She’s had years to train up a successor, at this point it’s just blind power hungry arrogance.

I use it for espresso and pour over.

I’ve been using a refurbished Baratza Sette 270 for years and am really pleased with it. Very minimal grounds retention, which is important for me since I switch beans often.

I use malic acid to tune acidity, earl grey tea to play with tannins, and you can always cut up a few pounds of apples and throw them in there to get some of the flavors from the skins + flesh.

Sounds very cool. What water temp did you go with initially?

You can have local models, but the vast majority of people are going to farm that out to a 3rd party provider via API calls because it’s the easiest thing to do.

Remember I said “It all depends on how you implement it”.

It all depends on how you implement it. He describes the text from images as using machine learning, which implies using an external API to do that translation.

Storing cloud backups requires a server and storage, etc.

• Ad free
• Cloud backup
• Highlight users
• Tag users
• Translate text
• Select text from images
• Push notifications
• Saved folders
• Import / export subscriptions

Source: The sync ultra description from in-app

I might be mistaken, but I don’t think Sync Ultra is the same thing as the ad-free sync premium. Sync Ultra is a subscription because it adds functionality that requires cloud resources, not just removes ads.

I think even more broadly, they want to encourage the harassment of anyone who goes outside their definition of what is culturally acceptable.

At this point it’s like saying that water is wet.

“No such thing as bad publicity” comes to mind.

So first let’s be clear. I’m not "both sides"ing. My point is clearly that the overton window for centrists is so far right, that the parties would essentially meet in the center if the republican party hadn’t fully embraced the culture war insanity.

Voting against Trump (a member of the opposing party) is like, the least they could do. They should hardly get back pats for that.

How about this for “real things”. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposes banning Congress members from owning individual stocks

She later did an about face and said she would bring legislation to do that, and what do you know, two years later and still nothing.

The last time Trump received a target letter from the DOJ (6/7/23) he was indicted two days later (6/9/23).

Let’s hope for a similar timeline.

That’s how you know they’re starting to feel the pinch of people being fed up with them.

Centrist Democratic Politician: we want to exploit labor and centralize weath and power, but we want people to like us so we’ll do some incrementally good things things to keep folks satisfied

Centrist Republican Politician: we want to exploit labor and centralize weath and power, and fuck you. If you don’t support us rapist minorities are going to rape you to death, or you might have to see people who aren’t like you in public.

That’s true, I’m just not sure how it’s applicable to the current conversation? I don’t think anyone is making the argument that open source projects are easy?

It’s more like realizing that you’re surrounded by fire, so you might as well pick a patch with a nice view.

The best time to make a change in your life was 10 years ago, the second best time is now.

Don’t base your happiness on your achievements as compared to others. Life isn’t deterministic, every person is working with a different set of skills and circumstances. Set your own goals based on what you want to do, and work toward that.

If you don’t know what you want to do, start trying new things.

Your options to backsweeten are as follows;

1. Increase the alcohol content past the tolerance of the yeast. This will result in a beverage of 12% or higher ABV.

You can do this by starting with a higher initial gravity (this is my approach for sweet meads), or adding sugar until the fermentation stops restarting, or adding neutral spirits to bring the abv up, then backsweeten.

2. Ferment to dry, then add sulfites to prevent the yeast from reactivating, then backsweeten as desired.

Warning! This doesn’t always work, and it’s hard to predict how much sulfite is necessary, if you add too much it can negatively impact the flavor.

3. Ferment to dry, then use filters down to 1 micron to filter out the yeast, then backsweeten as desired.

4. Ferment to dry, then backsweeten just before consumption.

Most commercial producers filter and add sulfites.