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Long time user. It really is the absolute chefskiss. It's all about the small details, keeping things constant, and the minimalism. Can't praise it highly enough and I'm very grateful to everybody who works on it!

Great point. Also, nobody would go to a cafe where the coffee comes from a fully automated machine instead of a barista.

Coffee vending machines have existed since the, what, 1950's maybe?

AI will fill a similar niche when it settles down, I think. Cheap, and mostly what you asked for, but you know you're not going to love the output.

Yes, agree. Cafes and baristas still exist even though the are coffee vending machines.

Unfortunately, I've been to many coffee shops where the coffee tasted much worse than what a modern fully automated machine can produce.

And perhaps you have to be more nuanced - when TV's first hit the market, a wide-spread concern among film-makers was that it would kill movie theaters. The fear was that people would now only watch movies in the comfort of their homes. That didn't happen back then, but it pretty much did with the combination of big, flat-screen TVs and streaming services.

Why did you go to coffee shops even though the coffee tasted worse? That's my point.

If you think people care about coffee quality you must never have been to a Starbucks.

Not about quality. They want the experience of going to a cafe where the coffee is made and served by humans. These cafes exist along side automated coffee.

If it was 90% as good and 50% of the price (no tipping hopefully) I’d do it.

I don’t quite understand this comment, is it sarcastic? Drip coffee is already pretty automatic. Heck, I’ve been places where you just buy the cup and pump the coffee thingy yourself.

Compared to my home setup, (manual flair espresso press), most coffee shop espresso machines are quite a bit more automated. But I don’t begrudge them that automation, their arms would get too sore. And nobody is paying me to manually press my lever.

It doesn’t seem like a neat mapping.

There are several robot cafes in major cities across the world

There are orders of magnitude more cafes where humans make and serve the coffee.

You said nobody. The presence of successful robotic coffee shops disproves that premise

I mean "nobody" in the statistical sense. The number of people going to robot cafes is a rounding error compared with real cafe attendance. The fact that there are robot cafes and everybody (statistically speaking) is still going to cafes, proves the point exactly.

Or you could just buy a machine and learn to make coffee?

Yes. Yet people still go to cafes where humans make the coffee.

Thanks for sharing this!

Some research suggests the stomach bleed risk comes from the platelet inhibition itself, which would mean you can't have the good effect without the bad.

Hang on, the 2015 study suggests otherwise.

Daily dose suppressed PGE2 while 3-daily dose didn't.

> Since PGE2 is involved in gastric healing, we understand that this new approach could be safer and as efficient as the standard daily therapy on a long-term basis.

lol

The true path to AGI.

echo "rm -rf ~/ > safe-rm" chmod 755 safe-rm ./safe-rm

Sandboxes are hard, because computer science.

Or just 'mv ~ /dev/null'

It behaved exactly like 99% of developers, introducing unnecessary complexity.

Take my money!

Literally take it, I just ordered.

I have been imagining this exact device existing and now it does, yay, thank you!