L. Wasserman @Lwasserman@qoto.org

@munitor I passed Stats, but promptly forgot most of it.

@munitor Nope. I'm a controls engineer in Minneapolis.

@munitor Cool. What discipline, if I may ask?

@freemo Traffic accidents are gonna start looking like when a celebrity dies of auto-erotic asphixiation. Sad, but also kinda weird.

@joey_zozo Actually, this reminds me about this comic I saw awhile back:

http://humoncomics.com/mother-gaia

@joey_zozo I want to live!!!

@coldwave Do you eat them, or are they for photos?

@joey_zozo @whiteout Wow...

@joey_zozo He helped me through my PE, and would come in just to teach the kid engineers. One of the best parts of that job.

@joey_zozo If I could go back just because I wanted to, I'd get a computer science degree. I went EE because my dad's mantra was "Don't be a programmer, don't be a programmer...." But that's probably my favorite part. Enough that I put a fair amount of effort in honing that skill.

@joey_zozo A really brilliant old coworker of mine wrote a textbook on power plant control systems. Maybe you might like that? Or anyone on this instance. It's in PDF form. http://www.exceleng.net/index.php/controls-and-automation/power-plant-control-systems/

@joey_zozo They don't make you do the trig for the robots. It's already built into the firmware. That said, I saw one do a pullup through its own arm once.

@joey_zozo If you can do boolean logic, you can do ladder logic. It's just boolean logic in switch form.

Who's SCADA packages are you using? Rockwell?

Right now, I'm making machines that make and inspect stents and catheters. I've done graineries, some energy, and packaging in the past.

@joey_zozo My job description usually involves PLCs, but I end up doing a little of everything. Lots of .NET and VBA, some C, some Java, a little Python. Maybe the code is just extra ugly because we are technically hardware engineers.

@joey_zozo No, it's alright so far.

@joey_zozo We will love your hobby. Spaghetti code bad. Took several months to find the source of the ghost jams in a major part of the warehouse. Had to make old bosses crap code "object oriented"...I found out that he had important logic stashed on forms with progress boxes. Right now, I'm trying to make sense of someone's "template," which is just his spaghetti code that only he can interpret without significant analysis. I'm sorry, but I am traumatized. That said, being the one who analyzes the crap code is surprisingly good job security. Except when I was fixing the stuff for my old boss.

@joey_zozo Do you know how horrible it is to fix someone else's spaghetti code?? --signed. The Cleanup Crew

@joey_zozo Can you get it through a package manager?