Idk phones are a lot better these days. My 14 Pro is going very strong. I’m not to 5 years yet, but think it’s got 1-2 years left easily, maybe more.

The battery is definitely not as good as new, but it easily lasts a day, which is all you really need.

And no complaints about performance either. Honestly there’s nothing about the new phones that appeals to me.

Probably. Even the Mac version of Office is slightly shittier.

And it works. I’d love to have a Mac at work, but I absolutely need the windows version of excel to do my job effectively

I’ve tried a bunch of spreadsheet programs. They are all painful to use compared to excel.

Sure, you can type up some basic calcs in LibreOffice or Numbers or whatever, but none of these could replicate the stuff I do daily for work in excel unfortunately.

That said, the lack of suitable alternatives did get me to learn Python for personal use. And that opened up a whole new world for things I do at work too. Things that would have been a headache in excel are a couple lines in Python. It’s great (obviously very different use cases from typical spreadsheets)

Oh I’m not talking about those gambling sites. That’s just my personal view on the odds for this race.

Lot of support for Talarico - I’ve seen maybe 30+ Talarico signs for every Paxton sign (I’ve seen only one Paxton sign so far…)

But I just still think the guy with an R next to his name will win.

I’d say it’s the best chance in decades, but Talarico is still <50%.

It is not, in fact, mathing.

It’s not a technicality. We’re discussing whether chess is a “solved game” or not.

That’s a much different standard than whether Stockfish can reliably beat Magnus Carlsen. Of course the engines are better than humans. They have been for a long time at this point.

Chess is not a solved game. If there was a bot that could provably always draw, that would mean it’s solved (as a draw). To be clear, I’m not saying that the bot would just have a perfect drawing record - I’m saying that it literally could never lose, even when playing against the absolute best possible moves.

No there is no algorithm that can guarantee a draw.

Aeropress would probably be better than a French press in an office setting. More compact and significantly easier to clean

I just use instant at my office though. I rarely use it, but I prefer it to Keurig or the drip machine in our office.

But I mainly just drive in with a cup of coffee from home.

Eh I always end up with fines and they really bother me.

There are definitely quality levels of filter brewing too. From cheap drip machines that don’t get to the right temperature to really fancy drip machines can effectively simulate a pourover.

Just depends what you like really. Would say that a $20 French press setup will almost certainly produce better coffee than a $20 drip machine, but a better comp is a $20 pour over setup imo.

Idk how you are estimating the “coffee equivalent”, but I’ve found that the generic caffeine estimates for a cup of coffee are too low.

Would recommend looking up how much caffeine is in the amount of beans you use. Caffeine extraction is practically 100% in water.

I think typical estimate is 90-100 mg caffeine in a cup of coffee. With my coffee/water ratio, I think it was ~20% higher. And then the mug I use was much much bigger than a “cup”.

Get a leash! You want another gorilla to get shot?

I have never viewed it as a truck stop. It’s just an inconveniently oversized and busy gas station with very nice bathrooms.

It’s a great place to stop if you need to be assured a clean toilet. It’s crazy overhyped as a destination in and of itself though. And a ton of the stuff there is overpriced.

Wtf are you talking about

Yes… Americans are to blame for the BBC show…

I agree and I’m not the biggest fan, but it does get much better if you can get through the first half of book 1.

If the problem is a lack of suitable alternatives, that’s not the user’s fault. Google even snapped up Waze.

They need to use something. You suggesting they should just go make their own Google Maps?