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I can’t like andystow’s video post. Did the forum have likes before?

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Finally found this, after posting on an older “the site isn’t working” thread.

There is a seemingly endless loop of logging in to post, being returned to the homepage, going back to an article only to find I’m apparently not logged in again. Refreshing the page once I get back there seems to allow me to post.

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Anyone else having issues with the site at the moment? I seem to be able to post here (though the forum presentation looks like it’s gone back to 2006) but can’t post on articles – tells me I’m not logged in, and logging in just returns me to the homepage in an endless loop…

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You inspired me to brew some

You inspired me to brew some loose lapsang for the afternoon.

The bag has been in my house for a year, and I just guessed how much to use. Double standards! 

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You can always rely on the

You can always rely on the road.cc regulars for a balance of informative and witty answers.  

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I have had and continue to

I have had and continue to drink / enjoy plenty of coffee where I just chuck a rough amount [ETA: of supermarket ground] in the moka / filter. The modest home espresso machine is a recent-ish addition, but using fresh specialty coffee it’s very gratifying that what I make at home tastes better than anything short of specialist cafes.

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I mean this as a compliment –

I mean this as a compliment – there’s a hint of boatsy about it.

An ode to the balance (to be read to 4 decimal places) 

Weighing sticky billowing media,

movement near causes drift.

No weigh boats in my kitchen…

the mucky pups

 

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mdavidford wrote:

It does have 0.1g precision. It just doesn’t have 0.1g accuracy.

[Edit: should have finished reading through the thread – HP got there before me.]

Thank you both – a distinction I was unaware of. 

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Hang on, am I not supposed to

Hang on, am I not supposed to tamp the beans? 

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Creakingcrank wrote:

BECAUSE THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE…

do some blind tasting with slightly different amounts to see what tolerances your palate can tolerate!

 as I say, well aware this is not earth shattering, just means that in practice the scales are not practically usable to 0.1g precision as advertised.

And it’s insignificant compared to the myriad other variables that I’m not measuring at all / as precisely (tamp force, milk volume etc).   

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hawkinspeter wrote:

Anyhow, you’re better off weighing the ground coffee.

That’s a fair point. Experience with my grinder shows that weight of beans in = weight of grounds out (albeit some of that weight out will be retention from the previous grind). Just seems a bit suspect to say it has 0.1g precision if a single bean which weighs more than 0.1g can’t provide the force to register, so that you can add 20+ g slowly without changing the reading.    

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I probably deserved that. Of

I probably deserved that. Of course, the follow on question is whether I can trust my scales to weigh 100 beans accurately in the first place. 

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Jogle wrote:

[quote=Jogle]We already have 1,700 free parking spaces but we’re too lazy to walk and so we also want the pedestrianised road too https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgjjj0jgv2o.amp%5B/quote%5D

“Because cars can’t come up the high street, it means people don’t see the town.”

Maybe this is just me, but I tend to be able to pay more attention to what’s on the high street when I’m on foot, than when I’m concentrating on driving.     

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HLaB wrote:

So you were going too fast for the conditions but 10secs before we told you so.  Sit back and wait for the media to blow it up into a substantial and concertive attack on motorists :-/ 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70rk80p9eqo

To be fair, the article says “some drivers were incorrectly identified as speeding after the limit had changed” – so the suggestion is they were abiding by the updated speed limit, but the cameras hadn’t got the memo yet.

On the other hand, the whole point of variable speed limits is that it allows you to set an appropriate speed in advance, to reduce the impact of something happening out of sight down the road – so a driver driving in excess of a variable speed limit 10 seconds before they were told would not necessarily have any visual cue to indicate their speed is too fast for the conditions. 

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