believing in yourself to some degree seems to me to be a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for success, since it underlies action in general

sorry to say i never came across a kona worth its price

dont many of the language primitives confer the possibility of thrown exceptions?

cant practically anything throw an exception given the right (sometimes extremely remotely possible) circumstances?

yeah i cant figure how this dumb fucking project is still alive. money i guess

grassroots resistance to horseshit laws gives me hope for humanity

i havent seen bad results at least. i use one with a good rating/latency listed on searx.space

yes i also noticed google search is absolute trash lately. so i switched to searx and life is better. i only go to google for street view and reverse image search now.

it just depends on the specifics. a manager (or management team) can theoretically offload administrative stuff in big organizations that would overwhelm everyone at the edge to distribute

on the other end of the spectrum, i go through about one pen per decade. the one at my desk ive been using for about 6 years. somewhat remarkable to me that the ink stays good for so long.

for those curious like me, wikipedia says this was a coal/diesel plant

musculature is not solely masculine, but if that’s the association for you, it makes sense that you feel a woman with muscles “starts looking like a man”. a similar circular reasoning would be arrived at if you simply considered strength itself to be a masculine trait.

a woman can be physically strong without “turning into a man”.

strength of character? how about “nomadland” or “meek’s cutoff”?

the other great thing about the long steep is it cools off the coffee. overly hot coffee tastes worse.

might not be completely wet

mine’s just about the same except i tend to push the grind size down as much as i can, up to the point it tips toward bitter. and that seems to depend significantly on the particular coffee itself, i expect both for flavor/roast reasons and for innate properties of the variety. i start around 20 on the encore and if thats tasting fine, go 2 clicks finer each time until it doesn’t, then back off by one. and it’s grind one or two clicks finer with an aged bag vs a fresh one.

I did this for about a year. Argument was the hot bloom could pull out some parts of flavor that the cold brewing couldn’t. I recently switched back to cold-only and decided the brews were improved. I do 100gm:700gm ratio and let it steep 24 hours.

it wont ever be good for that and i wasn’t suggesting it

fwiw, it sounds to me like your encore may have an issue. at 0 the burrs should start making interference noise and the grinder should be making espresso-range powder/dust.

i feel that decentralized search is an extremely valuable thing to start thinking about. but the devil is in practically every one of the details.