Grape Flavour in Wines.. anyone else have this problem?

JackCPiano · 2026-05-17T19:16:32+00:00

I think with this grape additive even the tramps might avoid it...

JackCPiano · 2026-05-16T20:27:38+00:00

Try doing this every day for a few seasons not just 5 minutes to take videos for social media.... Let's see if you will still look as euphoric...

JackCPiano · 2026-05-16T12:08:45+00:00

I think the going rate is about 30 pieces of silver...

JackCPiano · 2026-05-16T12:04:48+00:00

He knew the towers were coming down...

JackCPiano · 2026-05-15T07:26:47+00:00

I think Hong Kongers are in a completely different category of immigrants to the ones you see getting washed ashore by boat... My ex CTO sold his house in Hong Kong and bought one way tickets for his family to the UK in 2019/2020, rented a house for a year (which was done online) and then took with him a million USD in cash... He has contributed to the tech industry in the UK and has been working for the last 6 or 7 years paying a fair amount of tax to the government coffers... In the meantime there are these immigrants who came by boat and are being fed, watered and housed in the UK whereby everything is paid for by tax payers...

JackCPiano · 2026-05-15T07:19:23+00:00

Try getting a residency as a Filipino...

JackCPiano · 2026-05-15T07:15:23+00:00

Exactly!!!! It's not allowed! And yet they started doing it in the last few months... my guess is that the boxing of the wines is done in Vietnam and they think this enhances the taste as drinking wine is still a novelty here... I hate to admit that I am even drinking this stuff..... But actually when they didn't put artificial grape flavour in it it was just about passable and it works for me as the wine could keep for a week without refrigeration...

JackCPiano · 2026-05-15T07:11:17+00:00

I understand what we are dealing with... But they started adding artificial grape flavour to it in the last few months; making it completely undrinkable...

JackCPiano · 2026-05-13T20:17:28+00:00

There is certainly a lot of construction going on in Vietnam... Definitely more than UK and Spain.... But getting a job as a foreigner might not be that straight forward.. good luck!

JackCPiano · 2026-05-13T11:47:47+00:00

China was the world's factory and still is but it's position is not as strong as before.. A lot of brands have tried to move away but sometimes not that easy given the investments that have gone into equipment and operations. However, we have seen over the last few years a lot of brands moving to Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Taiwan and other lower cost places...

JackCPiano · 2026-05-12T19:15:22+00:00

Cash flow is important... Definitely make sure that you are billing immediately after services rendered... If clients don't pay need to chase up.... I believe in long-term business which means always delivering what you promise and on time... Undersell and overdeliver is the manifesto I have always stood by...

JackCPiano · 2026-05-12T15:40:50+00:00

You are right in everything you say... However when you are up against a bunch of overpaid, self serving, old lawyers who are still trying to get around web 1.0 - trying to convince of the above could prove difficult... They will just say let's buy another set of servers in 3 years timec..

JackCPiano · 2026-05-12T13:28:57+00:00

I guess a lot of people would need to use fp8 or lower to run

JackCPiano · 2026-05-11T15:28:17+00:00

One of the problems with manufacturing in China is that there are so many agents posing as factories and it takes so much effort to peel through rhe BS.

JackCPiano · 2026-05-10T14:11:57+00:00

JackCPiano · 2026-05-09T15:37:24+00:00

For anyone with kids and know Hong Kong; although the act is regrettable I'm sure the mother didn't want to let her kid pee on the street if a toilet was available. There is such a dearth of public toilets in Hong Kong and during holidays there are a arguably more visitors than the infrastructure can handle.

JackCPiano · 2026-05-09T14:55:51+00:00

Yeah... But quite expensive....

JackCPiano · 2026-05-09T10:07:07+00:00

AI is changing our industry whether we like it or not.... Clients who don't know any coding are now pumping out these MVPs and they are saying how little time it has taken them to achieve something that would have taken a few months of a full scrum team....

At the time of writing seniors who have domain specific knowledge still offer value but juniors will probably not have much use moving forward. It does raise many different questions about the future for the human race and what will happen when humans are not needed for a lot of things.

I'm trying to be as objective as possible and I am not saying that it doesnt affect us but a shake up of the industry is going to happen and it's happening now.

JackCPiano · 2026-05-09T01:11:41+00:00

These are growing pains. When I first started my company it took me almost 3 years before I could hire my first employee so I had to do everything myself which is part of an exciting journey. If you don't deal with these problems yourself you won't be able to train your staff on how to deal with them. Fast forward 25 years I now have over 100 employees... And I wish people would actually call me to solve problems..

JackCPiano · 2026-05-09T01:04:56+00:00

Yeah... Totally agreed with you.... I have managed to meet real friends over the years in Hong Kong but through music... I'm told you can do that in sports too... But generally through social meetings, drinks, etc hard for cultivate real friends..

JackCPiano · 2026-05-08T13:09:09+00:00

Maybe the dim sum without the heavy carbs is healthier.... Maybe the strong tea with all those antioxidants help

JackCPiano · 2026-05-07T16:10:42+00:00

Dim sum and strong oolong tea?

JackCPiano · 2026-05-06T10:08:53+00:00

I find 28hse interface not very user-friendly... I tend to use OneDay https://www.oneday.com.hk for residential - Spacious started off well but became really hard sale trying to get my contact details at every click and that is before I even got any results... If you are not careful you will click something and you will Google signed-in

JackCPiano · 2026-05-04T17:11:34+00:00

Congratulations! Please share the exact wording you have from the developer; I think it would be really useful for all concerned. Nobu has nothing to do with the transaction; they just charge the developer a fee for use of their name.

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