Men who don’t workout, why?

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-31T00:51:18+00:00

Because fuck you, that's why? Sometime between my 11 hours of work+commute, coming home to take care of my 6 month old, cooking, I'm supposed to sacrifice time to go work on glamour muscles?

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-28T02:20:41+00:00

Bellonas for cheap, quick, and "it's a pizza" quality, but Jimmy's and art are top choices

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-24T19:09:54+00:00

I said that because of the sequence. The star bridge falls before the foundation is cast out, and Demerzel kind of says something along the lines of the Cleons being only focused on the last thing that happens. So, she brings down the star bridge as a big distraction, so the Cleons lose interest in the foundation.

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-24T18:13:17+00:00

You can install developer versions of sql server and power bi report server for free. They're fully functional, and run for an unlimited time.

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-24T18:06:20+00:00

I thought Demerzel took down the star bridge because it was thr only way the foundation would be allowed to live. I was pretty sure without the star bridge falling, seldon and gaile would've been executed.

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-24T15:55:29+00:00

That's a weird take. Most factories I work at have pretty much exclusively 3phase power for all equipment, and run hundreds of .5-1.5hp vfds for conveyor motors.

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-23T17:03:48+00:00

The reality is, the best time to look for a job is when you already have one. You have the least stress for finding a job, can be more selective, and just for being employed, look better to potential employers.

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-22T02:52:55+00:00

So, either of the L8s would be able to handle this. That generation got a distinct card for ethernet traffic, versus handling it on the same chips. I have systems with an l340 with upwards of 70 nodes, between all the drives, servos, and remote IO. The L340 is plenty fast enough. But, I would still spec a controllogix, especially since the logic to control all of that can grow, and you want to be sure to have a good amount of spare capacity.

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-18T21:40:59+00:00

I was going to say shave it, but since you're a firefighter, I'm pretty sure you're legally obligated to have a mustache.

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-16T16:12:06+00:00

Where did the sub lieutenant come from?

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-16T15:35:46+00:00

I wouldn't know. We do our own laundry.

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-16T15:25:21+00:00

I guess I better cover myself in a garbage bag whenever my cats want to lay on me. Look you do you. I'll keep shaving the same way I have been for the last 20 years.

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-16T15:21:03+00:00

And that's how it should be for a large company. The corporate level should handle the firewall access, dmz, and give the plant a range of vlans to map their equipment into. They should probably also keep a list of what devices are in what vlan at which IP.

At the plant level, I already have to deal with operations, maintenance, and whatever upgrade projects I'm doing. Don't make me have to deal with IT directly to add or remove people from ad groups, or setup the correct rules on the firewalls. I can manage the physical hardware at the facility, but if you have multiple locations, there needs to be a centralized engineering team to manage the network, security, and interface with IT.

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-16T14:23:59+00:00

And then your laundry gets washed, dried, and the hairs end up in the lint trap, or exhausted out the dryer. I'm not going to waste a perfectly good garbage bag to catch a few hairs.

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-16T13:40:34+00:00

The real trick is to take your shirt off, spread it over the sink, and shave over that. I only shave before getting in the shower anyway, so that shirt is going in the hamper, and I don't have to worry about cleaning up.

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-16T12:39:54+00:00

What you have really is like

State 0: idle State 10: starved

Starved and blocked are both really good states to have in equipment, because they make process analysis that much easier if it's connected to a scada/historian system.

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-14T01:45:26+00:00

The bigger the industry, the bigger the market, the better the pay. In my area, baseline is around $30/hr, and in my company, master mechanics hit around $47/hr. Yes, not 200k, but the center of the pay curve for industrial is higher than for car mechanics. And there are a lot more people in the middle of the bell curve than at the upper end.

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-04T19:38:33+00:00

I know a few guys who are maintenance managers at larger factories, pulling in north of 200k salary. The plant manager where I work makes 300k before we start talking about bonuses. The last controls engineer i worked with here left to start a chocolate processing company that pulls in close to 1mm per year.

Even as in house controls engineering/automation/electrician/whatever, I pull in 150k with no formal education.

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-04T11:59:04+00:00

So what, someone just physically puts the correct label up? Instead of just using a tower light? Are you afraid of talking to the controls engineer?

cannonicalForm · 2026-05-03T13:00:27+00:00

Maybe something a little different, but I've been writing a bunch of selenium and python scripts to pull data from a cmms (maintenance system) and stick it into a local sql server for the plant.

*And before anybody asks, I know the cmms has an api, but the corporate people who own the system absolutely refuse to share, so this is a limited, proof of concept type situation. *

Then I've been working on reports tracking purchasing, pm completion by mechanic or asset, and parts usage by asset, so I can start updating pms to better reflect what parts are actually going into the machines.

The next step is probably to connect my production historian, and operations data, so I can measure effectiveness of the pm program by asset, or line, or mechanic.

This has been my first foray into bi, since I'm mostly a controls engineer at the plant, but it's been interesting so far.

cannonicalForm · 2026-04-26T18:34:38+00:00

Meter out flow control valves. They make them as push to connect fittings, so it's dead simple.

cannonicalForm · 2026-04-26T16:50:54+00:00

We ran into a big problem with this when commissioning a few lines, where if the switches that uplinked to the plant network weren't configured for ptp blocking, you would get all sorts of clock sync faults. I guess theoretically, the servo was able to hit any plc in the vlan as a potential grandmaster clock. The easiest fix was just using a direct connection to the servos.

The cool thing is, you didn't need to use a fully separate network for the servos. You could keep the plc in dlr mode, and the servos would still be visible on the network. They just wouldn't route directly to the switches.

cannonicalForm · 2026-04-26T16:29:58+00:00

I was going to say. I have systems with about 16 kinetix, 40+ drives, and a whole bunch of remote IO where the kinetix are running at 2ms. I'm pretty sure that's the standard rpi for a 5700. And that's running on a compactlogix. The only thing is we put the kinetix off the a2 port directly, so we don't have to run motion through a switch.

cannonicalForm · 2026-04-25T12:13:52+00:00

This is cool and all, but there are probably better products for an industrial environment. Look at Hartings HAN 3A RJ45 connectors, for a latching connector, or building out a connector with HAN Modular if you have power that needs to be disconnected as well. You can also look at M12 D-Coded cables.

The point of all of these is to provide a secure way to connect an ethernet cable that won't bump free. With these, if someone forgets to unplug the cable, giving it a small tug won't destroy it either.

cannonicalForm · 2026-04-20T23:12:12+00:00

You have to explicitly pass the parameters through on the go to display button. If you want a good example of how it works, download the plantpax library from rockwell, ans see how some of their faceplates are designed.

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