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These are the reasons I avoid Google, another being privacy, or the lack of it. I tried Bing, but I got really tired of results that are a decade or more out of date. Now I use duckduckgo and always specify a date range. This gives me great results around 80% of the time.
...when they replace "could" (used five times) with "will."
...a casket, not a coffin. Coffins typically conform, more or less, to the shape of the body. Caskets do not.
...lawful permanent residents of the U.S. have the exact same rights as citizens, but before I became a citizen (long ago) and was working as a permanent resident, every employer I worked for asked me to prove I could work in the US. It wasn't an issue for me. I simply presented my "green card" and went on my way. Even after I became a citizen employers asked for my US passport. Little did I realize that those requests were actually illegal. Well, they may have been illegal, but I didn't consider them to be unreasonable.
What I DO consider unreasonable is a bank (*cough* BOA) demanding that I verify my citizenship. No other bank has ever asked me to do that. I found that demand to be very problematic.
...I use Windows for is Boot Camp so I can play Fallout 4. That's it. The day I can play it without booting into Windows will be a very happy day.
...is that they found a way to make mycelium durable.
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So they claim: "Fine Mycelium engineers mycelium cells as they grow to create three dimensional structures that are densely entwined and inherently strong; Fine Mycelium is a patented process to grow materials with superior strength, durability and performance."
https://www.mycoworks.com/our-...
How about outright banning them on a global scale!
And create a massive tax-free black market? That's a massively BAD idea.
Some people never seem to learn a damn thing from history.
It used to be good. Strong but very smooth and consistent. These days: zero consistency, bitter from over roasting to even out taste over large batches of beans (burnt), improper cleaning of urns etc....this is all from trying to manage scale. Look at their beans...very very dark.
Now go get some beans from a local roaster. The beans are always a nice toasted brown, not black. Starbucks can't manage thier scale.
I agree with this. Starbucks made some high level management changes several years ago and it has steadily declined since then. In fairness, the pandemic has probably affected its staffing, but I'm not buying that as an excuse for poor training, and poorly run local stores.
...longtime Starbucks customer, I have my doubts that this will do anything to actually improve service, or if it does, it'll be minimal, such as taking 40 minutes to get a pre-order coffee, as opposed to 45. I'll stick with Peet's, where I can reliably depend on waiting only a few minutes if I have to wait at all.
Obviously, I've had trouble getting the bitter taste of crap Starbucks service out of my mouth.
There's more than just chips in new Apple's hardware. It's the incredible optimization it's manage to create that will hold back a company that has been building for the lowest common denominator for virtually its entire history.
...they are closing the barn door after the horses have bolted. Better late than never I guess, but Apple has been working on their silicon for a decade or more. It seems unlikely that Qualcomm will be able to go "head to head" with Apple silicon in a mere few years.
The HDD in my highest end 27" iMac (i9, 32GB RAM, best video card then available) was a shockingly slow 4500rpm. It basically took a decently powerful machine and kneecapped it.
...old 27" iMac (2019) that came with the slowest, worst hard drive you can imagine for a modern computer, and which was "bricked" by a Big Sur update, but has been since upgraded to a 2TB SSD, I can nearly guarantee these old Macs are not in fact bricked, but are just taking many, many hours to complete the upgrade. They won't turn on, because they're still running. The confusing black screen can sit like that for several hours (maybe even 12+) while the clunky old drive chugs away quietly as the owner pulls their hair out and thinks their machine has died. I would advise them to just let do its thing for a few days, but that of course would be ridiculous. They will in all likelihood have to put in a support call, go through all the scripted troubleshooting procedures with the help desk tech, then have them book an appointment at certified repair shop and be prepared to pay 4 or $500 or to get the thing fixed (and the drive replaced with an SSD). On the bright side, their clunky old HD-bound Mac with feet of clay will then seem like a whole new machine.
...two "may" and a "could" on this page. I won't get excited until I see how it performs in real world tests. What kind of power will it draw? How much throttling is there when the laptop is unplugged? How loud are the fans, and how long do they run? How long does it take to export ProRes and how much battery is left afterwards? We "may" soon have answers.
...bring on the robot players.
All your files have been destroyed (sorry). Paul.
