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Necessity is the mother of invention
Thanks to a couple of programmers their love for coffee future historians can now build a direct time line from colonialism to e-girls.
“most world changing technologies were made because an Engineer was lazy!!!”
-Bill Gates, probably
Not far off tbf
FYI : Kodak patented the digital camera in 1975 but film and paper were too profitable
If you step back and look at every company out there, we could probably either determine they have no purpose to the greater good of humanity or they chose to ignore a new invention because they are not even close to done making money on the current one. Could you imagine where we’d be if we progressed on improving a technology because it was a better option?
Capitalism sucks. It sucks for the planet.
But hey, I made 5 trillion dollars on a stock today, so there’s that /s
20+ years ago Colgate bought and shelved a patent for an antibacterial mouthwash that only targeted bacteria that erode enamel.
“We can’t sell this shit… It will put us and the entire dentistry profession under”
Isn’t that also where “HTTP 418: I’m a teapot” came from?
Though that could have been a reference, iirc that was an unrelated April fools RFC that was filed as a partial complaint people were creating overly specific http status codes
“Coffee” was also the name of the first OnlyFans model to use a Webcam.
Oh I like this. It’s on the cusp of being fake or fact. I’m never going to fact check and I don’t want to know.
Sorry but webcams are older than OF. There would have been many OF models that were already doing webcamming.
Nah but it was the first OF person. There was Chaturbate and other webcam platforms prior but not OF. So Coffee was the first OF. It’s a fact.
Ah, do not one has regaled you with the old “Only Pennies” machines in the drug store.
Well, some models sure were channeling Mamie Van Doren, I’ll tell you that!
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CAFEBABE
I just love those old OS designs. Mostly Windows 3.11 and AmigaOS 3.2
This looks like motif which IMO is comfy asf
You might be right. Anyway, Motif was nice too.
Amiga 3.2 is a quite new release (although it still looks much like 3.1)
From 2021, to be exact.
Indeed. And the latest version of it was from last year.
I don’t, but this one is a exception. Not too much visual clutter and also more accessible than most modern themes.
Too much tech for me, I alway French Press my coffee on the go in a more ecologic way.
I do cowboy coffee now. Mix finely ground with hot water, stir ot, it settles in a couple minutes, pour off liquid. Way easier.
I would do that, but called it Turkish coffee. Get it ground that way.
French Press is faster, mix ground with hot water, push down the plunger, coffee ready. In the morning I’m not capable to do something more complicated or waiting minutes for my coffee.
You are supposed to wait a few minutes before plunging and decanting French press though. If you are just pressing it and serving your French press coffee must be absolutely terrible.
A decent drip maker with a timer will make better coffee than you are making and also be less work on top of it. Wake up to fresh hot coffee, done
It’s a myth, no need to wait in a French Press. I also thought it at the beginning as newbe with it, but there are no differences, except that the coffee isn’t hot anymore waiting several minutes. the pressure of your hand is enough to extract the aroma of the coffee, similar to the pressure do it the water pressure in an italian expresso can, the difference that there the water pression is against the coffee, not the coffee against the water in the french press.
That’s absolutely false. I have personally tested a range of different steep times and the difference in taste is obvious. If you can’t taste the difference your taste buds must be fried or something.
Pressing down on the piston does not provide a meaningful amount of pressure; this has been proven by people instrumenting aeropresses which provide more back pressure than an espresso. Extraction is objectively time dependent, it has been extensively discussed and really isn’t up for debate at all.
It’s less work than a french press. I am seriously the laziest person in the world when I first wake up and I find it easier. It takes me a couple minutes to get situated to read with my coffee anyway.
I don’t understand why they don’t just accept free walks
Lol, found a non dev
If it was physical I’d understand. As an engineer I’ll takr any excuse to build something. But I also need my boss off my ass about taking another walk, I can’t think sitting still
Just use a laserpointer and the surface refracting properties of water, like any hacker?
Me and My 3d printer thank you
I got a 360° one to fuck with my cat >:)
TIL
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Yet another invention driven by laziness - just like the remote control. Where would we be without that?
Personally, I prefer laziness as a motivator over greed. It’s much more likely to lead to low maintenance solutions that still keep maintenance as an option over replacement.
Though I’ve curated my laziness to the point where I’ll do chores out of laziness becuase I know they’ll be more work later.
But I’d also spend 2 days writing a script to avoid spending 2 hours doing something tedious.
But I’d also spend 2 days writing a script to avoid spending 2 hours doing something tedious.
“Two days of debugging can save you 10 minutes of reading the documentation.”
There was even an entire standards document drawn up (as a practical joke), called the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP 1.0). To this day though, there the server status response 418 - I’m a teapot still exists. It was defined as part of HTCPCP as the error code returned when you tried to get a teapot to brew coffee :)
Web nerds took their coffee seriously! Or maybe they didn’t? Does doing up an entire standards document as an april fools joke count as serious or unserious?
I get no respect.
All you had to do was brew a coffee…
Nerds making joke standards is nothing unique.
See also: IETF RFC 1149 and IPoAC
Another example of such an attack
CW: animals being eaten
that’s not a man-in-the-middle attack (unless the bird is a trained falcon or something), it’s packet loss due to infrastructure damage
Valid. I checked again, and:
Known risks to the protocol include:
- Carriers being attacked by birds of prey. RFC2549: “Unintentional encapsulation in hawks has been known to occur, with decapsulation being messy and the packets mangled.”
So I guess that’s what’s happening here
Humorous RFCs and protocol proposals are an ancient internet tradition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_Comments
Engineering humour of this sort actually goes back even further – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_encabulator
Nerdy humour has probably been around as long as there have been engineers.
Learning about computer science and finding all the subtle jokes embedded in the naming conventions is peak. These nerds had humor!
Geeking out over the origins of HTTP 418 kinda got me a job once. But that was back when that kind of stuff, connecting interpersonally with the humans that you work with, mattered during hiring.
Glad my lore has served you well.
connecting interpersonally with the humans
You could’ve stopped right there and it would’ve still made sense, which is sad.
That’s serious unseriousness, or in other words German humor
I’m not laughing.
German humor is nothing to laugh at.
The wurst.
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German… what now?
Google also has this little easter egg: https://www.google.com/teapot
Does doing up an entire standards document as an april fools joke count as serious or unserious?
It’s impossible to know until you observe them. They’re Shrödinger’s Nerds.
