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I think the idea is that there are higher startup costs to brew at home. Even a cheap coffee machine is going to cost more than a cup of coffee at a diner, in t
by arctic-true 9mo ago
I think the idea is that there are higher startup costs to brew at home. Even a cheap coffee machine is going to cost more than a cup of coffee at a diner, in the same way that a computer that can run a local LLM is going to cost more than a bunch of API calls to a commercial model. Eventually, those diner coffees add up, but you’re stuck with them if you can’t afford the coffee machine.
- normie3000 9mo ago> Even a cheap coffee machine is going to cost more than a cup of coffee at a diner I think I understood but disagree - the cheapest "coffee machine" is a kettle or cooking pot.
- nchmy 9mo agoCowboy coffee can be excellent. It's almost literally what professional coffee tasters do when they do "cuppings". A French press just adds fine mesh. You don't even need the glass jar - literally a jar or any other vessel would work