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Engineering group at this manufacturing company comes up with a new quality-control initiative: Assign a unique identifier to each part, according to a database analyst pilot fish working there.

"Each part's serial number and identifier were to be sent via secure FTP to a site, and they wanted me to come up with a database table and a job to import the data," fish says.

"During the kickoff meeting, I asked if they wanted me to check for duplicates to insure their data was pure -- and was told, 'Duplicates won't happen.'"

Fish has worked in manufacturing IT for decades, and he knows there's always a chance for data to be duplicated. So he asks again, "But what if--"

Apple often says its control of both the operating system and hardware (the ‘whole widget&) gives it a series of advantages you just don&t get on other platforms. This usually translates into good news for consumers, but there so many ways it benefits professional and enterprise users, also.

Keeping the Mac promise

Recently, I noted that the iPhone 8 becomes an even better smartphone once iOS 12 ships. I&ve also pointed out that HomePods become better systems every time Apple ships a software patch.

You won&t have missed the hysterical reporting around recent claims that Apple is throttling its all new high-end MacBook Pro, but it seems possible these alarms are blaring a little too loudly -- and Apple just fixed the problem with a software patch.

I saw it on YouTube

The claims are that Applenew high-end i9 MacBook Pro has been designed in such a way as to throttle processor speeds to be slower than the i7 in order to reduce the heat created when in use.