I just went through this exact thing this week. We've been working on a new feature, that if vibecoded as soon as the docs landed in our lap, would have resulted in a lot of duplicated functionality and an expanded data model. The more we worked through the solution with other engineers the more we realized the problem had been solved by another team and our solution could be small and elegant.
I can't claim that AI has no benefit to our organization, but I do think that as my career has matured, I find myself spending more time thinking about how code changes will effect the system as a whole, and less time doing the actual coding.
My dad was a big fan of westerns, so Lonesome Dove was a big deal in our house when I was a kid. Sometimes I think about showing them to my son, but I know there's no way he'll have the patience to sit through it all. I'm worried that I might not have the patience either anymore.
I recently read the book for the first time. Fantastic story! The best western I've ever read. Then I watched the miniseries with my wife (also for the first time). Westerns aren't her favorite, but she loved it too. Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones were incredible, the whole cast did a great job, and the costumes and scenery were beautiful. We still make jokes about "We don't rent pigs." :)
We only watched season 1 because that's the one based on the original Lonesome Dove book. They make some changes, but generally only one that makes the show easier to follow. I'd highly recommend anyone to watch it. If you stick with only season 1 it tells a complete story and it's not too long of a commitment. It has everything.
RIP Duvall. You've had many roles, but this is the one I'll remember you for.
I recommend reading the book first, then watching the series. They're both great but the book has a lot more details and explains the events better than the series. It will make watching the series even better.
The audiobook is great, but the sound quality for the first few chapters wasn't the best. That gets fixed though. If they ever do a "full cast" audiobook for this one I would definitely buy it.
That is the natural transition from overhead sun to sunset as each higher energy wavelength gets cut off more and more. When blue is mostly gone and green starts to fade we call it the Golden Hour.
The video that made the rounds on Reddit yesterday really hits home how quickly an EV can become a death trap when the doors can no longer be opened from the outside
Presumably the cooling problem gets hand waved away as a technical detail, and the real selling point is data centers that aren't subject to any regional governments laws.
I used to go to Rockies games over the summer with coworkers after work and buy cheap seats in the rockpile and everyone would drink and eat and just leave when they felt like it. It's probably the best live sports experience I've ever had.
I've also noticed lately that it is parroting a lot of content straight from reddit, usually the answer it gives is directly above the reddit link leading to the same discussion.
I'm kinda the same. I have a Dell monitor and a Gigabyte monitor side by side and my mac constantly loses the connection to the gigabyte monitor. At least once per day I have to unplug my video link to the gigabyte monitor to get the mac to rediscover it, this never happens with the dell one.
Flywheel battery storage is still considered pretty niche. I wonder if blackout prevention will start to bolster it's usage. Imagine if every large scale solar or wind farm were required maintain some amount of rotational storage
This has been talked about lately, the drop has nothing to do with trump. The data in this chart goes up to Oct 2024, several months before trumps took office.
I can't claim that AI has no benefit to our organization, but I do think that as my career has matured, I find myself spending more time thinking about how code changes will effect the system as a whole, and less time doing the actual coding.
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