Excellent choices! Older but still great is Star Trek II by the late James Horner at the beginning of his career; Battle in the Mutara Nebula remains my favorite spaceship fight song. Gattaca by M. Nyman is an absolute masterpiece of subtle and complex layering; I saw on a behind the scenes that songs from it were also frequently used as the stand-in music during the filming and editing of the TV show Firefly. The track The Other Side is my most replayed song of all time. Ennio Morricone is best known for his westerns, but I think his best soundtrack is The Missionary, in which music plays a key part of the plot. Gabriel's Oboe is a favorite song to play for a great many musicians; I've heard it on everything from sax to cello and played it myself (poorly!) on flute.

I use Darktable almost every day, it's excellent. I think its devs are often frustrated by it being called a Lightroom replacement as Darkroom has pioneered multiple improvements in RAW processing, from a powerful (non-ai) masking system to significantly improved color science.

Maybe a little bit. I think it's mostly because anti-social behavior online is often rewarded (e.g., through increased engagement), whereas offline it's often punished (e.g., through decreased engagement as people avoid assholes).

The vast majority of anti-social behavior I've witnessed in my life has been on so-called social media.

Four years to breakeven ROI seems good, and I'd rather write code than do rote work even if it takes moderately longer to write the code than to just do the work.

About how many hours of coding in that two weeks (versus, e.g., collecting and entering documentation like you'd have to do anyway if you used a third party service)? Taxes for me (USA/Hawaii) take me about 8 working hours a year using an online service that is sometimes more annoying than helpful and which has politically advocated for keeping taxes complicated, so I'd love to replace them even if it didn't save me a few hundred bucks. But I'm not sure it's worth more than an extra ~8 hours of my time. However, even if I don't go all they way in like you, you've inspired me to revamp some of my personal accounting to take advantage of AI. I've been just doing the same thing I did five and ten years ago without thinking about how new tools could make my process less cumbersome. Thanks!

Who gave him a grant? Thanks for making your disclosure responsibly.

"Argh, I'll just fix it myself!" "This is shit code, I don't want to figure out how it works!"

I wish there was a way to split test my life. Today, in particular, I would like to meet the version of me who didn't try to vibe code an Arduino project and has now spent several hours thinking I was just one more chat query away from satisfaction.

Unplanned shot. I was taking photos of surfers when I heard this plane coming, looked up, and noticed it would pass near the moon. I had about two seconds to zoom out, frame the moon, and set my focus to infinity before the plane arrived. That it worked is pure serendipity.