#remote engineering

[el-ffej]

I also am absolutely gobsmacked how the support team -- who, after 50 years, are getting up there -- have been mentoring younger engineers that have been brought onto the project.

Nobody expected Voyager to be active this long. But when confronted with it's (very fucking impressive) lifespan, older staff have been passing on their vast and esoteric knowledge of Voyager's inner working to the next generation.

It's like, an order of medieval monks. The Ancient Order of Voyager 1.

Everything about the Voyager project is incredible.

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

[cadengineeringsolutions1]

Remote Engineering

Remote Engineering refers to the practice of conducting engineering activities and services from a distance, often facilitated by digital technologies and communication tools. This approach allows engineers to collaborate on projects, conduct analyses, and provide solutions without the need for physical presence. Remote Engineering has become increasingly relevant in today's globalized and technologically advanced world, offering flexibility and efficiency in the delivery of engineering services across different locations and time zones.

[ryebread-aurt]

Couldn’t stop thinking abt cherry being a car girl

[unbfacts]

[multiheadcanons]

RED/BLU DIFFERENCES

scout: blu’s scout is the original scout that red’s scout was extracted from. blu’s scout is slower to confrontation and fight. doesn’t mean he won’t, just means he won’t immediately jump to solving things physically. blu is more perceptive, and curious. it gets him in trouble. red’s scout is a problem solver, not a problem finder. explosive energy. blu takes a minute to get revved up. they find a slight rivalry between each other; but they mainly wonder who came from who, and what came from where.

soldier: blu’s soldier is the original that red’s soldier was extracted from. blu was quite literally a perfect soldier before this. he’s quieter with the existence of his counterpart. does a lot of thinking. it makes him an effective and ruthless battle planner. but he can’t help but hesitate on the field. especially seeing himself. he just can’t separate himself from the other. he can’t separate any of the men in his battalion from the enemy. they’re exact replicas. it takes too much brainpower to not treat the enemy as his friend, and his friend as the enemy. he ends up secluding himself.

pyro: there’s no real difference between the two, even if you squint. they both get along just fine. nobody knows which came from the other. they will both live their lives once this is over. there’s just two of them out there now to keep track of. neither one of them has warned the other about the steadily building case file against them both. and they both keep adding to their growing list of legal issues. so if one gets caught that one’s getting the whole reference section of the library thrown at them. the other will come to save them though.

heavy: red’s heavy is the original that blu’s heavy was extracted from. it took something from him. he doesn’t know what. he feels fine, generally. but the sun is colder. he feels the wind chill faster. laughter is not as filling. he is not as fulfilled. something is fundamentally different. it is missing. blu’s heavy is like… santa but violent. dudes never had a bad day in his life. any day he gets to take a life is a good day to him. every day is a good day to die.

demo: red’s demo is the original that blu’s demo came from. he lost his drive. red’s demo is more than willing to laze a day away, and finds himself seduced by the drink more often than not, but when he gets his head on his shoulders, he feels pretty okay. smart, hardy, perceptive… enough. blu’s demo is almost as sensitive as his bombs. he’s itching to move, to go, to get the jump on the red team before they can get the jump on them. he drinks to slow himself down. he’s trying to learn to stop and think, it isn’t easy for him. he doesn’t know why.

engineer: blu’s engineer is the original that red’s engineer was extracted from. blu’s engie is a very serious person with a lighthearted tone. red’s engie is probably one of the chillest guys you’ll meet with an iron grip of control on every facet of his life. the only other way it can be described is red engie is never worried, because red engie has singlehandedly controlled every facet of his environment, down to the particles of dust. blu engie can’t even find the will to make moves like that anymore, and ends up laughing at the things he can’t change, or can change with immense effort. at the end of the day, they are both mad scientists. red engie’s evil laugh pitches up. they’re gonna let each other live, but they’re settling who gets to take the name dell conagher with a fight when this is all over. they planned, separately, to kill each other in that fight. time will tell who gets to be the dell conagher and who ends up the dead conagher.

medic: red medic is the original that blu medic was extracted from, and blu hates red for that reason. understands in all senses he just… is the medic. he looks like him, speaks like him, got his name. he’s got the same memories up until the split. but it was like the red doctor removed his conscience and built the blu one out of that. blu medic sits with so much guilt. and an insane inferiority complex. he doesn’t want to be the blu medic, he wants to be the medic. as opposed to red’s medic, who doesn’t even consider his blu counterpart as an actual living being even though he created him, so by that stance is the medic. blu’s willing to kill his counterpart to become the only dr. ludwig. he likes to think he’s better than the red medic because he feels bad about the horrible things he’s done, he claims he can’t help his nature. red medic laughs because if all that separates them is guilt, then is his blu counterpart really all that better? blu goes by fritz because he hates the name herbert. blu hates a lot of things about himself. and his counterpart. he’s got a lot of big dreams that require the disappearance of the other to set into motion. and while that may not have been in red’s plan, herbert doesn’t care what fritz does. he hasn’t felt this light in decades.

sniper: red sniper is the original that the blu sniper was extracted from. a lot of snipe’s humor left him when he woke up from the operating table. nothing was nearly as funny as he had felt prior. it took him a while to get jokes again. and blu sniper is just a guy but different. likes his job, does his job well, actually a generally very easygoing and accepting guy. honestly pretty goofy. red snipes has a lot of questions before he’s willing to accept answers. they will kill each other on the battlefield if the opportunity presents itself. otherwise they’re actually pretty cool with each other! they go out and say they’re twins. easier than saying “yeah i got a free lobotomy and the doctor and his engineer friend grew this out of the removed grey matter.”

spy: the blu spy is the copy of the original spy that the red spy was extracted from. the original blu spy died in the procedure. just flatlined after anesthesia was given. the respawn machine hadn’t been activated yet; and medic had a dead body on his table that he did not plan for. it had been a while since he had dealt with that. it’s a big reason medic no longer uses anesthesia on the mercs. nobody actually got to know the original spy that had signed onto the team as a mercenary. but between his two counterparts and the son that survived him, we get a pretty good idea that spy was a charming, cunning man with selective empathy and a brutal tone. the red spy got all of the charm, the blu spy got all the empathy, and they are both quicker than a whip, mentally. love playing mind games with each other. medic and engie didn’t feel a need to conceal from them that neither of them were the original, like they did with the others, who’s source material was still alive. they showed them their host corpse in the morgue. explained what happened. said at this point, they could be anything they wanted. it’s what the original has always been best at. they both found niches in the team they had the means to fill and filled them. neither one has reached out to the original spy’s family, or families. they will probably never do so.

[slutforpringles]

the absolute garbage that gets passed off as journalism these days 🫠😒😤

And just to be clear I am very happy for Oscar, and it's awesome to see an Australian with championship calibre machinery and fighting for the WDC. And I do think the question posed above is a very fair one with regards to Webber's career. But the idea that Daniel was constantly "playing second fiddle" to his "title-contending" teammates during his five years Red Bull, and thus the implication that Daniel was ever even afforded machinery that gave him an opportunity to fight for a world championship might possibly be some of the most absurd historical revisionism I've ever seen. And it feels both incredibly dishonest and lazy to compare their careers given the disparity of competitiveness of the cars they drove during their stints at Red Bull - when really the only thing they had in common was that they were both Australian and both driving for RBR.

[babacontainsmultitudes]

Ough guys I'm hopping on the train in less than 2 days to move to a new city this is sooo fucked up what do you meannnn

[ratcandy]

wow this is a neat video essay i sure hope it doesn't end on a terrible note "so i asked chatgpt--" AAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[maxpadelchampion]

i literally have nothing to say about this Las Vegas gp other than George being +10s, middle school arts and crafts really does work, and Charles’ luck continues to be trash

[worrywarwrites]

Ya know what I put this at the end of my fic but I want to put it here too- bonus points to whoever can figure out the significance of the colors that were added to Wrench

(I very much enjoy hearing the theories about where I’m going in the story lol)

[coquelicoq]

some of the things my boss says are genuinely very interesting and educational and i've learned a lot from him over the years but the problem is i've been with him so long and from such a young age that now when he starts getting up a good head of steam my father monologue filter gets activated and i just tune him out automatically even if i would be really into the wisdom he's imparting if i were paying attention. the occupational hazards of working for the same guy since age 17 i guess.

[jujuthewulfpup]

I now know the devastating feelings of being laid off of work.

Mind racing.

Am I reasonably competitive in the current Software Engineer job market? Don’t think about that yet.

Oh noes, I’ll have to study for coding interviews *again*. No stop, wait until Monday. Do ANYTHING ELSE.

Cuddle stuffed animal. Hug husband. Call mom, dad, sister. Join their vacation coming up. Stick to good news. Play Minecraft. Fold laundry. Play Overwatch. Plan house decorations. Rewatch Spider-verse. Little things.

[anheliotrope]

At my job, I've been working my ass off to figure out some rather arcane issues with our WebGL application going OOM on iOS devices specifically.

I wrote some extensive documentation for my findings and a developer who doesn't have a single iota to do with my task read all of them and told me in the daily that the documentation I wrote was very interesting and enjoyable to read. I rarely interact with this developer, we're in separate teams!

And I was confused, like someone had just smacked me awake from my slumber. "What documents?" When he told me about it was about the iOS stuff I couldn't believe it. It was really flattering.

Sometimes it's difficult to get actual stakeholders to read your documentation, let alone unrelated developers!

[teknewsfeed]

Giant RC planes look epic!

[dragontatoes]

why is everything engineering now. I'm doing my homework and one question is "What is the wavelength of a microwave with the frequency of 900 MHz? Include reasoning." bitch I'm studying HORTICULTURE