This is a good one, "Anatomy of a pirate":
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> unless you're using a browser from To be fair, a lot of Jason Scott's audience is people who might choose to use ancient browsers on obsolete platforms.
Doesn't that make it double-bad? Again, people might come up with the argument that it's their own problem if they get abused, but also that is just not the reality we live in; any compromised system can (and will most of the time) be used to infect/compromise/attack other systems.
Good luck trying to a attack an HTML only browser under a Z80 machine, for example.
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Yep, he took the time to answer questions from highschool me more than a decade ago and he was very friendly. I'm glad everyone else seems to have had positive interactions with him also.
Let's not assume everyone had a great time with me because that will fall apart very quickly. I appreciate when someone young or curious reaches out to me for context or questions because I did that throughout my life and I always appreciated when it was rewarded with a response. I try to be the person I always hoped was on the other side.
Still, I like that spirit!
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#144While we're at it: @textfiles, any more awesome documentaries in the pipeline?
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#146legendary, often posted content/site - newsworthy right now for any reason OP?
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Water is a huge factor that I neglected for a while. It finally hit me once someone told me that coffee is mostly water, and your coffee is only as good as your water. Makes complete sense, but I had never thought about it. A simple Britta filter goes a long way.
I have very low standards for coffee, use Starbucks bulk beans off of Amazon, and brew it in an automatic mill+drip machine. But a Brita filter for the water makes a world of difference.
Whereabouts do you live? I've visited places where I found tap water undrinkable (Pennsylvania, Florida), but never lived in such a place.
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Full quote: > Fact: Unless you are buying some major debris, bean quality is not very important, as compared to 1-3 and 5. I’d wager that it doesn’t matter how nice your beans are, if they were roasted a long time ago, ground a long time ago, and brewed with unclean equipment and poor quality water the bean quality matters not at all. Even then, the file explains: > Fact: The prepackaged stuff you buy in supermarkets…
I have a filter but I intentionally use tap water because I don't want to get used to filtered. I know that most coffee I drink outside of home will be with tap water so I don't want to spoil myself.
I have not had that problem with fussy coffee in general. When I'm home, I drink my coffee and enjoy the taste. When I'm out, I get enough caffeine to make it through the day and that's enough.
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> Fact: Unless you are buying some major debris, bean quality is not very important That doesn't reflect my experience. If you buy fancy single origin beans, the taste varies wildly from region to region. I think within a region the taste differences mostly come down to roasting, but an Ethiopian and Kenyan coffee aren't going to taste the same at all. To me the best quickie coffee explainer I've seen is https://stat…
Sommeliers claim to have incredible wine tasting powers, yet in a blind taste test I cannot reliably distinguish red wine from white wine. Maybe with more training I could, but shouldn't the difference be obvious without training? I've yet to be convinced that subtly in wine and coffee flavor is an objective matter.
There are definitely things that I consider voodoo, like wetting the filter before you make your coffee, but there are tons of things that are just undeniable like: if you drink coffee from stale beans, your urine smells bad then next time you pee; if not, not. I'm always surprised when I drink some gas station coffee and then a couple of hours later "oh yeah, I normally drink better coffee, don't I?"
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Tap water quality is very variable. In many parts of Florida for instance, tap water tastes and smells like burnt matches; tons of sulfur in that water. It's still safe to drink, but I expect people living in regions with tap water like that would get better results with bottled or filtered water.
Right, that's perfectly understandable, I'm just wondering if people think good quality tap water needs to be filtered too, e.g. maybe minerals affect extraction.
Not really.
I'm not a water snob or chemist but I've been around.
What qualifies tap as "good" is highly subjective but on the one hand you have places like Florida where the tap is desalinated and tastes like farm runoff, and then you have places like Southern California where the mineral content/hardness of the water itself makes it taste like soapy bathwater. I've even noticed it vary within the same municipality-- in two apartments I rented in Atlanta, one mile apart, one had tap that tasted fine, the other (near a swamp) tasted like sewage (we were convinced groundwater was seeping into the water main).
In cases of hard water, the brewing process seems to serve as its own distillery that separates minerals from the water. The resulting water/coffee tastes fine to me but you'll find all sorts of mineral buildup clogging your coffee maker if it doesn't have its own filtration system (my Cuisinart has a filter-on-a-stick that lowers into the water tank).
Nothing seems to make Florida water palatable though. That taste passes straight through into the coffee, like burned urine. Use distilled.