Ratnix

Ratnix t1_jebqjzg wrote

We do metal machining for the auto parts we make. The parts we make get randomly checked a couple of times per shift for all of the necessary specifications down to a couple hundredths of a millimeter variance.

If a part checks out of spec, the production of those parts are shut down and an engineer comes out to do what is necessary to make good parts again.

While they are doing that, quality control goes to the parts that were made by the out of spec machine and checks them, from oldest produced since the last line check, to the newest produced, until they find where the bad parts started getting made. They are then quarantined and sorted and measured, throwing out all out of spec parts.

They are all virtually identically, only having slight differences of no more than 0.02mm

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Ratnix t1_je2o02f wrote

I briefly worked at a place that made things like pre-built ceiling trusses. The tolerance for each board we cut to be assembled into the truss was 1/4inch. So if each board was 1/4in short, you'd be looking at a 1/2in gap at that particular joint.

So yeah, It's not necessarily going to be square when you have tolerances like that.

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Ratnix t1_jdcewo4 wrote

Innocent until proven guilty.

The question really is, how was he able to leave the state? Even with presumed innocence, he should still be required to stick around the state the charges are in. And if she was able to get a restraining order on him, they should have been able to see that he had homicide charges in another state.

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Ratnix t1_j9z8i7n wrote

Do away with the catcher. Use a building/fence as a backstop, and the batter throws the ball back to the pitcher. A couple of people in the outfield and an infielder.

It's not like there would ever be based loaded and no stealing. So there's not really a need for everyone covering a base.

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Ratnix t1_j9z6po7 wrote

>baseball where you need at a minimum a diamond, enough clear space for the ball to reasonably fly and a minimum of 7 fielders along with other equipment

While baseball is more difficult, you don't need the full complement to play. You need a bat and a ball and an open field, anything can be used to mark the bases. Gloves definitely help, but i have played without them. And you don't need a whole team. We've played with 4 to a side before. It's just better with the full teams of 9 to a side.

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Ratnix t1_j6o14g8 wrote

If it'sa highly traded stock, there's always someone or some fund out there that's looking to buy it.

But something like my grandparents bought stock in the local phone company a few decades ago, and you have to hunt for someone willing to buy it

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Ratnix t1_j6f91og wrote

And just what do you think is going to happen to weather patterns when you start removing and building new mountains?

All you're going to do is move the location of the weather somewhere else. And that will effect the weather all across the world.

You might be able to make a small local change, but you could screw up the weather for a much larger area.

That's all assuming it was even something that humans could do in the first place.

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Ratnix t1_j6cctqu wrote

And they don't ask for top shelf when they order drinks, so they get whatever cheap shit that particular establishment pours by default.

Some places, at least around here, will have the good stuff. But they don't pour it by default. You have to specifically ask for it, and they're going to charge you more for it.

Basically, it's like in the movies when someone walks up to a bar and says, "Give me a beer." Except they are just asking for a shot of tequila without specifying they want something other than the cheap shit.

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Ratnix t1_j62ubkq wrote

For me, it is because i have to force myself to sleep on a schedule that isn't what my body wants to be on.

I'm a night owl. If i let my body set its own sleep sleep, I'd be going to sleep sometime between 6am-9am. If i ever get an extended period of time off from work and just sleep when I'm tired, instead of going to bed at a time that i can get a good night sleep in order to get up for work, that's the schedule I'll be on within a week.

I unfortunately have to leave for work at 5 am, so i simply can not let my body set its own sleep schedule. I have to go to bed at the same time 7 days a week. Just staying awake 2-3 extra hours, say on a Friday or Saturday night, means that when i need to go to bed in order to get up for work Monday morning, I'm simply not tired enough to sleep. And it'll take me 2-3 days to get back onto my forced sleep schedule, during which I'll be a zombie until I'm able actually get a good night's sleep in the schedule I'm forced to sleep.

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Ratnix t1_j2dkx1r wrote

>Budget is power and status; there's no reward for returning unspent money to the company.

It's not just that. We do electroplating where i work. Stuff doesn't need to be replaced on a yearly basis. And when it does need replaced, it can be very costly, especially when one thing breaks and causes other things to break. And if that budget isn't allocated to that department, it can be a very bad time until the next budget comes out. So, spending money at the end of the fiscal year, in order to use up the entire budget, on stuff that just isn't needed, can be the difference between actually getting something replaced instead of slapping some duct tape on it and hoping it'll last until the next budget.

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Ratnix t1_j2dk1uo wrote

Because, if one department isn't spending all of their allocated budget, they means they don't need the amount allocated to them. And if they don't need it, some other department surely can use it because they didn't have enough allocated to them.

So department's try to spend their entire allocation so that when they actually do need it, it'll be there.

You don't need the money, right up until you do. And when you do need it, if you don't have that allocation to your department, you're SOL, you'll have to try to get it for next year's/quarterly budget.

Spending it just tells the people who make the budget that you do in fact need the amount allocated to you and to not give some of it to someone else.

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Ratnix t1_iwitczq wrote

>Do you know how wwtp’s work?

Yes. We do water treatment at my work and I work with it.

>but not without major upgrades.

Of course. But again, why would they do more than they absolutely have to right now if people don't want to drink treated waste water?

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Ratnix t1_iwi3op5 wrote

>For example the average wastewater plant does not produce an effluent turbidity low enough to meet federal drinking water requirements

Why would they though if it's not going to be treated for drinking and instead be dumped back into the water cycle to be treated further down the road?

I understand what you're saying but i think it's that way simply because they don't have to do any more than that. If it was going to be drinkable water i believe it would be treated to the standards needed.

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Ratnix t1_itqek8j wrote

> Also any repair you need takes longer and has transportation costs added on, assuming you can even find a professional.

That's going to depend on how rural you are.

I live in a rural area. I found a hole in my main drain pipe Saturday. I called a plumber and he was there in less than an hour and had it fixed up in a jiffy. I've never had problems getting a professional out for anything.

Rural doesn't mean living hours away from any town.

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