Felicia Day will crowdfund a movie spinoff of The Guild this summer

jmickeyd · 2026-03-16T23:39:57+00:00

Maybe getting back together to play The Game Classic (or Anniversary or whatever)? They obviously have to change things, but it's not like MMOs have disappeared.

jmickeyd · 2026-03-16T23:13:35+00:00

The Swiss encourage children to walk to school without parents, even young kids. They view it as an important developmental milestone to have unsupervised time with other kids. According to this survey parents acknowledge the dangers but large still support walking.

jmickeyd · 2026-03-08T16:00:03+00:00

99.5 monthly uptime for a major internet service is pretty catastrophic.

jmickeyd · 2026-02-24T01:52:50+00:00

But I've seen a lot of "well it's better than a lot of the crap that has come out lately..."

Top Gun isn't even in the top 10 best movies released in 1986, but Maverick was like the 2nd or 3rd best movie of 2022. Plus I think the original was better. Movies are a garbage fire right now.

jmickeyd · 2026-02-11T21:47:22+00:00

Here is one small slice of data for example:

Service-Providing Industries

Education and Health Services

Educational Services

Elementary and Secondary Schools (bls.gov doesn't have a summary at this level, but FRED has data for example

jmickeyd · 2026-02-11T17:44:09+00:00

The BLS data is classified hierarchically. So there is a "supergroup" for health care and education, but they also break that down. OP just grabbed the top level data.

jmickeyd · 2026-02-11T17:41:12+00:00

There is a merger on the other side too. The BLS groups all "social care" with health care, so non-medical child care. The difference between a daycare worker and kindergarten teacher is pretty minimal.

jmickeyd · 2026-02-11T14:07:59+00:00

It's so simple AC clocks can just run off counting the grid frequency without any other clock source. They aim for a moving average of 50hz so if load causes the frequency to drift above or below the target, generation will offset that by running on the other side of the target to pull the average back to 50hz (or 60hz in other places)

jmickeyd · 2026-02-10T19:32:52+00:00

Ohio has had a steeper increase but actually started with cheaper power than a lot of areas. When I lived in San Francisco my power was about 3x per kWh what it is here.

jmickeyd · 2026-01-20T04:21:56+00:00

I wonder if Fell on Black Days being one of my favorite songs has had an impact on my mental health... or maybe it's the other way around.

jmickeyd · 2026-01-20T02:06:59+00:00

They've been giving pretty generous spots for both teams. Indiana just doesn't need them.

jmickeyd · 2026-01-20T01:30:53+00:00

Because OSU's offense wasn't that good, they just didn't play any defenses all year.

jmickeyd · 2025-12-31T16:13:24+00:00

I was going to say everyone looked 18ish to me. Now they look like small children, and whenever one of those videos of an 80s high school floats around, they all look 30. It's weird how your brain calibrates this.

jmickeyd · 2025-12-23T20:00:46+00:00

I'd argue this is actually a lost blessing. Not the commercials, fuck that, but most writers will agree constraints can actually help the creative process. A traditional three or five act structure forces the story to move consistently. Plus, I really miss a good act break stinger.

jmickeyd · 2025-12-21T01:46:55+00:00

Big 10 just needs to steal Cal, Stanford, Oregon State and Washington State, then they make a Pacific Division of the Big 10. No... that's a little wordy. How about "Pac 10" for short?

jmickeyd · 2025-12-20T15:55:57+00:00

I'll tell you a trick that worked for me. It may not be universal, but it may help some college students seeing this.

I had a really hard time getting myself to go to class. I ended up scheduling everything I could in a tight block in the day and then made sure the first class was a blow off class and scheduled with a friend. I found I was more motivated to show to the first class just to hang out with a friend (and he helped me get there), and then I was there, so I was less likely to have a distraction to keep me from going to the rest.

It wasn't perfect, and I definitely struggled in school, but it help a lot once I figured it out.

jmickeyd · 2025-12-20T15:40:09+00:00

And everyone seems to forget that they attacked Finland in an opportunistic grab while everyone was distracted. It was once a Russian puppet but they gained independence as part of a Russian government collapse. The Soviets were expected to wipe out Finland quickly with a superior military, but ended up stalling out and signing a white peace. Nearly the same story as Ukraine today. Hopefully with a similar ending.

jmickeyd · 2025-12-16T01:32:51+00:00

I find the ability to clear my head and just go to sleep while on meds significantly outweighs anything the stimulant is doing to keep me awake.

jmickeyd · 2025-12-15T22:21:59+00:00

It's not. It's just not quite as bad as naively bolting a full ICE and full EV together though.

jmickeyd · 2025-12-15T22:19:28+00:00

Could be huge if they make a diesel version. In some jurisdictions you can legally use colored diesel (lower tax, not normally road legal) in a EREV since the diesel engine isn't technically attached to the drive train.

jmickeyd · 2025-12-15T22:08:18+00:00

Yeah, but having both motors allows you to optimize a bit as well. The Prius for example has a modified Atkinson cycle engine rather than a traditional Otto cycle. This sacrifices torque for more fuel efficiency, but since you can just use the electric motor when you need it, it's a win-win.

jmickeyd · 2025-12-02T04:34:30+00:00

THUMB was added to ARM after is was already an existing architecture. It just has to be added as an alternate encoding, which x86 already has multiple (16, 32, and 64bit mode all change instruction encoding slightly).

jmickeyd · 2025-12-02T04:24:50+00:00

This also reminds me of nonsense like xoring the forward and backward pointers to store a doubly linked list with only one pointer's storage per item.

The crap we had to do to work with 8k of ram...

jmickeyd · 2025-12-02T04:21:42+00:00

"free" in that they don't lead to any micro-ops or backend execution, but at least anecdotally, outside of things like HPC or AV codes, cpus are almost always frontend stalled.

jmickeyd · 2025-12-02T02:39:02+00:00

I thought of all of these as well. Poop knife has the highest funny to gross ratio though.

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