I do need to come out in defense of the Nespresso system. It's obviously not up to "burr grind your own beans and blow $2000 steam through them" standards, but it's a quite nice espresso. I'd take it over most espresso that I get in stores outside of dense urban areas with specialty coffee shops.
I've only tried the Aeropress once, and it was good - but I don't know that I could blindly identify how it was different. Definitely not worth all of the extra effort IMHO.
They are being ridiculous. A French press is just a screen and a plunger in a pot, and you can buy them at Target. Not even remotely pretentious - a $20 automatic drip machine is more complicated. It's like arguing that a fire pit is more pretentious than a fireplace.
Frosty Piss was attacked for making a silly joke about the flavor of K-Cups. Type44Q pointed out that McDonald's is popular despite being largely terrible. Any implication that they are somehow "better" was entirely imagined.
My kids do like McDonald's, but to be fair I think they really like the toys. When I tell them they can't have a Happy Meal, they generally choose Wendys or KFC. I can't think of cheaper prepared food than McDonald's, and I can't think of faster service. I find it very hard to believe that many people rank the taste of their food above other options, but to each their own.
That's true, but in both cases the engine had a manufacturing flaw which caused a lot more destruction than the cowlings were designed to contain. Ingestion presumably would cause fan blades to fly apart, not for the whole thing to come apart at the hub/disc.
it's a brewing system and not all the coffees are the same.
It's a brewing system with fundamental problems, such as pre-ground coffee and limited volume, time, and pressure. The best you can do is get the "extra bold" capsules and keep your expectations kind of low. Or you can do the Starbucks thing and use a really dark roast, then add cream and sugar. You can buy refillable capsules and put your own coffee in them. But you cannot fix the physics of the system.
most people who talk about them negatively last went a decade ago and no longer have any idea what the coffee is like.
The McDonald's coffee improved several years ago to the point where I personally prefer it to Starbucks or any K-Cup I've ever tried. But I don't think we were talking about their coffee exclusively.
It's not pretentious to point out that McDonald's or Keurig are terrible. McDonald's is pretty much the cheapest prepared food one can buy, the lowest of the low. You can eat there or not eat there, but there's nothing pretentious about avoiding it. The K-Cup is, by definition, stale coffee brewed in too-small an amount. The science just doesn't work out. There is nothing pretentious about pointing this out. McDonalds wins because of fast service, uniform quality, and low prices. The K-Cup wins because you can have a single portion of coffee in seconds. If you throw enough cream and sugar in it, you probably won't even notice - and a lot of people do just that. It's not pretentious to fry an egg on a stove instead of microwaving it, or baking a pie from scratch instead of eating a Hostess - nor is it pretentious to spend a little extra time grinding your beans in a $20 grinder and using a $20 automatic drip or even cheaper French press to brew your morning Joe. If you like your coffee black, it's probably worth it.
Though to be fair, if you put a ton of milk/cream in it it tastes OK. They must not be geared towards black coffee.
At Starbucks, if you order an Americano (watered down espresso) it tastes like something approaching a regular cup of coffee.
As for K-Cups, you can find adequacy in the ones marked "extra bold", which is apparently code for "we actually put some grounds in the cup". And then stay away from the darker roasts or you get the Starbucks charcoal love.
It's probably worth pointing out that we share the roads quite recklessly, accepting over a million deaths every year. Our airspace is much safer, even with all of these millions of birds... I mean thousands of drones... flying around.
We have different experiences in talking with teachers. No matter, the individual experiences of two people are not really data anyhow.
I completely agree that how curriculum is implemented is dependent on your locality. Here in PA, it is set by the individual districts with only the (ridiculously overblown) testing dictated by the state. I described how the new methods are generally being abused, but I cannot say that this abuse is universal. Our district uses the "enVision" math curriculum by Pearson, and it is guilty of too many methods taught too shallowly. Hmph, apparently "shallowly" is a word - seems awkward. Anyway, I'm not actually a harsh critic of Common Core - more a critic of the highly unscientific basis that education as a discipline is built upon in general. They swing wildly from one philosophy to another without a whole lot of significant evidence that one approach is better than another. Large districts in particular have no excuse not to be piloting programs and looking for significant results. What in the world is the PhD in education required to be an administrator for if all they are going to do is study philosophy?
I personally have not had these issues. I've used the Mac version for about 6 years. The only remotely advanced thing I've had to do is install the Kindle DRM stripper, and that was done through the GUI. I might not tell my grandfather to use Calibre, but I have no hesitation about recommending it to people haunting Slashdot.
The problem is that there is a fundamental disconnect between the people who devised these new methods of instruction and the materials and curricula which use the new methods. There is nothing wrong with teachers arming themselves with several different ways to teach a particular math concept. Some gets won't "get it" using one method, and so you have these other two which you can draw upon.
The problem is that they force the kids to learn all three methods. They then practice all three methods in the same time space that used to be allotted for one method, more or less. In addition to confusing kids who would have "gotten it" the first time, it significantly reduces total practice time for whatever method they do eventually settle on. I think that the teacher should introduce a single method of their choosing, and then use their discretion to apply the other methods. Then each child should practice their chosen/assigned method until it is mastered.
Either that or give kids 3x the math instruction so that they can learn all of the new methods, which I think is an insane choice.
I think you'll find teachers, on the whole, a bit dissatisfied with the new approaches. So it's not just us engineer types who had no trouble learning the older style math.
To be strictly pedantic about the whole thing... I agree that the curriculum foisted upon us under the guise of "common core" has been terrible to date. However, this crappy way to teach math existed prior to "common core" and just happens to have the new sticker on it. The one our school used was "Everyday Math" from the University of Chicago. Horrendous. Common Core does not require this kind of teaching, and sticking with Common Core as a philosophy may actually see this style of kitchen sink mathematics disappear since evidence of success is one of the tenets.
I wouldn't be too hasty - rarely do you hear people claim that you should consume corn oil, safflower oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, and cottonseed oil. These are the oils from the study. Most of the time, the advice is to use olive, rapeseed (Canola), fish oils, etc.
Correct - Tesla has never done large scale production and they have never done significant cost-reductions. So it's actually 2 new things for them.
buying its first production run is stupid because it will be buggy.
Correct. Any bugs present in the Model 3 will be more prevalent in the early models. The Model 3 will improve over time, and the largest rate of improvement will be over the initial production.
This implies one of two things: either next year's Model S is *also* still a first-production-run product and buggy, or the Model 3 doesn't benefit from lessons learned in the creation of the Model S.
No, there is still room for the third possibility, which you keep ignoring: that even if they took the existing Model S and tried to cost reduce it, they would introduce bugs. That even if they took the existing Model S and tried to ramp up production, they would introduce bugs. That they are ALSO making design changes to the model only makes things worse.
You're trying to suggest an internally-inconsistent position
No, you are constraining the number of variables to an unrealistic set. Your argument applies very well to the Model S facelift: Minor design changes, steady production, steady costs. But we're not talking about the S, we're talking about a high-volume, low-margin version with significant design changes.
Legally? I don't really know or care. Calibre will strip the DRM - whether that is legal or not I don't have any idea, nor does it matter in any way. It's not like stripping DRM is going to land you in any kind of trouble.
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I do need to come out in defense of the Nespresso system. It's obviously not up to "burr grind your own beans and blow $2000 steam through them" standards, but it's a quite nice espresso. I'd take it over most espresso that I get in stores outside of dense urban areas with specialty coffee shops.
I've only tried the Aeropress once, and it was good - but I don't know that I could blindly identify how it was different. Definitely not worth all of the extra effort IMHO.
They are being ridiculous. A French press is just a screen and a plunger in a pot, and you can buy them at Target. Not even remotely pretentious - a $20 automatic drip machine is more complicated. It's like arguing that a fire pit is more pretentious than a fireplace.
Frosty Piss was attacked for making a silly joke about the flavor of K-Cups. Type44Q pointed out that McDonald's is popular despite being largely terrible. Any implication that they are somehow "better" was entirely imagined.
My kids do like McDonald's, but to be fair I think they really like the toys. When I tell them they can't have a Happy Meal, they generally choose Wendys or KFC. I can't think of cheaper prepared food than McDonald's, and I can't think of faster service. I find it very hard to believe that many people rank the taste of their food above other options, but to each their own.
That's true, but in both cases the engine had a manufacturing flaw which caused a lot more destruction than the cowlings were designed to contain. Ingestion presumably would cause fan blades to fly apart, not for the whole thing to come apart at the hub/disc.
it's a brewing system and not all the coffees are the same.
It's a brewing system with fundamental problems, such as pre-ground coffee and limited volume, time, and pressure. The best you can do is get the "extra bold" capsules and keep your expectations kind of low. Or you can do the Starbucks thing and use a really dark roast, then add cream and sugar. You can buy refillable capsules and put your own coffee in them. But you cannot fix the physics of the system.
most people who talk about them negatively last went a decade ago and no longer have any idea what the coffee is like.
The McDonald's coffee improved several years ago to the point where I personally prefer it to Starbucks or any K-Cup I've ever tried. But I don't think we were talking about their coffee exclusively.
It's not pretentious to point out that McDonald's or Keurig are terrible. McDonald's is pretty much the cheapest prepared food one can buy, the lowest of the low. You can eat there or not eat there, but there's nothing pretentious about avoiding it. The K-Cup is, by definition, stale coffee brewed in too-small an amount. The science just doesn't work out. There is nothing pretentious about pointing this out. McDonalds wins because of fast service, uniform quality, and low prices. The K-Cup wins because you can have a single portion of coffee in seconds. If you throw enough cream and sugar in it, you probably won't even notice - and a lot of people do just that. It's not pretentious to fry an egg on a stove instead of microwaving it, or baking a pie from scratch instead of eating a Hostess - nor is it pretentious to spend a little extra time grinding your beans in a $20 grinder and using a $20 automatic drip or even cheaper French press to brew your morning Joe. If you like your coffee black, it's probably worth it.
Yup.
Though to be fair, if you put a ton of milk/cream in it it tastes OK. They must not be geared towards black coffee.
At Starbucks, if you order an Americano (watered down espresso) it tastes like something approaching a regular cup of coffee.
As for K-Cups, you can find adequacy in the ones marked "extra bold", which is apparently code for "we actually put some grounds in the cup". And then stay away from the darker roasts or you get the Starbucks charcoal love.
Someone had to say it. "Drone Hits Plane... Maybe. Absolutely Nothing Happens." That should have been the headline.
And for the love of all things holy, who is stupid enough to fly a drone near an airport???
It's probably worth pointing out that we share the roads quite recklessly, accepting over a million deaths every year. Our airspace is much safer, even with all of these millions of birds... I mean thousands of drones... flying around.
That's what the cowling is for. If they can suck in a Canada goose, they can handle a drone.
Aliens wasn't until 1986, and T2 was 1991. I think you and he are in different eras - you started with movies from the mid-70s.
I just couldn't get past the fact that the main character was having space-sex with a blue monkey. Ew.
We have different experiences in talking with teachers. No matter, the individual experiences of two people are not really data anyhow.
I completely agree that how curriculum is implemented is dependent on your locality. Here in PA, it is set by the individual districts with only the (ridiculously overblown) testing dictated by the state. I described how the new methods are generally being abused, but I cannot say that this abuse is universal. Our district uses the "enVision" math curriculum by Pearson, and it is guilty of too many methods taught too shallowly. Hmph, apparently "shallowly" is a word - seems awkward. Anyway, I'm not actually a harsh critic of Common Core - more a critic of the highly unscientific basis that education as a discipline is built upon in general. They swing wildly from one philosophy to another without a whole lot of significant evidence that one approach is better than another. Large districts in particular have no excuse not to be piloting programs and looking for significant results. What in the world is the PhD in education required to be an administrator for if all they are going to do is study philosophy?
I personally have not had these issues. I've used the Mac version for about 6 years. The only remotely advanced thing I've had to do is install the Kindle DRM stripper, and that was done through the GUI. I might not tell my grandfather to use Calibre, but I have no hesitation about recommending it to people haunting Slashdot.
The problem is that there is a fundamental disconnect between the people who devised these new methods of instruction and the materials and curricula which use the new methods. There is nothing wrong with teachers arming themselves with several different ways to teach a particular math concept. Some gets won't "get it" using one method, and so you have these other two which you can draw upon.
The problem is that they force the kids to learn all three methods. They then practice all three methods in the same time space that used to be allotted for one method, more or less. In addition to confusing kids who would have "gotten it" the first time, it significantly reduces total practice time for whatever method they do eventually settle on. I think that the teacher should introduce a single method of their choosing, and then use their discretion to apply the other methods. Then each child should practice their chosen/assigned method until it is mastered.
Either that or give kids 3x the math instruction so that they can learn all of the new methods, which I think is an insane choice.
I think you'll find teachers, on the whole, a bit dissatisfied with the new approaches. So it's not just us engineer types who had no trouble learning the older style math.
To be strictly pedantic about the whole thing... I agree that the curriculum foisted upon us under the guise of "common core" has been terrible to date. However, this crappy way to teach math existed prior to "common core" and just happens to have the new sticker on it. The one our school used was "Everyday Math" from the University of Chicago. Horrendous. Common Core does not require this kind of teaching, and sticking with Common Core as a philosophy may actually see this style of kitchen sink mathematics disappear since evidence of success is one of the tenets.
How? What realistic scenario could result in some penalty to myself?
I like how the bad data about salt came from a company making salt substitutes...
LOL, I have no idea what is going on...
I wouldn't be too hasty - rarely do you hear people claim that you should consume corn oil, safflower oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, and cottonseed oil. These are the oils from the study. Most of the time, the advice is to use olive, rapeseed (Canola), fish oils, etc.
You state that the Model 3 is a new type of thing
Correct - Tesla has never done large scale production and they have never done significant cost-reductions. So it's actually 2 new things for them.
buying its first production run is stupid because it will be buggy.
Correct. Any bugs present in the Model 3 will be more prevalent in the early models. The Model 3 will improve over time, and the largest rate of improvement will be over the initial production.
This implies one of two things: either next year's Model S is *also* still a first-production-run product and buggy, or the Model 3 doesn't benefit from lessons learned in the creation of the Model S.
No, there is still room for the third possibility, which you keep ignoring: that even if they took the existing Model S and tried to cost reduce it, they would introduce bugs. That even if they took the existing Model S and tried to ramp up production, they would introduce bugs. That they are ALSO making design changes to the model only makes things worse.
You're trying to suggest an internally-inconsistent position
No, you are constraining the number of variables to an unrealistic set. Your argument applies very well to the Model S facelift: Minor design changes, steady production, steady costs. But we're not talking about the S, we're talking about a high-volume, low-margin version with significant design changes.
Legally? I don't really know or care. Calibre will strip the DRM - whether that is legal or not I don't have any idea, nor does it matter in any way. It's not like stripping DRM is going to land you in any kind of trouble.
Calibre keeps your original files, too, and uploads only what you tell it to. It's not even remotely burdensome.
A free download of Calibre will solve your issue by converting your epub to mobi.