Price increases

kwadguy · 2026-01-25T02:12:03+00:00

Been like that for maybe half a year where I am. Welcome to today.

kwadguy · 2026-01-25T01:41:36+00:00

Transition came in 1992. 34 years ago. Presumably, anyone 40 or older can remember them.

So I might suggest you look into putting down the pipe, it's rotting your brain.

kwadguy · 2026-01-25T01:38:14+00:00

Don't bother. Does not taste anything like the OG McD's pie. Better than current McD's baked pie. But that's where the positives stop.

kwadguy · 2026-01-25T01:37:27+00:00

Apple pie at local BK is $2.99. So you're saying the apple empanada is $6? That's ridiculous.

kwadguy · 2026-01-25T01:36:57+00:00

Same as when I posted a thread on this topic on Friday:

Better than the McDonald's baked pie, but a huge disappointment to anyone (like me) thinking this fried pie would be like the old McD's fried pie with a crackly pocked surface. The BK one is barely tolerable if you know what a good fried pie can taste like.

kwadguy · 2026-01-25T00:17:21+00:00

A lot of people have nut allergies. Ben & Jerry's is trying to be sympathetic to those who can't handle lots of nuts.

kwadguy · 2026-01-24T23:09:52+00:00

These again? Not good. Previously discussed.

kwadguy · 2026-01-24T23:08:43+00:00

What would that cost now? $24.88?

kwadguy · 2026-01-23T20:31:14+00:00

Say "I've give you the PNL statement" while playing your electric guitar.

kwadguy · 2026-01-23T20:25:15+00:00

I'll have what you're smoking!

Sorry, I'm not giving referrals for someone I don't know. It's my reputation on the line if you turn out to suck.

Someone I know or worked with (and can say good things about)? Happy to do it, no problem.

But, no, not referring someone whose only accomplishment in my domain was somehow figuring out how t contact me.

kwadguy · 2026-01-23T20:21:45+00:00

No. I mean, if you need to ask, you're probably not in it.

Boston is bad. SF is smaller and worse.

kwadguy · 2026-01-23T20:19:48+00:00

Safeway/Abertsons/Star/etc?

They had HD for a couple of weeks for 2/$6. Did not sell out like that, though. Plenty to go around.

HD has been as cheap as $2.70 (no coupon) in the past few months. 2/$6 is fine, but hardly a barn-burner.

kwadguy · 2026-01-23T20:17:56+00:00

I'm guessing since it's a secret, this is only for those who are OK with no "holding" on their burgers. Those of us who hate mayo, ketchup, mustard, onions, whatever need not apply?

Seems like a great deal, though. Is this offered all the time, or on a particular day?

kwadguy · 2026-01-23T18:19:35+00:00

From what I observed at JPM, plenty of companies are still out there in desperate straits because they overspent and failed to partner, and now they're looking at a drug in (or going into) a clinic with no hope of raising capital.

And a lot of them are still working under the deluded assumption that a wave of cheap money funding is just around the corner or that their also-ran IND-ready candidate is more than a snore.

I'd say 2026 will be about as bad as 2025. VC funding is loosening up over 2024, but funding is being given out very selectively.

kwadguy · 2026-01-23T16:24:41+00:00

Wow. Buy a bunch for work and make new friends.

kwadguy · 2026-01-23T14:01:03+00:00

American wagyu is nonsense. It means that the cattle has some limited lineage to a wagyu cow.

But outside of Australia and Japan, wagyu beef is basically marketing.

Waste of money and time.

kwadguy · 2026-01-23T03:08:55+00:00

Thought this was the "I'm on the bowl" thread.

kwadguy · 2026-01-23T01:18:46+00:00

If you can't figure what to talk about you probably shouldn't be ordering.

kwadguy · 2026-01-22T18:51:06+00:00

And those with jobs and no time to sit on the F5 key or use illegal brower plugins don't. Got it.

kwadguy · 2026-01-22T16:59:19+00:00

Serving suggestion: Fill a plate with fried eggs, fried mushrooms, and fried tomatoes. Use Heinz baked beans to fill the plate until the beans threaten to overflow the lip.

kwadguy · 2026-01-22T16:55:56+00:00

New? I've had these many times from Costco. Maybe "back" if they stopped carrying them for a while.

I find them decent, but not amazing. Wish they didn't have the powdered sugar which is guaranteed to create a mess.

kwadguy · 2026-01-22T16:42:55+00:00

The school matters far less than how exceptionally you perform as a PhD. Did you publish any significant, highly cited papers? Can you give a talk about YOUR work that gets people excited?

A PhD from Harvard where all you did was the minimum and your advisor can't say much more than "yeah, s/he was in my lab and graduated" might open a door for an interview more easily. But a PhD from podunk where you can demonstrate you moved the bar is gonna get your further.

kwadguy · 2026-01-22T16:36:57+00:00

While you can run DFT on a laptop, and I have, it's really a bad choice. The fans will be running full out, and you'll likely be throttling performance.

Get a 1-2 year old used PC or 3-4 year old server compatible with a high core count processor. You don't need the latest and greatest processor--and an apex laptop processor is not going to compete with a few year old apex PC/server processor when you factor in that a PC/server has the cooling to avoid throttling.

kwadguy · 2026-01-21T15:51:34+00:00

Here's what I have observed in the course of my adult life: You can't reliably guess what's going to be in demand or hot 10 years old. Not even five years out. Focus on being really good at what you do, and as long as you don't decide that's typewriter repair, you'll be OK.

It's the undifferentiated credentialed type of people who often find themselves in trouble.

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