I wouldn’t consider these huge issues, but there’s 3 areas where I think the miir design suffers relative to the chemex. The pourover part looks like just a single wall. Obviously the chemex is, too, but according to a quick look on wikipedia, stainless has ~10x the thermal conductivity of borosilicate glass, so your brew chamber is going to cool more quickly. No clue if it would be enough to make a difference in brew temp, though.

The stainless carafe part sounds good, too, but stainless travel mugs almost always get lots of coffee residue buildup, and it’s a bit of a process to get them properly clean to the point where you don’t smell it. I always end up washing with baking soda and/or citric acid a few times. Glass stays cleaner, and it’s also easier to see how clean it is.

Lastly, it might just be me, but every once in a while, my scale times out if I’m doing other stuff while making coffee, or I’ll make coffee without a scale. It’s really nice to be able to see visually how much coffee there is in the carafe.

This is the lab behind the poop knife. They are absolutely experts in this kind of thing.

I need to read the whole paper, but I suspect the weight/wind resistance ratio of the javelin is better, and that the motion of launching an atlatl dart is affected by the downward angle. The railing on the scissor lift likely has an effect, too.

They want to merge with Albertsons, who owns the other half of grocery stores: Acme, Safeway, jewel osco, and a bunch more.

Yeah, reviewing is about making sure the methods are sound and the conclusions are supported by the data. Whether or not the data are correct is largely something that the reviewer cannot determine.

If a machine spits out a reading of 5.3, but the paper says 6.2, the reviewer can’t catch that. If numbers are too perfect, you might be suspicious of it, but it’s really not your job to go all forensic accountant on the data.

I had similar happen once. Look at the connection between the drain and the tub itself. For me, the plumbers putty that was in there was old and had gotten gross and cracked. It was fine when I showered, but when I put enough water in to fill the tub, it broke through with a leak. The water pooled up on a bit of subfloor, and dripped from there onto the drywall below. Even after the tub was empty, there was still some dripping till I dried everything out.

What I had to do was just remove the drain, and reapply new putty. It’s possible you have putty, or a gasket, or caulk in there that has failed. It’s probably a pretty easy fix for you to replace it.

One way to look at it is that “speed”, in km/hr, is an instantaneous measure. As you walk, you speed up and slow down; maybe there are hills or something. That’s not super useful to most people. What is useful is knowing “is this chunk of my walk/run slower or faster than the last chunk?”. Someone running a 10k wants to know their average speed for each kilometer. Someone running or walking a shorter race might want finer splits, but it’s convenient for comparison to still use 1 kilometer as the baseline because you have a better sense of what it feels like to walk a 12 minute km pace than a 6 minute half km pace, even if they are the same thing.

I didn’t even know there were non 24hr locations

Recyclability, too

Here is a really good article about the topic. The gist is that typically in mountaineering, there’s not often an official definition of the “start point”, but the “end point” is back at the start, so people who die midway on the return journey don’t “count”. The “top” should be easy to define, but often, the top of a mountain is a large area, and you aren’t going to hike around looking for which part is just barely the highest. Also, some true summits are habitually avoided as sacred places to the locals.

I don’t understand why people like Facebook marketplace. It’s so transparently a way for them to just gather more shopping habits data on you, and it’s too easy for scammers to use. They act like having an account somehow makes it harder to scam.

I would much rather support the website run by a skeleton crew that has no unnecessary features than get a few bucks more on FB marketplace. If I’m selling something that I’ve used, it’s cause I want to get rid of it, anyway.

Oculus was founded by a shitty person who sold to Facebook and then went on to help make a company to bring Big Tech into surveillance and autonomous weapon systems. Basically, he’s trying to bring on an orwellian nightmare.

Oculus would have gone bad weather or not Facebook bought them.

Coffee beans aren’t beans. There are some beans that are roasted as a substitute for coffee, like the seeds of the Kentucky coffeetree. In times of shortage, people have tried many things to replace coffee, like dandelion and chicory root. For the most part, the substitutes arent as good as the original, so people don’t stick with them. There’s a chance someone has tried to roast and brew pinto beans or whatever, but they probably taste bad.

That lance Hedrick video had a lot of good relevant info.

I’ll add that the definition of “light” changes as much as the definition of women’s pants sizes do. Its essentially “vanity sizing”, but for flavor. Most consumers, at the end of the day, want their coffee to taste exactly how they are used to, but they paradoxically also want to be having something “different” or “unique”. It’s why Hawaii is full of roasters selling $70 bags of coffee that taste the same as $8 grocery store bags.

Roasters have to weigh whether to give accurate info that will appeal to us nerds, or whether to aim for the general populace. There are probably many roasters who legitimately don’t know better, but I’d reckon many roasters are just making the economical choice.

Peppers are a north/south American thing, there aren’t any native to the old world, so it has to be a coincidence.

There are plenty of essential oils that smell really nice, and are nice to have in soaps or candles or whatever, but I just can’t bring myself to give money to any of the companies that make them cause they all support crazies and pseudoscience. If there’s a company that doesn’t, I’d love to hear about it.

Olympic record is different than world record. He’s done a longer throw at a different event.

I had a simple box fan break a blade from falling over due to its own power. A fan with better materials should be able to survive a short fall (and probably shouldn’t be able to blow itself over).

The short answer is that there are a lot of variables, so your process has to be dialed in per bean, which is why most people end up just sticking with 1 type of beans.

Different roast levels are going to have different densities. Different bean varieties (and localities) are going to have different density and size. The age of the bean comes into play as well.

Some variables affect the actual brewing, others affect how the beans grind. Every once in a while, i’ll have a bean that just seems to make more fines for whatever reason. I guess it’s just down to the stiffness of the bean and the size.

If you want to be able to switch beans at will, you’ll need to keep notes for each variety, and adjust back and forth as needed.

I don’t think you’ll be able to get a new bean right on your first shot no matter how you try to adjust. If you adjust for one variable, there’s still all the others.

Counting beans isn’t particularly helpful, either, cause they come in a range of sizes. A pacamara bean, for example, is huge, while peaberries of any variety will be tiny. Coffee mills generally sort beans to consistent sizes so they roast well, but you could get coffee from the same farm from 2 different roasters, and each roaster could be buying different sized beans.

Corollary: do not assume anybody doesnt speak English.