Texas: Hold my beer.
https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/lionfish-texas-gulf-19717247.php
(Also Texas: Have you tried hunting the kudzu from a helicopter using automatic weapons?)
Apple is a strange beast. I was at their space ship HQ getting interviewed, and the guy kept pointing random facts about it. Like, this particular wood was harvested in the winter so that made it better, or that entire segments can be siloed off, or that the full height glass walls of the cafeteria can be opened on pivots, and there was just so much effort in making sure things worked just right.
Meanwhile [this team] had to test software fixes for their product by provisioning ancient Mac mini's in a closet lab because they wanted to test the "full experience" and so every patch and update they had to do was painful and horribly tested. They all hated each other (which was obvious to me just from my time in their interviews, so it must have gotten really bad during the workday I imagine). Everyone seemed on edge all the time. Even the people in the hallways. But they were all super excited that they could order lattes from the iPads tethered to the break room countertops. And they had an apple orchard I guess. The idea of changing how they do what they do was completely unentertainable.
The whole experience felt surreal, like I had stepped into the world according to The Onion.
I am so sorry. The upside is that this version might actually be so bad you can listen to it ironically.
You can't just ruin Oktoberfest like that. You're a monster.
Or the opposite even! We replaced a mouse's blood with artificial sweetener and that mouse died of super cancer. Ergo, artificial sweetener will give you super cancer.
The competition is trash. Other game stores spent their money on enshitification and they're reaping the rewards of that choice.
I think I know of what you speak. It's in the center of the metropolitan area, the middle of the city, down a ways from uptown you might say. Huge place. Some kind of manufacturing facility.
Back in 1985 you could get plutonium in any corner drugstore!
It would very quickly become the de facto property of one or a cadre of billionaires, assuming complete economic and political separation from the U.S.
Well, all the top contenders are being defenestrated, and that evolutionary pressure is creating a new niche that will be filled by some kind of smart, quiet, and patient opportunist. Maybe.
16 Democrats
215 Republicans.
bOtH SiDeS right? Exactly the same right?
What we need is an open source alternative to the OS's in our cars, but the hardware is disparate and it faces a steep buy-in hurdle of "spare practically brand new project car".
They're paying you to get a job done. They're paying your manager to manage you, so don't do that job too unless you're getting paid for two jobs. If your manager wants to be a dick and micromanage you to death, get a new job.