surprise making it easier to work allows more people to work. Taking a phrases I read about the latest iPad. If they stop neutering the workplace by not allowing remote work then more people will work. Sort of like how cities ar
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
Don't forget about that earthquake in Japan in 2011 knocked out the only factory making automotive paint for a while. They focused on black and white until it was back up and running.
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
Location: Greater Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Area Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Technical Writer, Information Developer, User Experience Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/scl&
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by GarnetFloride 2y ago
SEEKING WORK An experienced Technical Writer and User Experience designer. Resume https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f2pyhgz8dk02nvyue7nkh/Steve_F... Portfolio: www.sfassmann.wordpress.com/portfolio Docu
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I see that this started back in the day before computers and simulations, but it all comes down to integration testing. I've seen plenty of instances where all the parts worked in testing but in the real world it failed miserably. It i
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JetPens has a video and article for the care of fountain pens.

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