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You can like art but dislike the artist. It is perfectly fine and boycotting art because of the artist’s beliefs is stupid. 

Some examples
the writer is homophobe, but his books are great and fun? Yes I will read them and like them unless writer is pushing his agenda aggressively in the books. 
Musician is racist, but his music is pure art? Hell yes, I will listen to that music and again no racist themes are in the songs. 
Guitar player is self righteous ass****, but his compositions are great? Yes, I will listen to them. 

Anime is overrated and being a weeb is not a personality trait. Don’t @ me.

Winter is here, I am climbing longer routes so some extra protection pieces are needed

Winter is here, I am climbing longer routes so some extra protection pieces are needed

What the hell did you try to say?
 
 I tried to read your comment like 5 times at least and each time it sounded as if I tried to read an essay of someone who was sky high when writing it. 

If you open a topic with extreme vague title like “help needed”, “I need help” or similar you don’t deserve any help. This is not only for this forum, but other forums in general. 
Why is so problematic to write eg. “Intel i7 overheating” in the title? Then someone who will have an idea about the topic might help and it increases your chances that the most competent user will reply. But if you are too lazy to even help yourself with finding the help, I am first who is going to ignore you. 

What the hell did you try to say?
 
 I tried to read your comment like 5 times at least and each time it sounded as if I tried to read an essay of someone who was sky high when writing it. 

If you open a topic with extreme vague title like “help needed”, “I need help” or similar you don’t deserve any help. This is not only for this forum, but other forums in general. 
Why is so problematic to write eg. “Intel i7 overheating” in the title? Then someone who will have an idea about the topic might help and it increases your chances that the most competent user will reply. But if you are too lazy to even help yourself with finding the help, I am first who is going to ignore you. 

I was very curious and tried the recipe. Before the conclusion here are some issues that I got with the article (not with you the user who I quoted, just to be clear). 
-the title is clickbait.
-author is “THE COFFEE GUY”
-FFS if you are a just a bit serious with making coffee one would stay away from volumetric units like cups, spoons etc. and use weight, most likely grams.
-time is “few minutes”. What is few? 2? 3? 5? Any serious coffee recipe will give you a precise time. 
 
Then I asked google to give me approximate of cup to ml and tablespoons to grams. Then again weight of 1 tablespoon of coffee changes quite bit from grind setting to grind setting so I had to dig up measuring spoon to get approximate weight, argh. That’s why everyone is using scales for crying out loud. 

So results are as follows. It was a bit stronger coffee, texture is completely missing espresso silkiness, no crema, a bit bitter even with medium roast beans. It was not bad cup if I had to judge it as is. However, sorry, but that was not even close to the espresso. 

Also generally speaking regarding “I found one article so I am right” stance, I can link several articles which will “prove” that Earth is flat and we all know it is not. 

It does not. What you are saying is the equivalent of saying that a hexagon is a circle. Sure it has a few more angles, but it's close enough. Espresso isn't just strong coffee or "some pressure". People should unlearn that misinformation. That high pressure is a key point. Espresso is brewed at 9 bars of pressure and has a 1:2 ish beans-to-coffee yield (in grams). That is the espresso drink.
 
A double shot espresso uses around 18 grams of coffee and gives 36 grams of liquid out. That recipe uses 2 tbsp (which will vary with grind size, so the amount is anyone's guess) of coffee per CUP of water. A cup of water is 240 grams, so no, that method will never be espresso. You are making a different drink.
 
A french press does not act like an espresso machine, it does not brew at espresso pressures and it uses a completely different coffee to water ratio and grind size. Grinding finer does not turn it into espresso, forcing it down at a fine grind doesn't either and by grinding fine you'll alter the extraction process and will need to change your technique. Steeping finely ground coffee for that long may end you up with a very bitter tasting cup, because you will be over-extracting.
 
Espresso is one way of preparing coffee. It's not the ultimate way, just one way. French press is another way, moka pot is yet another way and neither of them are espresso or "like espresso", both of them make a great cup of coffee. I just got a new shipment of fresh beans yesterday and I can tell you first hand brewing them with my espresso machine and my french press is miles apart, but both yield a delicious beverage.
 
I think James Hoffman expresses it nicely when talking about the bialetti, which you would probably classify as even closer to espresso yet also is not espresso and again a different drink. Just the bit from 5:30-6:10 is relevant here:
 

Usually dummy plugs are being used for remote access so when you use eg. TeamViewer or VNC or similar that you don’t get 1024x768 or similar low resolution on your client PC. Also most of the usage is for some specific servers which require GUI based administration.
That being said, the intended purpose is not gaming. When you use remote connection software usually the whole screen is encoded as video. Encoding 4K120 is extremely demanding on the hardware. That is why remote connection is encoded in lower framerate. 4K17 is more than enough for remote access of eg. Windows GUI and as I’ve mentioned before dummy plugs are designed mostly for administration purposes so they fit the bill. 

Usually dummy plugs are being used for remote access so when you use eg. TeamViewer or VNC or similar that you don’t get 1024x768 or similar low resolution on your client PC. Also most of the usage is for some specific servers which require GUI based administration.
That being said, the intended purpose is not gaming. When you use remote connection software usually the whole screen is encoded as video. Encoding 4K120 is extremely demanding on the hardware. That is why remote connection is encoded in lower framerate. 4K17 is more than enough for remote access of eg. Windows GUI and as I’ve mentioned before dummy plugs are designed mostly for administration purposes so they fit the bill. 

Yes, compression results from pressure and increases density. That does not make them the same thing. I can put pressure on my steel desk right now, but that won't compress it by any significant amount. Fluids Liquids being incompressible means you can significantly increase the pressure and they barely show an increase in density or decrease in volume.
 
I think the confusion has come from what we refer to when we say "the coffee". In the context of brewing, however, as it was here, a french press does not pressurise the coffee. That's like saying your cup of tea is pressurised because you pressed your spoon on the tea bag.

I completely agree with that. I really like espresso and still when I am in mood for one I will go to the local cafe. I have plethora of coffee makers at home including Aeropress, French press, Wacaco and nothing comes close to the taste and texture of a good Italian style espresso even with makers such as Aeropress and Wacaco which are introducing pressure to the infusion. They are all making good coffee, but it is not espresso. 

This is not beautiful. Humans can’t have teeth in that color. Also super uniform teeth shapes scream artificial. 
 
So called “Hollywood smile” looks way distracting because it simply doesn’t look natural. 
 
Don’t get me wrong, I consider that having nice teeth should be one of the priorities for everyone, but this kind of dental job doesn’t look that nice. Perfection doesn’t  exist in the natural world and beauty is in those small imperfections which this doesn’t have at all. 

This is not beautiful. Humans can’t have teeth in that color. Also super uniform teeth shapes scream artificial. 
 
So called “Hollywood smile” looks way distracting because it simply doesn’t look natural. 
 
Don’t get me wrong, I consider that having nice teeth should be one of the priorities for everyone, but this kind of dental job doesn’t look that nice. Perfection doesn’t  exist in the natural world and beauty is in those small imperfections which this doesn’t have at all. 

I was watching some old photos and I finally remembered this. 
 
Modern American city design sucks a huge ass. 
 
Few years ago I went to visit my relatives in the US. They live in the typical residential neighborhood that can be seen on plethora of the US series. I decided to go to the supermarket which was 2km away on foot and you know, that thing for pedestrians next to those super wide roads? there was none. As soon as I left the street full of houses there was none, nada. WTF? Then I was looking for some public transportation and the answer was f*** you. The only way to make a trip is by car. 
 
In my home country I can walk wherever I want. Cycling is also fine. Small supermarkets, cafes etc. are part of the neighborhood, public transportation is readily available and you can live without car, but in the US it is impossible in almost 90% of the cases. City centers look like exception. 
 
In the country where I currently live my neighborhood is also residential, but there are still supermarkets, convenience stores, rail and bus stations, schools etc. all in the 15min of walking distance. You can live comfortable life without car. Meanwhile in the US everything is designed around cars and that just sucks. 

I was watching some old photos and I finally remembered this. 
 
Modern American city design sucks a huge ass. 
 
Few years ago I went to visit my relatives in the US. They live in the typical residential neighborhood that can be seen on plethora of the US series. I decided to go to the supermarket which was 2km away on foot and you know, that thing for pedestrians next to those super wide roads? there was none. As soon as I left the street full of houses there was none, nada. WTF? Then I was looking for some public transportation and the answer was f*** you. The only way to make a trip is by car. 
 
In my home country I can walk wherever I want. Cycling is also fine. Small supermarkets, cafes etc. are part of the neighborhood, public transportation is readily available and you can live without car, but in the US it is impossible in almost 90% of the cases. City centers look like exception. 
 
In the country where I currently live my neighborhood is also residential, but there are still supermarkets, convenience stores, rail and bus stations, schools etc. all in the 15min of walking distance. You can live comfortable life without car. Meanwhile in the US everything is designed around cars and that just sucks. 

As someone who is working on development of broadcast grade equipment, memory bandwidth is what matters the most in video encoding and decoding. You can often find all memory channels occupied in servers used in transcoding while the memory usage is sub 10GB out of 128+ GB total. 

I remember finding that album on the vinyl when I was a kid among my father’s collection. Truly beautiful record and late Chris Rainbow had such great and emotional performance there. 
 
 

Got this thingie mostly to watch movies and surfing the internet from my bed

That “trend” of forcefully putting one’s head into a cake is idiotic and unless the person who’s face is going into the cake did not fully agree to that action before, the perpetrators should not be surprised if they receive fist in their face afterwards.

Those bad boys. Wanted some softer shoes for the change 

Those bad boys. Wanted some softer shoes for the change 

Got this thingie mostly to watch movies and surfing the internet from my bed