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tankplanker

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  • How do you make or get your coffee water?

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  • Currently use a Brita filter as its enough to take the chemically smell from my tap water. Espresso machine has a built in water softener that I change every six months or so. It isnt the most efficient way to do it but the machine does not have any build up when I have checked, my water tastes neutral and nice to drink if not amazing.

    Long term I want to build in a proper water purification, strip, and remineralization solution into my mains supply when I get around to redoing the kitchen. UK is low risk for water contamination but we do have recent incidents of it happening so its not zero risk and I would rather not take the risk with the way our water companies are ran.

  • Travel kettle?

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  • Wow, I just have never had that, it does make some sense as its cheaper not to have to offer them.

  • Travel kettle?

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  • I know people piss in them thats for sure, and at the very least water is allowed to stand in them far longer than I would allow with my own kettle, I cannot stand stale tasting water residue.

  • What is the most controversial TV finale?

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  • Wow I cant believe someone downvoted you for that, only commented so you would know it wasnt me

  • What is the most controversial TV finale?

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  • With Lost they repeatedly said that nobody, not a single person, had guessed what the ending was, not realizing that this was one of the first shows to go massive for fan theories on the Internet so everything even remotely plausable had been guessed.

    So yeah, they painted themselves into that corner fair and square as it was clear they had no fucking clue what the ending was when they started that show.

    If it was me, I would have admitted someone guessed it and just picked whichever fan theory seemed the most sensible to me.

  • Travel kettle?

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  • I don't think I have ever been in a hotel that doesn't have a kettle, just seems weird to not offer one.

    I cant help with the kettle part, but I can help with the pourover part. I use a Hario V60 drip kettle air (its not a kettle, despite its misleading name) for pouring while traveling as its resin so unlikely to break or dent, its extremely light weight, and can give a reasonably fine pour to a gush, if that's what you need. It does take a little while to get good with it due to it being so light weight.

    I use a food safe thermometer to track the temperature, that way I do not care what kettle I use, plenty of reasonably cheap folding ones on amazon and the like.

  • How much sleep do you get a day and how much would you like to get a day?

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  • I would rather live on the streets than put up with that, I could not cope with it as I get removed up by people in the same house being quiet let alone noisy cunts like that.

  • How much sleep do you get a day and how much would you like to get a day?

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  • Typically I get about six. Had a long weekend had did nine and half each day for three days straight, which never happens, then last night I got four hours and undid all that goodness.

    I would like between seven and eight hours on the regular, just not going to happen unless I retire and live on my own as I am a very light sleeper.

  • How much are you spending for coffee beans now?

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  • Spending about £30 per kg with postage. A kg lasts a bit over three weeks for me. Thats for lower end specialty coffee that is freshly roasted.

    I can easy spend that a 250g bag (including postage) if I wanted to buy something fancy. I have no inclination to spend a £100 a month on coffee, thats approaching a weeks worth of food for me.

    I used to be able to get a kg bag of higher end specialty for about £40/45 with postage, same place is now about £60 a bag.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 dev says AAA is "perversely fascinated" by indie games, because those devs still understand how to make good ideas that aren't reliant on data

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  • It is this exactly, and is the same problem film, tv, and music has. They are all populated by people who are good at becoming and staying at the exec level, not people who are good at whatever field they are working in. Often the really creative are difficult to work with, they do not make a "good fit" with other execs, particularly when they actually understand the medium.

    Its the same group of people who are heavily invested in AI to replace creative people in these fields as they do not understand the difference between AI doing a passable copy of someone elses style and someone actually creative creating a new style or approach.

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    RTFM is Sage

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  • I read the manual before i buy a product, I watch the product reviews, and if I can I watch the repair videos as well.

    Big part of my enjoyment from buying things is the work I do upfront. I tend to do the same with any tech project.

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  • I use only 40% and 30% keyboards, thats ones without dedicated number or f key rows, and have done so for about six years now. Majority I use are standard stagger but a few are ortho or splits. Almost all of them that I like using are split space with left half as enter and the right as space.

    I can touch type, although I am not the fastest, only a bit above 80wpm. This is mostly due to me being dyslexic so spelling is challenging for me and I can get bogged down looking up words or retyping it. If I do not give a shit about spelling I can easily get well over 100wpm.

    I think the main show off skill I can do is look at a person I am talking to while typing a different conversation on the computer. Obviously I cannot do either if its complicated conversations but simple stuff is fine.

  • What was something that you thought was overhyped that actually lived up to the hype?

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  • Mechanical keyboards are like guitars, you can play the same notes on a cheap one as you can on something custom made for you for thousands. Do they sound very different? Almost always, although the guitar needs someone who can actually play well, unlike the mechanical keyboard.

    However, if you really really care and you really really know what you want out of either you can tweak absolutely everything about both. You want ultra soft silent keyboard? Sure. You want the most clickty keyboard with tons of pressure? Sure. You want something thocky but still has lots of flex? Sure.

  • Vibe coding takes the "science" out of computer science

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  • I have a BEng in software engineering. It wasn't thst different from a normal BSc in CS. Bits that stood out to me was industrial stuff around building and programming our own circuits, making our own (very simple) compiler, and some assembly modules, I had more maths stuff but that was for 3D graphics. My dissertation was a temperature control system for radiators.

    I don't really use any of it in my job, although I did do a ton more programming modules than most CS of the time, and those programming modules prove very useful.

  • Oblivion Remastered studio is reportedly laying off 300 people

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  • If you want to employ staff that way go for freelance with a fixed duration contract and an increase wages to reflect the temporary nature of the work. This is how it works in the rest of IT, at least anywhere sane.

  • Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.

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  • Yeah we stole all our good food from our former colonies and improved on them, see curry.

  • Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.

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  • Yeah that's not the same thing as a bland food diet, that's up there with the cabbage diet for how awful it is.

    Mine is: Scrambled eggs made with cottage cheese + porridge for breakfast Chicken, salad (no dressing) and rice for lunch Chicken, vegetables and rice/sweet potatoes/lentils for tea

    No sauces, just dry herbs/spices as a rub.

    Snacks are two protein shakes, naked bar (counts as a one a day of fruit/veg allowance), banana.

    Repeat for past two years. Before that it was lentils, avo, boiled egg, before than goats cheese salad for lunch.

    Its boring as fuck when you do it for months at a time but it works for me. Controlling

  • Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.

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  • just eating potatoes for every meal?

  • Eating would be weird if we didn't enjoy it.

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  • Only a small percentage of people keep weight off long term, Ive seen figures around 20% so whatever works for you is the right answer but its unlikely to be the same solution for the rest of your life. Its a higher relapse rate than alcoholics.

    Speaking from experience, if you only buy healthy food it massively reduces the attack vector of unhealthy food, and by unhealthy I mean calorie dense food that leads to relapse due to its high processed sugar content.

    If I am eating clean then everybody else in the house is eating clean, its no different from an alcoholic needing no alcohol on the house. Obviously food exists outside the house as well, but its about reducing your exposure to it as much as possible, which includes avoiding majority of restaurants.

    Unless you have a problem with over consumption of food its very hard for people to directly equate it to an addiction. When people who can self regulate food intake, who have never had to diet in their life, try to give diet advice its like a fish giving running advice.

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    Scientists claim to have discovered secret to perfect espresso

    www.theguardian.com /food/2023/dec/06/scientists-claim-to-have-discovered-secret-to-perfect-espresso
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    New (to me) Grinder Monday

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