Trevor Archibald

 The Skunk Works

To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the...
Feb 4, 2016 19:35
@hazzey I think @Air wants 5 large deep dish pizzas. So do I, for that matter.
Jan 29, 2016 15:46
It should have been. IE11 still supports it.
Jan 29, 2016 14:41
@hazzey It's our revision control program. And it primarily uses the Java plugin.
Jan 28, 2016 20:43
Because I think our CAD management may be boned, or at the very least super unsecure, if we don't get an HTML5 solution fast.
Jan 28, 2016 20:43
So, does anyone else use Windchill for their PDM/PLM at work? And are you similarly freaked out by the fact that Oracle is deprecating the Java browser plugin?
Jan 15, 2016 17:28
"Physics isn't a real thing!"
Jan 15, 2016 17:27
What was the first guess on that plan?
Jan 15, 2016 17:27
@GlenH7 What.
Jan 15, 2016 17:27
Definitely. If we do one thing well, it's making safety a priority. At our location, we've had I think a couple years now with no lost time accidents, and our band-aid level injuries hover between 10-15 a year.
Jan 15, 2016 17:25
Plus they put certain reports on the divisional intranet.
Jan 15, 2016 17:24
Yeah, same here. Every team meeting starts with a rundown of recent safety incidents, near misses, etc.
Jan 15, 2016 17:15
Yeah. Don't take shortcuts when lifting heavy things, kids.
Jan 15, 2016 17:13
Stupid safety story of the day: Someone at one of our Italian locations was moving crates of forgings with a fork truck. They needed the 4th and 5th crate from a stack, but instead of moving them one at a time, they picked them up together. Exceeded the truck's weight limit by 700kg, tipped the truck over, and ended up needing stitches after banging their head against the protective cage.
Jan 13, 2016 20:44
But it also looks like not all states are clear on their website about the disciplines of professional engineer they certify
Jan 13, 2016 20:41
I think this just amounts to the arduous task of checking each website individually.
Jan 13, 2016 20:25
But I do think it is valuable information to have, and the list will always be finite and verifiable.
Jan 13, 2016 20:23
I would say this should be given one answer, and that answer should be converted to a community wiki.
Dec 17, 2015 14:04
Wooooo I got my first hat!
Dec 10, 2015 17:21
Don't, the main reason I knew that question existed is because I remembered writing up an opinion for it.
Dec 10, 2015 17:19
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A: Questions like "What is this?" [photo attached]

Trevor Archibald Does the decision on whether the question fits or not depend on the amount of background information that is provided in the post? Absolutely it does. To say that because someone asks a question about an object they took a picture of makes it off-topic or out-of-scope is pretty ridiculous to...

Dec 10, 2015 17:17
Either "What is this?" or "What does this do?" which admittedly are different
Dec 10, 2015 17:17
I think those are getting evaluated on a case-by-case basis, because we've had some good questions like that.
Nov 25, 2015 21:30
Although it does do a pretty nasty job of slicing up whomever you aim it at
Nov 25, 2015 21:30
No, that's the one Snape invented and Harry found in Snape's old potions book
Nov 25, 2015 21:19
Sectumsempra!
Nov 25, 2015 21:10
There we go. Stupid markup didn't take without the http://
Nov 25, 2015 21:09
@Air Try this place or maybe this place or even maybe this one
Nov 18, 2015 18:01
@GlenH7 @MahendraGunawardena I checked with someone who has some significant experience on Academia, they said they don't think it would be a good fit.
Nov 16, 2015 16:32
@mart We have the naive design question meta discussion
Oct 30, 2015 19:35
Y'all a bunch of nerds
Oct 30, 2015 19:18
@GlenH7 It @Air being exactly the same amount of wrong about pizza every time he talks about it.
Oct 30, 2015 19:17
I think chemistry tends to be more precise
Oct 30, 2015 19:17
It does, but brining tends to just be "dump a whole bunch of salt in water"
Oct 30, 2015 19:15
Oh man I totally forgot about that site
Oct 30, 2015 19:15
Baking is chemistry. Regular cooking, eh.
Oct 30, 2015 19:02
Well I guess that's the difference between good pizza and your pizza. You approach it as a science, where our places have names like "The Art of Pizza"
Oct 30, 2015 19:00
@Air You're human now? I thought you were a group of easily dispersed particles of mostly nitrogen and oxygen
Oct 30, 2015 18:56
I've got work to do. How about you two fight about tags
Oct 30, 2015 01:23
@hazzey I'm getting to it! I needed to eat dinner.
Oct 27, 2015 19:52
And being above room temperature doesn't help. At room temperature keeps better I think.
Oct 27, 2015 19:51
Well, normal pizza should be okay.
Oct 27, 2015 19:45
Also, that pizza was fine. Pizza lasts well more than 4 hours on its own.
Oct 27, 2015 19:45
I'm just gonna continue to blame my screwed up fridge and throw that cream out when I get home.
 

 The Water Cooler

General chit-chat for workplace.stackexchange.com. Feel free t...
Oct 27, 2015 21:03
You don't get paid for it, you just clear up your thetan. And that's payment enough.
Oct 27, 2015 21:00
If you paid for it, you passed.
Oct 27, 2015 18:23
This guy doesn't even sound like he's to that point yet.
Oct 27, 2015 18:23
Although most of those answers point to a case where offers have been made.
Oct 27, 2015 18:22
I knew that duplicate had to be there somewhere, I just couldn't find it.
Oct 27, 2015 18:13
"Let's not just limit everyone's preconceptions about you to your appearance, let's give them personal information that you might not even understand to add to it!"
Oct 27, 2015 18:11
Doing them publicly as an icebreaker is even worse.