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by Kirby64 2y ago
The pump doesn’t appear to offer any meaningful controls. The espresso machine itself seems just voltage controlled. How is that innovative?
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Best I can tell, with the manual released, this is literally just a pump and a group head. The dial appears to control the pump 'power' (voltage, I assume), and that's about it. I'm really, really not seeing what could p
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by Kirby64 2y ago
The Meticulous is a lower end competition with the Decent Espresso DE1, or a more upscale version of the DIY stuff like Gaggiuino. Given the author has given us essentially nothing regarding what is actually controllable (besides pressure c
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by Kirby64 2y ago
No offense, but we're not really comparing different things. You're offering an espresso machine that fundamentally has: * No heating control * No tank/water storage * No milk frothing capability The obvious comparison is a m
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by Kirby64 2y ago
So, the Flair 58 is their 'highest end' model and sports a 58mm portafilter... this thing is a 51mm portafilter which is basically only used on smaller portable machines. Also, it's listed on their website for $580. Not sure
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Some of it is audiophile in the very high end, but the Capresso is definitely not where I would consider the edge of diminishing returns. It uses pretty mediocre burrs with a considerable amount of plastic and a poor grind adjustment mechan
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Decent machines (the company called Decent Espresso, to be clear. It’s confusing) use a vibe pump to do cycle-by-cycle water flow measurement. They claim it’s substantially more accurate and responsive than any water flow meters on the mark
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by Kirby64 2y ago
For something that is essentially a slightly automated manual lever machine, it is quite expensive. Anything from Flair or the other lever machine companies is far less than that. Without actually fully heating the coffee for your and havin
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by Kirby64 2y ago
If you read the article I linked, currency is taxed as income in the US. You can elect to treat it as capital gains but I don’t know exactly what that entails or requires.
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Any of the advanced lane keeping systems are immensely helpful for lowering fatigue, especially on longer drives. I think it's quite hard to recognize how fatiguing it is to constantly make sure your car is centered in the lane with sm
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Good news: in the car market, almost everyone follows 'reuse' and 'repair'. Not many people take a car and crush it for recycled parts unless it's truly worthless or super old. They sell it to someone else. For the
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Currency arbitrage would be taxed as normal income. The more specific example being buying pesos, then reselling pesos for US dollars at a gain. There are exclusions for currency conversion below a threshold for personl expenses such as tra
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by Kirby64 2y ago
But it’s not when we’re talking about this in the context of weight loss/gain. When people colloquially say “gain weight” or “lose weight” they almost always mean gain/lose fat and/or muscle. Water weight is neither of those,
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by Kirby64 2y ago
It's not reasonable to account for water weight gains in talking about weight loss. Water weight is transient in that it will reach some maximal state, and often times it is only at the onset of a diet change (i.e., the first day or tw
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by Kirby64 2y ago
> First, a USB hub is bulky and frankly a damn nuisance to carry about, it needs to be integrated. First, multiple USB ports are bulky, and frankly a damn nuisance to carry about. I don't need an extra port for the majority of my us
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by Kirby64 2y ago
> Using bench type instrumentation has nothing whatsoever to do with what I'm talking about. At no time did I ever say that my portable device was a substitute for professional test equipment. The idea is preposterous. >> Of c
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by Kirby64 2y ago
> I beg to differ, Fairphone thinks it's economically viable to make phones that are upgradeable by changing modules. The company is doing it now! Fairphones devices are, frankly, bad value and not particularly interesting. Being ab
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by Kirby64 2y ago
> For starters I'm 1 person, so the market is not O. And I know of others, and I know I'm not alone. Clearly you don't work in test and measurement. I said approximately 0, when compared to smartphone sales… which it is. I
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by Kirby64 2y ago
> Why aren't there multiple USB ports? By now why don't all phones use USB-3? Why isn't there general purpose D/A and A/D ports/outputs for instrumentation? Why don't they include a GPIB-like bus to con
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Again, not confused here. I’m talking about older stuff like the 50kW CCS/chademo systems. There’s no “older” with standard level 2 charging. Level 2 charging coexists with level 3 and will continue to coexist.
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Any basic financial advice would tell you to have 3-12 months worth of emergency fund ready for unexpected events. Losing your job is just another unexpected event. If you’ve got a 6-12 month runway of money, why wouldn’t you take a little
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by Kirby64 2y ago
I’m not confused here, to be clear. There is a giant transformer that converts from mid voltage AC to low voltage AC at most installations. Because they draw so much power they need their own dedicated transformers. There’s sometimes (depen
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by Kirby64 2y ago
At least the Tesla implementation of their latest stuff, dispenser to faster charger ratio is 1:1. Their older design would gang 2 dispensers to a single 150kW combined charge rate, but new ones are 250kW per dispenser for each port simulta
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by Kirby64 2y ago
No, they don’t. Extension cables for something that is dumping 250kW would be dangerous, or outrageously expensive and bulky.
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by Kirby64 2y ago
DCFCs are much more than a “fancy switch”. It’s a circuit capable of converting 3-phase high voltage AC into variable high voltage DC at 150-350kW. The power electronics are very, very expensive. As far as I’m aware, the large transformer y
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by Kirby64 2y ago
I think you really underestimate how much people spend on stuff that is a non-necessity. People at every income level fall prey to the “if I’ve got extra money in my account, guess that means I can spend it”. There are, 100%, people living
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Retirees absolutely pay income tax. Withdrawing from a traditional IRA/401k generates ordinary income at the current federal tax rate. And any capital gains is taxed (albeit at a lower rate) when sold. It's a fraction of what they
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by Kirby64 2y ago
That’s still not paycheck to paycheck. If you’re spending income on non necessities you could cut back and be just fine. An aside, if you’re spending 100% of your income on just lifestyle stuff… you don’t to work at all if your retirement c
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by Kirby64 2y ago
That is not living paycheck to paycheck by any reasonable definition. If you could stop contributing to savings/retirement/investments and suddenly have a ton of additional disposable income, then it's not that.
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by Kirby64 2y ago
Less expensive yes, but more importantly much more convenient. When 'all' the shows exist on a combination of Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Paramount, Disney+, and Max... you can easily get to $100/mo+ if you were to subscribe

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