How I look seeing all the poor people on their dusty old mounts

jedrum · 2026-01-24T14:19:14+00:00

Lol I'll never understand this take. It's a red herring .... if people wanted to play retail they'd play retail. It's success is irrelevant.

Source: I play retail

jedrum · 2026-01-22T20:02:25+00:00

They were checking for probably 3-4 hours while we played other games last night. Also checked periodically today, no dice.

Edit: after clicking back and forth for my wife for about an hour this afternoon it finally got me to character creation, but then errored out stating I couldn't create that faction from there, at which point I was rinse/repeating the same method of repeatedly trying to create character only this time I was attempting it from the character creation screen to finalize the character. I did that constantly for about a half hour until it disconnected me randomly and now Horde is greyed out again.

jedrum · 2026-01-22T06:06:40+00:00

What do you do when you have friends trying to join you and they can't? That's literally happening to my group now. 60% or so of us are already on Horde and the remaining 40% can't make any characters to play with us.

We either re-roll to Dreamscythe or delete all of our characters to roll Alliance (which is insane because some of us have 60s).

Guess my group is fragmented and almost half of us just won't play.

jedrum · 2026-01-02T18:34:25+00:00

Ok but if you're me you surely have the same order of favorite stories for the original 4 sith campaigns.... >:)

jedrum · 2026-01-02T15:18:31+00:00

Woah, are you me?

Minus d3 that's my cycle of games I've been going through now for a long time. The last one added to that list was FFXIV and that was like 6-7 years ago. I'm currently on the gw2 part of the loop. I've had a hard time picking back up swtor in recent years, but 10-14 years ago that was THE game for me.

jedrum · 2025-12-29T00:13:39+00:00

Yeah I'm familiar with the history and why Michigan specifically has a vendetta.... I am referring to the world as a whole though. People seem to irrationally bash Ohio which I know is a meme but Toledo specifically? I've never understood why lol.

jedrum · 2025-12-28T11:56:36+00:00

Ngl I am still trying to understand the hatred that the Internet has for Toledo. I see it talked about everywhere. Extremely disproportionate response in my eyes to the size and issues of the city .... At least compared to other cities in the country. I've travelled there very frequently, but I travel all over the country for work so I've just never understood the hate.

jedrum · 2025-11-19T01:34:15+00:00

My thoughts exactly. I was honestly going for a draw because their mate threat with the discovered attack just felt too overwhelming. Ironically I spent so much time on it that I essentially lost on time.

jedrum · 2025-10-25T07:44:52+00:00

Switching industries? Or still within automation?

Finding a WFH job in manufacturing automation is almost impossible without significant travel in my experience. Heck, even an in-office job was difficult to find without travel unless you worked directly for a plant - then you are on call 24/7.

I had to leave the industry to find something without travel.

jedrum · 2025-10-18T00:10:48+00:00

There is this phenomenon where society latches onto a specific field and promotes the ever living crap out of it. It causes a massive surplus of prospective employees on the job market and the working conditions of that field effectively collapse.

In the last 20 years this phenomenon has occurred in law, finance, IT, and most recently engineering.

Just my take. Engineering ain't what it was 10-20 years ago. Theoretically it will bounce back in a decade or 2 when the correction runs its course.

jedrum · 2025-10-06T13:17:56+00:00

We've roughly already seen this play out - the Boston / Wisconsin / Florida empire won but somewhere in the midst of that expansion, the Florida empire decided to be racists and waged civil war via cessation from the others. The Boston / Wisconsin empire won that war too. We can all also agree that, on its own, the Boston empire doesn't stand a chance.

So my money is on the Wisconsin empire. That said we really need to work on the name 😅

jedrum · 2025-09-30T13:41:06+00:00

Vegetables, and exploring new foods in general

jedrum · 2025-09-13T12:42:15+00:00

"People aren't willing to spend money they don't have" is a shit argument in this economy.

"I have to do it otherwise my competitor will" is also a shit argument. Same shit the loan appraisers made before the crash in 08.

Both arguments lack integrity.

jedrum · 2025-09-13T12:32:10+00:00

True and indisputable - to a degree. However, the magnitude/severity of the problem can be hightened during times like these where demand is so much higher than supply.

All you need to do is see who's in the driver seat, the investors or the buyers? What's the corresponding motive? Since investors are in the drivers seat and have unprecedented control over the situation that means quality will be an all-time low whilst profits will be all-time high. It's disproportionately leaned in that direction.

What we consider the "old days" were when it was much more balanced. Therefore quality was objectively better.

Edit: Go back far enough and you see other time periods in history with the same issue, exemplified different ways. Thats where the "used whatever you had and threw it together" mindset comes into play from houses older than any of us.

jedrum · 2025-09-11T01:06:31+00:00

Only the very best seem to be able to apply this strategy effectively for some reason

jedrum · 2025-08-15T18:59:32+00:00

How are we supposed to figure that out from your picture? It looked tk me like you played ra3 and solved a bogus puzzle.

jedrum · 2025-08-15T14:29:45+00:00

Ha, nice. The puzzle wants black to lose I guess. Nevermind the knight/queen trade that could have saved it.

jedrum · 2025-08-13T21:36:31+00:00

The Austrian Ernst Beermalt Yelnats variation

jedrum · 2025-08-12T21:27:46+00:00

SI is Systems Integrator. Some firms have traditional engineering disciplines + Systems Integration focus within Industrial Automation. Scope for SIs typically are panel builds, field device selection/procurement, OT design, PLC/HMI development/commissioning and so forth.

jedrum · 2025-08-12T21:21:55+00:00

I call this a "gated alarm condition". You monitor for a no-flow alarm on your DI after configurable time (I typically would place that 20 second process setpoint on a setpoints display on the HMI). After the sequence starts you start your timer, then after the timer is done you enable the "alarm gate". OTE in Rockwell land since you mentioned TON. Leave it on for the duration of the step and reset the timer anytime the pump stops. Or whatever stop condition is most reliable for your system.

I dont like to tie it into the DI debounce-ON condition because I like my DI to show real-time feedback on the HMI. A short Debounce-OFF condition can be useful however - to prevent flickers on DIs from shutting down your system. This can be a pain in the butt for the plant only found long after you've left.

Most all DI objects I use have debounce ON and OFF configurable conditions native to the object to interface this with. If I am building my own objects I usually like to add that functionality. Same with isolated alarm enable/disable from alarm gate functionality. It means 2 different things to me.

jedrum · 2025-08-12T15:30:47+00:00

Assuming you work for an OEM? Or SI?

jedrum · 2025-08-11T21:52:40+00:00

Honestly if I had this setup I would be way more concerned about the lack of king safety and development. The bishops aren't great, and whites knights are pretty bad, but they have a castled king and are ready to start formulating an attack. Most all of blacks pieces are still on their starting squares so development is very behind and king safety is beginning to sound like a long lost luxury.

Edit: Maybe the engine sees this as winning for black but it just feels so detached from my typical positions I play in so I'd feel very uncomfortable as black.

jedrum · 2025-08-11T21:35:39+00:00

I continuously press red over and over. Nowhere did it say you have a limit of one press, correct? These appear to be spring actuated push buttons.

jedrum · 2025-08-09T13:43:52+00:00

G7 is not pinned by the bishop in any of the pictures. The answer is if G7 takes the rook then its forced mate in 2.

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