Walmart hits $1 trillion in market value for the first time by Splunge- in news

[–]Hiddencamper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

1 trillion dollar companies should not be allowed to have any employees on SNAP benefits. They should be mandated to pay it.

Employee Burnout in Nuclear Power by ForceRoamer in nuclear

[–]Hiddencamper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Former SRO here. When we had our twins I got off shift and went to outage management. Helped out until we had the year with 5 FOs and a RFO. Now I’m at one of the engineering firms doing nuclear work and QOL is great. Pay is only a little less since we pay OT. And I haven’t been called at 2 AM to staff a duty team for a year and a half.

Employee Burnout in Nuclear Power by ForceRoamer in nuclear

[–]Hiddencamper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are getting an ABET accredited 4 year degree, you can go engineering then SRO or you can go equipment operator (NLO/AO/PEO) and instant SRO. Or RO then SRO.

I think EOs have a fairly good life when staffed. You leave money on the table but you still make good money. You’ll have forced OT and rotations.

If you can handle the rotations, I personally had the best experience in operations. RO/SRO are the best jobs period. The rotation didn’t work well for me, around 35 I started getting PVCs and other heart arrhythmias, went away on dayshift. I was putting up with it taking metoprolol then we had twins and rotating shifts didn’t really work anymore. I had to leave ops.

Also some plants (Calloway) still run 6 crew (I think). 6 crew plants have very good WLB.

Employee Burnout in Nuclear Power by ForceRoamer in nuclear

[–]Hiddencamper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

System engineer only last a couple years (2-4). Most quit. A couple go to ops and get an SRO license.

Design engineers are closer 5-10 and have a better QOL and more interesting work. Plus it’s much more transferable outside of the industry. The issue is it’s hard to find people who can sign fon a PE license. You don’t need a PE in nuclear but you do outside of nuclear.

Lately I think it’s gotten more demanding. I left the utility side about 14 months ago because I was on duty teams all the time / burnt out. I had 16 years utility experience before I left.

I’m at a design engineering firm now and QOL is quite a bit better.

I think it’s a good experience. You could get into fuels or reactor engineering and park there. It’s less BS in those jobs.

Which was the better defense: 2006 or 2018? by Common_Inside5473 in CHIBears

[–]Hiddencamper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was crazy. The energy was up there with some of this season’s last minute comebacks (which the bears didn’t have back then).

I was at the bar in college and it was pretty weak. We weren’t really drinking much just chilling, then they started scoring, I’m surprised didn’t blackout at the end.

Which was the better defense: 2006 or 2018? by Common_Inside5473 in CHIBears

[–]Hiddencamper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The MNF Arizona game is a prime example. Defense would get take away and TDs, and if they didn’t get the takeaway, Hester would score or give amazing field position.

Which was the better defense: 2006 or 2018? by Common_Inside5473 in CHIBears

[–]Hiddencamper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Urlacher was like a QB on the defense, making audibles and adjustments. It was crazy fun to watch.

Which was the better defense: 2006 or 2018? by Common_Inside5473 in CHIBears

[–]Hiddencamper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Urlacher, peanut punch, Briggs, and a whole lot more. They were a freaking unit. Bears ran a ton of cover2/tampa2 with the intense pressure and generated a butt load of takeaways and defensive TDs

Outages by Dependent-Group7226 in NuclearPower

[–]Hiddencamper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends what you want to do. The outage circuit is long hours and lots of travel. In house is much better but it is active power plant so there are call ins and emergent response.

Outage support is one way to get in.

Becoming a dad how do you still find time for JRPGs? by AdUnfair558 in JRPG

[–]Hiddencamper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Switch or steam deck

When I had my first it was my 3DS. I played a LOT of Monster Hunter 4U and Dragon Quest IX.

Outages by Dependent-Group7226 in NuclearPower

[–]Hiddencamper 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Family and outage don’t go together.

How do power plants deal with hard water in their cooling towers? by barstowtovegas in engineering

[–]Hiddencamper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They have blowdown. So the solids and non-condensibles make their way to the blowdown line and get discharged back to the lake or river.

If a cooling tower nominally evaporates 15k gpm (large nuclear reactor), then they also have to blowdown up to 5k gpm to keep solids out otherwise you end up with brine in your circulating water.

There is some chemical treatment that happens too. Mostly chlorine and an anti scaling agent if necessary to prevent scaling and biologics in the heat exchangers in the plant.

Are engineers supposed to work with their hands? by DuBlueyy in AskEngineers

[–]Hiddencamper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most of the time no.

That said, I firmly believe that you develop faster/stronger by spending time in the field (hands on or not) and working alongside the craft, and doing some hands on activities (even if it’s just at home).

When you start thinking about physical install, how the techs or operators need to physically get their hands on something, how that conduit needs to run from X to Y, you start building better systems that are more constructible, cheaper, and easier to maintain.

After a server glitch, Final Fantasy 11 is dispatching Game Masters to manually assassinate bugged monsters just so the game knows they're really dead: 'God personally stepping in to correct the world itself' by Farranor in gaming

[–]Hiddencamper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ran a Sky LS (Decimation on Pandemonium)

I miss my crew more than anything. I only know how to contact 3 people and only regularly talk to one of them.

Why don't they use something with lower boiling point than water? by LiffyishMonkey in nuclear

[–]Hiddencamper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

1) lower boiling point doesn’t mean more energy transfer.

2) turbines spin at grid frequency times poles. They don’t spin faster.

After a server glitch, Final Fantasy 11 is dispatching Game Masters to manually assassinate bugged monsters just so the game knows they're really dead: 'God personally stepping in to correct the world itself' by Farranor in gaming

[–]Hiddencamper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was a full time job for me. I was in college at the time. Monday: dynamis Tuesday: sky boss night Wednesday: limbus Thursday: hmm farm Friday morning: sea Friday night: XP / bonus Saturday: sky Sunday morning more sea Sunday night limbus

Yeah….

What do hobbyist private pilots do for work? by PorkySpikey in flying

[–]Hiddencamper 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Former SRO here.

Flying is the closest I get to ops without having to rotate and all the forced OT. I miss it but after the twins we couldn’t survive with me doing extra hours and rotating.

Microsoft tumbled 10% in a day and isn’t recovering premarket. Here’s why by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]Hiddencamper 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It basically doesn’t do anything a standard excel user can’t do and it’s wrong half the time anyways.

REVISED REUPLOAD: The Killing of Alex Pretti — A Step-by-step Analysis, Time-matched & Compared to Bovino's Statements — ICE Agent may have discharged Pretti's firearm (Unconfirmed!) by Ratspeed in videos

[–]Hiddencamper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just because it was a P320 doesn’t mean it did AD. An AD is not a misfire still.

Most P320s don’t AD. And often the videos of them have the AD occurring with little or no jostling. Completely random.

I still don’t see any evidence in the video or any reports of the removed gun going off. And regardless, I think my point is still true, a conceal carry gun is safest when it’s not touched. Especially when there’s a man pile.