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I’ll add on to this.

Grew up in a farming area in Central California. The variety of orange I eat from where I grew up tastes distinct the same variety grown in SoCal.

Layoffs are on the menu again.

You can track layoffs through https://layoffs.fyi

Before Target moved to ten items only for self checkout I used to take my cart full of every imaginable aisle from the store and check out. However I would constantly see people not ringing up higher priced items at self checkout or just push their cart through when it’s busy and make it look like they paid.

Talking to one of the store staff they said they were losing too much at self checkout. They dropped it to ten items and forced eleven plus items to the registers. Hire a few older people at minimum wage to slowly scan your items and get you on your way. That initial month they went to ten items was around the holidays and all the new register people were sooooooo slow. It was painful. They just didn’t know what they were doing. Seemed like they were thrown to the registers to make it work.

Third or fourth gen Subaru Outback. I owned a fourth gen six cylinder and was happy with overall power and comfort. Had the most basic LED stereo. Nothing connected to the web. There are a ton of aftermarket mods out there and you can pick up good deals in PNW on Craigslist.

Lowe’s is more for home remodeling/furnishing. I’ve seen those things there. Granted you may two options for what you want to buy.

Also Target has a good selection of items.

That book is garbage. Having been employed at FB, I worked with plenty of OG FB people who poked holes in all his claims. I even recall getting into an argument with the guy on an ex employee FB group about his upcoming book. Don’t take that book at its face value.

Are airlines still saving money by “servicing” their airplanes overseas with cheaper labor like my friend told me a few years ago?

After 9/11 a friend who I’m close with was laid off as well as many other maintenance people. United began the process of moving their plane maintenance people to southeast Asian locations to cut down on labor.

Race to the bottom to save money and now loose bolts?

My parents were fans of their original show. When they came back on the air a few decades ago I learned of them and admired their humor. I was a preteen at the time and some of it went over my head but the rest was laughter.

I wonder if they still have their winery? I regret not seeing them perform at the local casinos near Napa.

This could easily been Expedia’s VAR submitting the serials to Apple Business Manager and having one of them off by a character.

I would assume Expedia buys in bulk so it’s possible all the serials that were scanned in could have had one or several serials entered wrong.

Generally when you buy a batch/bulk order, the last four will be different than the initial 8 for several dozen machines in that batch.

Good. I was nearly hit numerous times by riders on the sidewalks here in SF. They provided something easy for people to get around, but in the end people were reckless with them. I myself had several close calls riding on the janky streets of SF.

I bought from these guys before. I upgraded a couple of classic iPods with new batteries and flash memory. So nice to have 500 gigs of storage and the ability to listen to true stereo sound. Would recommend buying from these people.

I’m skeptical of legalization efforts ever since mj became legal over the last ten years.

Weed went from 5% THC to the 90%+ level through breeding and commercialization. People were aiming for the best product with the highest hit. I’m having shrooms will get the same treatment as it becomes legal in more states.

The potency bothers me because more studies are coming out showing the side effects on the brain and the body now.

I knew someone that worked there many years ago. The former CEO had many opportunities to change the product for the better but did nothing. Weren’t they Series G or H by the tint they sold ?

Meanwhile Apple came late to the game and now is just sitting it out. Wonder what will happen in a few years?

Recently there’s been talk about how it isn’t working after all:

https://archive.is/DmMeN

I also work with someone from Portugal who says it isn’t all that it’s cracked up be.

I know San Francisco has tried to pilot this but hasn’t been successful.

I also know Vancouver has a problem with dealers fighting over turf near safe consumption sites.

When NY opened up a safe consumption site, the same thing happened.

The Blind app seems to discuss this quite often in the Amazon employee posts that go up. If anyone wants more context and conversation about this topic. I’ve never considered Amazon a place to go after reading some of those posts.

From all the comments and the way things happened in the last 96 hours, it sounds like the board was entirely incompetent. I’ve interacted with board members with various companies over my career, and everyone on the board is extremely junior.

I get why they want to test in tech friendly cities, but I honestly think they need a reverse approach to getting these cars on the road.

These companies need to go in cities with bigger roads and less crowded streets. They also need to incentivize citizens to ride these cars for training.

Here are places I can see this tech gaining a foothold and improving its data

- Walt Disney World Resort. I hate waiting for busses or taking the transit options. Disney had (don’t know if it’s still there) a brief collab with Lyft having earmarked cars for ride share between the parks. Make the cars some sort of upgrade package for visitors. A Cruise/Disney partnership would definitely benefit testing those new Cruise cars they put on hold.

- Las Vegas. Big open roads. Lots of people and construction. Plenty of room to move around. Lots of data to learn.

Over time they can’t go towards more condensed roads and traffic.

Ideally I could see Disney being a partner with Cruise to get those Cruise cars on the road for real world testing.

I have this gut feeling Apple will buy Qualcomm in the near future. I hear stories in different forums that Qualcomm seems to have some layoffs and churn lately and so I think this might be a sign of them floundering. Yeah they still have a large share of the market, but Apple has the money and it would probably be seen as a win for both companies.

I knew people who worked over there and didn’t have nice things to say about anyone in upper management. I actually had to tell a recruiter from Cruise who was actively trying to get me to interview, no thank you.

I use ChatGPT4 several times a day. It’s what Google used to be before the radical shift in the omnibox. I find it so helpful and I hope it continues to improve post Sam.

I was on the previous incentive for solar generation and my bill last month was $0 (I only look at the summary emailed to me and let autopay handle it).

I assume I generated more than I consumed and that offset my gas consumption.

CPUC is full of cronies tied to Sacramento and Newsom. Guarantee the solar changes in this article are being pushed by the energy companies.

PG&E is putting all this money into preventing the next wave of wildfires caused by their negligence and passing it on to consumers.

This feels like the power companies getting in front of shrinking revenue to stop backlash from raising rates for non-solar customers. I can’t imagine power companies continuing to pay outrageous executive salaries while everyone switches to solar and lowering revenue.

I stayed in the Circa hotel recently. They have an Amazon Show on the nightstand. It does nothing in terms of automation. It’s just there to replace the in room phone, show weather and nothing else. Can’t recall as it was very limited when I tried interacting with the voice assistant.

I haven’t seen Alexa evolve that much but maybe someone who worked at Amazon can give more on what’s evolved.

Many years ago, I used to go to his website and he had a live cam of his home. I think he had a couple pointed zoom cameras in his house and outside of his house so he can look around. It was always cool seeing him walk by or doing something in front of the camera. It was almost like Justin TV but in the early 2000s.

The coolest thing I ever learned at Apple back in the last era of Jobs was that via the internal employee directory, Woz reported to Jobs and Jobs reported to Woz.

I asked a sales rep once about services going out and how that would affect CF For Teams. They said it would be virtually impossible for CF to go down because of all their data centers around the world. Paraphrasing, “if there’s an outage, there’s definitely something going wrong with the internet.”

And here we are. My trust in them has hit zero.

Anyone else have a weird vibe on how fast this went? I don’t remember how long Bernie Madoff’s trial was, but this one flew by really fast.

The Spidey senses tell me there’s more to this we’re seeing.

Whether you believe Elon or not, FTX was greasing the DNC wheels with a lot. FTX also had a lot of celebrities on board. They had the Miami Heat arena with their name on it.

Now it’s all wrapped up, guilty as charged, and now what?

I’ll chime in with something a blogger once wrote.

Paraphrasing here: “The current macOS (macos 11 at the time it was written) looks and feels like it was designed by someone who never used macOS and has only used an iPhone.”

You’re using the phrase dog whistle incorrectly.

I really hope Apple doesn’t do a yearly cadence with new chips. From all the comments I’m reading here there’s a lot of confusion and misunderstandings about why new chips that seem to underperform or lackluster performance. Maybe Apple should just do every other year for chip upgrades.