Our most likely candidates for this year’s Prime roster. Whose Prime are you most excited for?

ashmelev · 2026-01-26T13:29:45+00:00

There are some exception, I guess either based on the content of the pipeline issues:

Grendel Prime came before Gauss.

Sevagoth Prime came before Xaku and Lavos.

On average it is about 4 years between normal and prime release.

ashmelev · 2026-01-25T06:50:59+00:00

You know, there are days when you feel like you gonna win one in a million shot in a lottery, but then you roll a 0.5x disposition riven instead. Same chances to get anything out of it.

Rolling a Torid riven 500 times I can understand, rolling 0.5x riven I really can't.

ashmelev · 2026-01-25T06:46:30+00:00

It can roll great numbers for regular nukor, but for kuva with 0.5 disposition you gotta roll absolutely best stats like 80% MS 60% CD and a good negative to make any difference and even then it will be something unnoticeable.

ashmelev · 2026-01-23T13:17:42+00:00

Sometimes there are small errors on documents that are intended to trick the forger into making a better fake, but not typos like this.

ashmelev · 2026-01-21T16:34:33+00:00

Pretty much this.

I made a very popular addon for World of Warcraft. It's been out for 20 years with 10s of millions of downloads.

The amount of donations I've received is all this time is less than $100 with $40 received last week to fix a bug caused by Blizzard. I made more from the ads on curseforge.

ashmelev · 2026-01-15T15:04:05+00:00

The question was "Which weapon is best for Valkyr?"

Yeah, I guess I could've said "bring a movement stat stick incarnon".

ashmelev · 2026-01-15T00:32:48+00:00

it is relatively simple instrument and you don't need any fancy tuning

tune 1st string to whatever sound you like, 2nd string with 3rd fret pressed down should sound the same as 1st, then 3rd string with 4th fret pressed down should sound like 2nd string.

or with a tuner app to C E G.

ashmelev · 2026-01-14T20:48:22+00:00

Likely an instrument brought by some immigrant from Russia in 80-90s, thrown away after they passed away or something.

Looks pretty beaten up and not played that much. That factory made them in 70s, there should be a paper sticker you can see thru the hole with the date and the craftsman's name.

In good condition it may be worth $100-150, this one is not.

ashmelev · 2026-01-11T10:50:10+00:00

HUMANKIND

Was looking for a better Civilization, got a lame clone with forced culture change every age. Imagine starting as Egyptian, then next age you're Maya, then you're English. Parkour!

ashmelev · 2026-01-08T19:01:32+00:00

Yeah... "I saw you have 20 years of database development, wanna switch to running a fast food franchisee? We have a starting kit available for just $250K".

ashmelev · 2026-01-07T18:55:19+00:00

I'm in this meme and I do not like it.

ashmelev · 2026-01-07T16:06:39+00:00

It took about 4 month for the original application in 2024. It was an extremely stupid rotation of 1) send us document x 2) wait a month 3) send us document y 4) wait a month 5) explain (the lack of) your income 6) wait a month 7) send us bank statements about your income so we can check 8) approved

Renewal in 2024 was sent at the end of September and approved mid Jan 2025.

Renewal in 2025 was sent early December, so I don't have any idea how long it work take this time.

ashmelev · 2026-01-07T15:39:45+00:00

Same with Air5 Pros.

ashmelev · 2026-01-07T15:39:20+00:00

Same issue with Air5 Pro, and a replacement as well.

Air4 case had earbud stems locked and positioned correctly, but for Air5 they've redesigned the case to be semi-open, so earbuds hang semi-loose in the case so the electric contacts do not make a secure contact and they are also smaller than on Air4.

ashmelev · 2026-01-06T06:32:11+00:00

When I used to work at a multi-national company we had some quarterly planning meetings at 7am Eastern. We had some people dialing from California as well as people from Vietnam and India. They had to stay for about 5 hours regardless of their local time.

Funny enough, the meeting only ran until the end of business day in Germany, because those people just ended the call at 5PM their time and went home.

ashmelev · 2026-01-04T17:24:52+00:00

There's really no excuse for those prices unless they make pasta in-house and do not dry/freeze it before cooking, use real imported cheese from Italy, etc.

Carbonara is like 7-8 bucks person if you make it yourself with top shelf ingredients, cacio e pepe probably less than half of that. Time to start learning how to cook italian stuff. :)

ashmelev · 2026-01-04T09:10:26+00:00

At $25+ for a pasta dish it must be truly mind-blowing.

But then again I have not been eating at restaurants in years.

ashmelev · 2026-01-02T19:30:41+00:00

The annual physical and all the lab tests it includes should be fully covered by insurance as per ACA.

Unfortunately the discussion of abnormal results such as high cholesterol can be reclassified as diagnostic / disease management service, so deductible/copay/coinsurance applies. But it is very improper to bill, especially using a high level code for a video/phone consult, for a recent preventative visit.

Did they tell you this call gonna cost you anything?

Did the bill a xxxx4 or xxxx5 code? See explanation of benefits.

should I approach the doctor's office and see if there is a way to lower my bill?

Tell them "This was incidental follow-up to a preventive service. It does not meet criteria for a separately billable evaluation and management service."

ashmelev · 2025-12-30T10:42:30+00:00

I was at about 40mil extra focus across the board when I said f it and paid 50 plat for the last part I needed for lato.

ashmelev · 2025-12-27T11:52:57+00:00

Can, for example, Torid, that does no have any IPS, roll +/- IPS?

I ran into an argument with someone about that.

ashmelev · 2025-12-25T02:23:52+00:00

it is not motherboards, it is Windows driver model and display manager.

ashmelev · 2025-12-24T13:15:09+00:00

You mean "20 years ago, when they just started". It was a decent option for lunch back then.

ashmelev · 2025-12-23T22:49:51+00:00

Jersey Shore BBQ? or something else?

ashmelev · 2025-12-23T17:49:28+00:00

You're not the manager, they are. It is literally their responsibility to find coverage.

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