no, they will often shortcut when they can get away with it. Companies like Apple just don't let them get away with it

even if the form factor looks similar, the production will change overtime, esp the internals

I think starting in the 30s and esp after WW2/cold war era helped reset it somewhat. It started to pick back up in the 80s and into overdrive with the internet

It was supposed to collapse in the 1930s. It's a bit like the street preacher, if you say "the end is nigh" often enough, one day you'll be right.

100km is a lot of exercising...

Try doing 300km in one day, and 100km will seem like cake

unprocessed meat? as in taking a bite out of a cow?

you mean like the new generation they just announced? https://www.qualcomm.com/laptops/products/snapdragon-x2-elit...

have you tried pentel EnerGel?

Not the GP but I have (BL77), and much prefer the Jetstream.

+1 to EnerGel and the RSVP which are my two daily drivers.

I haven’t! Tell me what you think about it.

Imagine writing smoothly like butter as clouds part and angels sing.

Unfortunately, it’s not water safe, but it’s great. My favorite feature is that it dries REALLY quickly, so I can left-hand without smudging.

The water safety is what nudged me off fountain pens and back to ballpoints. I use a bullet journal and don’t want water to wash it all away.

I know you can get fountain inks that are more resistant, but at that level of finickiness, I’d rather just carry a lower maintenance ballpoint, and the Jetstream is good enough that I don’t miss my other lovely pens.

PS: One time a reporter asked me what I thought of a particular food, and I described it as snacking on the wings of angels sent to earth for our dining pleasure, and they quoted me. My wife reminds me of this often.

Edit: Here’s the quote: https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://omaha.com/m...

That is definitely a silicon valley thing.

It's expanding beyond the valley, at least I can only speak for the PNW which is admittedly still a minor tech hub but not the level of the Bay Area. My own company I work for included (a change driven by myself) has switched almost everyone to macOS, as have many of our peers and competitors (non tech companies).

I'm also starting to see a lot of Macs pop up in smaller private practices - most dentist offices around here are on Macs, a few dealerships have moved over, etc.

Windows is still the majority by far, but its marketshare is slowly being eroded away. It'll be a while before F500 enterprises move over, if at all, but small-medium businesses are definitely growing their macOS usage.

I work at a large F500 company and I would be shocked if Macs were more than 5% of the total computer inventory. Excel alone is very sticky. Excel excerpts will tell you that Mac Excel is weird and does not work correctly.

Said as someone stuck on a windows machine with all of the corporate monitoring spyware which makes performance crawl.

I'm definitely seeing it consistently on the East Coast.

Consistently for management or the unwashed masses?

depends if you look at advertising as a sector it's almost 90% mac.

it was also in mirror's edge, and several other pieces of media

This is really the case for all engines. Unity is a bit of of an outlier, though took a long time to get where it is.

Unreal Engine is really the Unreal Tournament/Gears of War engine at its core.

Good engines are those that are focused on what the game needs. YAGNI/KISS apply here too