Probably not anytime soon, LLMs are pretty shit for googling. I doubt the new verb will be anything we can even guess at this point.

I suspect they are more reliable and the end user experience is better.

I'm really surprised at the appeal of matcha and matcha flavored items and question how lasting of a trend it'll be.

Me too! But I have been questioning it for 10 years now and every few years we ask, "is this peak matcha?"

>what do you use Word for that it's hard to find a replacement?

Opening files created by other organizations and expecting them to load correctly and accurately, and then editing them and expecting them to load correctly and accurately when I send them back.

>What we ended up doing was giving a Windows VM with Office on it for those Linux users that needed to produce documents and the like.

and at that point, you might as well just use windows, you aren't getting any advantage out of linux and are spending a bunch of overhead managing it.

>I suspect I am looking at this through a mix of optimism and naivite.

For sure.

Good idea but shouldn't be necessary if the roof was done correctly.

Even more importantly, over time a sagging roof that holds water will sag more due to the weight of the water and being a "universal solvent" standing water degrades most materials.

At best, you will probably get leaks. At worst, catastrophic [1] structural failure.

On the other hand, reroofing can be relatively expensive [2] and disruptive and rope is cheap and everyone has their own risk tolerance and budget.

[1] "catastrophic" in the engineering sense of material failures.

[2] Particularly fixing a fundamentally flawed design. And standing water is a symptom of a fundamentally flawed design.

It's not a huge deal, but on google devices, setting a timer is different from setting an alarm. the end result is more or less the same thing, but it uses different underlying functionality and I have to remember to say timer instead of alarm when I'm cooking.

Saying ”set an alarm in 15 minutes” vs ”set at timer for 15 minutes” to Siri also do different things

Really? For me both commands set a timer for 15 minutes.

Yep this gets me all the time. The biggest difference is that a timer will be displayed whereas an alarm is in the background. The display is very handy when cooking.

iOS also differentiates between a timer and an alarm.

I remember having read this forever ago, but for the life of me can't remember anything about it. The author was big on K5, which is apparently not a site anymore.

Seems like a good idea. Sort of disappointing that U of I isn't included, but they are constantly over-enrolled already, so I suppose the hope is to get students applying to the other schools in the state. Would be interesting to see if they let private schools to opt-in as well.