Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes a day

Re:Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes... by godelski on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @05:55PM (#39460786)

You had piranha tanks? Back in my day our managers just threw us in a empty concrete room with no windows and no outlets, tossed a computer at us and said "fix it". If we were lucky they'd say what "it" was. If we were extra lucky, they'd throw us a keyboard. Not that that mattered anyways.

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Re:Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes... by benrow on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:30AM (#39464980)

You had keyboards? Luxury, back in my day we had to stamp punch cards with the tips of our fingers. If we made a mistake, the head operator would cut one of our fingers off with a bread knife. We didn't mind though, it made us tough, that and sleeping in the car park wrapped in tape from old backups just t'stay warm.

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Re:Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes... by hef19898 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:58AM (#39465437)

Did you sleep in cars in the car park or on the car park concrete?

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Re:Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes... by psd1 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @02:09PM (#39471586)

You had concrete car parks? When I were a lad, we had to inherit from car park and implement parking spaces ourselves. And if you had an overflow you had to walk -2147483648 miles to work.

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Re:Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough: A year's work now takes... by lifeisstillgood on Saturday February 24, 2024 @07:13AM (#39490948)

Ahhh, HN … thank you all :-)

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