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procarch2019 commented on The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)   den.dev/blog/pihole/... · Posted by u/mpweiher
firesteelrain · 4 months ago
Always wanted to do this but if I get a call from home and I am either

1) at work 2) out of town 3) or just not home

Then, my family's ability to troubleshoot if PiHole goes down is extremely limited. Even if I had two.

procarch2019 · 4 months 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 pi hole and the other to a different DNS provider. Instruction if pi hole breaks is just switch WiFi.

procarch2019 commented on NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument   gizmodo.com/nasa-shuts-of... · Posted by u/01-_-
picafrost · 6 months ago
I highly recommend "It's Quieter in the Twilight" (2022), a documentary about the team maintaining these spacecraft as the end of their mission draws nearer. It adds a tremendous amount of context to articles like this.

The engineering involved in making these spacecraft durable for as long as they have been is truly awe inspiring. As a software engineer it seems silly to consider where my code will be in fifty years. I wish it wasn't.

procarch2019 · 6 months 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 luxuries of adopting new things, which actually shortens a total system lifecycle since new tech drives new designs.

I wish (and don’t) I could work on something that had a dependency of “design it once because it’s relatively inaccessible after its go live.” I’ll def check out the documentary.

procarch2019 commented on Show HN: We made a small and cheap network switch   docs.murexrobotics.com/el... · Posted by u/Hello9999901
nativeit · a year ago
I’m not sure what your background is, but 100Mb Ethernet is still rather common in embedded devices and applications where the network protocol is primarily intended to facilitate UART serial communication. Just as a general note for context, I will defer to their more specific answer for this particular application.

Neat project!

procarch2019 · a year 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.

procarch2019 commented on Flameshot – Open-source screenshot software   flameshot.org/... · Posted by u/nikolay
phkahler · a year ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to separate the screenshot functionality and dump that into a separate editor - configurable which editor. Or do these utilities combine the functionality in some inseparable way?
procarch2019 · a year 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, numbers, etc do the quick attention calling I need.

Bonus, this was a piece of ‘bloatware’ an admin rebuilt my computer with, but I came to love.

procarch2019 commented on IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/htrp
procarch2019 · 2 years 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’re somewhat self sufficient. My in office time jumps when I have to prepare hardware for a project *in house*. My in office time plummets when I’m doing a software project hosted on one of my customers systems.

I guess what I’m saying is just be pragmatic and get your stuff done.

P.S. One of my senior guys is a road warrior, highly effective and I see him in the office maybe three times a year.

procarch2019 commented on RIP Microsoft WordPad   gizmodo.com/microsoft-wor... · Posted by u/thunderbong
dangrossman · 2 years ago
Can't you paste into Paint for the screenshots?
procarch2019 · 2 years 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. Take it off the system, print it, sign and date it and attach to an MOC and your done.

I supposed you could copy and save in paint. Then do the same thing in Word off the system by dropping in all the images. Idk, doesn’t sound like that much more work, but it’s annoying enough.

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procarch2019 commented on RIP Microsoft WordPad   gizmodo.com/microsoft-wor... · Posted by u/thunderbong
tvb12 · 2 years ago
This is such an annoying change. I work in a production facility and I don't get to choose what is installed on the computers. It's either WordPad, notepad, or open a browser for Word. WordPad is obviously a step up over notepad if you need any sort of formatting.

Now imagine a machine is malfunctioning and you need to look up the last known "good" settings to see if anything changed. First open a browser, then go to the office site, then fish out your cell phone because you're going to need the authentication code to log in, then dance around for a bit because you're in a warehouse and the reception is terrible, then open the Word app, then wait ages for it to "work on it".

All I'm trying to do is quickly read some text. I don't see how this is better than clicking a text file icon on the desktop.

procarch2019 · 2 years 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, taking pictures with a phone is usually a huge no no.

Occasionally, you have to document something with…screenshots. Now, some versions of Windows Server come with snipping tool, which lets you save a screen shot. Others you still have to use the print screen key. Then what… well, you open wordpad and paste.

Luckily most of the systems we interact with now we get to install Office when the system is being qualified. Could be a huge PIA though otherwise.

edit: level 2/2.5 means no internet connection and therefore no browser based editors.

procarch2019 commented on What we are doing today with CAR-T cell therapy against cancer seems like SciFi   english.elpais.com/health... · Posted by u/belter
puzzlingcaptcha · 2 years ago
The 'vein-to-vein' time (apheresis to infusion) is being shortened all the time, and you can already manufacture CAR-T cells in 24-48hrs, but it still takes about a week to clear quality assurance and release the product (microbiology, integrated copy number, integration site testing, autonomous growth potential etc). The reason being mostly that you don't want to accidentally replace patient's B cell cancer with a T cell cancer of your own making.
procarch2019 · 2 years 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.
procarch2019 commented on What we are doing today with CAR-T cell therapy against cancer seems like SciFi   english.elpais.com/health... · Posted by u/belter
procarch2019 · 2 years 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 production facility, grow sample, inject sample with vector, grow some more and then reintroduce. The real sci-fi moment will be when they get to the point they can treat in a day.

I think most are 3+ weeks sample to treatment right now. Still amazing though.

u/procarch2019

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