Lmao I looked at the wiki paged to see how unhinged it is and who joined/declined. The list of countries accepting is basically exactly who you'd expect.
It took until now to learn that Denmark wasn't even invited.
Yeah, exactly. You definitely save some copper by running ethernet to remote racks but by raw wire count it's not reduced much. There's a LOT of modern plants (power and manufacturing plants) that have way more wiring than this in a photo
Um, I mean the boiler(s) itself are a small part of it. It's all the other stuff. I am not a coal expert by any stretch, but if you think of the signals required just to convey coal, probably dozens or more of drives with run/stop/various errors/temperature/current/voltage/perhaps VF, plus all the sensors you need to use motors like that with (presumably bucket conveyors?) like slip, like explosion disk detection from dust. Not like all of those have to be present, but every step has so many signals.
Plus then you've got a steam turbine and a switchyard, plus all the plant utilities like process heating and cooling water, compressed air, steam turbine makeup water, etc
Nowadays you do IO to remote racks that are close to devices (like valves/motors/etc) then use Ethernet to make it go further. Pre ethernet there were typically proprietary cables for the same, but thankfully that's a thing of the past
But something like I mentioned with a motor drive having all those signals, yeah it's typically just an Ethernet cable + power + estop (usually hardwired still). So maybe 40-50 wires down to 5-8
It's about IO not compute. The controllers for plants like this aren't very complicated but they can have many thousands of signals going to/from them. For a ~500MW plant I'd expect somewhere between 2-5k IO, more if it's nicely automated.
I have the same story (with a huge failure at a metal factory) that I had a dozen times made a big scene about how terrible an idea it was. The corporate guy who suggested it decided to email god and country that if only (my team specifically of) engineering had supported us more it wouldn't have happened like that. I was fuming, spent half the night furiously detailing and outlining my proof of how we supported him, bad idea, etc.
I ended up drunkenly scrapping the entire write up and just reply alling "fuck you (name)". Perhaps my proudest work moment, tbh.
I used to work at a really shitty metal factory as an engineer. I'd have to help get the lines going again after our weekly shutdown, and it was always a 24-30 hour work day, once per week. So 5 am until 5-10 am the next day. Very little for breaks (though they did feed us), almost never any sleep. That drive home after was harrowing. It probably would have been safer if I was drunk
For all my hard work and dedication I got rewarded with fucking nothing because that's how capitalism works
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I tried it for a half day, and really struggled with how different it is. Any thoughts on that? I don't always search for an app by name in Nova, often I go by the autopilot of where it lies on my home screen
Fair enough, I'm trying pretty hard to devil's advocate the "it has zero use" commentary. I hate the AI hype and LLMs getting shoved down our throats. I try a little to imagine a world where it's somewhat helpful, cuz that type of tech would've been cool if it wasn't a dystopian nightmare socially.
I mean long and short of it is Fuck AI and especially the people pushing it
I think the best use is "making filler" so like in a game, having some deep background shit that no one looks at, or making a fake advertisement in a cyberpunk type game. Something to fill the world out that reduces the work of real artists if they choose to
Interesting. My fp5 is my first fp. I wouldn't say I'm impressed with the hardware across the board, lots of complaints honestly. But the service has been pretty great to me. I had a problem with my fingerprint button and they queued up a replacement phone (ironic? Can't even fix this lol) for me and shipping without me even pushing
Jeg er amerikaner (men jeg bor i Danmark) og jeg ser USA som modstander. Alle af mine amerikanske venner tænker det samme