Donuts

Problem? What problem?

But dark chocolate is a superior design tool.

We don't have any Dunkin Donuts around here, and their Boston Creme filled thing is excllent. We have a pretty bad Krispy Kreme in Daly City, on Eastmore Ave, the junk food strip. We call it Greasemore Ave.

This joint just opened near us and we've got to try it soon:

Safeway makes a Boston Creme sort of thing that they call a Bismark. They are really good, but are usually sold out.

Google Donuts San Francisco . It's a fad, in a good way. Is that happening in other cities/countries?

Gotta go and make breakfast. Maybe tiny round pain perdu things from leftover baguette slices.

Vector calculus.

That's what Grok recommended - after admonishing me for eating donuts in the first place. I didn't actually realize AI could, without prompting, lecture you on your unhealthy lifestyle, but it seems I was wrong.

Dunkin Donuts are pretty big in the UK AIUI. And I'm informed Krispy Kreme are trying to get in on the act as well. They have self-service machines in all the freeway rest areas. I've never tried either of those brands, though, having had pretty good results from Macdonald's donuts in the past. I guess I'm not very adventurous and just stick with what I know, hence the original question.

Safeway closed all their stores over here for some reason. Not sure why given the retail sector's on fire and has been for many years, the odd recession aside.

If it happens in SF it'll happen elsewhere sooner or later[1]. Innovation-wise, there's nothing in Yurp donut-related to report so far, though AFAIK - certainly not close to 'Donuts SF'. You're simply

Enjoy!

I'm pretty conservative myself, but I don't wear a MAGA hat or roll my eyes too hard, and most people are nice, in person.

Illegals do all the building and cooking and roofing that the coders and sociology majors don't know how to do.

Gays are great! More neat women for us!

True, but have you had them come on to you? It's just not pleasant at all. It's happened to me a couple of times with young men in their twenties. What on earth they saw in someone of my advanced years is beyond me. <shudder>

Never. I used to live two blocks from the heart of the Castro and used to have a beer now and then in a gay bar, or a sticky bun for breakfast at a gay hangout.

I assume that my obvious rugged masculine hetero aura kept them away.

That was in the wild days before AIDS hit. Castro is much tamer now, with breeders pushing baby buggies around.

Any unwanted sexual advances are unpleasant. Men on men, women on men, women on women and most comonly of all, men on women. Just be glad you aren't a woman.

Evolution programmed us to do some things that Miss Manners would not approve of. The caveman approach, or wild promiscuity, which sometimes work, ie make babies. The problem for most of us is to balance those instincts against humanity and rationality, and still enjoy ourselves.

I'm glad I'm not a woman because women are so awesome and beautiful that I'm glad that I'm programmed to appreciate them.

There were zero women in my EE school. It must be very different now, with so many women in tech.

When I was a student at Tulane I was invited to present a paper at the local IEEE chapter meeting. My wife wanted to hear it so I brought her along. At the end, I was pulled aside and scolded that women were not allowed as either members or guests. The fatheads didn't understand my paper anyhow.

Evolution doesn't program anything. It just lets different inherited programs compete.

Human evolution has left us with kids that are born before they can fend for themselves, and need parental care to survive until they can. Pair-bonding is the usual way of getting that - the father hangs around and helps feed the kid. Extended family also works - older sibling and grandparents can pitch in.

Sadly, there are some great-ape programs left in the gene-pool, and they program males to inseminate anything they can. Those kids are less well-fed and are less likely to survive long enough to reproduce, but it takes a while to completely delete sub-optimal programs from the gene-pool.

Evolution is doing that for us, but it is a slow process.

Quite a few of them are but there are also female equivalents of John Larkin.

I met quite a few female programmers. Female hardware engineers were remarkably rare - one of my bosses early on had an interview question "do you maintain your own car?" which is revealing. My wife did do a car maintenance course when she was a graduate student, and I was a long way away, but let me do it for her when I was within reach.

The NSW branch of the IEEE has quite a lot of female members. One of the star attractions is going back to Europe to become a professorial fellow at IMEC in Belgium - the European academic semi-conductor foundry, which is impressve - she'd worked there before she came to Sydney.

Times really have changed __ Bill Sloman

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My mother made delicious doughnuts and pancakes.

My favourite bought out ones are from Greggs which don't have a hole in them .

Jam ones are excellent

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Brian

I remember a meeting I was at a couple of decades ago. There were 3 engineers and 4 programmers. I forget the topic but remember thinking how strange it was that the engineers were all female (the programmers were all male - not so strange).

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On my last project at work. We had two female hardware engineers, both analogue electronics - now there's something. They baked me a cake on my retirement on my 65th Birthday.

At a meeting we were discussing the finish of the electronics box. One of ladies wanted it to be pink The mechanical engineer explained in all seriousness, why it had to be black . I was with her on it as most paints in the IR are black.

We had quite a few female optical and laser engineers whose backgrounds were physics, and a female chemist.

I don''t recall any in mechanical engineering or digital electronics - FPGA and the like.

Brian

Female chemists haven't been remarkable since Marie Curie.

When I was getting my Ph.D. in physical chemistry several of the other graduate students were female, and my own mother had B.Sc. in chemistry, and would have had a M.Sc. if WW2 hadn't got in the way.

FPA's are a relatively recent introduction - we using small programmable parts in 1980's but the bigger parts didn't show up until the 1990s.

a plen ene or an ingin ene?

You gotta eat more veggies that s*it's not good for you man. Try an avocado smoothie.

I can't imagine it was money. Maybe they just liked your eyes bro.

Their coffee is wretched, I should know I grew up with one on every corner, sometimes eight of them in a three mile stretch of road.

It seems to be a lot of New Englander's favorite drink for some reason, I'm guessing it's the caffeine that's the best part not the rest of it.

The big port cities, LA and SF and NYC and NOLA grab the best coffee beans and ship the junk inland.

You gotta eat more veggies that s*it's not good for you man. Try an avocado smoothie.

It's even worse than Starbucks and that's saying something.