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> ”sipping a hot, slightly bitter infusion of caffeinated leaves from a dried gourd through a filtered metal straw, before passing the gourd to their friends to share”

Someone might correct me, but I believe it is only in Brazil south that “chimarrão” (how they call this drink) is drank like this, hot and shared.

In Argentina and Uruguay you drink it individually. You can share the recipient with the mate in it, but once you added a refill of hot water and took the first sip, you have to drink it until the end before returning.

And in Paraguay they drink the “tereré” with cold water.

Considering all you said, I still consider it ironic that her son is so unethical

> ”Research has shown that all sloths have a rare genetic condition called ‘rod monochromacy’”

Weird phrasing. All of them having something that is rare means it is not rare at all, right? And if all of them have it, it is not a “condition”, it is their genes, how they are.

What if they don’t remember the regulation code?

”What is the regulation that covers M&A of companies in the pharmaceutical industry?”

It seems much easier to get that response from a LLM than searching words with grep.

I live in São Paulo and I noticed that contrast when I visited the central area of Kopenhagen. It was impressive and delightful how quiet that neighborhood (without cars) is.

Of course I still can tolerate the noise, since I still live here. I am used to it and, most of the times, I don’t consciously care. But I do appreciate and miss the quietness.

So the way I do seems to stop before the bitter notes.

Thanks for the correction. Nice chart too

Idk. I have a cheap grinder that grinds unevenly, so at least it is not uniformly too fine.

The barista in the video does use fine grind for this no bloom method, though, so it makes sense. I like the result of the no bloom with my grinder though, so I am happy with it

I learned enough to know what I like, what I don’t like, and what doesn’t matter to me.

I don’t like expensive coffee that use “fruit” descriptions to their flavors. I like the expensive ones that use “chocolate” or “nuts” descriptions.

I like anything from 1:12 to 1:16 ratio (in my routine, 9g to 12g of coffee to 150ml of water).

Grain should be fine, but I don’t need a precision grinder.

Precise water temperature doesn’t matter much.

I like pour over. Not so much french press, aeropress, espresso, or moka pot. I still drink it, just prefer pour over.

I learned that I like without bloom phase. The CO2 getting in the way of extracting flavor might be a good thing, since (at least that is my understanding) the more acidity flavors are extracted later. I like the coffee with more sweetness and less acidity, so I just skip the bloom phase, pouring all at once, it extracts less of the coffee, only the good (for me) parts.

Gentle circular pouring can prevent dry coffee blocks and the creation of channels. I also do a little swirl with the filter to flatten the coffee bed. So it is possible to avoid those issues even without the bloom phase.

It works for me, even though I am not a hundred percent sure that I got the science of it right.

At least, some coffee specialists support my choice:

https://youtu.be/miuPSjazpyw?si=_UPZfh9O0YYZwmri

Interesting anecdote that I am not entirely sure is true, is that “classical music” genre got its name because music was the only art that we didn’t know how it was in Ancient Greece and Rome, where the term “classic” is usually applied to.

So, by the time people were rediscovering the music of Bach and that type of music was growing in popularity, people decided to use “classical” for that sort of music.

I enjoyed. Particularly that double-flute. A whole concert with that would be interesting. But I also enjoyed the chorus

I couldn’t understand the scale of this “fediverse effect”.

There is this quote:

> ” making for a traffic amplification of 36704:1”

Does it mean that posting a link on Mastodon generates 36704 requests to that URL?

It happened to me too, with my simple site for generating acrostic poems [0].

It would only show the poems create. I tried Adsense, was rejected for lack of content (probably, because they are mysterious about the reason they reject you). Then I tried adding lists of words starting with the letters used as initials for the acrostics. Rejected again.

Then I gave up, and decided to use affiliate links.

[0] www.acrostic.ai

I wouldn’t consider that much writing over 30 years (from 15 to 45 yo). Fiction as just 4 short stories, being 2 as a child.

I’d would say that’s very little writing before your first novel.

“Wall thickness” (not width) decreases from bottom to top, which fits your comment of more weight towards the bottom.

Internode length increases up to the middle node (not sure if it’s also middle height), then decreases from mid-node to top.

Then internodes at the top are shorter and lighter.

I don’t know if the length pattern has some evolutionary advantage.

Thanks, didn’t know. I knew about Roberta Williams, but I did not play the Sierra games much (that I remember, only Kings Quest 3, which was the first adventure game I ever played).

For such a male-dominated industry creating a game for a largely male audience, it is impressive how well and positively women were portrayed in the MI games.

Elaine in particular is brave, smart, skillful, a leader, but also loving, kind. The character is not flattened to a single characteristic or narrative function. Even when she needs to be saved, when you get there, she already saved herself (in MI 1 or 2, I don’t remember).

Great article for a great game. I loved every Monkey Island game (maybe just “liked” the 4th). I even loved the ending of this last one, that was, again, controversial.

The hand movement controls what is being showed in the projector, which are inputs of the computation it does.

You speak with such confidence. Always a reliable red flag that you don’t know what you are talking about.

Depends how you define “serious”.

I am defining “serious for a consumer product company”. Putting that in a small device seems quite a feat.

If you define “serious” as “particles colliding” or “drugs that cure some type of cancer”, then no.

Keep in mind that I am using “serious” as opposed to “scammy”. I thin this pin is far from a scam.

From the reviews, it seems different and worse.

But it is something novel that requires serious research. Even if the result is disappointing, it is novel enough to not make the it a “scam using old te vc projection”. That was the point of my rhetorical question before.

Is the hand movement to control what is being projected on your hand as a menu “nowhere novel”?

> ”probably didn’t see a lot of upward mobility”

There was a case in Brazil recently where a medicine student in a top university embezzled from her graduation party funds (she was at the party committee) to invest in cryptocurrency, make profit and return the money to the fund keeping the profit. But she lost money on crypto. Then she tried to gamble (playing a lot of money on the lottery) to earn what she lost. Lost everything and got caught. Expelled by the university.

She had a lot of potential for upward mobility as a doctor from the most prestigious school in Brazil. Still did it.

How do you focus in two different things?

You can strongly value two (or more) things, but when you decide to focus on something, as I understand the term, you necessarily preclude focusing on another thing.

If think listening audio books is a significantly different experience than reading a book. The narrator’s voice always add interpretation to the text, no matter how neutral they try to be. A monotone voice change how you interpret a character shouting or distressed.

It might be a less intrusive interpretation of a written book than, e.g., a film adaptation. But it’s still very different from reading it.

Braille, I presume, it’s the same. Nothing interpreting the words except your own mind.

Definitely sarcastic. And I only realized the loop after clicking on the comment’s link (I had visited the post before, but not read it)

Followers on Substack only is much less valuable than a subscriber for which you have the email address.

This is a first step for Substack to control who see your posts, when, and insert ads amid your content. You also can’t export followers like you can with subscribers.

I also suspect that a free subscriber is more likely to become a paid subscriber than a follower.

So they diminish your earn potential, decrease the audience of your longer form writing (usually the reason someone creates a newsletter to begin with) and lock you in, making you lose control on how you communicate with your readers.

I think you can export all your email list any time at Substack

Great work! Inspiring for me, as I am trying to build a better UI to consult the document “Base Nacional Comum Curricular” and help all schools to use it for their curriculum creation.

Is your site still up?

Agree. I communicate much better writing English than speaking English. I have time to think and I use Grammarly which helps a lot.

I may make the same grammar and orthography mistakes, but at least there is not an additional pronunciation challenge.

But I do consider myself fluent in English (even if far from perfect). I don’t know if that would still be true to someone not fluent in English