I always have snacks in my dorm, but to be honest I rarely ever eat them. I generally have lunch and dinner, and that’s enough.
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Mine too. I know far too many people who struggle with depression likely because of poor eating habits. That’s my guess anyway, because they always say, “if I ate better, I’d be happier.”
My folks are generally healthy. One of my grandfathers had a lot of issues because he worked around toxic chemicals for 30 years, which caused heart failure and numerous other things. But as far as I know, that’s the only reason. He would have been very healthy otherwise. I may be the least healthy of all the kids at least, but none of that is my fault.
When I was either five or six - very small, in any case, - my mother taught me how to boil an egg, with the immortal words, "if you know how to do this, you'll never go hungry".
From then on, breakfast - which I prepared myself - was always a healthy cereal (with milk), boiled eggs, and toast with bitter marmalade (because I liked bitter marmalade; my brothers each preferred different cereals, and different marmalades, and these were always available, as my mother would remind us to confirm our individual preferences before heading out for the weekly shop). And coffee - even as a child, I used to prepare proper coffee for my parents, after dinner at the week-end, and also learned to prepare it for myself (I was the only person who drank it at breakfast in those days, everyone else drank tea) at breakfast as an adolescent, along with cereal, eggs, toast and bitter marmalade.
Fresh fruit was always - but always - available, because my mother liked it, and knew it to be healthy, and knew that if it was available, we would eat it. No sweets (candies), ever, and cakes only rarely, such as on special occasions (birthdays, Christmas, etc).
Now, she did prepare a mean (and delicious) apple crumble, a brilliant rhubarb crumble, and a seriously superb apple (or rhubarb) tart (which I still miss, and which some of my university friends still recall fondly, decades later); those tarts, or fruit salad, or fruit, or natural yogurt with honey (which my parents had discovered on many holidays in Greece and the Greek islands, such as Crete, and both loved) tended to comprise dessert, chez nous, when we were growing up.
She would sometimes batch prepare food at the week-end, or, sometimes, late in the evening, - she excelled at planning, and multi-tasking - which we would then be able to consume during the week.
Now, encouraging us to learn to cook (I was sent off to a cooking course one summer, as were my brothers, - my mother, who grew up in an affluent and quite comfortable house where her brothers were indulged, had strong views on idle and entitled males, and had married a man who adored her and was completely supportive of her, personally and professionally - and my mother also sent us on typing courses, during the summer holidays, insisting that this was a skill that would always come in handy, such as when writing essays in university) meant the introduction of the sort of stuff - such as pasta dishes, my parents wouldn't have had these growing up - and also, sometimes, risotto - which my dad loved - and occasionally, something such as a curry to the family menu.
That was fine; my parents - who travelled widely and were incredibly open-minded - loved to try out new stuff.
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Yep they do have a plenty up north. There is also an 85 near Apple Park on Main Street Cupertino which is quite small but there are also other locations in San Jose.
I agree. Never had a strawberry banana smoothie, but in Australia their egg McMuffins are tasteless, chewy and absolutely nutrition-free...
The coffee verges on the almost acceptable, especially when you are on the main highway between Sydney and Melbourne and the nearest other coffee is about 50 miles away.
Winter is back with a vengeance and I don't even want to go outside.
I need to get out my mid-2012 MacBook Pro to turn up the heat.
I need to get out my mid-2012 MacBook Pro to turn up the heat.
I found this meme where y’all can throw some swift code to push your MacBook Pro into its limits and turn the fans on. Here you go:
Lmk if it works 😂
That reminds me of the original Star Trek, where someone says "I always lie." and the androids all stop working due to attempting to process that statement.
Funny enough, years ago, I had one of the earlier Dell Ultrasharps and that definitely made my room warmer.
No need for Xcode. Just use Terminal:
yes >/dev/null &This runs the 'yes' tool in background, with all output sent to null device (bit-bucket). It basically runs 'yes' at full tilt.
The best part is you can repeat that line as many more times as you like, and it will spin up another full-tilt CPU power-waster.
When you're as toasty as you want to be:
killall yesOne practical use for this is when you want to drain a laptop battery rapidly for testing.
That's most interesting.
I have found that the one sure thing about Intel processors is that they can produce massive amounts of heat, especially the quad-core i7 CPUs. I suspect if Californians didn't use Intel processors, there wouldn't have been the rolling blackouts twenty years ago and still, the rolling brownouts during recent summers.
It was much thicker than the current ones, 2017 maybe? Built like a tank, but had these large vents in the back that radiated heat all the time.
😊 Thanks a bunch to the moderators for your helpful responses! I wanted to share something else I found interesting. Since you mentioned draining the battery of MacBooks this way can also be helpful if you’re planning to open it up for battery replacement or fixing the logic board, I wanted to share some info from the official iPhone repair manuals. Apparently, if you’re about to drain the battery of an iPhone or iPad before cutting it open, you should blast the torch 🔦 for a few minutes to a few hours to rapidly drain the battery. This makes it super hot because it emits so much light. Here’s the link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/100299
If you’re opening up your own iPhone or iPad, you can also do an endless Siri chat, spamming lots of commands to get the battery down. Or, watch 2-3 long YouTube videos or Apple TV+ shows and movies on it to discharge the battery for prepping it for repairs too! Or, play lots of games on it, especially non-intensive games like Hit the Island. You can also go on a MLS season pass or MLB marathon of 2-3 games live and drain the battery for it!
Draining the battery can also be helpful for a battery test or to let it go down so it’ll be safe for you to replace the battery. A charged battery is dangerous to replace if it’s punctured and does a chemical reaction with these oxygen molecules.
True lol that’s why I listed it up there 👆🏻
Now that I’m using Apple Intelligence on my iPhone 15 Pro, I’ve noticed that whenever I need to use visual intelligence to solve problems, it usually is asking ChatGPT for help. Even when I use Siri and ask it to search for information, it does take a toll on battery life, to be honest. I’ve also heard in the iOS 18 battery life thread that many iPhone users have mentioned that the Image Playground app is quite taxing on battery life because it keeps iterating over and over again for many possible combinations of pictures it creates.
Artificial Intelligence at this point is intellectually challenged. To me, it's not worth using and will probably be very capable 30 years from now. Hopefully, human intelligence will be much better 30 years from now, also, and not almost non-existent because of AI.
And if you combine that with C, you can use up all the CPU time, and all the RAM available for all users, in about 1.5 seconds flat.
Seen it done, to bring down a multi-user, multi-tasking (smallish) mainframe.
Needless to say, the miscreants involved didn't get a C for their C code, it was some where in the low Fs.
I've worked on many multi-user machines and IBM's best operating system for business use, OS/400, was built on top of a 448-bit virtual machine with security as part of it. Even the "assembly language", which was called Machine Interface, was quite secure.
The most excessive use I ever made on that was to write "IBM" all over the drives to overwrite our company's project source code and data before the machine went back to IBM. It was interesting to use C on a machine with such strong, high-level control over every aspect of its usage.
True and we still have more work to do for Apple Intelligence.
Where's the on-screen description feature, y'all? We 15 pro users already got visual intelligence as our 16e successors did via alternative ways.
I once read somewhere that C was "machine language for humans"...
So, I was thinking about this machine code thing. It’s like a secret language that computers understand. Java virtual machine is sorta the same as what you said here, too.
Now, let’s switch gears and talk about some cool stuff I’ve been up to. I recently got my hands on some simulation of super precise tools like micrometers and slide callipers. They’re amazing! I’ve been using them to measure things with incredible accuracy. 😂 dial calipers, the steel ruler 📏 and the digital ones have given me flashbacks. I got certificates from Starett from my very first engineering class on these things 2-3 years ago, and now it popped up again in my CNC class homework, bruh 😎.
Oh, and I had a research study interview on the phone for an hour. It was quite an experience, the interviewer wore AirPods Pro so I think he streamed from his Mac. On top of that, I watched a video about a green iPhone 15 that was once neglected by its owner. But guess what? They restored it into a stunning blue iPhone 15 with a brand-new screen, back glass, and battery! Isn’t that incredible? No green replacement back glass though, it’s hard to find any.
I enjoyed my rainy day off before another rainy day at school tomorrow. It’s the perfect time to relax and recharge.
@The Clark , my friend! 👊 How do you drain the battery of a Mac (specifically a MacBook) to prepare it for a battery replacement? If you have any corrections to my earlier comment, please let me know. I value your opinion as a certified Apple technician. Thanks a lot! 🤩
It was the next step up. It was very close to most machines without requiring memorising a load of mnemonics.
Back in the day, there was Small C from Dr. Dobbs Journal, with source code, that could put C on any small computer. That was my introduction on the Atari 800 to C. Previously, I had used 6502 Assembly Language, BASIC, Forth, Action!, and one or two more on that machine. When you have 16 KB, you have to be efficient.
Our machines for class probably had 64 KB and the machine at my first job had 64 KB. The replacement machine had 64 KB and 8 MB of virtual memory. Everything was written in efficient business languages such as RPG/II and COBOL.
Imagine if today's developers had moderate constraints, games like Starfield would have been much different.