I’m using a Kaffeelogic Nano 7 sample roaster, which is quite simple to use and produces consistent results. I actually think almost all of my roasts were at least as good as high quality roasts I get locally.

Average Amazon experience these days (stop buying from them, enshitification is strongly progressed there)

That’s an absolute shame, because there’s tons and tons of cool coffee shops absolutely all over the place doing really cool, interesting, imaginative, and downright tasty things with coffee that you’re missing out on.

Maybe not around here (it’s not the biggest city though), I think I tasted every worthwhile coffee in the city so far. Some are ok, but nothing that really stands out. It’s also more meant figuratively (though there’s still some truth… after habituation on good coffee, previously ok-coffee is now bad… so I got really picky over the time of my coffee-nerd-career)

Starbucks coffee isn’t really intended to be enjoyed straight, it’s supposed to be made into milk drinks where the dairy, syrups, and toppings provide most of the flavor, and for that use case, it’s adequate.

Yeah it’s americans perversion of coffee. It’s more like soft-drinks with coffee-taste or something like that…

burnt toxic shit Starbucks sells as “coffee”

Yeah they roast way too dark, probably to hide the cheap coffee they use and possibly because their extraction is shit.

I can’t drink coffee anywhere else anymore, since I’m roasting myself, and perfected extraction with a Cafelat Robot (low pressure, which I think works better with lighter roasts).

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Right, probably slightly oversimplified. But just because 36% did not vote, doesn’t mean they would all vote against Trump (well they didn’t vote, so…) A good chunk of them still support (or supported at he time of the election) Trump. And the fact that they didn’t vote is also concerning in this important election (now especially in hindsight, but also at the time). Even as European it was extremely clear that everyone that doesn’t support Trump had to vote (the lesser evil), yet for some reason they didn’t. Because of reasons I just cannot fathom (as the result was and now is clear).

Yet Trump won the “popular” vote. I don’t want to condone those who did vote against Trump. But damn… the popular vote… that really made me loose trust in the majority of the US population. To me it only makes sense if > 1/2 of the US population is seriously mentally ill (which it likely is). Otherwise it’s purely contradictionary to vote against your own interests (or let others decide in case of not voting).

Nah sorry about the few who are doing something and voted for the Dems. But not sorry for the rest of the population, they really dragged the reputation of the US into the deepest of sloppy slime (or something along these lines). And likely caused global instability (especially for the “west”).

With that logic we should be much more aware of the life of animals we kill on an industrial scale similar as the Holocaust. Just because of the taste (we do not need animal based nutrition).

I’d argue the life of a peaceful cow is worth more than that of a hateful Nazi that wants people of certain mindset or skin-color dead or detained.

So why should we care more about the life of nazis that want to make life for everyone (but Nazis) worse (also considering e.g. Climate-Change). We already have too many people, we don’t need scum around…

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Actually, my (not that small) Rust projects now take officially less time to cold compile than the “hot” reloading of our next.js monster in my job. Incremental compilation is at least an order of magnitude faster. And cherry on top, dumb code is often 100x faster than js.

You can’t imagine how often I just sweared today about js. What did go through the mind of their designers, when they created this growing disease, and why did web browsers accept this as the lingua franca for the web. So… much… pain…

Definitely not your average Rust code, more like a very ugly example of it.

Also, as the syntax first put me off as well, I gave it a chance years afterwards, and have now (or rather years ago) officially joined the church of Rust evangelism.

A lot of the syntax you define as ugly makes sense when you learn it, it’s just so much more explicit than a more dynamic language, but that exactly saves your ass a lot (it did for me at the very least) (I don’t mean macros, macros are ugly and should be avoided if possible)

• driven by AI-slop

(For real: all those products and descriptions/titles are so bad, it has to be AI-slop)

Welcome to Rust which “solves” this issue…

Yeah it takes more time than a quick and dirty python script. But when I’m counting the countless hours (what irony) into this equation because of mindless leaky abstractions and resulting debugging, I’m certain that I’m at least not a lot slower writing that. As I said I’m not talking about the last 10-20% of performance that’s possible say even up to 40%, but more like an order of magnitude (at least), i.e. algorithmically insufficient or relying too much on that your abstractions do everything right and you use it correctly (which in the case of react is seemingly not the case, when looking at the modern web).

Taking that example (Rust) again, I very often get away with .clone() everywhere, i.e. not even caring much about performance while the performance is not significantly impacted. Then I switch to our typescript code-base in my job and get aggressions because of this extreme slowness (because of stupid abstractceptions, like wtf? shadcn needs to be built on radix-ui needs to be built on react etc. which in effect results in a slow abstraction-hell… and leaky abstractions everywhere)

Non ironically: In practice it mostly boils down to experience, writing relatively efficient software should not take much more time or even long term accelerate development (less time to wait) (I don’t talk about the last few percent of compiler reverse-engineered SIMD optimisation that takes time…)

I detest the state modern web development has downspiraled to. I bet I’m faster writing a big application in Vanilla js vs using the abomination that Next.Js has come to…

The problem though (with AI compared to humans): The human team learns, i.e. at some point they probably know what the mistake was and avoids doing it again. AI instead of humans: well maybe the next or different model will fix it maybe…

And what is very clear to me after trying to use these models, the larger the code-base the worse the AI gets, to the point of not helping at all or even being destructive. Apart from dissecting small isolatable pieces of independent code (i.e. keep the context small for the AI).

Humans likely get slower with a larger code-base, but they (usually) don’t arrive at a point where they can’t progress any further.

I think it’s all about priorities and as another guy said here at least a rough schedule/routine.

My hobby is being active (drumming multiple hours per day), then you can save the gym (I do some climbing now and then though). Commuting with bicycle to work also helps, work less (I do 25h/week which is max for me, I rather spend less money and live in a community than having to work more to finance myself, life does have too much interesting to offer than to spend all your time with working).

I also like to eat stuff like Huel (the savory stuff) which saves me time of cooking/buying groceries (and I have a rather high protein intake which is good for drumming, as fast/strong muscles/tendons are quite important (and it noticebly helps with growing muscles, I didn’t want to believe until then how important high-protein intake is when being active)).

I basically don’t play any video games (ironically I’m quickly bored), do some open source programming instead (so side-projects?), try to avoid “wasting” time on e.g. social media.

Not really, but similar.

I guess good for us left leaning men?

On the other hand kinda sad, it further drives the fertility-rate downwards (see south-korea, which has a bad future because of this…)

Yeah I have sometimes the feeling that stuff like this is rubbed of to real executives/managers who e.g. think a small team of programmers can achieve a big application in a manner of days or something…