The Stochastic Game

Oh wow, I had totally missed the “designated initializers” of C++20… Imagine that, a good new C++ language feature! 😅 I may start using this pretty often!

Something for my neighbours here in BC: “A Pattison Company’s Possible Deal with ICE Brings Boycott Threats”

“This boycott is gaining traction […] But it also highlights a problem: in many communities, Pattison or Loblaws holds an effective monopoly on our food supply.”

The Federal Conservatives are trying to follow Trump’s playbook to get into power, using social media and influencers, while shunning actual journalists. I really hope that this shit is quickly shut down by Canadians of all sides.

Every “genAI is great for coding, actually!” article I’ve seen is like “and so I spend my day talking to a chatbot, writing requirements in an MD doc, fixing build errors, and asking for unit tests”. Is that supposed to be “great”?! Are these people COMPLETELY DRUNK?! WTF!!

Influencer and its sequel Influencers was a quite entertaining one-two-punch of social media satire and crazy murders in gorgeous locations. CW is a fun character and Cassandra Naud plays her wonderfully. I didn’t expect much and now I want to see more identity theft and stabbings!

The weird thing about the Star Trek Motion Picture is seeing Star Trek for the first time with good VFX, sets, and costumes. Took a few scenes to get used to it 😅 The great thing however is how it shows the scale of the Enterprise and its crew. It’s a big ship!

The Star Trek Motion Picture’s problem is not that it’s a 2-hours-long episode, but that it’s one episode stretched over 2 hours! Between yawns, there’s still a good episode in there. Somehow I managed to have never heard of the final act’s twist! Nice.

Heretic was good! I’m game for anything with Sophie Thatcher in it, but also I want to see more of Hugh Grant playing bad guys, he’s just great in this. Lots of fun theological rants (if you’re into that), and I’m very happy to see the story of the Landlord’s Game mentioned in a movie!

Another nice-looking morning out there.

The good fluffy boy is golden.