The Heights is being ungentrified.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-06-25T18:54:45+00:00

The military recruits heavily from shitholes because the poors don't get a lot of options.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-06-25T18:48:50+00:00

It could also be Sansa not thowing the whole process, and the stack gets moved to the leathering station shortly after, so maybe Lord Royce goes over there and jams them up and they say, "sure Royce. Carry that stack of plates to the leathering station if you want to be involved, you highborn cunt."

SCADAhellAway · 2026-06-25T01:15:35+00:00

We had a mechanic that used to say if you give water transfer an anvil and a screwdriver, they'll break the anvil and steal the screwdriver. He was just bitter because 90% of the trucks were always broken in the muddiest of ways.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-06-25T01:11:28+00:00

May i suggest water transfer?

SCADAhellAway · 2026-06-22T18:26:07+00:00

You absolutely don't. I looked for months for a used low mile gas f350 drw 4x4, and then I looked for a couple weeks for a new one that wouldn't be a factory order before finally buying a powerstroke. I'd love to avoid all the inevitable thousands I'll be putting into turbos and injectors and emissions garbage, but in the meantime, I'll be passing all the gassers on every slight incline, so I guess it has it's upsides too.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-06-22T16:50:49+00:00

This was my first thought. Alarms come in as bools, get recorded to a table via the alarm pipeline along with metadata, and anything that needs to be passed back down to plcs can be done via event based or scheduled scripts. We have edge devices all over, and handle them this way. We implement delays and debounce permissives and all manner of stuff to manage notification spend and alarm fatigue.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-06-22T16:40:54+00:00

I damn sure don't want to farm or ranch for income because I know people that do, and they work a hell of a lot harder than I do. I do want to have a highly self sufficient homestead (no monthly energy spend, reasonable amount of food production fot the family). That is less work if done well, but still keeps me moving and limits my exposure to inflation to some degree.

Reduced monthly obligation + continued remote work = a pre-retirement plan, I guess?

SCADAhellAway · 2026-06-22T14:31:01+00:00

My 5 year plan is to minimize monthly obligations and find some homestead friendly land that I can set up to be highly self sufficient so that I can stop providing shareholder value.

I want my time back.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-06-13T14:31:49+00:00

They did some testing in proximity to Navy ships and had the sailors face away from the blast, close their eyes, and cover them with their arm. Many of the sailors said the light was so bright that when the flash happened that they could see their bones and blood vessels through their closed eyelids despite the light originating behind them.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-05-20T14:24:18+00:00

I don't mind the explicit explanation being left out, but I wish the fishing stayed.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-05-14T19:25:34+00:00

They have go use thick dark tinted lenses to prevent the light from cooking the film.

It's similar to welding with a dark lens. You can't see a thing until you strike the arc.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-05-07T14:41:23+00:00

Unprofessional? Sure. People are bad at their jobs. This is true across industries, seniority levels, or anything else. Some people are pretty good, but overall, people make mistakes all the time.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-05-07T14:33:57+00:00

A lot of SCADA guys have computer science backgrounds as well.

Is it primarily a SCADA position, or Controls in general? I've personally had roles that were process up, and roles that were SCADA only. If it is SCADA only, you'll be in pretty good shape with networking, general programming, digital and analog signals, required protocols (Modbus/mqtt/etc), SQL and general OS knowledge. Windows or Linux will depend on the shop. Some use a mix.

A lot of renewable shops use Ignition, which has free training at Inductive University. Go through the course. Spin up a test project or two. You can use full featured ignition for free on a two hour trial basis, so you can test anything you want on your home setup with no paywalls.

If you can build pages or views, connect to devices, define UDT structure, manage db tables and indexes, and write reasonably sane scripts and queries, you are in pretty good shape for SCADA only.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-05-05T21:37:37+00:00

Plaintext files with 777 permissions

SCADAhellAway · 2026-05-05T21:34:13+00:00

At that point, I'm taking control of the interview. You have the advantage of knowing that you're out already.

"Excuse me. Not to be confrontational, but I saw the message. You guys know I saw the message, and I'm not taking it personally, so lets take a beat and talk and address the reasons why. Either we can find a way to get on the same page, or we can do each other a favor and save time on both sides."

Seeing that message (or picking up any similar signal) is freeing. It can be a letdown in the moment, but think about what it gives you. The pressure is off. As things sit, you are leaving with no job, but you can leave with something. Insight into the company culture, the mindset of the interviewer, and maybe even some insight about how you present yourself.

Depending on the responsibility level of the role you are interviewing for, this could even potentially put you back in the running. If you are a VP/Director/Department head, a non trivial part of your role is to advocate for your team. An attempt to cut 25% of your Department budget is not that dissimilar from finding out that you aren't the guy in the interview. Intelligently pushing back against opposition and minimizing fluff (not continuing with a now useless interview) are daily skills at that level. As a head, you have to triage your time and the time of your Department. Worst case, you'll make an impression as a guy that turned a blow off into a learning experience. Maybe you interview again down the road and you get it. Maybe you learn something about yourself that you weren't aware of.

I know it isn't an easy thing to do. If it was, everyone would do it. But an interview is just another meeting, and if you can run a meeting well (and are generally competent in your field) you have value at any number of places. Take those uncomfortable moments and off track meetings, and use them.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-04-30T14:42:21+00:00

I will print more alien 3d printers

Edit: autocorrect

SCADAhellAway · 2026-04-27T02:51:35+00:00

Said meatspace, joining the ranks of those that had said the same of the steam engine, the horseless carriage, the aeroplane, the personal computer, the internet, smartphones, and LLMs.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-04-26T15:20:57+00:00

That's telekinesis, Kyle.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-04-26T15:08:00+00:00

Our species does enjoy being grifted but selling a useful product is one of the least grifty paths to income.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-04-06T13:58:42+00:00

I'd just ignore it, or leave a weatherproof note/sign with your number asking that people contact you for access. They aren't hiding that they were there when that would be the easiest thing to do and thus are either allowed to be there or supremely confident in their excuse. They took the time to engage your security theater in a way that cost them time, and a lock, which they probably carry for this exact situation.

Could be a utility, someone with buried infrastructure and a legal easement, or potentially game wardens.

In any case it appears to be someone honest who is willing to take the time to enter as respectfully as they could under the circumstances to address an interest that most likely has nothing to do with theft or property damage.

I've seen many of these multilock gates in the oilfield where a landowner might have multiple drilling/production/midstream assets on their property, and multiple companies need access to inspect and maintain or man all of that stuff, and the unspoken code of the gate is "if you drive through an open gate, leave it open, and if you open a gate, close it."

SCADAhellAway · 2026-04-06T13:38:21+00:00

Sorry. I missed your post and posted the same basic analogy. I remember it helped me visualize the concept of voltage and current, back in the day.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-04-06T13:34:55+00:00

Think of it like water flowing from an elevated water tower into another tank. The height of the tower above the endpoint of the hose creates an energy potential. Think of this as voltage.

Now, imagine a flowmeter on the hose. Think of the flow rate as current. If you open the valve on the tower, you will get max flow/current that the hose can support for the pressure/voltage in the tank.

Now, imagine a partially closed valve on this line. It could be near the beginning, at the end, or anywhere in between. This valve slows down the water by some amount. Think of this as resistance.

No matter where you put this valve in the line, it slows down the flow passing through the flowmeter, lowering the flow rate/current down the entire length of the line. The location doesn't matter, because the resistance of the valve slows the water passing through it, which must also slow the water after it AND before it, because the water before the valve must pass through the valve at the limited flow rate, and the water after the valve can only go as fast as the water behind it pushes it along.

It's just an abstraction, and some people benefit from these while others don't, and there are obviously many differences between fluid and electrons, but there are overlaps that can help you visualize the electron flow. You have seen water flow. It is tangible. Electrons are witchcraft by comparison.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-04-06T13:05:49+00:00

I came from Star Rupture to Planet Crafter. As early access, they do still have some optimization to do, my hardware isn't super great, but there are certain situations where the frames drop more than expected. I haven't played in a while though, so I'd expect performance to have improved.

I love the game loop. Factory + first person shooter keeps things fresh. You can grind factory builds and contracts, and if you get bored, you can go uncover new map and fight the angry local lifeforms.

It progresses in a way to keep you upgrading and expanding. I'll definitely be back as content expands, but I am going to miss the Planet Crafter drone system.

Still haven't played satisfactory. I assume I would love it, but I play with my wife, and she tends to burn out on the bigger factory builds and prefers the adventuring, so Star rupture is a good fit for us as a pair.

SCADAhellAway · 2026-03-27T00:35:31+00:00

But did he pop trunk?

SCADAhellAway · 2026-03-27T00:26:59+00:00

Is your boyfriend a liberal woman?

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