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Coffee shops do a lot of things. Do they make good espresso? Do they do good brewed coffee? Is their cold brew good? Do they have good pastries? Do they do good milk based drinks? …

You could literally have a blank piece of paper with the word "coffee" printed on it in times new roman and it would look better than off ratio AI slop graphics. It's not a case wh…

It's very hard to operate an espresso machine. If you want to pull good shots you need to be adjusting grind (etc) every day and throughout the day. So it's a case where you have t…

Ironically, you just made even more inferences than I did!

I was talking to my daughter a few weeks ago about a coffee shop that was opening soon and I said that based on the posters in the window it probably wouldn’t be very good. She did…

I was about to say caldigit and then you called them out. I have had a TS3 for six years and it still going strong and I have had basically zero compatibility issues across a range…

The majority of the US population lives at latitudes that would be affected by the “sun rises after 8am in winter” problem. As I said before, changing the clocks is a much more eff…

The “savings” in “daylight savings” doesn’t refer to the winter part of the schedule. It refers to the summer part, where daylight that occurs during typical “sleeping” hours is “s…

This is a bad change. I think it’s bad for kids to have to walk to school before sunrise. Fundamentally it is useful to have more sunlight later in the evenings in the summer. It’s…

85% of the world population lives outside of developed nations. 27% of the world's workforce is in agriculture (contrast to the US where it is 1-2%). 15% in manufacturing. A lot of…

if you got rid of the badges and showed me the exterior shot i'd say "oh, is that one of those cheap chinese EVs everyone is talking about?"

Philadelphia is absolutely an option, but it depends on the neighborhood. Eg if you live in the penn alexander, greenfield, or meredith catchments you have a great elementary/middl…

interestingly, i think there's also a u vs non-u thing here: jam is a u word, preserve is non-u

I think that having some difficulty and having to "bloody your forehead" acts as a filter that you cared enough to put a lot of effort into it. From a consumer side, someone having…

I think this is an odd idea. For a lot of reasons, but one is simply that higher level languages _tend_ to be terser, and context window matters for LLMs. Expressing more in less i…

Ironically, grand juries refusing to indict frivolous political charges has been in the news quite a lot in the past couple of months. It's true that jury trials have a less than p…

It's sort of hard to judge this. The article mostly focuses on ChatGPT uses, but hard to say if ChatGPT is going to be the main revenue driver. It could be! Also unclear if the und…

but cycling races are won by being able to put out a critical extra 50 watts for a few minutes at a key point in the race. I don't think anyone is trying to motor the whole way up …

there's probably just as much doping in distance running but it's easier to evade (top athletes spend most of the year in countries that have limited interest in testing)

> Standard with ads, which is distorting because ads have a different cost and benefit (more expensive and lucrative in the US). Standard Standard is 14.99€ in France, £12.99 in th…

> netflix and co Standard plan is £5.99 in UK, €7.99 in france, $7.99 in the US. So the US is the cheapest of those after currency conversion > cinema US median price in 2022: $10.…

IME it's a big part of it for a lot of people. People don't buy a car for what they do with it every day, they buy it for what they do with it a few times a year. If you have a boa…

> GDP per capita doesn't mean what you think it does. Everything being overpriced in the US, and everything needing to have a middleman inflates GDP figures. Take health insurance,…

The problem (which Sotomayor raises in her dissent, pages 94 and 95 of the PDF) is that it may never reach the supreme court: > There is a serious question, moreover, whether this …

This is why it's bad. Large incumbents can manage this and then in steady state it's the same. But for any new entrants that need to rapidly grow their engineering teams, it's a hu…