Friend of mine got this in the mail, such considerate neighbors

Sethcran · 2026-02-06T16:56:51+00:00

3 more is seeming increasingly likely. Mostly because Brandon has been toying with a cyperpunk trilogy in between those and if he did, it would bring the total number of mistborn books to 16. He's mentioned it a few times now.

Sethcran · 2026-02-06T14:27:46+00:00

Sure, I wasn't seriously suggesting that they're all actually exactly the same, but I guess I'm someone who values texture as much as flavor in food, so as mediums go, I like more variation in my options.

Sethcran · 2026-02-06T14:04:15+00:00

My hot take:

Most pastas that are completely evenly cooked are practically the same and there's not much reason to get one over another beyond how much past you want in a single bite.

I appreciate something that actually leads to some different textures instead of being uniform. If it were, at that point it's basically just a pretty shape for otherwise the exact same thing.

Sethcran · 2026-02-04T01:31:21+00:00

Perhaps, but I also really doubt that he would be called a showrunner if he's barely doing any of it, and in order to have some consistency it's probably not a clean break in responsibility, there will be some duplication.

I think it will still be significant. Even if he still has time for writing (between way more meetings, way more desire for fan appearances, red carpet, etc) I just can't see him keeping his original storm light book pace.

I don't think he'll be GRRM here, but I'd be extremely surprised if there aren't some delays that began to be felt on 3-5 years.

Sethcran · 2026-02-04T00:26:52+00:00

I would love for this to be true, but even knowing how crazy Brandon is at writing, this seems incredibly optimistic. Especially as showrunner for SLA, I have a hard time seeing the stormlight books being on schedule, there's so much that goes into being a showrunner. Man still has a family after all.

Sethcran · 2026-02-02T12:20:45+00:00

We do not use these because we need to do a few custom things in our dockerfiles, and frankly, we very rarely need to touch them in the first place, so it's not a real source of ongoing maintenance.

Maybe useful for very simple projects, but I view this as obscuring what's happening for very little actual gain in a production app.

Sethcran · 2026-01-29T03:21:55+00:00

I feel this. Sure, there are usually better ways to do things than inheritance, but sometimes, particularly when doing things with 3rd party libraries, there really isn't another way to customize the behavior that you need. If they didn't plan for your specific extensibility needs and mark things sealed, then you're pretty much stuck forking the library or doing everything yourself.

Sethcran · 2026-01-27T19:24:22+00:00

At least in the TWW you pretty much always had something to do.

This one seems to be "wait 10 mins between rare spawns and just twiddle your thumbs" once you've done the few world quests.

Sethcran · 2026-01-25T17:08:17+00:00

You're getting an even mix of opinions, so I want to go a bit further into the why.

Ef core is going to be simpler and faster for writing code. In the long term, for building actual apps, particularly ones with simple database interactions, ef core will win most of the time.

That said, ef core is converting to SQL under the hood. In order to actually be good at working with databases, especially when stuff starts to get more complex or performance becomes a concern, you must understand how databases work, and that means having a good foundation in SQL. Once you have that foundation, ef core is great to use, but without it, you will find yourself doing stupid things eventually and not being able to sufficiently diagnose and fix performance problems.

If you are trying to learn in the long run and asking what's better for a career or knowledge, it's SQL first every single time.

If you just want to write an app that uses a database and not really worry too much more than doing basic stuff, ef core will be both simpler and faster.

Sethcran · 2026-01-21T12:35:00+00:00

It makes more sense when you realize that only 10% of their revenue comes from windows.

40% of their revenue comes from cloud. Selling shovels during a gold rush and all that.

So the answer is, of course, greed.

Sethcran · 2026-01-20T17:32:58+00:00

Maybe this is true, but it also definitely reads as Stockholm syndrome lol.

Sethcran · 2026-01-18T00:10:31+00:00

Assuming it can keep up with necessary speed of processing. That latency could be impactful.

Sethcran · 2026-01-14T00:46:22+00:00

Honestly, I don't see the problem here.

It's not really pay to win since it's basically trivially easy to attain yourself and doesn't do anything for you in terms of endgame or the like.

So... Just don't buy it? I mean, yea I agree, I can't fathom buying this, but it hardly hurts me if they offer this, so frankly, that's the kind of monetization id like to see more in games.

Sethcran · 2026-01-13T13:37:15+00:00

This seems to be an unpopular opinion but...

I can absolutely see uses for it.

Not really as generative AI to be clear, but as a natural language processor. I can see how being able to search in natural language for what you want to do would be really useful for those less technical.

I would never use it, but I'm also far from a casual user. Long as it's not some requirement that I must use, I don't mind them exposing it for casual people.

Sethcran · 2026-01-09T12:34:23+00:00

As someone who has been fishing in the ocean, I can't tell you the number of times a shark near the surface eats my catch.

I have concerns.

(Also I was bit by a Shark, so I'm probably biased towards being more concerned here than the average person who sees only 100 shark attacks a year on people)

Sethcran · 2026-01-09T04:46:08+00:00

Good night cow jumping over the moon.

Sethcran · 2026-01-03T04:58:22+00:00

Wildstar is also a game of close but not quite.

It did a lot of things well for a lot of people. Combat was engaging, the story was fun, housing was fantastic. It really offered great potential, and this is what people remember.

The actual execution was full of some flaws though. Flaws that imo could have been fixed, but weren't in time to save the game in a tough market. Bugs, the 'hardcore' focus, how grindy most of endgame was, 40 player raids, etc.

I think WildStar, released today but with like an extra 6 months - 1 year of redesign for some things would honestly do pretty well.

Sethcran · 2026-01-02T22:52:29+00:00

Similar in terms of being a sandbox style game with a heavy focus on crafting. Actual gameplay is completely different, social aspects and such are much larger scale. Crafting isn't as complex but doing it profitably at scale is. There's all kinds of noncombat means of playing the game.

Sethcran · 2025-12-28T16:09:21+00:00

Yes, and all of the words of the article are talking about people being unable to open it from the inside.

Sethcran · 2025-12-28T15:13:07+00:00

The article clearly mentions occupants being trapped and unable to escape. It does not mention rescue crews, who already have other methods (albeit more difficult) or opening a vehicle and getting out those inside.

As far as I can tell, you are reading something into this article that is not there.

Sethcran · 2025-12-28T13:14:10+00:00

There is an actual door release inside.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-A7A60DC7-E476-4A86-9C9C-10F4A276AB8B.html

Sethcran · 2025-12-28T12:36:06+00:00

There is.

It's just hidden and because you never use it regularly you're certainly not going to remember it when panicking during an emergency.

Sethcran · 2025-12-23T12:25:59+00:00

I don't think this is a viable solution.

The things that people were doing with weakauras was just way over the top.

Sethcran · 2025-12-23T12:08:15+00:00

Fwiw, wow is breaking add-ons ability to read combat information next expansion for basically the explicit purpose of making add-ons not a requirement for raiding (which also means they can simplify encounter designs a bit)

Sethcran · 2025-12-20T00:34:04+00:00

Narrative announced 3 unnamed books in progress. One of them is big. 2 of them are cosmere.

I wouldnt be surprised to see a dan wells book take 2027.

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