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by TheCapn 6y ago
Personal opinion time. Aside from whatever modern screens become I can't see control rooms changing too much from where they are currently. What is likely to change is how equipment is approached within the field which may mean less re
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by TheCapn 6y ago
Generally not in my experience. Things are still heavily driven from SCADA/HMI systems because its just economical to drop a PC in and be virtually future proof to whatever changes you make at your plant. I've been part of a few j
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by TheCapn 6y ago
A friend of mine had two job interviews lined up back to back for two game studios. On the first interview he bombed pretty poorly, but the interviewers were great guys who explained every solution and helped him work through the problems.
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by TheCapn 6y ago
I have an office with a door. Its fantastic You just have to remember that you're not confined to that space. So you close that door and you crash out what you need to do. Then you stand up, and you go for a walk outside that space t
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by TheCapn 6y ago
There's not a whole lot of technicality to it imo. Say I take to google and start looking for your username. Will other websites turn up? Will one of them have a link to an email address of yours? Can I take that email address and fi
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by TheCapn 6y ago
manpool a large pool, typically as part of a carnival or carnival *"a few old dead men may be playing in the manpool"* So close, yet still so far.
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by TheCapn 6y ago
AHK solved a quirky issue my work had me develop. We have an excel sheet that gets updated periodically throughout the day by various people. When the spreadsheet is saved it also publishes an MHT file to be displayed on a webbrowser that r
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by TheCapn 6y ago
Fedora has been the only distro that seems to work with my ThinkPad Yoga immediately after install. I battled against Ubuntu and other distros for ages trying to get the screen rotation to work and eventually just made scripts to convert be
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by TheCapn 6y ago
Hmm, I apologize for not wanting to give away my explicit employer. We have like... 13 engineers/techs, rest of our staff are admin or panel builders so I'd pretty much be doxing myself to give it away. I'll just say that my
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by TheCapn 6y ago
Controls aren't much different than other industries who rely on vendor product solutions either imo. You can talk to your SCADA vendor to see what their Historian / MES solution is and look at integrating that or develop a custom
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by TheCapn 6y ago
I commented to another user, my background is a Software Systems Engineering degree but the majority of my coworkers are Electrical Engineers or some style of Electrical Technician. As long as you understand digital logic well enough you&#x
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by TheCapn 6y ago
Heh, speaking of mouse traps, while working at an inland grain terminal I met a guy who was using arduinos hooked up to what's essentially a highly pressurized central vac system as a pest control system. Against the walls were small l
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by TheCapn 6y ago
Likely just find a system integrator in your area and apply. The guy who got me my job was a MS CS, my employer sought him out because they needed a guy for internal software projects. I did a hackathon with him and he hired me as his repla
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by TheCapn 6y ago
Find your way into Industrial Electrical work if you can. You get a strong mix of tech and electrical, moreso than Residential, can't really say the comparison to Commercial work though... My company (Automation & controls) is part
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by TheCapn 7y ago
CIRA doing the same thing: https://www.cira.ca/earlyaccess
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by TheCapn 7y ago
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Touchscreens CAN BE DONE RIGHT. (or at least better) I have an aftermarket JVC headunit in my 2003 VW. It has one button, that's the "Menu" button on single press, or Power bu
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by TheCapn 7y ago
>However, it does not explain why we haven't heard of flu outbreaks in cruises before this coronavirus. Anecdotally I hear about it almost every time the topic of cruises come up on Reddit or other social media. I just don't th
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by TheCapn 7y ago
I believe the idea is that if you're editing questions early on you learn what the expectation for edits are. I reject a lot of edits in the system for being edits that should be submitted as their own answers or as comments to the p
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by TheCapn 7y ago
Agreed. I am a "Software Engineer". I hold a Professional Engineer designation by APEGS, my schooling was for Software Engineering. I advocate for regulation in the industry but also don't think it needs to be sweeping and ca
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by TheCapn 7y ago
The obvious question is what type of issues are you having? Typical shit like returning an item you ordered would have a set process. Returning items you didn't order is probably a lot more confusing.
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by TheCapn 7y ago
So is the Granola company buying boxes from Amazon? Are they receiving their own product when they go to order more boxes?
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by TheCapn 7y ago
A reddit user (which I cannot remember) said it best imo. The way they put it was (loosely quoted) "Create something. It doesn't have to be anything physical, you can create experiences for people". If woodworking or car repa
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by TheCapn 7y ago
Now that's spicy. Were people receiving random videos? Was this being targeted to retrieve videos of specific users through an exploit?
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by TheCapn 7y ago
Hi there, sorry about my delayed reply, I don't typically check comment replies on HackerNews. Doesn't look like Google's satellite has updated photos but here's some links: The Diverging Diamond: https://www.
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by TheCapn 7y ago
RE: #2 Absolutely. Within Saskatchewan, east of Regina, we just completed three new bridges for suburban communities to access the main highway. In two of the three bridges were atypical designs using a Diverging Diamond at one point, and d
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by TheCapn 7y ago
Its got its own drawbacks though. DRLs don't turn on your taillights so you still get people in dusk/night/bad weather who don't turn their lights on and you cant see them easily when approaching from the rear.
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by TheCapn 7y ago
Always verify the motor/equipment you're locking out is prevented from running! Coworkers and I were just dishing commissioning job horror stories where folks get too antsy to run their facility and start bumping motors while peop
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by TheCapn 7y ago
I discussed the same points on Reddit recently and the one that I focused on as well was the aspect of just my physical health. When I'm at home I have a fully stocked kitchen, my fridge with all my ingredients and no competition for a
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by TheCapn 7y ago
> I see discussion I think that's just it. The vocal gaming crowd is very quick to talk big talk about action but they're a tiny minority of the actual customerbase. For all the bravado you see on Reddit about boycots there&#x
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by TheCapn 7y ago
I've been generally happy with Xiaomi Mi Band. I used a Mi Band 2 for a couple years until it died and am using a Mi Band 3 now. My biggest need was for a "silent" wakeup alarm since I get up so much earlier than my fiance. I

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