I jumped on this at first as well. But to be honest if their target demographic is industrial production of coffee like beverages (like those Star Bucks soda can ”coffees”), well then it might not be so bad. I was thinking that a lot of flavour compounds of espresso breaks down quite rapidly while the drink cools, so the method of cooling all drinks to equal temperatures could be enough to skew the results regardless, but again for commercial coffee based soft drinks this is already the case. Headline is a bit misleading though.

Considering the vibrations from those capsule machines it might not be so far off

According to the article they see the main use for industrial scale production of coffee/espresso based drinks, in that regard it does make sense. For home use not so much even if there could be some niche market for cold espresso drinks at home, using less ice would allow for less dilution and faster than prepping and then refrigerate the coffee. I sometimes put concentrated ice coffee into my whey/oat shakes, but this is indeed very niche use even for me.

I have friend with a Jura coffeemaker.

Makes nice coffee, but I don’t think it’s worth the cost (but he has a lot of money, so it’s not a big deal for him).

I envision some fairly high-end kit, coming from this.

Isn’t the problem that it’s supposed to not execute commands without strict approval but the shell stdout redirection in combination with process substitution is bypassing this.

A real CLI and not that joke they called a CLI before?

Yes, similar to CC or other agent CLIs, but not many features yet. Released a few days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377734

Works fine on my 5 year old iPad Pro with an A12 processor.

Can you use that with for instance a postgres server? I thought it would only work with DuckDB (sqlite?) databases.

Yes, DuckDB has a postgres extension which works via libpq.

Other extensions include but aren't limited to: MySQL, AWS, Azure, Excel, Iceberg, JSON

https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/extensions/postgres.html

I actually have some apps still which I bought for life years back but doesn't offer that anymore. For instance blink shell for iOS devices.

You probably know this but it’s possible to buy a controller card for the panel on Ali Express and retro-fit into the case and use as a monitor if you are ready to retire the computer itself.

I’m contemplating doing this myself at some point but my maxed out 2019 iMac upgraded to 128GB ram and extra SSD is still plenty fast for me, actually feels subjectively quicker than my M2 Pro MacBook Pro with significantly less ram feel. I was a bit surprised as I had read all the hype of the responsiveness of the Apple M-machines.

I have not read this but I can recommend Vernor Vinges book “A Deepness of the Sky” on a similar theme. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky

I've read both and both are 10/10. But if you use a 100-point scale then Vinge's book is 99/100 and Tchaikovsky's is 95/100.

Then I will put this one on my to read list. I actually re-read the book by Vinge recently after he passed.