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Michel Roux Jr announces closure of Le Gavroche[^]
The restaurant that changed british cooking when it opened 56 years ago ... still fully booked, and still at it's peak; the "nicest" chef I've even seen on TV. A pity he can't hand it over to a new generation and let it move with a new head chef.
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Maybe someone will come forward and take it over. Probably depends on whether M. Roux allows them to keep the name.
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Disclaimer: Am not even remotely British. I'm a colonialist as some of you might call us. 
I have mixed feelings when things like this happen. It's bittersweet but there's also value in having partaken in something that is now unobtainable. I get like this about certain car lines being discontinued (I'm odd).
Also there was a burger joint in my area that was wonderful. The menu covered all the walls, and you could get the strangest burgers and they were all delicious. The food was at the same time simple and yet could easily wax unusual if you strayed from the standard fare. Everyone in town loved it. Oh, and the ice cream bar. Amazing.
It changed hands and it was never the same. Every time it changed hands since it has gone downhill a little more. Less menu. Less fun. No more train running around the ceiling on an elevated track. It's a shell of what it once was now. Nobody goes there.
It's sad. I feel like it should have been leveled once Ernie retired. 
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Always sad to hear of businesses shuttering after being around for so long.
See --> Carnegie Deli in NYC @ 7th avenue location closed after 80+ years in business. World famous, just like Le Gavroche.
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At least you don't have to worry too much about the staff - after a spell at Le Gavroche they will be able walk into any kitchen and name their own terms.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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C'est la vie
Remember
Der Wienerschnitzel
Red Barn
Steak and Ale
Howard Johnson's
Burger Chef
...
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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jmaida wrote: Der Wienerschnitzel
They removed the "Der" from the name in 1978 but the restaurant still exists to this day as just "Wienerschnitzel". I used to go to this place for their double-bacon cheeseburger with guacamole. It was amazing!! There menu online is very different now then it was in the late 1980's.
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Have a really great day @Marc-Clifton
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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How do you know peoples birthdays ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: How do you know peoples birthdays ?
He communicates with God particles.
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Ah! I wondered what the voices in my head were! 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Heh, excellent - thank you!
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Happy Birthday Marc
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Thank you! It was so great I didn't touch a computer and didn't see this til today!
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I can't stand doing text layout code. It's so clunky and rube goldberg like. I've been working in dribs and drabs over days on getting my graphics library to support VLW fonts as a compromise between truetype vector and non-antialiased raster.
One issue is, since I only supported a couple of different font styles so far I didn't really need a generalized layout system, but now with 3 different font formats it would be beneficial to make the fonts use a universal system for laying out text.
But the big problem for me is the code is boring and tedious, like hand written parsing code tends to be. Can't bear code like this.
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https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
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I feel the same about writing RTS code.
I had admiration for RTS games since I was a kid. I thought if I’ll succeed to code the part of units traveling on the map it would be more than I could wish for. After many trials ( it took years ) I managed to do that. Now the question is should I start building everything else a RTS has? Even if I perceive it as being boring?
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I wondered where you were. 
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The pleasure is in solving the problem; not in implementing it ... unless it involves lights.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Right? Problem is I've solved it before. It's also not clean enough that I can just use my existing solution.
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a future possibly next project is an editor which will require text editing . i was not looking forward to this aspect of the project as transforming pixel positions to text will no doubt require various font dependencies which i barely understand . however i decided to challenge myself to implement an elegant and knowledgeable solution . further as the editor will also display non-displayable characters as Notepad++ does nicely yet more complications result . again i am challenging myself to find an elegant solution to this problem also . this is intended as an improvement of a prior project which handled only the simplest of fonts and characters .
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according to MSN[^] "Russian military equipment found in Ukraine famously had legacy chips yanked from refrigerators and dishwashers."
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BernardIE5317 wrote: legacy chips yanked from refrigerators and dishwashers.
Chips are multi-purpose. That's a good thing.
Wanna bet the US could've used similar chips in some of its military hardware, but opted to spend $10B to develop single-purpose chips instead?
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I can not believe it: the merge is only $5.4 dollar
Earlier this week, China scuttled a $5.4 dollar merger between Intel and Tower Semiconductor. Tower does not manufacture advanced chips using the latest technologies. Instead, it builds legacy chips–chips manufactured using much older technologies.
diligent hands rule....
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