Yep, he’s changed his tune significantly. There’s accusations of them getting leverage on him through his family, but his own personal convictions outside geopolitics are also pretty reprehensible in recent years, so either the CCP hand is so far up his ass we can’t see the elbow anymore, or he’s changed.

It becomes apparent in the delivery.

Rancilio Silvia with Gaggimate installed. Been a workhorse.

I’m not super scientific with it, but the shot goes:

• 21g at a medium-coarse espresso grind (3 on my machine) into a 49mm stepdown. Stepdown came with matching filter paper, puck screen, and puck screen spring. No idea how much that changes things but it’s what I’ve dialed it in with.
• 87c
• Turn on pump slowly until 2g are in the cup, then cut
• Bloom 60s with the valve open (usually have about 20-30g in the cup at the end of the bloom)
• 1 bar until target weight gets hit.

It usually makes a balanced cup- not overly sweet or sour or bitter, somewhere in the middle of all 3. I like it but I’m sure many wouldn’t. Most people seem to think that any sour in the cup is bad, and I understand that but like the balanced profile more because I can get those really hard to find flavors in the cup more prominently.

You’re probably right. Appreciate you trying to help me understand.

Tried a new mucilage fermented coffee (EA Decaf) from Frequent Coffee

It claims- notes of jackfruit, passionfruit, and pineapple on the package. From most rosters I giggle at the descriptions and sip the coffee that tastes like coffee… But I’ve learned that Frequent says what they mean and means what they say.

To be fair, these are their special more experimental beans. I usually buy a bag or two alongside something more mainstream from them. Some of these special bags are amazing, others are not for me, but they are all super fun.

I normally brew a LONG pull via extra low pressure in my GaggiaMate’d Silvia with a deep stepdown basket. For a medium to medium-dark roast like 21g in to 90-100g out. It works for me and that’s really all I care about. Gives me the delicate flavors of a nice pourover with the vibrancy and control of espresso.

Well this bean has proven to be a real challenge with my normal technique. Usually if it’s sour I dial back to 90g. 80g at most.

Tomorrow I have resolved to try 70 and I’m still not confident. The pineapple and passionfruit flavors are so strongly sour I might have to go to… Ugh, like 1:3 or something. Pray for me.

See also Greeble Texture.

Lots of legal documents in the US are required to be filed in 216mm × 356mm (sometimes 330mm, both are considered standard and fit where necessary), everything from court orders to congressional acts and those stupid executive orders the orange fascist loves to sign about anything that he manages to think about for more then 2 minutes.

But the bigger problem is that the size is also standardized on the storage and processing side, so switching sizes means we would have to change all the governmental filing cabinets, folders, folios, binders, etc too, which is slightly less likely than us finally adopting the metric system.

I’m American and have worked in corporate offices all my life and grew up around the printing industry.

A4/SI is super common here too. “Letter” is just something used by home users. But very often A4 is sold as “Letter A4” right next to the other paper.

Now “legal” print format is a true abomination and unfortunately is much less likely to be easily replaced.

This is only true for a very limited amount of ice. Once ice cubes are fully submerged (and held under by more ice), the displacement rules change because ice is actually less dense than water, which is intuitive, because the ice floats.

https://calculatorcorp.com/ice-to-water-volume-calculator/

I also want to point out that the Wayland devs are, by and large, the exact same people as the X11 devs. These aren’t white monster fueled hotshots working for a FAANG with a massive case of Not Invented Here. The people who knew X11 best designed Wayland from the foundation up to be the better solution.

Still West Palm Beach International Airport

Well this was in the early pandemic, so there were no kits and a lot of the parts were intended for more industrial purposes. I think with shipping and tax around $2k USD for a 350mm.

These days kits bring the price down a ton and make the build much easier.

I like my hand built voron 2.4. I’m very proud I sourced the parts myself and used it to bootstrap itself.

Now if only I could learn to stop fucking with it and letting it work instead of the months of downtime when I need to fix or upgrade something 😅

Keming is a bitch.

Personally, to support a European manufacturer with a massive track record of giving a fuck.

Their history of open source software, technically sound hardware, and excellent support is extremely impressive, even outside the lens of 3d printing these are rare and valuable traits.

Oops

Haha fair.

If this is Mandala effect then I’m fully affected. I’m flabbergasted.

Ghost of Tsushima.