procarch2019

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by procarch2019 9d ago
I drown in support tickets daily that used to go nowhere. Then people started realizing that I knew what I was talking about and not some standard business user. Now I still have to open tickets, but get visibility of the people who know wh
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by procarch2019 12d ago
I don’t think so, or maybe it was… IDK anymore. Now I’ll have to go rewatch it. It definitely is explained as described above. The gate itself, the “event horizon” is all part of the apparatus for accessing the wormhole, not the wormhole it
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by procarch2019 1mo ago
The hardware my company uses has a lifecycle of 15-20 (aka what we typically look at when we consider lifecycle of a plant). This is not meant to be the whole life of a plant, but possibly the life of the current controls. Things/peopl
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by procarch2019 1mo ago
Even more so, if it’s just there you’re making it easy for the customer to find someone bidding less to execute new projects. Guess who they’re calling if they don’t have the plc project (or don’t understand they need it). Job security. Plu
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by procarch2019 1mo ago
Sounds like we have a similar development path. People fail to understand how complex some of these systems can be, especially since you have to have the project to understand what registers/variables are what. Some when Joe the contra
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by procarch2019 1mo ago
The point I was making is that PLCs have a software stack. You have to know the software and programming languages defined in IEC 61131-3. For all intents and purposes they are just very repeatable compute in an industrial setting, but if y
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by procarch2019 1mo ago
You’d be surprised how insecure some of these facilities are, especially to someone who has working knowledge of what a PLC (or other process controllers) does and how it works. You can easily look like a tech who belongs there either troub
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by procarch2019 2mo ago
I think it is. I work for a (relatively) small company. I naturally grew from project engineer to senior/lead/sme (including pioneering tech _for my industry_) to SA. I had also stuck with my company for many years, so I have the
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by procarch2019 3mo ago
My kids a bit young for reading HP on their own, but it’s our bedtime book series every night. Over the past year or so we’ve (I’ve) read HP before bed. We just started book the Order of the Phoenix. Our school system has a reading log syst
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by procarch2019 1y ago
They could just switch their dns back to auto (or statically use google/cloudflare/etc depending on how you configure it), no? Then fix it when you’re back. You could also set up 2 ssids depending on your WiFi set up. Point one to
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by procarch2019 2y ago
As an OT systems architect I am totally floored. We design and plan for systems lifecycle on a ~20yr scale, with OT hardware (not the controls hardware, that’s closer to 10-20) lifecycle much shorter (~5 yr). Obvious on Earth we can afford
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by procarch2019 2y ago
Agreed. Due to the long lifecycle of manufacturing equipment we still see a lot of 100mb out there, and it’s not even embedded. I would note that all new products seem to be gbe or better.
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by procarch2019 2y ago
I actually rebound my windows keys to use this instead of default windows snippet tool. Sure, if I need a high level of editing I’ll bring it into some other program (still using flame shot to take a capture). 95% the built in arrows, boxes
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by procarch2019 3y ago
I mean, I guess I get it for certain things. Silly to mandate it though. Anyone who has work requiring them to be in the office should be in the office. My in office time jumps up to 3-5 days per week when I have a new employee until they’r
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by procarch2019 3y ago
Yes, one by one. It’s just tedious. There’s always a solution. Often time screenshots correlate to steps. You open wordpad and start a numbered list. Write what action you perform and the screenshot. Repeat until you’re all the way done. Ta
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by procarch2019 3y ago
Yes, in the automation world living on level 2/2.5 wordpad is great for doing things like taking screenshots too. In a GMP facility it could take some significant effort to get a screenshot tool or a rich text editor installed. Also, t
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by procarch2019 3y ago
Hah, you don’t have to tell me about validation and quality. Yes, they usually account for a significant time of anything in the pharma world.
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by procarch2019 3y ago
I work in the OT/automation space for pharma. Cell and gene therapy is crazy amazing. One thing I didn’t really see mentioned here is length of treatment. They have to collect patients sample at hospital or other facility, transport to
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by procarch2019 3y ago
Occasionally I find myself somewhere I need to access email but have no network connection. No local cache means a big ol’ screw me
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by procarch2019 3y ago
Need MS for other toolings
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by procarch2019 3y ago
No more IMAP
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by procarch2019 3y ago
As pointed out elsewhere. My comment wasn’t really on outlook itself. There are other things that bind me to MS ecosystem. I’m sure that’s true for a lot of people.
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by procarch2019 3y ago
I’ll have to check it out, but sometimes I think I should just lean in to all the MS integrations. I do like OneNote and use the ‘Send to OneNote’ for meeting notes all the time.
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by procarch2019 3y ago
It does, but the applications and environments I need to use are Windows only anyway. IT policy also doesn’t let us have anything other than Windows. I could skirt it for the day to day stuff, but I wouldn’t want to maintain my setup in mul
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by procarch2019 3y ago
I don’t do more work outside of my professional work. I get away with just my phone and an iPad for everything else.
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by procarch2019 3y ago
I think anyone using outlook is probably using it out of necessity for work. Not everyone can just jump to Linux when they work in a company.
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by procarch2019 3y ago
I still use the mobile site and am convinced that the piss poor design of that is dark patterns to get people to give up and use the app.
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by procarch2019 3y ago
Just putting this out there because I guess I don’t know, but is it possible that most users don’t care *yet*. Isn’t it possible that the API changes could have a direct impact on the content or commenting?
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by procarch2019 3y ago
I disagree. There’s a huge amount of garbage out there, sure, but some communities are super active and can be used for learning. Take the PowerShell community for example or SysAdmin. I pop on those regularly to ask and answer questions. G
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by procarch2019 3y ago
I miss doing fun little projects with atmel MCUs. They were easy to get started with using either arduino or C. I often found myself blogging or documenting my projects just like this, which is funny since it wasn’t “work.” Then at some poi

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