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Comment No surprise. (Score 1) 149

Drip is the shit version of coffee. Good instant coffee doesn't filter out the crema like drip does. In fact, good modern instant coffee is often even better than pressured "hand made" espresso, because you have to be skilled at grinding and operating the steam coffee maker in order to get anything of value out of it which most people can't. Espresso is what the name says: a fast pressured version of drip, originally invented to make lots of coffee fast.
Same with espresso bots. Price/performance is pretty much the worst with those. I'll take a good single serving instant espresso over one of those any time. For fancy nothing beats a good French press.

If you _have_ to spend lots of money for good coffee, I recommend cometeer coffee. They pre-brew their coffee at an expertly tuned industrial scale and then seal almost dry pellets of that coffee in single serves. You just pour boiling water over it and get the best coffee ever with zero the ceremony. Not cheap, but still lengths cheaper and better than Nespresso or similar nonsense.

Comment New Flash: Farrier Very Concerned About Automobile (Score 2) 86

Wikipedia is an interesting concept and it works decently well as a place to go read a bunch of general information and find decent sources. But LLMs are feeding that information to people in a customized, granular format that meets their exact individual needs and desires. So yeah, probably not as interested in reading your giant wall of text when they want 6 specific lines out of it.

Remember when Encyclopædia Britannica was crying about you stealing their customers, Wikipedia? Yeah, this is what they experienced.

Comment Asleep at the wheel. (Score 1) 234

At least US carmakers are scared. German carmakers are still stuck in the steam age because "luxury". Although they are getting a clobbering as we speak. And of course they're demanding a bailout which the new "conservative" government is willing to provide because they've been in bed with carmakers since the dawn of time.

Comment My Codeberg account is all setup and ready to use (Score 2) 32

I've been hosting my open-source projects on Github for years.

Why you ask? After all, isn't every open-source and free software advocate's duty to stay clear away from Microsoft?

Here's my reason: I only use the git part of Github. I don't use any of Microsoft's proprietary crap on top of it.

Therefore, Microsoft has no vendor lock-in on me: my projects are one git-push away from being hosted elsewhere. I waste their resources by making them host my massive files for free and they have absolutely nothing to show for it - no revenue, no private data to monetize, nothing.

But the minute Microsoft starts getting annoying, my repos are gone. I'll move them to Codeberg and I will gladly pay for the hosting in the form of donations.

Comment Resources allow the incompetent to make products (Score 4, Insightful) 186

When you have 32 kilobytes of RAM and a 1 MHz processor, you need all the programming talent you can get to squeeze the most performances out of them.

When you have 32 gigabytes and dozens of cores, any incompetent code monkey can churn out the same application in Visual Basic or Python.

Resources don't make your computer faster. They empower incompetent and sloppy developers, who crucially are paid less than good ones, so their boss can make more money.

Comment Pathetic. And/or silly. (Score 1) 131

Just plain pathetic. I would want my performance EV just to "naturally" whine as they do. I find that sound waaaay more impressive and intimidating anyway. You're literally hearing the pure torque at work. Sound of like the ground version of the Tie Fighter scream from Star Wars.

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