If that's not the absolute worst idea in the world, it's certainly in the running.

There are some products where it's not as big a deal - apples, for instance. A New Zealand apple can still taste great when it arrives in New York or London. But yeah, the market may insist we need to buy berries year-round, but like you I largely stick to seasonal produce as much as possible. And, if not, greenhouse grown products sourced from our region are typically better than the alternatives (like here in Washington state - we are fortunate to have British Columbia's greenhouse growers close by, selling to our stores).

They do pick them early (not just oranges, pretty much most fruit and vegetables).

Funny story - way back, trains used to use interior gas lights (coal gas I think). Produce sellers were used to picking their products unripe, loading it into trains, and having it arrive at the destination perfectly ripe. Well, when trains switched to electric lights, suddenly all this unripe produce started arriving at the markets! They eventually figured out that ethylene gas, leaking from gas pipes, was serving to accelerate the ripening of the produce.

I read an article (in the Atlantic, I think) a few months ago that talked about the Florida citrus industry. IIRC it sounds like, in addition to the huge problems caused by that disease, the Florida growers have also made a habit of shooting themselves in the foot with stupid short-sighted choices.

I get all my best benchmarks by piping everything to /dev/null!

I'm not sure where you're getting your produce... but the fruit I buy doesn't have this problem.

Except I do see your point regarding oranges. I haven't tasted a good navel orange in a couple decades; I basically just don't buy them anymore.

By clogging streets and preventing other cars from using the roads, Waymo helpfully ensures potential drivers remain uninjured!

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fus%2F...

As far as I can tell, Microsoft is not killing off CoPilot. In fact, I just (yesterday) got an email which included some new branding I've not noticed before:

"This invite was sent by Copilot on behalf of <my manager's name>"

This is the way the site ends
This is the way the site ends
This is the way the site ends
Not with a bang, but a whimper.

Oh man, right now I'm so glad my role changed a few years back. I used to have to also cover some web stuff, and people would frequently send me information stupidly-formatted in Word or in Excel (the weirdest one is how people would want an image updated, and they'd send it embedded in a Word document - a Word document containing only the photo).

I am certain people will now be pasting crap, probably unintentionally, into single cells - thanks to this new "feature". And poor web schlubs everywhere will have to waste lots of time trying to tease out the bits of data they actually need.

Whether or not one lives in the enterprise kernel world (I do as well), a glance at the mainstream kernel's changelog indicates we're all largely relying on those companies' employees. Most patches are coming from people who are paid by Red Hat et. al.

Thank goodness I was sitting down for THAT bit of news...

Are we talking about Aang, Korra, or one of the others?

Those damned gray whales and their constant legal maneuvering...