My very first paid gig, aged 12, was figuring out how to print mailing labels from a Bondwell CP/M laptop running dBase II. Didn't enjoy it.

Very similar story, in 1982: got paid at 15 to create a prospect database for a small business. What now would be called a CRM.

The enterprise had to declare me as an apprentice for 'trade jobs', as it was against the law to give a regular salary to someone under 16.

I remember my first paycheck with deductions for retirement, which pissed me off quite a bit.

Gemini answers with 3 different champions dating back to 2024 and the list of events that the matches were played at. None of the results mention this guy.

What data do you think they're "harvesting"? If they're counting how many shots I pull and judging me by my choice of brew temp, I can live with that. The app adds a lot of convenience and saves having to have some sort of UI or manual control on the machine itself.

La Marzocco Micra is up to temp in under 10 minutes and will stay there all day, it works very well indeed.

Do you know what is it that it allows for such a quick warm up? Small boiler? Saturated group? Maybe my comment is more relatable to HX machines then although I don't quite get how is it possible to warm up so quickly - the machine is still a 20kg piece and you can't beat physics with such large thermal mass.

250ml brew boiler with a small saturated group, and a separate 1.6L steam boiler. It's definitely aimed at a home environment but will easily keep up with making several drinks in a row. Compared to previous HX machines I've owned, it heats up much quicker and is more stable. I think not having a massive lump of brass like an E61 style machine helps a lot.

They have separate tanks for keeping water heated up to temperature wit a much smaller volume and don’t use saturated groups so the total hot mass is much smaller.

Yup, same. I'm blocking bc.googleusercontent.com and also firebaseapp.com for now. The reverse DNS should also be able to be used, as the fakey spam domains don't match up with the PTR record, but I want to wait until I can watch the logs for a bit to make sure that works nicely.

e.g.

PTR: 53.220.83.34.bc.googleusercontent.com

HELO: sax.co.uk

There's a great display wall of Byte mag at the Computer Museum of America in Atlanta, they've got original cover artworks and possibly every issue. Loved it. Also more Crays than you've ever seen in one place.

60? Not even 40.

Flying Goose is good, my favourite is Ox brand. It's very punchy, heavy on the garlic.

My grandfather was one of the originators of the technology that became CPAP. He did not get rich from it.

The company he worked for probably did.

They removed WENCH from the list of upcoming solutions fairly quickly, but forgot to add it back to the list of available words so you couldn't use it as a guess for a little while. It made it back to the list eventually.