re: great British baking show - caster sugar is also hard to find in the US. (you can buy superfine but it only comes in very small bottles and is very expensive)
I think they've been steadily hollowing themselves out just like the every other American / global company that makes stuff. They don't spend on R&D like they used to, instead they've tried to acquire new products and technology.
It feels like the culture of innovation they built is lagging, and like for many American companies losing their way, I wish they could make a case for a real reinvestment in research with a 10 year payback instead of a next quarter result. This is anecdotal and I've only worked with one division of 3M in the past, but i've seen changes in how they support companies downstream. It may just be how everything is changing everywhere.
They still make good products, and they're consistently very good but always premium priced.
One unintended consequence in my district is that we have two guys who trade seats back and forth between state senate and state house. They're totally interchangeable and neither one ever talks to their constituents (well, the ones who don't write big checks anyhow)
It doesn't appear that the quantity of laws on the books or the nanny state are preventing seed stage companies from leaving our stable mature market. There must be something else keeping them here in droves. hmm?
It seems to me the touchbar was just a clever way to get their own processor into their laptops for some large scale real-world testing before they ditch intel and build the entire thing themselves. 2020 is a good guess I'd say.
Doesn't matter. The crappier keyboard is probably .014mm thinner, which supersedes all other considerations because producing thinner hardware is really really REALLY important to apple.
It's kind of ironic that Marvin is dead and his particular brand of art is no longer progressing. He is silent on the matter and his estate brought the suit.
Ultimately anybody can bring a suit against anybody and this suit wouldn't even be a thing if that dumb blurred lines song wasn't a hit and there wasn't money to be made.
That also being said that song is a straight ripoff of Got to give it up. Everybody who was a fan of Marvin knew it instantly, but if you wrote out the score on a page and compared, the two songs wouldn't match up. Also if you objectively compared the audio files you wouldn't find any samples of the former song in the latter either. I thought they found a clever way around the copyright using the former track as inspiration. perhaps borrowing heavily, but if this is the precedent we really are headed toward a world where nobody can create something without paying a ransom to another copyright holder.
They really needed a normal strut and control arm setup. I think it was just a poor car choice. something american with wider track and mustang2 front suspension would have been a better fit.
binky is bonkers. been following the build since like episode 5. That fella is a wizard with a grinder and a mig welder. absolutely the best auto fabrication i've seen on youtube.
A dj never saved your life, and that's alright. My life was never saved in a club. It happened in a muddy field. It happened in a dirty warehouse. There was no bottle service, no valet. I suppose the importance of djs is overblown in the age of the celebrity dj, but there is an underground still out there somewhere.
I find it a little ironic the way W has slowed, softened and become more contemplative and introspective with the still life paintings and whatnot. Sort of counter to the narrative in the piece all these years later.