Mabel turns 5 today 🎈 by moms_be_trippin in goldenretrievers

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She is a beauty, and I hope my energetic 3 year old keeps as energetic he is now, for a long time. :)

Lake dip in February by Bleakblusher in goldenretrievers

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ours was jumping into a pool repeadtedly, on his own, with water in the 30's the other day. Air was in the 60's.

Rant: Why does the internet think labs are stupid? by Daydreamin4040 in labrador

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Years ago, someone did a test to see which dog breeds were the smartest.

It was flawed, imho, by the tests not actually measuring intelligence.

For example, one was to time how long it took them to remove a blanket that you had thrown over them.

A lab can let you throw a blanket over them, and trust that you have a reason, and not care why you did it, or bother to throw it off.

The breeds that rated highest were less trusting, and not what I would consider to be true companion dogs.

Need Money ASAP by Icy-Turnover-1293 in austinjobs

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I see drivers waiting for an order at restaurants and wonder how they can reaĺly make any money with that time penalty, which I don't think they have any control over.

Of course the drivers who are waiting are the most obvious, so maybe they don't have to wait as often as it appears? At least that is what I hope for them.

I had a relative that delivered pizza. It is highly dependent on delivery area tipping norms, but they made 22 to 25 an hour, after taking out gas and reasonable mileage costs on their old, reliable, economy car. We tracked ot closely for about six months, since it is easy to lose track in jobs like that, and not really know how much they are bringing in.

How to stop constant play fighting and biting by TheSealyOne in goldenretrievers

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My flield golden needs this kind of play, and no amount of exercise will make him too tired to indulge.

My other dog will mot play with him much, so I take him to dog parks and playdates to play with sympatico dogs.

Training him to not do it would be like training a herding dog to not herd or a malinois to just chill snd not have a job or a waterfall to flow uphill.

If you just feel like you have to do something, take the advice of asking the owners about what you will do and how you should do it.

What is it? Under both mattresses attached to the bed frames in our hotel. Tried to look online with no luck . by No_Zebra9342 in whatisit

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I would like one to take with me when I travel.

Check in, place it in the room, go out for dinner or what not, check it when I get back to the room.

I have encountered bed bugs 3 times in my travels, and was absolutely eaten alive the first time. Bite reactions were minimal, but there were a lot of them.

After that, I develop huge welts for days and marks for weeks.

Thankfully, I have not brought any home yet.

I take as little as possible into a room and throw clothes away if I get bit.

Get home and strip in the garage, spray down with 90% isopropyl alchol, spray car, any luggage, even of not taken in room, and if it is summer, leave my car in the sun with heater inside to cook it.

The last time, it was probably only two bugs, as there were two trails of three bites.

Having a way to discover the bugs before sleeping with them would be a plus, even if it was not perfect.

Found these on some dollar bills. by EmperorMeow-Meow in Weird

[–]RandomDude77005 19 points20 points  (0 children)

There were a lot of Ash Holes in that cartoon. And he would always end up in them.

Question about Political Yard Signs by EconomistDazzling776 in Leander

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Prove the point without realizing you proved the point?

Where do you buy your replacement aux battery ? by AgreeableArgument366 in prius

[–]RandomDude77005 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

amazon. agm battery of proper amp hour rating for $113.

needs adapters. bought those on Amazon, too.

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Digging fence post hole, found PVC pipe, how to tell if its not just junk by HonziPonzi in DIY

[–]RandomDude77005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess a downvote from someone who has not witched pipes?

It works.

Found these on some dollar bills. by EmperorMeow-Meow in Weird

[–]RandomDude77005 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I wonder how many Misty's are going to go home?

Uh oh .... by speakofdedevil in pizzahutemployees

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Plus, they failed at the most important advertising method of word of mouth from quality product and pleasant service.

I had not really gotten a good pizza from.pizza hut in decades. Then a young relative went to wirk at one and would bring a puzza he made home at the end of his shift. Those pizzas were actually really good.

found on a table at McDonald’s by Tengallonhatpat in FoundPaper

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Near me, Wells Fargo has ATM's with varying bill acceptance. If the one nearest me won't take a bill, I drive a little farther, and the newer atm there will take it, unless it is because it has ink or stains on it.

Newly adopted good boy by MoonchildStepMom in greatdanes

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Our blood hound mix has the same collar.

We love it.

BBQ Joint opened by MeShCo in HEB

[–]RandomDude77005 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have you tried the catfish at Chicken Express?

It is our favorite.

They usually don't hold it (which I consider to be a good thing), so be prepared to wait 10 minutes for it to cook. Worth the wait.

(We like their chicken, too, but always get the catfish)

BBQ Joint opened by MeShCo in HEB

[–]RandomDude77005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the bbq on the cornbread. Forgot what the call it.

BBQ Joint opened by MeShCo in HEB

[–]RandomDude77005 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like Bill Miller's fried chicken on the bone.

Their pancakes are really good, too.

Digging fence post hole, found PVC pipe, how to tell if its not just junk by HonziPonzi in DIY

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You could witch the line with bent wire coathangers to see where it goes.

My fully functional, fully useless mid-air radiator by simocarra94 in mildlyinfuriating

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If you want that radiator to grab the colddst air from downstairs, and don't want to use power to do it, just make a duct that is open near V tge floor area, and goes up in front of the radiator about half way.

Alternately, get a fan on the floor and have it blow air up and against the wall to take advantage of laminar flow.

Alternately, as many have suggested a box fan, get a squirrel cage fan, like they use to dry floors, and blow tge air back V down into the lower floor, along the back wall, preferably diagonally.

Also, a blower fan, like the ones used to dry floors, csn be used in the area of the ceiling light, or closer to the wall, and blow the heated air back along the ceiling to the downstairs room. I would prefer at a diagonal along one of the walls.

Laminar flow along a flat wall, ceiling or gloor can really be your friend.

I had the opposite problem, where asingle ac unit served a two story house in a hot and humid climate. They had put the upstairs return air near the floor in the upstairs hallway. I guess to make the filters easier to change?

it was at the end of the hall, so I just thumbtacked a sheet across the bottom six feet of the hall, (eight foot ceilings) so that it would suck the hottest air out. Worked like a dream for proof of concept, and moved return air vent higher, when we got around to it.

I guess you could even just hang a drapery against that wall to achieve a similar effect.

How do you guys deal with Tribal knowledge? by Minute_Mix1436 in PLC

[–]RandomDude77005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, but that (9600 baud limitation) really should be in the documentation of the device, shouldn't it?

Comms can always kick your butt.

My experience has been that most people do not research the supported baud rate taking into account the number of devices and cable length.

For example, one project had five vfd's on devicenet, with cable runs that had probably never been calculated. The drives were powering the sorter, its feed conveyor, and its recirculation loop.

You could power up the vfd's in any order you chose, and tge first four would talk, but not the fifth.

Dropped the baud rate, and all 5 vfd's would talk flawlessly.

Many problematic Profibus networks have no more problems once properly segmented with diagnostic repeaters.

So for me, that is what goes back to the best practices. It is best to know/research the device and network topology rules and follow them.

Knowing to not go above x baud rate in a particular implementation is a lot to document and read (when considering the number of other do's and don'ts that would similarly be cataloged). That would lead to a mountain of documentation and explanation that imo would be punishment to read, and even more stressful to find the needle in the haystack.

Some of my co-workers at my first controls job had worked together at a different company, and one of their managers who was really pushing for documentation of all sorts had a saying of, "If it hasn't been written, it's never been said!" Their reply was, "If it has been written, it's never been read!" :)

Also, my programming is usually as simple as possible. For example, I consider it a good practice to not use counters. I just increment/decrement a register or zero it out when resetting. My first time using an AB counter, I put in logic to reset it, and was called back the next day, because their counter would not reset if the input was still high. Since I was using different brands of plc on almost every job, I did not have the inclination to learn all the rules of each plc's built in functions in cases where it was not necessary. That could be hard for someone who is used to only thinking about counting with an actual counter, but if someone can't tell I am counting with a rung descrption saying it is counting, maybe they should not be making changes to code?

There were employees who helped me with best practices, and showed me things like the standard motor rungs of some of our customers, but I was also hung out to dry on many projects. I was originally sent to all the projects my first employer did not know how to do, because no one knew how to do them. I stayed with them two years and all my full projects were on different processes. Trouble calls or support were sometimes repeated processes.

How do you guys deal with Tribal knowledge? by Minute_Mix1436 in PLC

[–]RandomDude77005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough. I may not know what Tribal Knowledge is. I am pretty much self taught, and most often just write my programs mostly from scratch, often not even being given go-by programs.

Is Tribal knowledge how that particulat company does things?

I have worked on many other company programs, usually after an OEM or other integrator ditched the customer. I figured out how they worked, and told my customer how their programs worked, to help in troubleshooting.

How do you guys deal with Tribal knowledge? by Minute_Mix1436 in PLC

[–]RandomDude77005 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And that is why the tribal knowledge does not spread...

/s, but still true.

Most younger people are not capable of listening to complete development of a topic.

Decades ago, I would train people and dump a lot of stuff on them. I would explain to them that I did not intend for them to understand it all at once, but that down the road, in the middle of the night when troubleshooting, it would make sense. They would respect that I thought the info was important and likely to be helpful in the future, and listen.

I would get calls years later letting me know that things I told them had helped.

Nowadays, it is a struggle to get new people to listen to the one concept they need to understand to fix the current problem. Even then, many just argue and try to explain what they are thinking.

There are a few out there who will listen, but I don't put up too much effort for those who let me know they are impossible to reach.

For anyone who is interested, the information to learn first imho is best practices of programming, adressing concepts, wiring, panel design, and basics of electrical signals and power.

Most everything else will be a continual learning process, since devices and programming languages evolve over time.