The warmth partially explains the rain. Storms far across the pacific have formed and traveled east to land on California. Unfortunately it also means, as you said, we can't capture as much of it as snow pack.
> I just don't get why these companies should be in the business of offering gift cards
If they're anything like Starbucks then they get the benefit of utilizing the unredeemed balances as temporary capital for investments. It's an interest free loan at their scale. Plus they get to keep the balance that people forget to redeem.
Some states have laws that gift cards never expire, like California. A lot of companies will just go with the most strict rule, rather than micromanaging state by state. The side effect of this is the company "keeps" the money that isn't spent. It may be earmarked at gift card money, but it will never be spent.
I am terrible at spending gift cards. I have some that are from 2007, 18 years old. Two years ago I decided I should check them all and actually spend them. Of the dozen or so cards (several of them for Apple), only 2 of them had an issue, all the others were still active with the original balance.
One of the issues was easily solved, it was a Visa gift card that had an expiration date... I reached out to the company and they issued a new card with an extended date. The other seemed to be so old that the underlying company was sold and pivoted, and changed systems (I assume multiple times) along the way. What was a card for a local restaurant chain now seemed dedicated to Dick's Sporting Goods... at least that's where the phone number went. I haven't yet tried going to the actual restaurant to see what happens.
This reminded me I did an awful job of actually spending them. I guess I need to try again.
What do you mean "left behind"? Are you saying people will actually gt "left behind" or just that people will _feel_ like they're left behind?
At this poitn you can find tools that can make demos easier to build or get you further in a hackathon, but Rails embodies "Slow is steady and steady is fast." If you're trying to build something that will stick around and can grow (like a startup outside of the latest VC crazes) then Rails will arguably do better at keeping your tools relevant and supported in the long run. That is, assuming you're building something that needs a steady backend for your application.
> At this point you can find tools that can make demos easier to build or get you further in a hackathon.
I don't understand this at all. ruby on rails is probably peak technology for getting something up an running fast at a hackathon. its a very streamlined experince with a ton of drop in plugins for getting to the product part of the mvp. Maintaining a ruby app is a nightmare overtime. At least it was 5 years ago the last time I worked fulltime in a startup using ruby on rails.
These days I use elixir. its higher performance and reasonably fast to write in but I woudln't say its as productive as ruby on rails if you're competing in a hackathon.
The language encourages metaprogramming, and disencourages typing. This makes maintenance much more complicated when compared to other languages such as Python, typescript or PHP.
This looks fairly lightweight and clean, but you immediately replace a large portion of the Rails ecosystem with React and will constantly need to account for that when deciding how to build your application. By sticking closer to "the Rails way" you get the support of it's massive community.
If Intertia.js development halts, then you're stuck with either a) adopting something else, or b) maintaining the tool for your own use cases. Using something like this would, imo, be closer to building a Rails app in API mode with a separated frontend than adding a new library on top of Rails.
While I understand the complaints against OOP, I highly recommend this book to anyone working in an environment where they're working with OOP languages/frameworks. There are plenty of Ruby/Rails shops out there still. At the very least I love the mentality that this book teaches and often recommend Tidy First by Kent Beck at the same time.
I know you're not saying anything revolutionary but this is the best succinct yet fair description of these tools that I've seen. They're not worthless but they're not job destroying.
Definitely agree with that list! The new Lessons in Chemistry is also really solid! Severance was also noteworthy although a bit slow going. Shrinking was really good. Physical, and the one about Bezo’s ex-wife becoming her own person and running her foundation was pretty funny… overall I think Apple is doing their best to target a certain demographic and I for one appreciate it. They have spent more on writing than other services, it would seem.
I’m halfway through the first season, and it’s got a lot more Ted Lasso-type scenes of people talking about their feelings than I was expecting. Does it refocus more on the actual premise of the show later, or is it like this all the way through?
It's both a high quality drama about the characters' lives and a detailed, well researched alternate history story with interesting differences in politics and technology as it goes on.
Let's just say it doesn't shy away from torturing its characters, whereas Ted Lasso is a lot more even-handed in that regard, with equal measures of torture and wholesome moments. For All Mankind definitely leans harder towards "outer space makes life difficult and dangerous" in its balance between joy and pain.
If you're thinking that the original premise was basically an alternative history space program procedural, it'll become less focused on that over time. The space flight parts will become less and less plausible, and the plot will mainly be driven by totally artificial drama and disasters caused by these characters with huge and obvious flaws being given increasing amounts of responsibility.
I think it's still worth watching to a point, but the quality is monotonically decreasing. Once you're annoyed more often than enjoying the show, stop watching. It won't recover. (For me, season 3 was honestly purely a hate-watch of wanting to see just how far down the show would sink.)
Thanks for the heads up. I was pretty checked out by episode 2 (Everyone knew Wernher was a Nazi. Hell, by 1970 they had been rearming Nazis in West Germany to fight the Soviets for 20 years!) but as you say it was only getting worse. I just read through the episode summaries and it doesn't sound like I missed much.
What the hell even happened? It's not like Ronald Moore lacked experience. After Voyager and BSG he should know the formula: the A plot is actual story events and B plot is interpersonal conflict among the cast. You set up conflicts in the B plot to add tension on if they can overcome the challenge in the A plot. What you don't do is spend 40 minutes out of a 60 minute episode on squabbles among the astronaut wives. It's a show about stuff happening in space! Show us things happening in spaceships!
Just another failure to add to the scrap pile of all the "prestige" dramas produced during Peak TV. Hollywood responded to an unprecedented demand for content during Covid by disappearing up their navels about gender and race. An incredible waste of billions of dollars and millions of man-hours.
> Isn't it amazing how people pass courses, even perhaps demonstrate mastery at a point in time, but manage to get to later courses without fully understanding things?
People remember what they are required to recall (citation needed). Classes can only test for so many things, so people are going to remember what they needed for assignments or tests. It feels like that's one of the reasons apprenticeships are hailed by some as useful. They "test" what is required in real world application. I've never needed to know that 2^10 is a kilobyte as a developer building websites, but would that be surprising/amazing? There are many things I've needed outside of school that were never taught.
As long as CS is used as the path to software development, it will be a balance between theory and application.
