The revised version is also great. Most of the content is still the same, a nuclear reactor works just the same way as it did in 1995. But most of the IT topics are updated. Instead of a ball mouse you’ll find an optical one, instead of the CRT they explain LCD screens etc.

There’s also a “new”(2016) book in the same style but for science instead of technology. It’s just as good as you’d expect it to be.

tickets in my queue

sounds like you are not working in social services, where you could be guilt tripped into working your ass off so innocent people don’t suffer. Just do your work as you’ve always done and drop the pencil after eight hours or whatever your contract says. It is not your problem if 3/4 of the work is not done. When the customers wait long enough they will make it your bosses problem.

And probably use your spare time to look out for another job, sounds like a company you would rather not work with.

At least Denmark and Canada had Leopard 2s in Afghanistan that were involved in combat. So maybe the “Brits” were just fancy Canadians.

It’s the other way round: I don’t know if it applies to this fella, but /we/ used ** // and __ long before applications knew what that’s supposed to mean. We’ve been using it even on devices that are _physically_ incapable of producing formatted text, so it was the readers responsibility to parse and understand what it’s supposed to mean. Back in those days we’d also type :'-( instead of 😢.

It actually annoys me that markdown got it all wrong, and thus applications using markdown do it all wrong as well:

*foo* should be bold, not italic
/foo/ should be italic, not just /slashes/
_foo_ should be underlined, but for lemmy that’s just another way of saying italic, underlining seems to be outright impossible.

Why? :'-(

Oz or whatever strange body part comparison you guys prefer would also be fine for me. As long as it’s standardized between products.

With 100 gramms/millilitres it’s a simple guideline:

• <100 kcal: probably healthy
• 100-200 kcal: mostly ok
• >200 kcal: consume carefully

Of cause it’s fine to consume oils (~700kcal/100ml) but they shouldn’t be the major part of your meal. And sugary drinks are obviously bad for you, even though they’ve got less than 100kcal/100ml.

Not so hard to calculate. It’s still stupid though, that they don’t have to print the values per 100g, as they do in Europe. That makes it really easy to compare two products with different package sizes.

The value per serving is mostly useless, as a serving is just some made up amount, usually tiny to make the product look healthier. For example, a serving size of crisps could be 20g, which is not even a handful.

Man, these pesky doctors. They always forbid the fun stuff.

That’s why I always use password hashes as my passwords. So when some hacker steals the database, with all the clear text passwords, and look at my account they think somehow this password is still hashed and don’t try using it directly. My current lemmy-password is $argon2d$v=19$m=16,t=2,p=1$Mk9RTWNESzMyWVljUGo5RA$BiGKlhzFuiWA0N78KzEmCQ

But if the password is delicious and what is delicious that would mean that the password is “what”

Sadly that’s not how Djinns work in reality.

exclusive, absolute

Fine. You’re responsible now for every particle in the universes, the laws of physics don’t have control over them anymore. Planets will no longer orbit their stars. Electrons won’t repell other electrons, so things will just fall through each other. Unless you actively decide otherwise for each and ever one of the >10⁸⁰ particles. That’s a lot of responsibility for one person.

Thank you, finally someone is trying to bring some sense into what Frezik meant by “American coffe culture”. To me that’s still a pretty niche thing and not “everywhere” as they claimed, but at least I can acknowledge that it exists.

Yet I’m still not sure how much of that development is based in the US. We have had small rosters in my hometown all the time and not only Tchibo, but I guess the numbers might have gone up again lately and maybe the US could even have played a part in that trend.

Just as with Craft Beer, it’s not something the USA invented. We’ve had crafted beer in Germany all the time, and every little town had it’s own local brewery. We just didn’t call it “Craft Beer” it was simply “beer”. However, the general trend was going towards industrialized big brand beers and away from the old fashioned Dorfbrauerei in the late 20th century, with a lot of smaller breweries closing down. The US Craft Beer szene might have helped turning that trend around and giving small breweries a new fancy name for their old product to bring it back into the supermarkets.

My local butcher is closing after more than a century, my local bakery was replaced by a local chain a few years ago. Maybe the US can start a Craft Butchering and a Craft Bread trend next, so I don’t have to drive 2km to the next local bakery.

Who’s design again?

The Melitta machine cost 120 DM in 1965 which is ~270€ today, the Mr Coffee cost 40$ in 1972, which is ~270€ today. It wasn’t even cheaper, just later.

If you don’t want that, just don’t order “Kaffee”. Every half decent bakery sells Espresso or Café Crèma, you just have to ask for it.

Same vibe:

People who go on beach vacation for a week, what are you doing there? I can undress, have a swim, get sand into my crotch and a sunburn on my shoulder in less than an hour. WHAT ARE YOU DOING

Mr Coffee was not extremely cheap outside of America, it doesn’t even exist outside of America because the problem it solves was already solved by other companies outside of America.

I understand that it might have been a great improvement for the American coffee drinkers (I don’t know, I’ve never heard of Mr Coffee until yesterday because I’m not American), but it did nothing to influence “coffee culture everywhere else” as the OP boldly claims, because everywhere else is outside of America!

That’s still an America only thing. Baristas in Italy had their own little shops long before Starbucks existed, they knew how to make good coffee all along, they didn’t need American Corporations to tell them how to barista.

I mean, Americans also believe they invented pizza, cars or putting meat into a breadroll.

Instead of assuring me, maybe you could enlighten us by telling us what the fuck it is, you’re talking about. Because the American

modern coffee culture that exists everywhere else now

does not exist in Europe. At least not outside of Starbucks or maybe McDonalds. The Italians still drink the same espresso from Lavazza or illy as they always did, the German still buy their filter coffee from Jacobs and Tchibo, just like in the 1960s.

Oh, and btw. Mr Coffee was not an improvement, it was a copy of a device invented in Germany 20 years before, perfected by the Danish company EVA. Mr Coffee is unknown outside of North America because these devices already existed in the rest of the world.

Copying stuff from somewhere else is not a problem. China does it all the time and it’s fine. The problem with the Yanks is, that after copying stuff, they make it worse and afterwards claim they’ve invented it.