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@XaviScript @t_1000____ Though for what it’s worth real Italian food can get spicy too especially in the south

@t_1000____ L take The italian food we get in india is filled with unnecessary spices which Indians like as their taste buds are accustomed to it That doesn’t make it better than real italian, Once you acquire the taste of subtle flavour in italian dishes you wouldn’t want any other spice

Indians did Italian food better than Italians, just like we did Indo-Chinese better than actual Chinese. When it comes to cuisine, India is the USA, where every ethnicity sees its best version.

@RishiJoeSanu A good starting point would be to have more artisinal producers of the right ingredients and send a bunch of Indian chefs to Italy to actually train under Italian chefs

Indo-Chinese is the bomb but Indians have so far failed at indigenizing Italian cuisine. Desi macaroni sucks.

@megha_lilly So why don’t you just marry a man that you’ll allow to vote for you and allow everyone else to vote however they see fit?

The reason women shouldn’t vote is not because women tend to vote for leftist destructive anti civilizational policies. Rather, the reason women shouldn’t vote is that society’s fate should be decided by family units rather than individuals and healthy family units are lead by patriarchs. In a functioning democracy, only patriarchs would have the vote. Single men and women would have no say.

@BickleKun @WebbedRanger @9to5mac Sure for some roles like secretary or intern it might be logical to insist they use whatever you provide. When you’re paying a software engineer six figures you get your money’s worth if accommodating a preference makes then even 5% more productive.

@ashwindollar @WebbedRanger @9to5mac Apple products are both extraordinarily expensive to buy to support and they're badly designed to fail So you're not being dumb banning them from your inventory. There was a time you could build a three PC of equal ability for the price of one Mac

Apple has confirmed to @9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued with no plans for future hardware It's also no longer available on Apple's website as of Thursday afternoon The end of an era 🧀

@BickleKun @WebbedRanger @9to5mac And you think enterprise IT departments are building PCs vs buying laptops? While yes you can often get a good deal on a PC a laptop that’s actually comparable is often relatively close in price or more expensive. Latitude/Precision aren’t priced like Inspirons.

@WebbedRanger @BickleKun @9to5mac In general being penny wise pound foolish with hardware is not wise. Like I had to work with a dual core processor and mechanical hard drive until 2020, which meant small code changes took an hour to build. Horrible waste of labor even for a cheap software engineer.

@BickleKun @ashwindollar @9to5mac Well not so sure about that. There have been many companies including mine who have turned to Macs even after the Zirp ended, so I’m going to trust their analysis

@JacobGWitmer1 @TailosiveTech 18” MacBook Pro with M5 Ultra could be Epic

@TailosiveTech If Apple made MacBooks larger than 16” would you go bigger?

Never. 16” only. I carry 2 with me everywhere 💪 Saves money on Fitness+

@EasternSteppe @HMBrough_ Or most would be intimidated by the admissions requirements of medical schools. Isn’t the acceptance rates at many programs in the 3% range.

@HMBrough_ That just means there’s not enough American medical students. And don’t tell me we’re all tapped out of people who can be a medical student

There’s zero American medical students who want to do residency at Midwestern community hospitals. Sorry if that offends you, but it’s just the truth.

@vidur_saigal @pfinanceblogs @Eric_Erins At a bare minimum enough jobs should be doable in a remote/hybrid format that there should be more demand for some of these places with good bones

@pfinanceblogs @Eric_Erins there is no value lmao

Buying my $20K Victorian row home in downtown Wheeling West Virginia. Living within walking distance to my newly opened Tarot themed Matcha cafe before I spend my weekend hiking. Life could be so beautiful zillow.com/homedetails/12…?

@toomanypuppies8 @BarneyFlames People do commute to the Bay Area from Stockton and Sacramento but I believe they are still considered their own metro areas?

@ashwindollar @BarneyFlames Question: is Stockton an exurb of the Bay Area because it's on the ACE train

those WV DC Suburbs are actually becoming redder. think about who would move to the WV exurbs of DC !

@lemire @idoccor Hmm which generations of Intel and AMD CPUs support that?

@idoccor AI tells me that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 / Rocky Linux 10 / AlmaLinux 10: require x86-64-v3 (which includes AVX2).

When Apple moved from Intel processors to its own ARM processors, we did not know how they would handle all the existing Intel software. Then Apple shocked me with its software solution (Rosetta) that could transparently translate x64 binaries to ARM binaries. You just picked your old program, compiled years ago for an old CPU, and it just ran at high speed on a totally different CPU. It seemed to have inspired Intel. One problem when deploying software binaries is that you do not know anything about the processors your clients are using. They could be old CPUs taken from a trash can or the very latest Intel CPU. Thus, when you compile your code, you often target a generic CPU. The net result is that you are not using the fancy features of the newest CPUs. This is especially true under Windows where people have a wide range of systems. That’s frustrating if you are Intel or AMD: you have these new CPUs with features that most software will not use. This is an advantage for systems like game consoles: if you know from the get-go which processor to target, you can optimize better. There are ways around this issue for developers: you can check at runtime for the processor type and then select optimal code. Compilers provide some of this functionality by default. For example, they may have different memory copy functions and switch at runtime depending on the detected system. But compilers can only do so much, and developers do not have a strong incentive to optimize their software for specific CPUs. Doing such runtime dispatching is a lot of work and it complicates testing, thus increasing costs. To make matters worse, nobody will tune their software for processors that are not yet available. Thus, old software may not benefit from more advanced features on newer CPUs. Sure, the developer could recompile the code, but it takes time and money. A secondary but important issue is that compilers are often not great at optimizing even when you tell them which processor to target specifically. It is a matter of incentives: why should Microsoft put a lot of effort into making a family of Intel processors shine? So Intel created something called iBOT (Intel Binary Optimization Tool). It optimizes x64 binaries on the fly. For now, it only works on a few popular games and only for some specific processors. @tomshardware has a great article on the topic where they report an 8% performance boost on average, which is quite impressive given that it comes for free if you are the user. Of course, Intel picked the few games where their techniques worked. How this scales is unclear. Intel keeps making new processors and there is a lot of software around. It would have been more impressive had Intel boosted the performance of software generally. Still: the idea is intriguing.

@BickleKun @9to5mac To an extent there was also a legitimate reason some of the team absolutely needed Macs, iOS development can only really happen on Macs and 80% of our mobile app users were on iOS

@ashwindollar @9to5mac and then your IT department was very stupid. You want to be able to dump a new computer on someone's desk hook it up to the Network and then take the existing one back to repair it

@dani2669848174 @TheAleksee @fawfulfan Exurbs are pretty much just farther out suburbs

@TheAleksee @fawfulfan Sorry the ignorance, which is the difference?

Obviously population trends change all the time and extrapolating them beyond a decade or so is impossible. But if a trend like this held for 50 years, West Virginia would pretty much just consist of Morgantown and the suburbs of D.C.

@BickleKun @9to5mac At some large businesses where I’ve worked we’ve often had different laptops within the same team. It wasn’t at all uncommon that some had MacBook Pros, others have ThinkPads, and others have Precisions.

@ashwindollar @9to5mac that's why most businesses tend to buy all their stuff from a single supplier They order computers by the pallet. they have contracts for such things You know Micro Center? They exist as a B2B and show up around major corporations, way before consumers

@BickleKun @9to5mac Businesses might often prefer ordering from one supplier but even if you ordered all Dells a Latitude or Inspiron that you buy for your secretary is going to be very different from a Precision you might buy for your engineers.

@RishiRamaraju @TheAleksee There’s also practical limits to adding homes on open land. McKinney to Fort Worth is already a basically impossible commute, would anyone want to do that commute but from Oklahoma?

@ashwindollar @TheAleksee I would love to see both places building up more but it is obviously going to be more expensive and complicated vs. just adding single-family homes on open land.

I think geography is an underrated reason certain areas have different growth rates, major California cities are constrained by mountains and coasts, and Florida cities have swamp to worry about

@aflyingfrog @HMBrough_ A lot of Indians do name themselves Stalin, Lenin, etc

@ashwindollar @HMBrough_ That’s because those are Christian names. Why would Hindu Indians name themselves after Christian figures?

Indians do assimilate with their names. They abandoned orthodox Sanskrit names (how many Mritwinjays and Dharmadhikaris do you meet??) and use only English phonemes. They are not going to name their kids Steve, because it would look bizarre and desperate.

@RishiRamaraju @TheAleksee San Francisco proper should really be as dense Brooklyn which means double the population, and the city limits of LA itself are comparable to Staten Island which is considered downright rural by NYC standards

@TheAleksee People don’t seem to realize that California’s urban areas are already among the densest in the entire country. Also don’t seem to think that perhaps the gorgeous mountains surrounding the major cities might be an issue when it comes to home building as well!