A worthy successor to Dravid, Pujara defined took the mantle of the “wall” and did his best. His dominance in Australia in particular was what made Border-Gavaskar trophies fun to watch, even if watching him at times was a chore. It’s bittersweet to now see even the second generation of cricket stars retiring in front of us. Hope he considers coaching as did Dravid!
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A big bowl of cantaloupe was had. Summer fruits are just so lovely and fresh no? We consumed enough watermelons and mangoes, along with peaches and berries this summer. It’s not uncommon for me to sometimes just do lunch or dinner with a big bowl of fruits in summer! Throw in some greek yogurt and honey and you got your protein fix too.
I have a big doc due in 2 days and hadn’t even gotten around to it. This evening I just asked AI to read through all the tickets, docs, reference materials, email exports I created and asked it to create a 3 page narrative for me. I must say it did a pretty dang good job. Of course I have to spend hours to correct and remove hallucinations from doc, but what would’ve taken me a few more days to synthesize and put in a doc was done in 5 mins. I can now spend time just refining the doc rather than actually writing it.
The Mamdani scavenger hunt is a great example of why we need fresh young thinking in Democratic Party, and not the old hogs in suits thinking anymore. The average age of Biden cabinet was fucking 63 years old, while Trump 2nd term is at 54 almost 10 years younger. He may be completely senile but he’s elected one of the youngest cabinet. That’s what young people are watching. Mamdani is a fresh face who is bringing that fresh young thinking. So are a couple of others. Embrace them. Give the old guard a boot.
The dwindling people at pool with little chill weather is indicative of a nice time ending. I wish we had unending summers. Fuck winter. Though I love fall also, but summer is the best!
As of last week it’s been 24 years since I came to this country and made it my home. It feels eons ago that I left India, but my heart still aches for India like no other. I don’t think I will ever love this country as much as I love India even with all its faults.
It’s insane how much ring has devalued the alarm monitoring part of the ecosystem. Even if you just want ring alarm monitoring you now have to signup for at least a standard plan at 99$, and then play another 10-15$ a month on top of it to keep it. It’s just not worth it anymore.
I have disabled cross posting to BlueSky. I don’t see any value in it anymore and the limited but fun interactions that I do have are all happening on Masto. I will keep my Bluesky account though.
I have been rethinking about the Apple One premier membership. At almost 40$ a month it’s expensive, and I can only see it become more expensive. We definitely use AppleTV+, Music and 2TB storage the most along with little of News. Is this package worth 40 bucks a month anymore I don’t know. At some point I am gonna think about just hosting a local NAS for storage and keeping only Apple Music family. I can subscribe/resubscribe as necessary to other services.
Dealing with an issue at work which shows AI/ML’s limitation. Something that was purpose built for assuming native English speaker is completely failing in non-native English speaking countries using the same thing. Someone wrote a deep dive doc and my first response to them was “How long have you been working with Indians?”.