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Gear Grinding 8: I Got A Lot Of Problems With You People!

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dxmnkd316 said:
Jesus Christ. I would report that to OSHA. LOTO deaths are fairly high on the list of occupational deaths.

Violating LOTO at my company will get you fired immediately or permanently banned from the property. They have insane (in a good way) procedures for LOTO.
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My company takes things equally as serious. Heck if you rub against a shelf with your machine and don't report it (even if zero damage) you are suspended. If you damage anything with your machine, you are off that machine until a clean drug test comes back. That's the minimum. If it is a flagrant violation, you could get fired on the spot.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
New Firefox (v57) is a flaming pile of ****.
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Firefox Quantum?

I actually quite like it. That puppy FLIES. And it eats a lot less memory, especially on streaming sites. I've switched back from Chrome.

Supposedly this is just the first of the tweaks with the Quantum engine and they are capable of making it even faster.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
Firefox Quantum?

I actually quite like it. That puppy FLIES. And it eats a lot less memory, especially on streaming sites. I've switched back from Chrome.

Supposedly this is just the first of the tweaks with the Quantum engine and they are capable of making it even faster.
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I'll wait. I love Chrome, although when Firefox FIRST came out, that was nice.
 
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yes and yes. UGH.

The Sicatoka said:
My beef? People who "swing left to turn right" (or vice versa)*: Car in front of me goes into left turn lane (to go east); I'm continuing on straight (south); they literally swung back right, into my lane, to make their left. And to Kep's point, yes, they took the right of the two east bound lanes they turned onto.

*If you're driving a double trailer tractor trailer rig sure; but, you don't need to swing out to make that corner in your Hyundai.
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Kepler said:
Drivers Ed book came up in another thread.

Four way intersection of two 2-lane roads. Me in my right turn lane, oncoming traffic in their left turn lane. I am so sick of them turning into my right turn right lane. The rule is clearly that they make their left turn into their left lane. I never try my right turn into my right lane while there is any incoming traffic (although I think I might actually have the right to) for fear they'll cross the line and sideswipe me. I don't even turn when there is oncoming straight traffic in their right lane because I assume that will be the moment some as-shat makes a sharp illegal left from his right lane, which from the angle would probably t-bone me.
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Twitch Boy said:
Firefox Quantum?

I actually quite like it. That puppy FLIES. And it eats a lot less memory, especially on streaming sites. I've switched back from Chrome.

Supposedly this is just the first of the tweaks with the Quantum engine and they are capable of making it even faster.
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Yeah, but it crippled too many extensions like TabMixPlus. Which is why I use Firefox. If I wanted silly and limited web extensions I would have switched to Chrome.

I honestly don’t notice a huge speed difference. Not enough to make the difference worth losing my core extensions.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Yeah, but it crippled too many extensions like TabMixPlus. Which is why I use Firefox. If I wanted silly and limited web extensions I would have switched to Chrome.

I honestly don’t notice a huge speed difference. Not enough to make the difference worth losing my core extensions.
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Sounds like extensions will be fixed in time.

Most of my core extensions seem to be updated (uBlock, Ghostery, HTTPS Everywhere.) Just need a good JavaScript/Flash blocker and an autoplay blocker that works.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
Sounds like extensions will be fixed in time.

Most of my core extensions seem to be updated (uBlock, Ghostery, HTTPS Everywhere.) Just need a good JavaScript/Flash blocker and an autoplay blocker that works.
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Actually, it sounds like just the opposite. The new webexts don't allow you to modify the chrome or the browser. The TMP dev is struggling mightily with converting his ext to a webext. He says there are going to be features that just won't exist anymore.

And another favorite of mine, Status4Evar is probably not going to be migrating. And Keyword Search is not going to function the same way again. KWS reverted the address bar to do a google search with an I'm Feeling Lucky if the first hit was what you were searching for. Not the stupid search function they use now.
 
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Brenthoven said:
I'll wait. I love Chrome, although when Firefox FIRST came out, that was nice.
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Exactly my thoughts. My journey has been Netscape Navigator --> IE (for about 11 seconds) --> Firefox --> Chrome.

I've tried Safari and Opera and been extremely unimpressed. I would use them if my only other choice was IE, but that's about it.
 
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Kepler said:
That sounds like an enormous production facility. We don't have anything like a production floor, thank god. When I look at my coworkers I'd project a couple fatalities a month if we did.

The worst accident in our program's history was 25 years ago: a homemade rocket being fired down the length of a corridor at 4 in the morning by a couple bored (stone cold sober) techs. It embedded in a wall and they needed to close the building and bring in heavy equipment to dig it out and examine if there was serious structural damage to the load-bearing wall.

One of the guys is still working here. His kid is serving life for murder.

Have I mentioned my coworkers are all Trump voters?

I should probably have stayed in academia.
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This thread is talking about things I am clueless about LOTO :confused: computer stuff that is past push a button and type :confused:
This post made me giggle tho.
 
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Violating Lock Out at my company would get you fired instantly. I’ve never even heard of any violating it at ours.
 
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leswp1 said:
This thread is talking about things I am clueless about LOTO :confused: computer stuff that is past push a button and type :confused:
This post made me giggle tho.
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Lock Out/Tag Out.

Safety protocol for working on dangerous/powered/heavy equipment. You completely disable anything on the equipment that could be a source of energy. Power switches, power supply, electrical circuits/lines, fuel/hydraulic lines, fluid reservoirs, large moving parts, or anything else that would be bad news if it suddenly powered on or got activated somehow. You then "lock out" these parts with a physical lock that only you have the key to, and "tag out" with a tag with your name/contact info on it. That lock/tag does NOT get removed by ANYONE except the name on the tag, and it does NOT get removed until you're 100 percent done with the work, present, and ready to safely bring the equipment back online. PERIOD.

The idea is to prevent you going home for the night, then the night shift walks in, doesn't see the equipment is being worked on, flips the switch, and something activates unexpectedly and he gets injured/killed.
 
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That’s not entirely true. You can’t leave your lock on equipment if you leave our site. We lock things out for weeks sometimes as equipment is being worked on. Contractors and employees are required to remove their locks from he lock box when they leave the site. Leaving without unlocking is an extremely serious offense as well.

We leave on the lock for the equipment but the key to that equipment is not locked itself. We do require tamper proof seals on our lock boxes for such keys. And often we will add separate color locks that the building supervisors control that to help prevent unauthorized startups. But that key has a formal procedure to hand over that must occur every shift change or when the sup leaves the site.
 
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unofan said:
Applied for a promotion 2 weeks ago. Posting closed Sunday night. The online portal says my application was forwarded on Monday morning. Haven't heard anything even though I know from past experience this manager likes to move quickly through the hiring process. Find out through the grapevine the applications were all lost somewhere in the transmission process between HR and the hiring manager. So now I'm in an indefinite holding pattern and potentially need to start the whole process over.
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Finally got a call and an interview scheduled for next week. The hiring manager got the applications from HR 2 weeks late, then he was out of town for a week, then Thanksgiving hit, then his administrative assistant has been out this week after falling during the Thanksgiving holiday.

Yeah, it doesn't feel at all like the universe is conspiring to keep me out of that job. Word through the grapevine is that there were 18 applicants, and it sounds like he's interviewing 3, of which I should be the only internal candidate. Not saying I can't blow it, but I like my chances.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
Lock Out/Tag Out.

Safety protocol for working on dangerous/powered/heavy equipment. You completely disable anything on the equipment that could be a source of energy. Power switches, power supply, electrical circuits/lines, fuel/hydraulic lines, fluid reservoirs, large moving parts, or anything else that would be bad news if it suddenly powered on or got activated somehow. You then "lock out" these parts with a physical lock that only you have the key to, and "tag out" with a tag with your name/contact info on it. That lock/tag does NOT get removed by ANYONE except the name on the tag, and it does NOT get removed until you're 100 percent done with the work, present, and ready to safely bring the equipment back online. PERIOD.

The idea is to prevent you going home for the night, then the night shift walks in, doesn't see the equipment is being worked on, flips the switch, and something activates unexpectedly and he gets injured/killed.
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THanks. I googled but felt like I was in a foreign land
 
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