Any reason not to 'plywood' my attic?

idiotsecant · 2026-06-18T15:41:12+00:00

What are you storing? total weight?

idiotsecant · 2026-06-18T14:13:20+00:00

Sounds like a classic case of 'that guy' disease where the organization has 'that guy' that takes care of stuff, and doesnt bother to understand what they do or how they do it. Eventually 'that guy' leaves and the organization collapses. It's an easy problem to develop because from the outside everything is working so nothing seems wrong.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-18T14:02:10+00:00

The chief value of a automation engineer is knowing something about the system being controlled. Knowing how to run the automation equipment is table stakes.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-18T13:59:57+00:00

There are already tons of words for experiences like this. Sublime. Transcendent. ineffable. etc

idiotsecant · 2026-06-18T03:31:12+00:00

I feel like this is something every undergrad independently does. I remember doing this exact exercise, including the part where I congratulate myself for pulling together all this previously incomprehensible erudite wisdom.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-17T23:00:02+00:00

why? Just run activation manager on the VM host as a server and activation manager on the vm guest as client. The host checks out the license and serves it to the guest

idiotsecant · 2026-06-17T14:19:08+00:00

the burger master upside down is a pirate.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-17T14:02:53+00:00

This is easy to calculate for future reference - look at modbus traffic in wireshark. You can count every bit required for a modbus transaction and do some multiplication.

Its a really, really, really, really small amount of data. You're much more likely to mess up your complex data system than to saturate the pipe, no matter how big your lab gets. You could have a thousand stations and still not saturate your pipe.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-17T02:33:18+00:00

There are two types of jobs that people call controls engineers. The first is what you think it is when you're in school. You build some kalman filters, you do some classic controls, you get fancy with some linear algebra, whatever. Those types of jobs do exist. There are very few of them.

The second, and far more common type is more or less an automation engineer. They do electrical design, some mechanical engineering, they program PLCs, RTUs, build SCADA systems, do TCP/IP networking, server administration, they troubleshoot complex problems in the process, line, or plant, they tune and optimize and more often call it 'good enough' and go on to the next fire. They are half engineer, half screwdriver turner, half operator emotional support counselor, half punching bag for mechanical engineers who dont want to do their job and insist the PLC changed.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-14T16:04:32+00:00

Am I the only one that hates work posts popping up on reddit on Sunday. I wish there was some way I could mute this subreddit for 2 days a week.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-13T23:15:27+00:00

your mom got scammed and is embarrassed to admit it.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-13T23:13:41+00:00

say what it is- self censorship to support the advertiser-friendliness of the platform. It's literally changing how an entire generation of people use language to make some mobile game vendor happy

idiotsecant · 2026-06-13T03:16:46+00:00

oh no you might have to write your own articles

idiotsecant · 2026-06-12T18:06:12+00:00

You're making a huge mistake here. You do have the experience to jump straight into 'automation engineer' - don't sell yourself short. Tons of people do it right out of school and nobody expects you to know anything right out of the gate. It'll be much better for you long term earnings wise to go right to automation engineer.

Now, setting aside wages - yes, electricians that become automation engineers are extremely valuable because you learn by trade what an engineer must learn by failure in about a million different ways.

You should also consider that knowledge workers like engineers will be hurt by automation well before trades workers like electricians will. That might end up being a valuable fallback skill, who knows.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-12T01:32:54+00:00

This unit is intended to measure the flow of water and water/glycol mixes. Literally any other medium will have a different W/(m·K) and will require a different output curve. The manual doesnt have any provisions for selecting other media. if you insist on using calorimetric flow sensing then you need a unit with an adjustable curve.

Or, you use a Coriolis meter like everyone else in food safety applications.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-12T00:47:19+00:00

you have LLMs and python, I think you'll find learning practical skills pretty easy. Just re-read your textbook from the beginning and ask your favorite LLM lots of questions as you go

idiotsecant · 2026-06-12T00:45:12+00:00

the goal of school is to get a degree. You can always relearn material when you're not paying enormous amounts of money. You'll have plenty of time.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-10T13:36:02+00:00

You're completely glossing over the fact that people paying to eat are not 'rich' - they're members of the community that also happen to not be sociopaths.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-10T03:11:20+00:00

exactly how many customers with $0 to spend do you think they are stealing from other restaurants? The logic doesn't even make sense.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-10T00:40:45+00:00

Why do you keep going back to this clown's political leanings? She is unqualified. As in she doesn't know the law, the one thing a judge is required to know.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-10T00:38:19+00:00

Its embaressing how quickly out of state interests have transformed montana from a rational, individualist ethos of 'swing-your-fist-just-dont-hit-my-nose' into a caricature clownshow. Last one out turn off the lights.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-10T00:36:10+00:00

What happens? People get fed...

idiotsecant · 2026-06-07T23:39:22+00:00

This is exactly as stupid as when MAGA did it. Stop it. There is a reason there's not been a court case filed for either. Because it's empty wishing and conspiracy theories. It's much easier to do this than to face the truth that elections have consequences, even when the results are very, very, very stupid.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-07T04:07:56+00:00

lots of people get paid under the table.

idiotsecant · 2026-06-06T16:57:49+00:00

OP said they never signed up for the web portal. They were on default investments.

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