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I've used Redmine with the Checklists plugin for this. Each thing that needs to be done is a redmine issue, and each issue can have a checklist. As team members check off items on …

Someone should have taken a step back when they were writing that guide and said "Wait, what? Why is this even necessary?" To think that they're recommending that and some people a…

As someone who has torn down and rebuilt a thinkpad or two, I was appalled when I started looking into his and other videos on MBP repair since I've never owned a MBP. They're clea…

To add to this, the FRA regulates track speed based upon condition of the track and some other requirements. Track condition is typically quite good (rail companies really want to …

They're working on it, and have been for a while now. The main problem is its just a massive amount of work. They had to develop a fail safe system almost from scratch (Which also …

And if you've got joe, you can emulate Wordstar with jstar: https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/ It works well for distraction-free writing.

Make sure to give yourself plenty of time to go through the WWII Museum there. It is huge and extremely well put together, with tons of artifacts (including entire airplanes) and s…

Agreed. With traditional tools, I do have a netlist and schematic available for every circuit I work on. I've never reached for the netlist when studying or debugging, it doesn't c…

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Depending on the RR, the hot box detector will read out over the radio whether it has found a defect, what axle number it counted it to be on, and the total number of axles counted…

Nonetheless, it is what is used on freight lines in the U.S quite successfully, and provides other protections such as broken rail detection. Detached cars are detected using the F…

Although not all rail systems in all countries use axle counters for presence detection. In the US freight industry we use track circuits - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_circ…

Their metric for determining remoteness is really lacking in my opinion, it doesn't jive at all with what I think many people would consider a remote location. Something along the …

Its not just information age companies, it seems to me that many people in general are ignorant of the concept that a distraction-free work environment is important. I'm at a compa…