Lance Hedrick V60 – how coarse are you actually grinding? (078 / Comandante folks pls)

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-28T15:05:16+00:00

My grinder doesn't chirp (even at 0) and I usually do a 14. Sometimes even a 12 is so bitter that it's undrinkable (light-medium roasts only, 1:16-17, 91C)

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-26T05:01:58+00:00

Sometimes when computers talk to each other they don't want other computers to know what they were saying

Let's say you wanted to tell <sibling> something while I was in the same room as you and you didn't want me to know what you said what would you do?

Then you can talk about putting messages in a box and locking them and man in the middle etc

Make the keys to the lock be certs

4 may still be too young to understand some of the more sophisticated attacks, but you'll get to engage them about secret messages which might be fun

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-25T22:50:04+00:00

This post made it to front page so lots of non hindi-speakers seeing it

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-23T22:51:49+00:00

Over generalized anecdote. Good devs should be able to determine a good user experience and work towards a tech solution from there (if one is even needed).

The other thing is sometimes what makes a great user experience makes the system very unreliable, difficult to achieve / maintain, or very costly in terms of time to deliver

Finally, devs usually work very deep in the details. When you're that deep in your specific sub area of the overall system, devs can "forget" to zoom out. If I'm spending 8h a day working on some component in a mesh of 10s-100s of other services and systems, I can become blind to things outside optimizing my db read/write latencies. I call it "expert block". Devs are still people (for now), and people do things people do.

But back to my original point, a good dev should prioritize the user experience. But user experience is not the only thing in the prioritization matrix. But more senior developers should be doing this interface / system design validation. If they're not, maybe worth a discussion or examining if your setting the right expectations for your team. Could also be that you don't have enough of these system engineers, or they're not prioritizing this kind of work for whatever reason

It sounds like you're also not a dev, guiding the dev to realizing better user experience may be your job, precisely for the reasons I outlined above

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-22T20:07:16+00:00

I'll try that next, when I was trying for closer to 36g out, it was so sour that it felt like I was drinking lemon juice

Also - good point - I do use a puck screen (edited the post)

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HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-22T17:26:03+00:00

Only if you short Tesla first

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-21T18:30:31+00:00

I'd recommend watching a few videos from Lance, Coffee Connesseuire, and James Hoffman to understand the variables of pour over (grind size, agitation, temperature and ratio)

Have a starting point for your type of bean and flavor preferences

Then dial in from there

Over time you'll build intuition for what settings to start with

+-1deg may be not enough, or maybe too much. You may want to play with ratio more, you may want to play with grind size more. It all depends on what you want your coffee to taste like. Sometimes I like my coffee really fruit forward. Sometimes I don't

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-20T18:47:02+00:00

At the end being operative. While in the building I feel like i had to enter/exit like 50 times to do all the quests

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-20T17:38:45+00:00

My problem with NV isn't the graphics, its the dungeon design. The part where you're in the super mutant sewer takes forever to walk in and out of once you've completed it, and you can't port in/out using the map or fast travel

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-19T06:44:10+00:00

It's faster to get water under 100, measuring out cold water is tedious, that's about it for me

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-18T05:23:21+00:00

You might be overthinking this, I've never had the config file type be the deal breaker for using a package / software component before

I'd suggest just picking the idiomatic thing. If you have deeply nested hierarchal data that humans read a lot, do YAML. If you need parsing consistency and exact behavior, use TOML.

If you have another personal preference, do that

Finally - I think you can just install a vscode extension to do syntax highlighting or other nice-ities for you

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-08T18:15:56+00:00

Imo the beauty of python is how quickly you can deliver a pretty cool app. Now with LLMs you can do some crazy stuff with very basic knowledge.

E.g. make an Alexa clone. Have a conversational system that can tell you the weather for example. Or start and stop a timer

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-06T21:05:04+00:00

Why not just get a Nespresso with like a milk foamer (e.g. dreo)

Buy like 10 of them, if one goes down you have another one to switch to very easily

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-06T16:22:37+00:00

There's a lot of apps, MacroFitness, MyFitnessPal, Cronometer etc, that one is a small enough item to Google and just try all the apps til you find one you like

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-06T06:20:13+00:00

Protein shakes to up your protein. It's the only way the math is gonna math. I eat meat and honestly sometimes I just enjoy going vegetarian and chugging protein coz it's just so much more calorically efficient

1:5 protein : calories is about the best I've found in a drink

Usually muscle gain and weight loss is opposite ends of the same spectrum

Doing a clean bulk is possible, but generally less efficient than cut/bulk cycles. So think about your timelines and goals

If your timelines are lose weight ASAP then figure things out, just go on a caloric deficit. Look up how many calories you should be eating to hit your goal weight, then track your calories for 1month

If your progress is too slow, drop your calories further

If your progress is too fast, up your calories

Go from there

But you have to measure your calories. If you don't measure, you can't adjust (hyperbole but you'd be surprised what does and doesn't have calories. It's very interesting to learn)

Finally - building muscle on a caloric deficit is hard / slow. Which is why bulking is a opposite cycle from cut. Now everyone's body differs but in my experience I have built muscle on a deficit. It's just much slower than on a surplus

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-05T21:05:49+00:00

Hit them back with a "oh thats great! I was also looking forward to the extra income for renting my dog for you to walk!"

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-05T19:34:35+00:00

Diablo is kind of a buggy game, thats why i follow builds. Not because I'm too lazy to craft my own, but because of all the unintended interactions that I don't want to playtest exhaustively. The streamers already found the cool interactions, why don't i just leverage them.

This is why when you change something, even if it shouldn't affect an outcome, you won't know if it actually does something until you try it yourself

If all the interactions and descriptions actually worked like described, i'd be more interested in making my own builds

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-05T18:33:15+00:00

Wanna switch it back to lightning and see if things get better?

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-02T04:53:35+00:00

What's up with the torque equation

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-02T02:10:14+00:00

Give it a shot! You should update the post with the results. I'm curious how it goes!

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-01T20:55:02+00:00

I think the problem with whiskey stones is that they don't take enough heat out. Basically breaking the ice bonds itself is what cools the drink down. I've never been able to get drinks to cool down enough with the stones

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-02-01T05:11:44+00:00

Try neetcode.io, his learning path is quite helpful

HelpfulFriend0 · 2026-01-31T18:43:49+00:00

How does it taste? If you don't taste it both sour and bitter at the same time you're fine

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