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Even more so, if it’s just there you’re making it easy for the customer to find someone bidding less to execute new projects. Guess who they’re calling if they don’t have the plc p…

Sounds like we have a similar development path. People fail to understand how complex some of these systems can be, especially since you have to have the project to understand what…

The point I was making is that PLCs have a software stack. You have to know the software and programming languages defined in IEC 61131-3. For all intents and purposes they are jus…

You’d be surprised how insecure some of these facilities are, especially to someone who has working knowledge of what a PLC (or other process controllers) does and how it works. Yo…

I think it is. I work for a (relatively) small company. I naturally grew from project engineer to senior/lead/sme (including pioneering tech _for my industry_) to SA. I had also st…

My kids a bit young for reading HP on their own, but it’s our bedtime book series every night. Over the past year or so we’ve (I’ve) read HP before bed. We just started book the Or…

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…

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) lif…

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…

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 f…

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 …

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 …

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 s…

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.

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 pati…

Occasionally I find myself somewhere I need to access email but have no network connection. No local cache means a big ol’ screw me

Need MS for other toolings

No more IMAP

As pointed out elsewhere. My comment wasn’t really on outlook itself. There are other things that bind me to MS ecosystem. I’m sure that’s true for a lot of people.

I’ll have to check it out, but sometimes I think I should just lean in to all the MS integrations. I do like OneNote and use the ‘Send to OneNote’ for meeting notes all the time.

It does, but the applications and environments I need to use are Windows only anyway. IT policy also doesn’t let us have anything other than Windows. I could skirt it for the day t…

I don’t do more work outside of my professional work. I get away with just my phone and an iPad for everything else.

I think anyone using outlook is probably using it out of necessity for work. Not everyone can just jump to Linux when they work in a company.

I still use the mobile site and am convinced that the piss poor design of that is dark patterns to get people to give up and use the app.