Network effect. Gradually over time my whole extended family wound up with iphones for one reason or another, and Android phones would consistently break our group threads. The last few holdouts (not ideologically, they just didn't need new phones) wound up switching to Apple afterwards to make everything smoother for the rest of us.
Their “how it works” blog article is worth a read - they’re using a blackbox reverse engineering of the protocol (called PyPush) and re-implementing it natively in an android app, so there are no man-in-the-middle servers. It's pretty bonkers given how difficult Apple's spec-less tech can be to work with.
Their "how it works" blog article is worth a read - they're using a blackbox reverse engineering of the protocol and re-implementing it natively in the app, so there are no man-in-the-middle servers. Impressive software engineering for sure.
Hook them up, run a SMART test and see what their powered-on hours and error-rates look like. If it's not a significant fraction of the MTBF, chances are you'll be fine -- assuming you're using them in a RAID or ZFS array where a drive loss is not necessarily catastrophic.
I've been through more than I can count. But this one by Zojirushi (yep, the rice cooker guys), which I've had for the past 10 years, is the best by far. Keeps liquids piping hot or ice cold for 8+ hours, I put the whole thing in the dishwasher (bottle on the bottom, top/plastic pieces on top, and it has never leaked. I recommend it to anyone who asks!
There are so many variables to consider (depending on how deep into the rabbit hole you care go go) that you sort of have to pick a place to start and work on your "sampler sets" from there. The easiest ones to lock down are roast darkness and grind size. This is what I did recently-ish (after lockdown was over, but while we were all doing fun lockdown hobby-projects):
Find a fancy supermarket with its own coffee grinder and whole bean selection near you -- by me both Whole Foods and Fresh Market have them, as does the specialty Italian market.
Ask what the minimum amount of coffee is that they're willing to sell (in places that grind for you sometimes there is like a 1/8 lb minimum). Go with enough beans to brew yourself and your wife a cup or two each. 1/8 lb (2oz) is actually a good amount.
Try 3 or 4 varieties at once. I'd say start with roasting depth first. The market will usually have at least a light, a medium a dark and a French or extra dark roast option. Buy a small amount of each one using the same grind setting for each.
Try them all in a small period of time, always brewing them the same way. I'm not saying go home and drink 4 cups of coffee back to back (though I'm also not saying that), but do it in a day or two. When you're buying 12oz bags from the store it might take a few days to get through, which could make it a long time before you find what you like.
If your market is like mine they have a "house bean" that they sell at each of these darknesses, but even if that's not the case roasting has such a significant effect on coffee flavor it's still a good variable to knock out first.
Once you have that dialed in, you can go back to the store and get 3-4 samples of your favorite pick now at different grind sizes, or (if you're lucky) find 3-4 different bean options in your preferred darkness. The key is being able to buy in small quantities so you can try a bunch of options while keeping costs under control and not drinking weeks worth of coffees that you don't really like.
I remember taking a design class in the 1990s right after GC came out, and the professor basically said "this will be used as a demo in intro design classes for the next century." I thought it was hyperbole, but people still talk about it.
I'm Gen X and have been using subtitles ever since I had kids. My kids have only ever seen the TV with subtitles on. Just recently I noticed that they watch Youtube with subtitles on. So, not sure if it's nature or nurture :)
For 100TB it's worth looking into a dedicated storage server -- there are tons of them available for cheap. labgopher makes it easy to track sales on ebay by price/storage/ram/whatever.
I know this is still technically a false color shot, but I personally much prefer astronomy photos that kinda-sorta look like something you'd see with the naked eye to the ultra saturated and spectroscopically "labeled" photos that we see so often.
I wonder if anyone has ever attempted to model the min/max/ideal number of users (and ...ugh... "engagement") for a healthy online community? It'd be especially tricky for a federated service, but I'd bet there's some overall population size that puts the average user in contact with the right number of other people (lower than the Dunbar limit, I'd expect) to make it seem worthwhile to keep interacting.
Network effect. Gradually over time my whole extended family wound up with iphones for one reason or another, and Android phones would consistently break our group threads. The last few holdouts (not ideologically, they just didn't need new phones) wound up switching to Apple afterwards to make everything smoother for the rest of us.