I never liked this quote, because it makes help a matter of anticipated reciprocal help rather than simply a good thing to do. Besides, memories are short.
How much "good thing [we] do" is based on anticipated reward has been a topic of debate for roughly as long as we've had language, but I'll take anything that convinces people like that to actually care about people other than themselves.
"I started the car and went for a drive on the highway. There were many other cats on the road but it was nevertheless agitating."
Given the correct prompt (that avoids changing your literary style altogether), AI can quickly suggest cats -> cars and agitating -> peaceful, since it's much better at contextualizing.
Seems strange they would design a system that could scan faster than they could process the DB, no? I assume there's some queue in between. But the real answer is probably just: multiple scans happen for the same piece of mail. Eventually, one or both of them will be marked as due for payment. The question then becomes, was it worth saving the postage cost for what is potentially a much costlier penalty?
It's got a decent self-cleaning cycle. Every month or two, it'll ask you to put in a cleaning tablet (about $2 for the OEM version, or there are cheaper generic ones). It goes through an internal cleanse and poops out a slop of muckety muck. I put on soft yoga music for mine, but that's optional. Ten minutes later it's ready to use again.
About half as frequently, it'll also ask you to put in a descaling tablet. Similar process.
Beyond that, day-to-day, it can make about 8 shots of espresso before the grounds hopper is full. You just dump it and rinse it in the sink (no need for a thorough wash) and it's ready to use again. Less cleanup than a regular drip coffee maker (no filters to deal with, no grind dust to rinse/brush, no glassware, nothing to dry).
It's super convenient. The main downside is really just taste. I tried to do a blind taste test with my coffee snob friend (he's the kinda guy who measures everything down to the milligram and gives his grounds acupuncture before sending them to the spa). We used the same bag of beans, same water, same cups, etc. His came out with a layer of fine oils and sparkling foam. Mine looked like someone opened a dishwasher prematurely. We couldn't even get to the taste test part because you could smell the difference with your eyes closed. And I had a clogged nose that day.
Maybe the $3k Jura is different, but my janky little unit is definitely a poor man's machine – the hand-me-down Civic of superautomatic coffee makers. I'd buy it again in a heartbeat though.
I have the Jura Giga 5 and I would say it produces coffee which is better than I can get in any chain store, and, better than the average specialty shop as well. Obviously there are some specialty shops which produce excellent coffee which is better than the Jura, but, not by a massive margin. Interesting that you find the A1 to be much poorer in quality, or my pallet just sucks. Either way I fully agree with you that having "push button, make coffee" is fantastic, I don't want to fiddle with scales and worrying about blooming my coffee grounds for 14 seconds at 92c before brewing with water at 90c. Push button. Make good coffee.
The other "maintenance" item I've noted after having this machine for >10 years is that every 5 years or so it breaks and I have to send it back to Jura.
Their warranty service is a flat-rate $500 and they either repair yours or send you a refurb unit, for something which I spent almost 5k on, I'm very happy that they seem to have the option to basically keep the Jura working forever if I want.
The Giga 5 prefers to listen to the Spotify "upbeat pop music" playlist when I run the cleaning cycle FYI.
For anyone who hasn't gotten into the coffee insanity yet, he doesn't mean his friend literally gives the coffee acupuncture... but a cork with some acupuncture needles (or a device that looks like such) is commonly (!) used to stir/even out/redistribute/break up clumps of coffee in the portafilter before tamping. And reading that I now need to go get some coffee.
You're misinterpreting. When sorted by annual income, the top 5 incomes all have the same value: 380,288. This points to something weird going on in the data, unless all of those specific participants happen to work the same job at the same company. Even then, years of experience and salary increases would likely differ.
Oh this is a fascinating coincidence- 380,288 just so happens to be the income reported by Vice President Harris and her husband on their 2021 federal tax return.
DAW/NLE = digital audio workstation/non-linear editing (you'd have to search both terms in order to get the correct context, especially if used right next to each other).
The author is probably talking about video editing of some kind, whereby he either regrets not saving more source code or taking more screenshots of his work if I had to wager a guess. Not sure what the "non-realtime/static artifact from code" refers to when it comes to video editing -- perhaps much of it was rendered from code? 3D software, programmatic editing, etc.?
Wabi-sabi being used a bit weirdly in this context, but I think they mean the temporality of it all has innate beauty. Sometimes not capturing every single moment/line of code is OK, and there is beauty in a moment not strictly captured, to be appreciated more since you'll never see it again.
Yeah sorry to be oblique .. you are correct in regard to the intended meaning of DAW, NLE, and wabi-sabi. As for static artifacts, in my case I work with generative systems quite a lot, often durational systems that make image / sound / lighting / movement stochastically or non-deterministically over long periods, and are generally a living thing that has behavior. While a picture or other recording of those things represents a shadow image of what the real thing is, it beats nothing.
In this case, I mention wabi-sabi as the zen acceptance, even beauty, of the transience of all things, because it makes the creative act primary, rather than a very un-zen attempt to hold on to something fleeting, which some would say is the source of all unhappiness.
Cancellation fees should not be more than double the actual fee of booking. This highly incentivizes no-shows and the use of virtual credit/debit cards for the initial booking.
If you don't get the fee for just no showing I definitely agree. But I really do strongly believe that there needs to be heavy disincentives for reserving space that you don't use. The lack of extra space is the whole reason this site was needed in the first place.
Right but if you charge a fee to cancel then you've just made the no-show problem worse. Who would voluntarily pay fee when you can just do... nothing?
If your goal is to maximize the number of people actually in the park, then you want cheap early cancellations, and high late cancellation and no-show fees. You want to encourage people to cancel with enough warning if they no longer plan to be there.
Not surprisingly, this is also the exact model that hotels use...
