If you haven’t seen Primal yet, I’d highly recommend it! It’s crazy how much of an emotional punch can be packed into a series with almost no dialogue.

It can be both. The three RAM manufactures (Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix) have a historical record of price fixing and collusion (I believe Gamers Nexus has some excellent reporting on this). It isn’t just supply and demand, it’s that three sketchy companies have the world over a barrel and may well be using the demand spike to keep prices (artificially) high with the knowledge that nobody else can enter the market and that it takes YEARS and a truly ridiculous amount of money to scale up production to increase supply.

Lego City Undercover, Marvel Superheroes, and DC Super-Villains. Definitely not the primary gameplay focus, but all three have an open-world map that you hop on a Lego motorcycle and cruise around between levels. There’s even some racing challenges here and there to put your motorbike to good use.

It’s not watermarked or signed, but I’m inclined to believe that it’s Jess Rose (Artist Instagram).

I was a bit late ordering mine, so I haven’t gotten mine yet, but I’m super excited!

That’s pretty awesome!

Heck yeah! I read Worm a couple years back and I’ll second it being an excellent read. I wasn’t quite as hooked by Ward, but it has been a bit, so maybe it’s about time to try again.

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That’s not dissimilar from my experience, one of my favorite “I’m so glad I know how trig works” moments was for a data visualization class I had, I wanted to animate a little rocket ship orbiting the earth. I can’t fully remember the exact math I used, but it was so gratifying to realize that I could use trig to convert rotational degrees per second into a point in space that I could draw my icon at (as well as the angle to tilt the image).

One of my hobbies is 3d printing and I do a bunch of my own modeling, so trig pops up there pretty regularly too.

My favorite irony of all of this is that it’s very possible to build a 3D printer from scratch (hell that’s how the hobby got started in the first place) with open source software that never talks to the Internet. It’s more work, but not to the extent that it’d stop anybody determined.

That is delightful!

Heck yeah, DCC is a fantastic read!

I’m not super fond of SAFE either

waterfall wearing a festive and extremely expensive Agile mask.

Is exactly the experience I had in my last two shops.

I’m partial to Jetbrains IDEs

Grains of salt, because Business Insider and all, but it’s a graduation speech, being talked up and celebrated for a moment is kind of the point. Folks graduating right now are grappling with the questions of if they just wasted four years of their lives and took on 5 figure amounts of debt preparing for a job that might disappear overnight because some middle manager or CEO thought that AI could do it. So I don’t find it all that surprising that “[AI is here, deal with it]” from the CEO of one of the most famous tech companies on the planet (also in the process of cramming AI into every possible nook and cranny) has been received differently than “You have AI — actual intelligence”.

TIL what a spotted lanternfly was, they’re an invasive species in many places and are spreading. While they aren’t directly harmful to humans, they can cause a bunch of damage to plants, which include the ones we as humans tend to enjoy being able to eat. They’re considered kill on sight, because many of the places they’re spreading to don’t have predators to keep them in check (on top of the fact that invasive species throw local ecosystems out of whack).

That’s pretty awesome! I don’t think it’s there anymore, but there used to be an xkcd shop where you could buy signed prints. One of my favorite possessions is a print of Compiling that my sibling bought me.

Incidentally, this also about sums up my understanding of Apache Kafka.

Good

Sounds a bit like colmscomics, but I can’t say I remember if he ever got a Magikarp.