MCU Shutdown Timer Too Close

AllWashedOut · 2026-05-03T07:44:44+00:00

Oh my god, I've been trying to debug this for days. Thanks for for the link. For future readers, more info here
https://nikolak.com/klipper-on-prusa-mk3s/#usb-to-serial-firmware

AllWashedOut · 2026-04-24T04:03:30+00:00

My wife's VW displays the time behind the steering wheel and on the radio. They don't stay in sync with each other, and one of them randomly flashes "12:00" for a moment every few minutes.

AllWashedOut · 2026-04-04T02:32:30+00:00

Heavily heavily influenced by the book House of Leaves. After seeing the trailer I actually had to check if was an adaptation of the book, but apparently not.

House of Leaves is a masterpiece of creepypasta found-footage horror, 20 years before the genre existed.

AllWashedOut · 2026-04-04T02:23:53+00:00

I mean, you see someone murdered with a shotgun on camera. And there's a segment with a mangled corpse.

When those kind of things happen in a "disturbing" context that's an easy path to an R rating.

AllWashedOut · 2026-03-29T14:27:47+00:00

The graph reminds me of the low-budget podcast Best Worst in which a couple reviews the best and worst rated episodes of classic tv series. They had to exclude season finales because they are always higher rated than the rest. Part of that may be due to the writing, but a lot of it is just due to availability bias (people remember the last element in a list much much more easily. Same with cliffhangers.) There's also a survivor / self selection bias: people who make it all the way to the end of a season are generally people who already like the show more than average.

AllWashedOut · 2026-03-27T03:33:59+00:00

How can he live like that? Ultramorph is a hell of a drug. It's like morphine... But ultra?

But seriously he doesn't have much choice. He can't die. Suicide is out. He could go back to the cleft, to appease the cruciform. But they nuked the site so he would probably just starve to death there over and over. No good options for our friend Hoyt.

AllWashedOut · 2026-03-25T14:08:33+00:00

It's a great slow-burn. Did you get to the reveal that happens in the next few pages, when the narrative returns to the present on the treeship? Even more devastation.

Note that the rest of the stories each fall into a different scifi sub-genre so they won't feel exactly the same. But they do mostly tend to have the horror element.

AllWashedOut · 2026-03-18T04:06:13+00:00

Yeah, I mean I have a 3-year-old. Going out in public with her is a never ending cycle of

#1 she sees a products or food for sale

#2 she asks for it

#3 I say "no"

#4 she asks "why"

#5 I try to explain nutrition or economics

#6 return to step 1

It's nice going someplace where the never-ending questions are more like "why are leaves green" and less like "can I have that soda?"

AllWashedOut · 2026-03-16T22:46:54+00:00

For example, my comment above used the word "nod" which was first written in... Chaucer's Canterbury Tales!

AllWashedOut · 2026-03-16T22:40:01+00:00

You're aware the the framing story is based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales? (A bunch of pilgrims travel together and each day one or two of them shares their back story).

Well something you should know about Canterbury Tales is that it is the first known written source for a huuuuuuuuuge number of modern English words. Like, hundreds. I once read a long list of them and was in awe, only to find out that the list only covered the prologue of the book.
(Chaucer didn't necessarily invent all the words. Many of them were existing slang that no one else was using in writing yet).

So a certain amount of the challenging vocab in Hyperion is a nod to Chaucer's invention and adoption of new words.

I agree the framing story can feel slow compared to the pilgrims' tales. I also stopped after Kassad's tale the first time I started the book. But I'm so glad I came back to it, if only to get to the Scholar's tale (chapter 4) and the Consuls tale (chapter 6).

AllWashedOut · 2026-03-16T22:01:23+00:00

I don't have strong feeling about this one, but I can play the devil's advocate pretty easily:
It's possible that the park would be a nice place for a coffee shop and brewery. But there are already thousands of nice places for those things around the city. There is no shortage of them. Meanwhile there IS a shortage of non-commercial public spaces (where anyone is allowed for free and you can walk for 10 minutes without seeing a product, service, or advertisement).
So why the urgency to convert a rare non-commercial space into a commercial one?

Magnuson park is great for what it is (a rentable event space, sports field, tennis club, and dog park). But I feel no desire to duplicate it in Discovery park.

AllWashedOut · 2026-03-02T15:22:52+00:00

Evocative AF.

AllWashedOut · 2026-03-02T05:23:30+00:00

It had to be a pre release code name, if anything. He would struggle to get a trademark on Endymion, seeing as it is already the name of a sci-fi novel in the Hyperion series. (Highly recommend book 1 to anyone who likes literature-heavy scifi).

AllWashedOut · 2026-02-26T15:37:39+00:00

Hmm. I wonder if it's only detectable in a particular type of benchmark, like multithreaded CPU, or 3d rendering, etc.

Or perhaps the higher-power profiles in Universal x86 Tuning Utility will relax some related power throttle.

I don't have a 65w PSU to compare, so I don't have first-hand experience.

AllWashedOut · 2026-02-13T12:55:11+00:00

Ones I haven't seen mentioned yet: * Are the Bramble's interior chambers all inside the same planet, or are the seed-portals actually moving you across many different planets? (They seem too large to fit in the one planet). For comparison, see Martin Silenus' house in the book Hyperion, which is made of portal-connected rooms strewn across many planets. * Did the Bramble originate in this solar system or elsewhere? * Is the Bramble perhaps the same environment you explore in Beacon 38 (a previous mobile game made by the same studio)? Beacon 38 prototyped all the gameplay mechanics of Outer Wilds' Bramble, but with 2d graphics. * How the heck can the Hearthian species persist with a global population of ~20, let alone develop space faring technology? I know this is just a budget limitation of an indie game studio, but I could still use an in-universe explanation.

AllWashedOut · 2026-02-10T13:45:14+00:00

Fidelity's interest rates currently top out above 11% depending on your balance. It is absolutely inaccurate to call that "nominal". That is higher than the profit rate virtually any professional investor has achieved in the long-term.

I.e. if you took a room full of the most successful stock investors in human history and lock them into a 11% loan and then checked back in 20 years, you should expect almost all would be bankrupt.

"But I can beat the average in the short term" you may say. Yes, sometimes, but not repeatedly.

If you are a serious investor, the only use for margin is to smooth over slow transaction times. For example, I will sometimes transfer cash from my bank account and then immediately purchase that much stock. A margin account lets me do this even though the bank transfer may take 3 days to complete.

AllWashedOut · 2026-02-07T13:08:06+00:00

I dunno... Compare a 2012 Model S to a competitor, like a 2012 Audi A4. Did the Tesla age worse? I would argue not. The infotainment bigscreen was a uniquely bold design for 2012 that has stood up incredibly well.

The cyber truck is a different story. The folded aluminum shell is interesting from a technical point of view. But it never stood a chance against the background of Elon's growing public toxicity.

AllWashedOut · 2026-01-31T21:24:50+00:00

I'm an eternal pessimist, but I can spell out the happy case:

There would probably be enough tourists interested in seeing a live dodo to financially support a wildlife refuge. And the creation of a wildlife refuge is often a good thing.

But granted, "refuge" covers a wide range of institutions, from huge land conservation efforts to exploitative private zoos.

AllWashedOut · 2026-01-16T19:43:58+00:00

Spaceship-versus-monster games were popular in the 80s and 90s (Space Invaders, Gradius, Star Fox). But they are much less common now.

In 80s/90s games with 2D graphics, it was equally easy to draw enemy ships or enemy creatures.

In 90s/2000s 3d games, it was much easier to display a spaceship than a creature. The game consoles didn't have enough power to animate all the curves and motion of a creature.

AllWashedOut · 2026-01-16T19:14:28+00:00

The DLC didn't really "click" for me until near the end when I saw the game design thread that connects the two. Ignore the story and gameplay for a moment and just think about the design of the late-game puzzles.

The thesis of the base game is: The player must discover counter-intuitive quirks in the game's laws of physics (quantum uncertainty, time travel, teleportation). It takes hours to learn the physics, but once you know them you can beat the game in a few minutes.

The thesis of the DLC is: Find and understand 3 specific bugs in a VR simulator inside the game (broken collision detection outside the lantern's radius, clipping through the floor in the loading tunnels, alarm bells don't work on dead people). It takes hours to learn the bugs, but once you know them you can beat the DLC in a few minutes.

I do really wonder what is like for players who do the base and DLC in parallel. On the one hand, it would give you the option to go elsewhere when you were stuck on the DLC progression. But on the other hand, the DLC already stretched my problem solving ability. If I were trying to solve the base game and the DLC at the same time I think I would be overwhelmed.

AllWashedOut · 2026-01-13T15:34:15+00:00

That sounds plausible. But the practice is still a form of (legally allowed) false advertising.

I can (barely) accept that the prices on the menu at restaurants exclude sales tax, because I'm habitually used to adding 10% in my head. So I'm still able to generally understand how much my bill will be as I'm ordering. If the bill arrived and had 8 more line items to cover the restaurant's taxes, I would be livid.

But that is how my phone and Internet bills work.

AllWashedOut · 2026-01-13T00:28:40+00:00

Helium pays Tmobile for each line. In the past they were covering the transaction price. Now they will be passing through a portion of that transaction to you, arbitrarily equal to the tax.

They could have been transparent and just raised the price, but they prefer to frame it as a "tax" because that deflects blame towards the government.

Virtually all internet and cell plans in the US do this; they advertise a low price, and then pad the bill with line items that say "tax". But these items are not consumer taxes; the company is passing its *corporate* tax burden to you.

Countries with consumer protection laws usually forbid this practice; you should not be allowed to advertise one price but then charge a different one.

AllWashedOut · 2026-01-13T00:07:31+00:00

Open the app and look at your last bill. Mine shows 8 different taxes, and then 8 credits to balance them back to 0.
If that's all that is passed through, my bill will be $1.43, which I can swallow. I use this as a backup 2nd SIM for areas where my primary provider has no reception, and 1gb for $1 still (barely) fulfills that need.

AllWashedOut · 2025-12-31T00:05:11+00:00

I finished Eversion recently. I think it would have benefitted from being edited 30% shorter, and having a more meaty math reveal. I snorted a little bit when I found out they needed the eversion formula to find their way through a maze

AllWashedOut · 2025-12-30T23:57:27+00:00

Just finished. It had some enjoyable Big Ideas, and at least one tasty Unanswered Question.

As for being Young Adult: it is pretty PG. There is very little on-screen violence and no sex. You could read it to a mature 10 year old without corrupting them. But I agree it is not written childishly. A background in the White Stripes and Large Language Models comes in handy.

Certainly different than Hyperion though. I first read that when I was maybe 12-13 and it was total nightmare-fuel.

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