That said, I've come to realize that looking at LLMs as strictly text consumers/producers is a mistake.
They're models of humans, built from language, and interacted with in language.
Point is, I'm not sold on them not being applicable to other domains. I'm just not an expert in those spaces.
Absolutely. I should have stated that: I'm talking entirely about programming here.
Art, images, video, etc... all way outside of my lane (apart from hobbies).
And to be clear, it's not that I'm not busy, or working less. I'm more busy than ever.
The gap between then and now is enormous. I don't code anymore. And if you're actively writing code for most of the day, that should be a red flag.
Thing is, the "use AI" messaging is mostly correct. You can't understand how to effectively use these tools until you build experience with them.
You've hit on a core problem with all of this. I've personally struggled with being able to convey how to use these new tools to people who have, at best, only played around with a GPT chatbot (or co-pilot autocomplete) in 2024-25.
Should add that I really cringe at how "preachy" this all sounds. But if that tone has ever been warranted, it's now.
So many talented folks that are stubbornly digging their heals in on this issue that I genuinely do not want to see swept away.
It's perfectly OK to not like what is happening. But to pretend that it is NOT happening, or to try to fight it, is like swimming upstream in a tsunami.
Your talents have NOT been deprecated. But their usage model has definitely changed.
Adapt, or be left behind. It's really that simple.
🚨 The rate in which my workflow has been changing over the past month alone has been both alarming and exciting.
General vibe in "dev-BlueSky" is anti-AI, but the amount of patently incorrect takes I see around here is wild. Easily one of the most counter-productive echo chambers I can remember.
Picture of the century. 😍
📷 credit: Science Tube
We have a number of ridiculously dangerous intersections in my little old New England town. Some residents have fought fixing them because of their "charm".
Many (most?) humans are weirdly horrified of change. In any form.
I’m firmly on the Sony Alpha train (and usually on a newer body) but I imagine the used Nikon D5 market is truly cooking this week.
"change is scary" is such a strong emotion that is makes people incurious about those alternatives.
My strongest evidence for this is the fact I keep having to explain you can charge electric cars at home.
It really is insane what we keep doing, especially when there are perfectly safe, effective, and economically viable alternatives.
One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire.
One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.
TBH you can replace those guys with AI too. Fixed my AC unit that way.
(be careful of course)
Props to the guy/gal at NASA who turned on HDR.
Yeah :(. I try to support the devs who are keeping RTS alive. Especially when they do a good job. Def check out current COH3 if you haven't in a while.
Yes. The current build of the game is incredible. They've overhauled practically everything since launch (graphics, sound, QoL, balance, etc.).
As a former SRBM engineer I am so excited for this launch.
When your 3 favorite games simultaneously get massive updates on the same day.
Tracks with my saying of "Every rule has a story behind it."
Tether your phone to at least get past authentication?
BTW sorry to hear you're in a hospital. Hope everything's ok.
That said, the BMS plays a role, and not all BMS are the same. More advanced ones can tolerate more aggressive charging better than packs with a simpler/no BMS.
But BMS performance is also a function of how much down time the pack gets plugged-in, which I think is part of the point of OP's thread.
It's important at both ends.
"The result showed that, when only considering ageing from different types of driving in small Depth of Discharges (DODs), using a reduced charge level of 50% SOC increased the lifetime expectancy of the vehicle battery by 44–130%"
www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/8/...
Nope. It’s very real. Tesla loudly advises to charge to 80% at most. There was also a thorough study of this a few years ago. Will try to find it.
The tl;dr is that you ideally want to keep the battery dancing around 50%, as much as possible.
My friend had an old truck like that. He labeled the “off” side of his AC switch as “BOOST!”
Some people just enjoy a foggy windshield.
I tried and tried to get my parents in the habit of always leaving their car plugged in at home, while targeting a cap of 60-70% SoC.
They can't handle it.
Instead, they let days go by, waiting for the car to get close to 10%, and then charge to near 90%. Just like their gas car.
Disappointed to hear that the DF guys got death threats yesterday.
Let's tone down the crazy in this industry. Please, everybody.
Difficult to understand how anyone (with rare exceptions) would buy a new ICE vehicle in 2026, even without these oil prices.