Maybe I'm just splitting hairs, but unless Lucas has given some sort of formal approval, building your own lightsaber is the opposite of authentic.
Unless Lucas built "real" operational lightsabers and death stars, I don't think hes capable of giving "formal approval". Now talking about trademark violations, maybe.
Its like talking about "authentic" religious trinkets and miracles.
I think the equipment list would put this safely outside the hobbyist category.
All the tools listed are multi-use and frankly not very impressive. Buying a two to three figure drill press hardly makes you a "professional". Even my metal lathe and associated gear is probably barely over three figures.
Also, the computer hobbyist industry is oriented around zero resale value and extremely fast obsolesce, whereas all the tools you listed are pretty much "buy once per lifetime" (assuming you don't buy chicom garbage). A 30 year old PC-XT clone motherboard is probably not as cutting edge and useful as my fathers 30 year old dremel tool... My decade old metal cutting bandsaw is much less obsolete than a decade old graphics card.
My computer hobby mostly results in full landfills, whereas a hobby like metalworking is a bit more like a real capital investment.
Knowing the history of a subject helps with understanding the present state of it and helps give context for the content to be learned.
Also, "everyone knows" the average IT career is about as long as a pro football linemans career and marketing takes advantages of that. Knowing that everything "new" is just a rehashed version of something "old" is an insight that can help them throughout their life, not just in decoding IT marketing trends. Especially when they predict how it will turn out this time, based on knowing how it turned out last couple times. Once you know the cyclical nature of trends, you can position yourself to be ahead of the curve, more or less.
The biggest pain of outsourced tech support has got to be the language/accent barrier.
Best handled by the language arts / English department not "IT".
This is a temporary problem anyway. Once all "desk" jobs are outsourced, they will be talking amongst themselves in their native language.
Right after that would be heavily scripted workflow, forcing me to work through possibilities I've already eliminated just so the support worker can follow their script.
Best handled by improving the "MBA" training here in the US, those decisions are not made by the script readers.
My CS degree's discrete math curriculum? Despite being called "math" it didn't really fit into the stereotypical algebra-geometry-trig-calc sequence, and most (all?) of it could be handled by a high school student.
Sorting, info theory (Well, OK some calculus will have to be glossed over), logic, set theory, graphs, game theory...
Yes I know you're trying to each them "IT" as in password reset and pulling and terminating cables, but "CS stuff" like discrete math provides an excellent background, and encourages logical thinking, etc, etc.
I'm not sure if there's any real point in teaching future "IT folks" how to think or how the world works, when all HR currently demands is ten years of experience with MS Server 2008 and experience with C, C+, and C++. You're going to have to fight hard to educate them as opposed to train them.
I wonder how he measured the holes for the keys. That's the tough part. Once you have a good model, it's a simple enough CNC machining job.
Not sure how you figure the machining is simple... Nothing funny at all about square cornered holes, or using extremely small endmills to simulate a square (radiused) courner. Yes I know the "+" sign is oval so no problemo, but look at the 2, 5, 8
Also machining it thin enough to be usable/light will make clamping it to the table/fixture quite challenging. Make multiple positive and negative "molds" and machine small sections at a time to minimize bending? Its going to be a lot more complicated than "bolt the bar stock in with two step clamps"
For Mr Abrams the old machines have two cardinal virtues; their sluggishness and the direct connection they have with the user.
Another hacker learning skill you must obtain, that he forgot to mention, is how to completely master a system. This is different from merely learning enough.
At one point, I could tell you every minute detail of OS-9 (the motorola 6809 CPU OS, not the apple product two decades later) and I also nearly mastered 68hc11 assembly, Z-80 assembler, and the PDP-8.
There is no point trying to teach kids how to master something using, perhaps, the linux kernel, because its too freaking big, at least for a one or two semester course.
The mastery skill requires figuring out what you don't know and then figuring out how to find it. Very much like spatial mapping, I see a blank spot in my map of how it all works, so how will I get from where I know to where I don't know? Also you learn how to learn the philosophy of a complete working system, sort of a C/S ecology mindset. Finally there is a bit of reflective thinking that interacts across now usually broadly separated problem areas, look how the memory allocation system has reflected onto the design of the I/O drivers and vice versa.
Learning how to master a topic is a valuable skill, and at least for CS students, frankly best learned on the smaller older stuff. Too many newbies think asking small specific questions of google is all they need, and think they can scale up to a big project merely by asking more little questions, without thinking thru the big picture.
A fourth thing the dude forgot is that older computers were MORE powerful. Power is what comes out of the barrel of a gun, its not P=I*V or MIPS. A single old MVS mainframe could run a small govt department or a multinational corp.
If only the operations folks could handle the design and implementation of indexes and otherwise handle optimization / speed related issues, then the devs would not need access to production servers. There seems to be no frictionless way to balance.
Doesn't anyone know how to launder money any more? Steal way more money than you need, run it through some partially legitimate business, take part of it as profit from the business, but be able to keep the remaining result in a bank.
Scratch-off lotto tickets clear darn near 50% rate of return. I've seen this first hand a couple decades ago working at a small town food store. Elderly guy buys $500 of lotto every freaking day... that's about 200K dirty in for about 100K clean out annually. Couldn't think of any other explanation for how he could finance his endless purchases.
There are lots of ways to securely stash cash. shoeboxes under the bed are not one of them. a run to home depot for a post hole digger, some PVC pipe and caps = a money safe the feds wont find.
Small gold coins are much more waterproof. Being able to find with a metal detector, is a double edged sword.
I like big budget games because they can have cool visuals, full spoken dialogue and so on. However once you've hit that point, you have pretty much peaked. There isn't a point in spending money on other things.
Agreed, big budget games generally don't spend any money on gameplay/balance, testing, or creative ideas. Minor disagreement in that they do blow a lot of money on marketing (TV commercials for my mom to watch?)
you might want to keep in mind that 127 light years is a very long way--an almost unimaginable distance, in fact.
Something an old American would say. Everyone without gray knows very well how geosync is about half a second away or about a second roundtrip. 127 lightyears is 127 years at lightspeed. As the old saying goes, in the USA people think 127 years is a long time ago, whereas in Europe they think.... blah blah blah.
This would be the coolest thing ever, if instead of "vroom vroom" noises, it played the lyrics to Madness' Driving in My Car read out by a bad Japanese speech synthesizer.
How 'bout "The Wheels on the Bus", my kids like that.
"The wheels on the Prius go round and round, round and round, round and round, the wheels on the Prius go round and round, all at 60 miles per gallon.... (repeat)"
Although I think the "icecream truck music" whatever thats called, would be funnier.
I don't see how any one can apply for a job when the list of skills is over a page long and ranges from 'knowledge of random proprietary software used only by big corporations' to Must know how to program in 'these 20 languages'. I don't see how most of these companies can expect to find a single person who can do all these things and then do it for 15 dollars and hour.
Actually, they already have found someone. Either a H1B or bosses son or "promotion from within". Its a game to give HR a skillset that coincidentally perfectly matches a person already selected. Don't bother even sending a resume there, because its evidence of a rigged game.
Sometimes someone who has the background to eventually learn how to do a job well is good enough -- but if you're competing with people who are ready to do it on day one because they do have the specific experience, don't be surprised if you don't get the offer.
"specific experience". The primary goal should be to find the field you want to work in (telecom? medical? whats left of industry?) and get a minor in that area. The original poster should have been able to tell the HR guy he is an IT solutions provider with a minor and experience in biomedical electronics or whatever the company did. No one wants a PHP coder as an end result, they want a specific business goal achieved. Show some expertise in the business.
The other thing that kills me about this is new hires must be a perfect match, but anyone here longer than six months has already gone thru three complete reorgs to totally new platforms. So... the entire current staff has to do OJT but new hires cannot? Anyone who's actually held an IT job longer than six months can back me up on this.
In my lab, the liquid helium is the primary cost of doing experiments. We spend around $100 for each four-hour experimental session. It is by far our biggest expense.
You have total labor costs are "by far" below $25/hr total for the whole team including benefits? You guys making McDonalds shakes aerated with helium? I'm just saying that even liability insurance for dealing with liq He is probably more expensive than the He itself.
Adding a little to the discussion liq He costs about $4 to $10 per liter in modest bulk delivered, so "students" is losing at least a couple liters per hour. Not enough to make them speak funny or asphyxiate them. Note that in a miracle of modern technology it only takes about a kWh of energy to liquify a liter of He so its not energy limited like say, heavy water, or U/Pu isotopes.
For a large enough value of "eventually", correct. It runs about 5.2 ppm of our atmosphere.
We will never "run out" of helium because it'll always be possible, at great expense, to remove it from the atmosphere.
Around "sun becomes a red giant" time, it'll have dropped a couple ppm but still be some there.
We could easily "run out" of cheap helium for $1 balloons. Yes that could happen. But MRI superconductor magnets, spacecraft propellant tank pressurization systems, etc are pretty much assured a lifetime supply.
Wikipedia claims gold can be economically extracted from ores around half a ppm. Yes I'm well aware of the refining process difference between solid gold ore and helium gas. My point is helium will always be commercially available at "precious gas" prices, maybe an ounce of helium might trade at a small multiple of the cost of an ounce of gold. Plenty cheap for NASA, military, and scientists, not so good for kids birthday balloons.
Emphasis mine. If the National Park Service claims this is increasing their encounters with such idiots then this isn't the 'same old story.' As technology is further exacerbating the age old idiot complex.
It IS still the same old story, just with slightly different actors and tech:
"Without technical climbing gear that we don't know how to use, we'd never have attempted the climb"
"Without the new railroad to get us to Glacier National Park, we'd never have attempted the climb"
"Without the invention of fire, we'd never have attempted to fight that saber toothed tiger"
Same old same old about stupid people wasting the time of the brave/helpful people.
It is certainly a "feel good" action. Doing the right thing is sometimes inconvenient or expensive, therefore something inconvenient or expensive must be the right thing to do. Exactly the same mindset as security theater.
However... One thing recyclables have going for them is they're typically pretty non-toxic, etc. SO IN THEORY a waste disposal company could save money by throwing out really nasty semi-toxic "expensive" garbage in an expensive landfill, like used diapers, food waste, etc. Then relatively non-toxic recyclables like cardboard or newspapers could be disposed of in a cheap less regulated landfill. I would be a bit queasy about taking my kids to a park built on an ex-landfill made out of empty paint cans and carb cleaner bottles, but if I knew the park was built on a pile of relatively harmless shredded cardboard, I wouldn't be as worried. There should be a financial gain to the waste collection company by our separating our trash. And since govt, corporations, and organized crime have merged, its no surprise its criminally illegal to not raise the profits of a trash company by separating trash. However in practice, probably everything that isn't sold, goes in the same hole.
A bomb will also have a hard time to identify you.
Disagree. No response means no one is there and/or they're not German. Any response means there is a German, now do something (probably bad). You're arguing you don't know the state of Schrodingers cat. I'm arguing that knowing Schrodingers cat is present, is in itself a valuable datapoint.
It's a near field communication chip, which isn't easily readable from more than a few centimeters away.
Maybe you were trying to be reassuring, but what that actually means is the device absolutely won't trigger until the victim sits at the bus stop, or restaurant seat or whatever. If the IED goes off 500 feet down the road, no problemo unless its a suitcase nuke, but if it doesn't go off until you sit on the park bench, then you're pretty much screwed.
WARN Act layoff notice laws require employers to give employees notification before mass layoffs or plant closings
Or pay a modest fine that can't be collected from a bankrupt store/restaurant etc and is probably less than the productivity losses from pre-announcing at the plant.
On the other hand theres no point in carrying this too far, once you get to assembly plants (automotive, etc) everyone knows when no supply orders are delivered anymore, etc.
As a hint, if the store is accumulating empty unstocked shelves, its going down....
While it could theoretically be done, this particular plant is not very useful for making bomb material.
There are also thermodynamic issues that pretty much define a reactor as electric or plutonium producer. To generate Pu you need a high reaction rate which is easiest when the output temp is as low as possible = high coolant flow rate, but to generate electricity you need a high rate AND high output temperature. So a Pu plant wants as cool of a temp as possible (cheaper to maintain) and an electric plant wants as high of a temp as possible.
One design constraint for electric plants is refueling and repair kills your output and ruins profitability. So the fuel rods spend some time in the reactor and cladding corrosion, and corrosion in general, is a big deal. Less surface area equals less corrosion. So electric reactor fuel rods tend to be a bit shorter and squatter to have minimum surface area.
On the other hand Pu plants want the longest skinniest fuel rods they can manufacture because they need to keep the center of the rods below some material temperature limit. And the rods are only going to operate a little while in the reactor before being pulled and having the Pu extracted, so cladding/corrosion issues are kind of glossed over.
Pu plant: skinny long fuel rods Freaking giant flow rate coolant pumps Everything built for low temperature "What, me worry?" toward cladding corrosion monitoring and the electrical gear in general
Electric plant: Relatively shorter fatter fuel rods smaller coolant pumps everything built for high temperature Fancy ole cladding corrosion monitoring gear installed and used
Its funny how the journalists think defining a plant as electric or Pu is just talk, but its really a pretty hard core engineering constraint that controls the whole design.
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Expect anything that is run in the US or the First World to be offshored. Until HP goes back to the old "HP Way", of course.
They spun the "old HP" into Agilent in an IPO like 11 years ago. It's not coming back.
As opposed to if Dell bought them? I'm thinking it doesn't matter which one purchases it, everyone may as well pack their desks.
Could it be true that regardless of which company bought 3PAR, the same folks in India would get all the jobs?
authentic - 2: not counterfeit or copied
Maybe I'm just splitting hairs, but unless Lucas has given some sort of formal approval, building your own lightsaber is the opposite of authentic.
Unless Lucas built "real" operational lightsabers and death stars, I don't think hes capable of giving "formal approval". Now talking about trademark violations, maybe.
Its like talking about "authentic" religious trinkets and miracles.
I think the equipment list would put this safely outside the hobbyist category.
All the tools listed are multi-use and frankly not very impressive. Buying a two to three figure drill press hardly makes you a "professional". Even my metal lathe and associated gear is probably barely over three figures.
Also, the computer hobbyist industry is oriented around zero resale value and extremely fast obsolesce, whereas all the tools you listed are pretty much "buy once per lifetime" (assuming you don't buy chicom garbage). A 30 year old PC-XT clone motherboard is probably not as cutting edge and useful as my fathers 30 year old dremel tool... My decade old metal cutting bandsaw is much less obsolete than a decade old graphics card.
My computer hobby mostly results in full landfills, whereas a hobby like metalworking is a bit more like a real capital investment.
Knowing the history of a subject helps with understanding the present state of it and helps give context for the content to be learned.
Also, "everyone knows" the average IT career is about as long as a pro football linemans career and marketing takes advantages of that. Knowing that everything "new" is just a rehashed version of something "old" is an insight that can help them throughout their life, not just in decoding IT marketing trends. Especially when they predict how it will turn out this time, based on knowing how it turned out last couple times. Once you know the cyclical nature of trends, you can position yourself to be ahead of the curve, more or less.
The biggest pain of outsourced tech support has got to be the language/accent barrier.
Best handled by the language arts / English department not "IT".
This is a temporary problem anyway. Once all "desk" jobs are outsourced, they will be talking amongst themselves in their native language.
Right after that would be heavily scripted workflow, forcing me to work through possibilities I've already eliminated just so the support worker can follow their script.
Best handled by improving the "MBA" training here in the US, those decisions are not made by the script readers.
My CS degree's discrete math curriculum? Despite being called "math" it didn't really fit into the stereotypical algebra-geometry-trig-calc sequence, and most (all?) of it could be handled by a high school student.
Sorting, info theory (Well, OK some calculus will have to be glossed over), logic, set theory, graphs, game theory...
Yes I know you're trying to each them "IT" as in password reset and pulling and terminating cables, but "CS stuff" like discrete math provides an excellent background, and encourages logical thinking, etc, etc.
I'm not sure if there's any real point in teaching future "IT folks" how to think or how the world works, when all HR currently demands is ten years of experience with MS Server 2008 and experience with C, C+, and C++. You're going to have to fight hard to educate them as opposed to train them.
I wonder how he measured the holes for the keys. That's the tough part. Once you have a good model, it's a simple enough CNC machining job.
Not sure how you figure the machining is simple... Nothing funny at all about square cornered holes, or using extremely small endmills to simulate a square (radiused) courner. Yes I know the "+" sign is oval so no problemo, but look at the 2, 5, 8
Also machining it thin enough to be usable/light will make clamping it to the table/fixture quite challenging. Make multiple positive and negative "molds" and machine small sections at a time to minimize bending? Its going to be a lot more complicated than "bolt the bar stock in with two step clamps"
For Mr Abrams the old machines have two cardinal virtues; their sluggishness and the direct connection they have with the user.
Another hacker learning skill you must obtain, that he forgot to mention, is how to completely master a system. This is different from merely learning enough.
At one point, I could tell you every minute detail of OS-9 (the motorola 6809 CPU OS, not the apple product two decades later) and I also nearly mastered 68hc11 assembly, Z-80 assembler, and the PDP-8.
There is no point trying to teach kids how to master something using, perhaps, the linux kernel, because its too freaking big, at least for a one or two semester course.
The mastery skill requires figuring out what you don't know and then figuring out how to find it. Very much like spatial mapping, I see a blank spot in my map of how it all works, so how will I get from where I know to where I don't know? Also you learn how to learn the philosophy of a complete working system, sort of a C/S ecology mindset. Finally there is a bit of reflective thinking that interacts across now usually broadly separated problem areas, look how the memory allocation system has reflected onto the design of the I/O drivers and vice versa.
Learning how to master a topic is a valuable skill, and at least for CS students, frankly best learned on the smaller older stuff. Too many newbies think asking small specific questions of google is all they need, and think they can scale up to a big project merely by asking more little questions, without thinking thru the big picture.
A fourth thing the dude forgot is that older computers were MORE powerful. Power is what comes out of the barrel of a gun, its not P=I*V or MIPS. A single old MVS mainframe could run a small govt department or a multinational corp.
If only the operations folks could handle the design and implementation of indexes and otherwise handle optimization / speed related issues, then the devs would not need access to production servers. There seems to be no frictionless way to balance.
Doesn't anyone know how to launder money any more? Steal way more money than you need, run it through some partially legitimate business, take part of it as profit from the business, but be able to keep the remaining result in a bank.
Scratch-off lotto tickets clear darn near 50% rate of return. I've seen this first hand a couple decades ago working at a small town food store. Elderly guy buys $500 of lotto every freaking day... that's about 200K dirty in for about 100K clean out annually. Couldn't think of any other explanation for how he could finance his endless purchases.
There are lots of ways to securely stash cash. shoeboxes under the bed are not one of them. a run to home depot for a post hole digger, some PVC pipe and caps = a money safe the feds wont find.
Small gold coins are much more waterproof. Being able to find with a metal detector, is a double edged sword.
I like big budget games because they can have cool visuals, full spoken dialogue and so on. However once you've hit that point, you have pretty much peaked. There isn't a point in spending money on other things.
Agreed, big budget games generally don't spend any money on gameplay/balance, testing, or creative ideas. Minor disagreement in that they do blow a lot of money on marketing (TV commercials for my mom to watch?)
you might want to keep in mind that 127 light years is a very long way--an almost unimaginable distance, in fact.
Something an old American would say. Everyone without gray knows very well how geosync is about half a second away or about a second roundtrip. 127 lightyears is 127 years at lightspeed. As the old saying goes, in the USA people think 127 years is a long time ago, whereas in Europe they think .... blah blah blah.
This would be the coolest thing ever, if instead of "vroom vroom" noises, it played the lyrics to Madness' Driving in My Car read out by a bad Japanese speech synthesizer.
How 'bout "The Wheels on the Bus", my kids like that.
"The wheels on the Prius go round and round, .... (repeat)"
round and round,
round and round,
the wheels on the Prius go round and round,
all at 60 miles per gallon
Although I think the "icecream truck music" whatever thats called, would be funnier.
which is why you often see familiar faces at differing rallies
That would be a fun data mining / facial recognition software project.
I don't see how any one can apply for a job when the list of skills is over a page long and ranges from 'knowledge of random proprietary software used only by big corporations' to Must know how to program in 'these 20 languages'. I don't see how most of these companies can expect to find a single person who can do all these things and then do it for 15 dollars and hour.
Actually, they already have found someone. Either a H1B or bosses son or "promotion from within". Its a game to give HR a skillset that coincidentally perfectly matches a person already selected. Don't bother even sending a resume there, because its evidence of a rigged game.
Sometimes someone who has the background to eventually learn how to do a job well is good enough -- but if you're competing with people who are ready to do it on day one because they do have the specific experience, don't be surprised if you don't get the offer.
"specific experience". The primary goal should be to find the field you want to work in (telecom? medical? whats left of industry?) and get a minor in that area. The original poster should have been able to tell the HR guy he is an IT solutions provider with a minor and experience in biomedical electronics or whatever the company did. No one wants a PHP coder as an end result, they want a specific business goal achieved. Show some expertise in the business.
The other thing that kills me about this is new hires must be a perfect match, but anyone here longer than six months has already gone thru three complete reorgs to totally new platforms. So ... the entire current staff has to do OJT but new hires cannot? Anyone who's actually held an IT job longer than six months can back me up on this.
In my lab, the liquid helium is the primary cost of doing experiments. We spend around $100 for each four-hour experimental session. It is by far our biggest expense.
You have total labor costs are "by far" below $25/hr total for the whole team including benefits? You guys making McDonalds shakes aerated with helium? I'm just saying that even liability insurance for dealing with liq He is probably more expensive than the He itself.
Adding a little to the discussion liq He costs about $4 to $10 per liter in modest bulk delivered, so "students" is losing at least a couple liters per hour. Not enough to make them speak funny or asphyxiate them. Note that in a miracle of modern technology it only takes about a kWh of energy to liquify a liter of He so its not energy limited like say, heavy water, or U/Pu isotopes.
so it all eventually disappears into space.
For a large enough value of "eventually", correct. It runs about 5.2 ppm of our atmosphere.
We will never "run out" of helium because it'll always be possible, at great expense, to remove it from the atmosphere.
Around "sun becomes a red giant" time, it'll have dropped a couple ppm but still be some there.
We could easily "run out" of cheap helium for $1 balloons. Yes that could happen. But MRI superconductor magnets, spacecraft propellant tank pressurization systems, etc are pretty much assured a lifetime supply.
Wikipedia claims gold can be economically extracted from ores around half a ppm. Yes I'm well aware of the refining process difference between solid gold ore and helium gas. My point is helium will always be commercially available at "precious gas" prices, maybe an ounce of helium might trade at a small multiple of the cost of an ounce of gold. Plenty cheap for NASA, military, and scientists, not so good for kids birthday balloons.
Emphasis mine. If the National Park Service claims this is increasing their encounters with such idiots then this isn't the 'same old story.' As technology is further exacerbating the age old idiot complex.
It IS still the same old story, just with slightly different actors and tech:
"Without technical climbing gear that we don't know how to use, we'd never have attempted the climb"
"Without the new railroad to get us to Glacier National Park, we'd never have attempted the climb"
"Without the invention of fire, we'd never have attempted to fight that saber toothed tiger"
Same old same old about stupid people wasting the time of the brave/helpful people.
It is certainly a "feel good" action. Doing the right thing is sometimes inconvenient or expensive, therefore something inconvenient or expensive must be the right thing to do. Exactly the same mindset as security theater.
However... One thing recyclables have going for them is they're typically pretty non-toxic, etc. SO IN THEORY a waste disposal company could save money by throwing out really nasty semi-toxic "expensive" garbage in an expensive landfill, like used diapers, food waste, etc. Then relatively non-toxic recyclables like cardboard or newspapers could be disposed of in a cheap less regulated landfill. I would be a bit queasy about taking my kids to a park built on an ex-landfill made out of empty paint cans and carb cleaner bottles, but if I knew the park was built on a pile of relatively harmless shredded cardboard, I wouldn't be as worried. There should be a financial gain to the waste collection company by our separating our trash. And since govt, corporations, and organized crime have merged, its no surprise its criminally illegal to not raise the profits of a trash company by separating trash. However in practice, probably everything that isn't sold, goes in the same hole.
A bomb will also have a hard time to identify you.
Disagree. No response means no one is there and/or they're not German. Any response means there is a German, now do something (probably bad). You're arguing you don't know the state of Schrodingers cat. I'm arguing that knowing Schrodingers cat is present, is in itself a valuable datapoint.
It's a near field communication chip, which isn't easily readable from more than a few centimeters away.
Maybe you were trying to be reassuring, but what that actually means is the device absolutely won't trigger until the victim sits at the bus stop, or restaurant seat or whatever. If the IED goes off 500 feet down the road, no problemo unless its a suitcase nuke, but if it doesn't go off until you sit on the park bench, then you're pretty much screwed.
WARN Act layoff notice laws require employers to give employees notification before mass layoffs or plant closings
Or pay a modest fine that can't be collected from a bankrupt store/restaurant etc and is probably less than the productivity losses from pre-announcing at the plant.
On the other hand theres no point in carrying this too far, once you get to assembly plants (automotive, etc) everyone knows when no supply orders are delivered anymore, etc.
As a hint, if the store is accumulating empty unstocked shelves, its going down....
While it could theoretically be done, this particular plant is not very useful for making bomb material.
There are also thermodynamic issues that pretty much define a reactor as electric or plutonium producer. To generate Pu you need a high reaction rate which is easiest when the output temp is as low as possible = high coolant flow rate, but to generate electricity you need a high rate AND high output temperature. So a Pu plant wants as cool of a temp as possible (cheaper to maintain) and an electric plant wants as high of a temp as possible.
One design constraint for electric plants is refueling and repair kills your output and ruins profitability. So the fuel rods spend some time in the reactor and cladding corrosion, and corrosion in general, is a big deal. Less surface area equals less corrosion. So electric reactor fuel rods tend to be a bit shorter and squatter to have minimum surface area.
On the other hand Pu plants want the longest skinniest fuel rods they can manufacture because they need to keep the center of the rods below some material temperature limit. And the rods are only going to operate a little while in the reactor before being pulled and having the Pu extracted, so cladding/corrosion issues are kind of glossed over.
Pu plant:
skinny long fuel rods
Freaking giant flow rate coolant pumps
Everything built for low temperature
"What, me worry?" toward cladding corrosion monitoring and the electrical gear in general
Electric plant:
Relatively shorter fatter fuel rods
smaller coolant pumps
everything built for high temperature
Fancy ole cladding corrosion monitoring gear installed and used
Its funny how the journalists think defining a plant as electric or Pu is just talk, but its really a pretty hard core engineering constraint that controls the whole design.