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Niksko commented on Into the co-ferment kingdom: A trip to Finca Monteblanco   robertasami.com/coffee/in... · Posted by u/archagon
fleebee · a month ago
I think it's cool that producers are experimenting with co-fermented coffee in search for new experiences, but truth be told, the co-ferments I've had have always left me disappointed. I'm guessing the process is delicate and it's easy to end up with over-fermented, overripe fruity notes that overshadow the subtler coffee notes. I've tried these coffees from several award-winning roasters and the experience has always been similar. The first sip catches you off-guard like "wow, I didn't know coffee could taste like that", but once your palate catches up, it can be a chore to finish the cup. The flavor is intense, but I think it comes at the expense of clarity and depth. It works great for competition where you need to stand out, but not so much for home consumption.

I feel the same way about beer with fruit adjuncts. Yeast and hops -- like coffee -- can express an unbelievable variety of aromas and flavors on their own. For example, a Flanders red ale can taste so much like sour cherries that you couldn't believe none were added to the ferment, mostly thanks to the magic of yeast.

When you have this kind of expressiveness in your ingredients to begin with, co-fermenting with fruit is a bit of a shame in my opinion.

Niksko · a month ago
I see what you're saying, but IMO beer is both a bad example AND similar to coffee in many ways.

It's a bad example in the sense that the flavors you get out of fruited beers tends not to be as 'funky' as in coffees because fermentation is controlled so closely. You can get some incredible flavors out of adding adjuncts to beers. Yes it's interesting and cool that you can get some of those flavors out of yeast, but there are also flavors you just can't get from yeast that can be delicious.

It's also similar to coffee in that adding extra things is not somehow new or novel, it's actually very old, we're just rediscovering it.

Niksko commented on FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices   arstechnica.com/civis/thr... · Posted by u/Bluestein
_--__--__ · a month ago
FYI to all commenters: the current FCC chair was nominated by Trump>Biden>Trump and unanimously confirmed by the Senate all 3 times.
Niksko · a month ago
FYI to all commenters, take 5 seconds to google Brendan Carr and you will see how much of a partisan, anti-free-speech hack he is. The man wears a gold Trump head pin on his lapel ffs.
Niksko commented on Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal   bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8x... · Posted by u/lleims
everfrustrated · 4 months ago
Spot a European at a hundred paces by their reflex that anything happens the _government_ must do something.

If electricity is that important to you, buy your _own_ resilience. Tesla powerwalls and non-tesla equivalents have been available for ages.

Niksko · 4 months ago
Spot an American at a hundred paces proposing that you either have the money to buy batteries yourself, or else you should just eat it and suffer
Niksko commented on Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code   browsermcp.io/... · Posted by u/namukang
mfkhalil · 5 months ago
Hey, we’re working on MatterRank which is pretty similar to this but currently works on web search. (e.g. I want to prioritize results that talk about X and have Y bias and I want to deprioritize those that are trying to sell me something). Feel free to try it out at https://matterrank.ai

Would also be interested in hearing more about what you’re envisioning for your use case. Are you thinking a browser extension that acts on sites you’re already on, or some sort of shopping aggregator that lets you do this, or something else entirely?

Niksko · 5 months ago
Not OP but I definitely sympathise with them. I don't know how practical it is to implement or how profitable it would be, but the problem I often have is this: * I have something I want to buy and have specific needs for it (height, color, shape, other properties) * I know that there's a good chance the website I'm on sells a product that meets those needs (or possibly several such that I'd want to choose from) * my criteria are more specific than the filters available on the site e.g. I want a specific length down to a few cm because I want the biggest thing that will fit in a fixed space * crucially for an AI use case: the information exists on the individual product pages. They all list dimensions and specifications. I just don't want to have to go through them all.

Example: find me all of the desks on IKEA that come in light coloured wood, are 55 inches wide, and rank them from deepest to shallowest. Oh, and make sure they're in stock at my nearest IKEA, or are delivering within the next week.

Niksko commented on Jeppson's Malört   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jep... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Niksko · 8 months ago
Tried it when I was in Chicago. If you enjoy bitter amari like Cynar or Averna you won't find this particularly especially bracing. It's an interesting local curiosity, but it's sort of _just_ bitter with not much else in terms of flavour.
Niksko commented on Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts   9to5mac.com/2025/01/10/ap... · Posted by u/pyb
zapzupnz · 8 months ago
I know it's technically unrelated, but…

> We strive to create a culture of belonging

and

> Tim Cook personally donates $1million to the Trump inaugural fund (not quoted from the article)

just don't sit together properly in my mind. The fish rots from the head.

Niksko · 8 months ago
I get what you're saying, but it's merely because Trump has shown that he's easy to manipulate and can basically be bought. If it were any other Republican coming into office this wouldn't be happening. Not to spout off too much, but as usual, the right shows that all of their nonsense posturing is just projection. "Drain the swamp, stop government corruption", and yet the powerful are literally buying Trump's support.
Niksko commented on NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker   congestion-pricing-tracke... · Posted by u/gotmedium
milch · 8 months ago
Most transit agencies have this problem of the "vicious transit cycle" - people don't take the bus because it's too infrequent/unreliable => more cars make the buses more unreliable => less money because so few people take it => back to start. It's amazing when you're sitting in a bus behind 20 cars backed up over 4 blocks, and you look back and there's 50 people on the bus. Really makes you think why the 50-person bus doesn't get priority over all of the single occupancy vehicles
Niksko · 8 months ago
And if you look to places like Meixco City and Bogota, their bus rapid transit is very fast and efficient. But good luck taking away a single lane of traffic for dedicated bus services anywhere in the US.
Niksko commented on I am rich and have no idea what to do   vinay.sh/i-am-rich-and-ha... · Posted by u/vhiremath4
dmvdoug · 8 months ago
I am really, really eager and excited to see the result when these DOGE-istas cook up whatever insanely “rational” schemes they imagine will make government not completely “dysfunctional” roll them out to the people they actually need to implement them (i.e., Congress).

Surprise! Politicians only claim to care about budget and spending matters when the opposite party is in control.

But I think most of us aren’t so naive as not to realize DOGE is just and only another way to troll Democrats, not actually a serious way to tackle our fiscal and budgetary problems. The past n Comptrollers of the United States have been banging away on that policy drum for as long as I’ve been paying attention to politics (beginning ca. 2000). Nobody cares. They write nice reports though.

Niksko · 8 months ago
My guess at what it will look like:

* Ruthless budget cutting. Import social programs that (purely by coincidence) don't alight with the far right's ideology will be cut because e.g. only 1% of the population uses them, ignoring that 1% of the population is still 3 million odd people.

* Lots of brain drain. There are good people in government. I suspect the good ones won't much enjoy being told that they're morons who are wasting everyone's money. The actual morons won't care much, and the people doling out the firings won't be around long enough to figure who is who.

* Some low hanging fruit that requires a dictatorship and wide-ranging mandate to achieve. There's definitely inefficiency in government that can be solved by pointing everyone in the same direction and telling them their jobs are on the line. But not that much. I'm sure much fanfare will be made of what is solved though.

* Lots of corruption, cronyism and people under-qualified for their roles but over-estimating their abilities. This is a playbook we've seen from Trump and from Elon "I looked at Twitter's code for 5 seconds and instantly made 100x improvements' Musk. Thankfully, government projects span years or decades, so the effects of these terrible contracts and inexperienced leaders will be felt for years to come.

Niksko commented on I am rich and have no idea what to do   vinay.sh/i-am-rich-and-ha... · Posted by u/vhiremath4
dgfitz · 8 months ago
I tried for years, and came to the same conclusion. Years. 4 different therapists @ 1.5-2 years each.

Therapy can, at best, help one identify issues and suggest ways to make improvements.

When you know all the issues and can’t make changes, therapy doesn’t do much.

Niksko · 8 months ago
Doesn't sound like the author has any idea what issues plague them, based on what I read. Lots of plausible sounding ideas in this thread, if a therapist helps them figure out which ones are accurate, money can (probably) help them make the changes.
Niksko commented on The Rust Trademark Policy is still harmful   purplesyringa.moe/blog/th... · Posted by u/mananaysiempre
yuliyp · 10 months ago
I'm unsure why the author is upset about being unable to fork and still calling it Rust. That feels perfectly reasonable: They're the ones that get to call it Rust. The copyright license still lets you hack on it and distribute the results as you'd like, but if you distribute it and call it Rust that's gonna cause confusion, so they don't blanket allow that.
Niksko · 10 months ago
My read was they meant a fork as in a GitHub repository fork, used to fix bugs and then submit them to upstream. This isn't a fork of the language, it's a mechanism to enable collaboration. However 'to the casual observer' could be taken to mean 'someone who doesn't understand that GitHub forks are not language forks' and they'd end up in strife. Seems like a reasonable objection to me based on the letter of the law.

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