Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "" video.

  1. It's also because older generations were fucking terrible at documenting their stuff! I work in a water plant that's 25 years old, I even still have original employees, and ALL THE TIME we run into shit that's not right, why is it like this, oh look this equipment was installed in 1999, failed in 2003, was replaced with a new spec item, the manual was never replaced, the serial not recorded, now it's failed again 15 years later and we have zero info, no specs, the original and as builts don't match, so you start over and respect everything because of course the replacement is no longer manufactured, it was discontinued 10 years ago, so spec a replacement, cool, now it's a 25 WEEK lead time because COVID. No shit, I'm waiting YEARS on critical, need it today equipment.
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  2. I'd sacrifice a million of us for Taiwan before I'd send one American to Ukraine. Ukraine disappears tomorrow I won't notice. Our chip fabs in Taiwan disappear or fall to China tomorrow, we'll notice, or maybe we won't as our networks and tech falls into disrepair.
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  3. My career mentor was doing the job 20+ years before I started, now after almost 10 years working together we've both learned a lot, it's a huge advantage. Institutional knowledge is an infinitely valuable commodity. He retired a few years back and came back to work because we needed his skills AND HE MISSED THE WORK. He came back part time at lower pay just to have something to do.
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  4. This isn't rally around the flag, this is rally around our share price. If Chinese paratroopers were falling here in Missouri, you could talk me into going to work at a weapons factory. The fact our proxy war 10,000 miles away to help people who for most of my childhood was the #1 base for nuclear missiles pointed directly at ME isn't going well so you need to revive a discontinued high-profit lethal munition with my help...naw. Not inspiring.
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  5. Also, fun fact, government is 100% exempt from all OSHA regulations. I work for a municipal utility and we get to skate on basically all safety regs. OSHA compliance for government would cost taxpayers TRILLIONS. Hell, just to make all local government buildings ADA compliant costs billions a year, and missing one door knob, one ramp with the wrong slope, a row of chairs too close together, six figure lawsuit
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  6. Holy shit welcome to my world, I run a 25 year old water treatment plant. You probably know what that's like, tons of high tech automation that's state of the art, for 1999. Not so compatible with 2023 tech. Good electricians come in and use PLCs to paper over our old shit...great electricians and electrical engineers came in and did a whole legacy integrating modern scada 'graft' into our old stuff last year and it's working great, finally, after a year of refining and literally millions of taxpayer dollars. There is no option to replace a lot of our equipment, MOST OF ITS NOT MANUFACTURED ANYMORE, so the only option is cobbling lol. Stuff like taking this multiplexed tone from a level sender, converting that to 4-20ma to then feed that signal to a digital converter to feed a plc that then reverts back to analog to trigger a mechanical relay, because the system that used to actuate that was a contactor so old and beat up it died and was irreplaceable. And don't get me started on the TESTING of all that. I spend hours running tests, can I do THIS and make it fail, what if THIS happens, how about these two things at the same time, oh that did fail, send the bro-grammers a ticket...
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  7. My buddy is a software engineer, he lost a job opening at Nintendo, his dream job, because in an interview an old engineer asked him questions he had no clue how to answer. The question: he drew two boxes on a whiteboard, one labeled CPU, one labeled RAM, and a line drawn between them. He then asked to describe this relationship...he didn't even know it was called a bus, he had no clue because he focused so hard on programming, he's so SILOED, he'd never learned how hardware works, it's not his specialty. The engineer was very upset with this, my buddy went to a top school and has a degree, how are they not teaching this he demanded, followed by a 20 minute lecture about how data moves through busses on the main board. He's worked for the DOD for years making tons of money, and didn't know what to me was stuff I learned at age 10 building my first computer, actual building, I had to solder my cards and boot from 5" floppies, I'm old.
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  8. ​ @randomname1833 do you want a working elevator that could maybe possibly maybe hurt someone somehow, OR a guaranteed months of downtime for your employees AND losing their annual raise to expenses? An accidental death is cheaper, and with the insurance payout the company probably profits. Cost benefit analysis doesn't lie.
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  9. For example, to make my workplace ADA compliant, which it's not because it's not a public building, but for the sake of argument... we'd have to rebuild our entry ramp and redesign the entire building, which would be a change big enough the DNR and EPA would have to sign off on it, that's a multi year process and tens of thousands just in design and engineering the changes, probably millions in materials and labor, and that's one water plant in a town of 3000 people in Missouri, now multiply that by thousands of towns nationwide...and that's just one small utility in government that might have dozens of such non-conpliant buildings. It's a huge lift. Like the new water lead rules that take effect this year, we need to find, Id, and catalog every lead containing water line in the nation, BY LAW. Good luck. My system has water lines over a century old, that no one knows where it is, no maps, but we're liable to the feds. Makes me want to go stock at Walmart sometimes.
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  10. Also, I'll be happy to come make drinking water again after the CME, but $1000/hr is low, I'm already paying engineers that much today. No shit, my consulting engineer, $2k/day to show up on site, for a minute or 8 hours. Telling you kids, all the money is in government SERVICES, not actual government. T It always pains me to make $18/hr and have helpers come in that make $50 to assist me. Should be the other way around.
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  11. ​ @kingcosworth2643 to be fair, you COULD replace that carburetor with a PLC and some relays, JUST SAYING lol
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  12. Yeah but, think how awesome the new tech power grid will be without all that old legacy tech holding it back. PLCs, (big arm sweep) PLCs everywhere!
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  13. It's pretty f Ed up in modern America that if you get debt free and aren't obese, those two facts alone make you a top 10% person.
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  14. Dod: "Oh no the Stingers run in COBOL, what do we DO?!"
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