vrek

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[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

He was amazing. He just wanted to be left alone and allowed to crank out work.

Based on this experience I think we should hire people who are in long term relationships and then have a seperate team whose job is to break that relationship for the increased output. /s that is way too evil for me

[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

No, you knew a few people who were trying to have a skill they didn't have.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 33 points 12 hours ago (8 children)

Iq doesn't matter really. Everyone has a skill. For example I had a coworker who when hired was in a dark time. Not to give any personal details but he lost his job, his wife left him, she took the kids all in like 3 months. He came in and plainly said I don't want to think, I don't want to solve problems just just give me a machine and tell me how to run it and it will be run.

He was the best damn coworker I had ever. He beat my record of work in that machine by about 150% on average, his record was something like 3x my record. Now if the machine gave an error he would come get me and tell me to fix the error. He didn't care how the machine worked or what was happening, he came in, made product and went home. He was insane at it. He didn't want to think, he didn't care. That's someone else's job, I just run machine. He probably made more profit for that company then any other 2 people combined.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago

This was a huge company. I was at a "small" facility with 22 meeting rooms. There were over 150 facilities world wide. The cost of that would be huge.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 19 points 18 hours ago

I don't believe they are strict with that stuff here like woman's stuff is.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago

I have no idea how he does it but let me find a video to demonstrate. The content doesn't really matter if your not technical but I'm just referring to the board he has.

https://youtu.be/tD5NrevFtbU?is=pfHZxt9tf68gNpcD

I no longer work at that company so the camera situation is not my problem.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

True but drawing with a marker and drawing with a mouse never mind a laptop touchpad are very different skills.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Off the top of my head at that office I think there were 22 meeting rooms. Most with 2 white boards if not more. So you would need to buy 44 cameras. Alot of them werent even real white boards but like these clear glass boards which were hung infront of a white wall.

I don't know if you know who Casey muratori is but I would of loved a white board in the style he has. It's basically translucent and he writes on the back of it and it's over laid on his stream. He jumps between his computer to show code and then goes to board to do diagrams or quick math or whatever.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 21 hours ago (8 children)

One thing I noticed when people would call into a meeting and other people were in a room for same meeting, the computer screen was always shared so any data or presentation was shown to the call-in people but then someone in room would ask a question and the presenter would draw a diagram or a drawing on the white board and the call in person completely missed it.

Like a presenter would report data and say something like "the measurements of dimension 0.45 +/- 0.005 are trending upwards close to the control limit" and then someone in room asks "what is that dimension for". The presenter would then go to the white board and draw a diagram. You might say can't you just pull up the drawing on the computer and the answer in yes except for where 2 parts interact. You could pull up both drawings and kinda move mouse around like see this feature, then switch to second drawing, move mouse around second feature and be like feature one snaps into feature 2. Or draw a simple diagram in 30 seconds.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 43 points 21 hours ago

What's that old quote from some famous guy "I just surrounded myself with people who were smart and interested in the company success then got out of there way"... It was something like that

[–] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Probably best topic for me would probably be how to statistically model quality in manufacturing. Like what is hypothesis testing, what is a gage r&r, what is spc, how do you properly do those things, what are the footguns, how do you interpret the results, what's a spec limit vs a control limit vs action limit?

How can you manipulate the tests for your business case? To be clear on that last one I'm not saying manipulate to lie, but it depends on business. For example your control limits are typically +/- 3 standard deviations. If you run a dark business making plastic forks but to get a engineer to fly out and adjust the machine is a few thousand dollarsand no one will care if the tongs on the fork are 3 thou longer than normal. You may set your control limits at 5 times. If you make the steel beams which hold up bridges where hundreds of people die if they can't hold the forces and you're measuring width of the beams you may go down to 1 or 2 times standard deviation. Yeah you will waste engineer time which is money but it's hundred of people's lives if it fails. Those are different business cases and you shouldn't just default to the standard 3 st.dev in those cases.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

I used to repair/operate/program laser welders and cutters too. We mostly worked with titanium and either fiber or nd-yag lasers. Our cutter was 350w but 200psi of argon. My preferred cnc controllers were fanuc but they were so expensive(main controller not including servos or motors or anything else was 35k). Our cheaper machines were like 40k total but didn't have nearly the accuracy or control.

Interesting fact with fanuc is there controllers are full backwards compatible. And I mean fully. You can buy the most recent top end model and pull out some program on bubble tape and it will work. You got a program on punch cards? No problem. Also their service is top notch. You call them, a technician will show up in a day or two max with a box of every replacement board possible. They will replace the burned board then and there (no ordering and shipping) and bill you after it's fixed. Yes, it's expensive(most boards are several hundred dollars but the fee for the technician which is a few thousand) but if you make a tens of thousands in revenue per day it's worth the cost.

 

What I mean is everyone wants both. And I'm not talking huge differences. I don't mean go from 30k per year to 120k per year or going home sweating everyday to watching Netflix most days. What brought the question up was I was in hospital and the computer the scanned all the medication and machines into was on my right side of bed and Iv pole where all medications were on my left. Nurses also had to deal with wired scanners which they had to hold up above the bed to walk around. Not a huge problem but cover 30 rooms with 4-16 different medications to swap out per day was probably a major pain(nurses can chime in disagreeing).

Another thing I've seen is people in a warehouse with systems logging all locations a product could be in and saying yeah we have some of that in one of these and they have to walk around to check several locations to find which still has some.

So you want a 2k-6k raise... If your job was easier how much would that make you stay instead of just demanding a raise?

Edit: this is not a real situation but say I have 4 employees under me and an extra 25k in budget. Would you prefer a raise or to improve your job?

 

Unrelated to topic but I was in hospital recently and nurses came around to do vital,blood pressure oxygen temperature.i was having a high blood pressure. Often I lay with crossed legs but a nurse told me to uncross my legs and blood pressure went down. Why why cross legs increase blood pressure ?

 

Obviously like prescriptions are different to ensure safety and dosages and such. I mean like the notes to show that you or your child actually went to the doctor. Has anyone ever called like "hi, yeah so I just wanted to confirm my employee John saw your employer yesterday and confirm they are a real doctor"

I can't imagine any manager actually has enough free time and enough pettiness to actually do that, am I wrong?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by vrek@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev
 

Running Debian sid and it mostly works (still struggling with Nvidia drivers for video). Last night I was watching a video and everything was fine, sound worked. Son was in room "asleep". I left to use bathroom and then he came looking for me. I don't know what happened while I was in bathroom but now I hear nothing out of speakers. If I reboot into windows sound works so it's not a physical issue. Reboot back into Linux no sound. Boot off flash drive Linux, no sound but I think that was always true and was a alsamixer issue on flash drive Linux setups. Volume on YouTube turned to 100, verified not muted, volume in KDE at 100 and not muted. Physical volume on speakers at 100, volume knob on keyboard at 100 and mute not engaged. All volume sliders in alsamixer maxed out. Simple setup, 2.1 speaker system plugged into sound output on motherboard no mixer or fancy equipment.

Son is non-verbal and severally autistic so I can't ask him. Whatever happened was almost definitely an accident but I can't figure out what happened. I see like a lighter bar moving on the KDE volume slider which seems to match expected video audio so I believe KDE is receiving the signal to play sound but nothing comes out of speakers. He struggles to feed himself soup or cereal so it's not like he found some super secret command and is playing joke. Something seems to be accidently hit and is blocking sound... Maybe a mute hot key not synced to main audio controls so it's not obvious that it's active???

Edit... This is solved. KDE mixer and alsamixer made no change but changing the output in pavucontrol fixed it. I have no idea why or how. Thanks for everyone who recommended it.

 

Those companies were all found to be pyramid schemes!

 

Well first someone would need to put a bank inside a whale...

 

I'm not looking for Chromecast but I have a Linux system hooked up to a TV and ether net. I want a way to pick a YouTube or Amazon prime or Netflix video on my phone and display it on the TV via the Linux pc. Is that possible? If so what software can do it?

 

I don't expect much but I found an old pi I bought probably 2016(may of been 2017). It was supposed to be a pi-hole but was never able to get the dns forwarding to work on my modem. It still works but wanted to somehow convert it to a regular distro(it's based on a micro-SD and I don't have any more microsd readers). I wanted to set it up as a basic system I could ssh into a terminal. Not expecting anything fancy or even graphic based. A lot of stuff I want to learn/practice "work" on windows but are native to Linux, like vim/neovim nmap gcc etc. Is this feasible? Am I under estimating what's possible with it?

 

I don't expect much but I found an old pi I bought probably 2016(may of been 2017). It was supposed to be a pi-hole but was never able to get the dns forwarding to work on my modem. It still works but wanted to somehow convert it to a regular distro(it's based on a micro-SD and I don't have any more microsd readers). I wanted to set it up as a basic system I could ssh into a terminal. Not expecting anything fancy or even graphic based. A lot of stuff I want to learn/practice "work" on windows but are native to Linux, like vim/neovim nmap gcc etc. Is this feasible? Am I under estimating what's possible with it?

 

For anyone interested agdq started today. Raising money for prevent cancer foundation and showing speed runs of video games. Available streaming on twitch and YouTube. Gamesdonequick.com

 

For anyone interested agdq started today. Raising money for prevent cancer foundation and showing speed runs of video games. Available streaming on twitch and YouTube. Gamesdonequick.com

 

I thought of this after a recent bug I found. I use Vivaldi browser and recently it updated. After the update my mouse cursor was not visible when within the browser window. Other programs worked fine. I tried visual studio and steam and epic game store all had my mouse, Vivaldi didn't.

I closed all instances of Vivaldi via task nanager(was unable to click the x) and restarted it. That fixed the bug and I haven't been able to replicate so I don't have anything to submit for a bug report. Just a really strange thing.

What have been your weirdest bugs?

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