But the signs we used before were serial with ethernet converters that were pretty fragile and as the sole contributor i dont want that hanging over my head.
Are there larger forms of these signs available? I understand TVs are trivially expensive at this point but theres something about the brightness and design of LED displays that seems uniquely better in the manufacturing space.
I got this game for Christmas and wasn’t really bright enough to get through the whole thing at 7 but it was a really interesting game that I’d forgotten about until now.
Way to go, team.
As an aside, my grandfather was a terrific guy. He bought a Gateway 2000 PC in the 90's and spent lots of time with me getting Sim City 2000 loaded up on it. He always had some gadget to show me since he knew how much I loved technology and he was very good at it for someone of his generation. I don't begrudge recycling 11 printers as I cleaned up his house and it always gives my dad and I a good laugh and nice memories of an important person in my life.
Every time one stopped working (probably ran out of ink, or printed poorly because of long delays between printing) he would go to Best Buy, get talked up by a salesperson about a nice new printer, and buy it.
It's just incredible to see this story in action.
I took a position to help stand up an IT department for a local manufacturer. In the next year or two we'll be bringing on some more staff to help maintain day-to-day operations and it got me thinking: what do technicians and engineers want in a workspace these days?I've WFH for the last 6 years as a software engineer but am coming from a large enterprise (also manufacturing) with a sea of tall...
However, I will say we've taken some considerations from the microservices discussion to heart and thought more about fault-tolerance, ci/cd, and streamlining the deployment process so we've definitely gotten some value from the zeitgeist.
That said, most of our apps end up being a fairly relaxed monolith with some service integrations here and there. And you know what? It's pretty nice sometimes :)
Best of luck to them in whatever they move onto next
Certainly the market for them will take a beating compared to new prices now. But I can't imagine it collapsing like that purely based on the supply. How many people are really going to drop their 2080 just because a new thing is out there?
I'd love to be wrong, as an original 2070 owner ;)
I feel like my company has done the best they can (given our industry has already been under a lot of pressure prior to COVID) under circumstances. We're in groups of rolling furloughs so folks have not been permanently laid off. While laid off, we still are receiving medical benefits, which is great.
As a remote worker prior to all this, I haven't had to change much of my day to day and our infrastructure has handled the influx of remote workers (thousands) very well.
However, it also makes the prospect of moving to another company daunting. I worked on-prem for years and developed relationships with co-workers prior to moving off-site. I have a lot of anxiety about not being able to create the same relationships at a new company or having to commute again to a city center for work (something I really can't see myself doing unless absolutely necessary). It's a scary prospect and one I think is absolutely possible given the precarious state of my industry and the economy on the whole.
Here's an excellent Planet Money article I heard yesterday going over this issue: https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815307821/planet-money-why-th...
At least in the US, there's a policy of 'creating' a market for vaccines for these potential outbreaks in order to incentivize industry to research and produce them.
trickle down economics and the myth of tax cuts automatically generating enough economic growth are just that: myths, that have been debunked.
I was absolutely gutted to see the state of the store. It's immense, which makes its hollowness even more shocking. I remember when the store opened during my highschool years (2004'ish?) it was a pilgrimage to go there and see double-stacked shelves of every part you could imagine.
The employees (probably a 15-20 in the huge 400K sq.ft. store) looked shellshocked and didn't seem to have any inclination to ask me how they could help. I talked to a security guard who was maybe 17-18 and he mentioned something about renegotiating contracts with vendors or something, but I could tell even he didn't buy it.
I don't think there is any question of whether Fry's is in dire trouble.
I work for a large enterprise that has basically written its own ERP from scratch. There's a lot of rough edges but it's very tailored for our workflow and processes.
I've toyed with the idea of what I'd build if I could largely take what I know and start fresh (standard exercise in madness, I know) in order to learn about the bits I am not familiar with (I'm more in manufacturing, know very little about CRM and accounting processes).
It was very interesting coming across this only a few weeks ago and seeing this here. Starting it up in a docker container was a snap and it had a number of free modules that were easy to add. It's very basic but gets the point across and was a fun learning experience (and nice because it's in a language I don't currently develop in, python).
Just thought the timing was peculiar and enjoyed hearing about folks here harping on ERP development as soul-crushing. Yes, it can be at times, but I also really enjoy how it lets me really dig into my company's processes. When you get it right, it can make your users sing with joy when you help speed things up or streamline things.
I don't know where I was going with this but just enjoyed the article :)
The challenge is that once the immediate fire is out, it's easy to simply leave things in a half-baked state. That accumulates as technical debt.
Thankfully, most of the instances where I have had to deal with this has been purely software and not affected the lives and comfort of operators on the floor like with Tesla. But I can see how this happens. Even if the 'tent' becomes a permanent installation, I hope they spend the time and money to improve it to the necessary working standards that employees deserve.
I thought the step where they beat the fish with a mallet was so wild. It's certainly led me down a rabbit hole of seeing how we used to prepare food a few hundred years ago.
I've been a long-time .net developer and the changes in the last few years have felt really refreshing, even as someone deeply in the microsoft ecosystem.
.Net announcements seemed to feel like monolithic messages coming down from on high. Now, I see folks like Scott Hanselman and the asp.net team (Damian Edwards and David Fowler, mostly) being so open about their design decisions as core moves forward. VS Code seems to have been a smash hit from all indicators I can find.
Sure, Windows isn't OSS, and there's a lot of skeletons in the closet. But the amount of dismissal I read here is frustrating given the amount of earnest effort I see engineers putting into getting things right.
To the surprise of no one, things are going slower than expected: http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/February-2019/What-Happe...
Pretty neat to see how much effort was put into this.
It works on every database known to humans
We're fully on Jetbrains tools otherwise (R#, dotTrace and dotMemory, TeamCity as build server) so it was a no brainer for me to want to continue that trend but it didn't check all the boxes for us, despite its clear polish.
I tend to hate any IDE built on Eclipse (which I think DBeaver is), but I've been very pleasantly surprised with how well it works.
1. It's got very nice ER modeling where other tools (Like Oracle SQL Developer) make you jump through a dozen screens and a wizard to make a simple diagram.
2. It's got nice export tools to get your data to business partners in a more convenient way. Sure you can copy tables in pretty much every tool but there's just an 'excel' button that can pop open your current query in a new sheet.
3. It does have a weird delay when opening up databases sometimes where it 'reads metadata' about the table and it can sometimes take a long time to return even the most basic query. But once it's cached that data I've not noticed problems after that.
4. It does seem like the document database tooling isn't as baked as the relation tooling. I routinely get hangs when querying my Mongo collections, which is sometimes a drag. But it hasn't been a huge issue.
Overall, I'd highly recommend the paid version of this tool as it's helped me consolidate: Robo3T, Sql Server Mgmt Studio, SQL Developer, and MySQL Workbench into a single tool.
I have similar experiences with older loved ones I'm friend with on Facebook and it's rare they send links. But I think the rampant meme-sharing of misinformation/disinformation is much more prevalent.