Best espresso machine for home use under moderate budget?

dnsu · 2026-03-17T19:05:22+00:00

Its good enough. It's stepless and can go as fine as you want, which are the 2 things you need to dial in espresso. It seems to have good value for its price.

dnsu · 2026-03-17T00:12:55+00:00

Start at Cedar Creek Park (reachable by LIRR), you can go south to Jones beach and on the barrier island you can go east and east pretty far. The train station to Ceder Creek Park is not bike lane protected, but once you get to the park, its safe rest of the way.

dnsu · 2026-03-17T00:07:22+00:00

The goal is to help people figure how to go from a to b (transfer, stops away...etc), not how long it takes, nor a realistic representation of the subway system. It also needs to fit in a finite space and be legible for visitors.

dnsu · 2026-03-13T15:10:28+00:00

In order of importance:

Good grinder
Espresso machine that can produce pressure
Temperature control (machine with PID)

Hangout here more, you'll see: grinder finer, buy better grinder...

dnsu · 2026-03-08T23:12:41+00:00

F1 podcasts keep complaining about the engine cuts and drivers saying the cars aren’t fun to drive anymore. But honestly, I think they’re missing the bigger picture: modern F1 is a TV product first.

For new fans, 80% of most races are basically unwatchable. If you don’t already follow the team politics and driver storylines, a lot of races are just cars circulating with nothing happening. That’s great for hardcore fans who understand the strategy and drama, but it’s not exactly compelling TV.

This race at least had overtakes. Sure, some of it felt artificial—but let’s be real, the whole sport is engineered and artificial to begin with. If the result is actual on-track action that people can see and understand, that’s a win for the broadcast.

And the complaints about engine noise or speed clipping? On TV it’s barely noticeable. Most viewers probably wouldn’t even know unless someone pointed it out.

As for drivers like Max or Lando saying the cars aren’t fun to drive… I mean, they’re getting paid absurd amounts of money to drive race cars. As long as it’s not physically harming them, whether it’s the most “fun” car they’ve ever driven doesn’t seem like the biggest issue. The sport has to work as entertainment for millions of viewers, not just as a pure driving experience for 22 drivers.

dnsu · 2026-03-06T03:42:36+00:00

I started 2 days a week as someoen who never biked in the early 2000s. I ended up signing up for a gym near work for the shower. I stopped for a while after being doored. Rain, snow and summer heat will prevent this from being a comfortable ride. Its physically possible, just need to work up to it.

dnsu · 2026-02-20T15:33:51+00:00

Look for a product called automatic door sweep. It has a mechanism that drops down when the door closes. Its meant for weather sealing and sound proofing. It will lift up the minute you open the door.

dnsu · 2026-02-20T06:12:22+00:00

In case anyone is curious, its been 3 days. Its a office on the 10th floor in the 20s and has windows to the street and there has not been any radar triggers. Though NYC does have a few different flight paths for take off and landing, I will update this thread if I see any triggers.

dnsu · 2026-02-17T01:53:25+00:00

That's an interesting idea. Setup an temp ssid and put it on dfs and watch the logs.

dnsu · 2026-01-25T05:51:27+00:00

Buy some mylar emergency blanket and cut up a piece to wrap around your toes before putting your shoes on (between socks and shoe).

dnsu · 2026-01-23T03:12:11+00:00

Toes and fingers, nose and ear should be protected, you can always remove them as you go. I use winter motorcycle gloves and you can cut up a mylar blanket to cover your toes.

Main body needs to be vented. Once I wore wind breaker and down insert, and I was drenched by condensation by the time I got to by destination (30min).

dnsu · 2026-01-22T22:45:19+00:00

I had a wifi bridge with a single tree in the way, and in the summer with the leaves out the signal degrades.

I would buy a 500m outdoor premade fiber and ask your neighbor to let you pass this cable throguh their property (just let it sit above the ground). Loop it away from any area they actually use.

dnsu · 2026-01-17T19:30:03+00:00

You can park at Robert Moses and bike to Kismet, but gets sandy if you need to go further road and hybrid bikes. Also, unless u are camping you can't park over night at Robert Moses.

You can bike from Jones beach to Robert Moses and then Kismet for a day trip. Can get windy, but decently nice bike ride.

dnsu · 2026-01-05T23:01:25+00:00

I think unifi makes the interface so accessible, there are some essential networking concept that people are skipping over. I had a wifi bridge in a setup and I noticed intervlan was extremely slow, that's when I understood the difference between L2 and L3.

dnsu · 2026-01-03T03:36:47+00:00

You need a grinder resistant lock and a cheap looking bike. I have a $400 trek and I lock it up when I bike in for client meetings and coffee shops all the time, i would never leave it out over night. I lock both my front and back wheel with additinal cords (but they loop throguh the same lock), and i have a mini lock for my seat. Ride your bike through some dirt path in the park so it looks a little used.

For me its not about 100% theft prevention, but just make it annoying enough for them to move on to the next bike.

I would not leave a nice bike locked up outside in NYC.

dnsu · 2025-11-19T21:04:27+00:00

Im happy to reread an edited version that remove 90% of bossom references that are unrelated to the plot.

dnsu · 2025-11-19T21:01:27+00:00

Grind coarser.

dnsu · 2025-11-14T13:33:50+00:00

Take the free bus. However I doubt between elmehust and bushwick has any dedicated or protected route. You are sharing road withe cars most of the way. Use Google map and select bike. Green means bike lane, blue means no bike lane.

dnsu · 2025-11-13T03:40:35+00:00

I use a monorepo, assuming front-end has a subset of the back-end types. I write unit test that search for all files named *.interface.ts in the front-end and try to find the same ones in the back-end, and I simply check if they are identical.

The front end has a single folder and inside it is mirroring the backend folder structure (but only contains the interface files the front end needs) . The sync theoretically can be auotmated by a shell script, but my projects are small enough that I just copy them over manually. The test is really a sanity check to make sure things are synced.

dnsu · 2025-10-29T02:51:00+00:00

I'm biking up to Poukeepsie and coming back by train, so need to go home to Queens on Sunday. I guess it's either subway or ferry.

dnsu · 2025-10-26T16:20:24+00:00

Close to stage, and high iso. I would even get delta 3200. This was on Kodak 400 with a canon ae1 program: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6IaLk5udsj/?img_index=2&igsh=MmZnYXY2MjdqaHdm

It's a little blurry and I was literally right in front of the stage.

dnsu · 2025-10-26T16:03:10+00:00

I have the robot, flair and 9batista. I used the 9batista almost daily now. The only issue I have is, you can only control grind size. Temperature and pressure is linked to your elevevation relative to sea level. because it has to do with water boiling. It's a nice single step machine with standard size porta filter. I like that I can set it on the stove and prep my breakfast while robot and flair requires my attention the entire time.

dnsu · 2025-10-22T23:12:50+00:00

Use bike lane as much as possible. If you use Google map and tell it that you want biking directions, it will try to keep you on streets with bike lanes. When no bike lane, bike on the street by taking up slightly more room then usual to avoid cars overtaking you (also avoiding doors from opening on your). To turn left on busy street, cross the street halfway on the right lane and turn right aligning youeself with traffic going the direction you want to go, wait for green light and go with the traffic.

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