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Very interesting story and really sheds light on the "taste of water" and how it differs. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

raddevus wrote:
Along the way, I have discovered that more important than the bean quality is actually the quality of the water. I use a Zero Water - see amazon example[^] filter system & my coffee instantly became 50% better (subjective measurement of __more pure__ coffee taste.)

Water here contains calcium.

Tastes differ.

I grew up with coffee, got it bottlefed. You wanna talk coffee? Smile | :)

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Member 14968771 wrote:
There are many "brands " of beer and one used to advertise
"it's the water.."

Advertising. Water will taste like water.

Member 14968771 wrote:
I wonder if I can bring my own GLASS cup

HEATHEN! Coffee is drunk from ceramic.

Member 14968771 wrote:
I am sure the paper cup manufacturing will not go broke...

Glass would be better than paper, since it doesn't influence the taste. Glass cools down quickly though.

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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
HEATHEN! Coffee is drunk from ceramic.

Allow me oh wise one, to introduce you to the humble Caffe Latte. I can promise you, only the least experienced at the art would ever expect or ask for one of them in a ceramic vessel. Wink | ;)

I'd have a quiet word with those that taught you how to coffee if I were you. Heaven only knows which other disservices they've done you. Knowing your luck, they probably gave it to you in a baby bottle or similar. Poke tongue | ;-P

enhzflep wrote:
Knowing your luck, they probably gave it to you in a baby bottle or similar.

Yup. They added milk though.

enhzflep wrote:
Allow me oh wise one, to introduce you to the humble Caffe Latte.

Humble it should be, if it pretends to be caffee.

..and keep that muck away from me.

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Greetings Kind Regards I have much to say on the subject of coffee. First of all do you know about this fellow https://coffeeadastra.com/[^] He's a scientist fascinated by coffee.

I've been experimenting w/ whole bean freshly ground coffee the past year or so having gotten tired of store brand instant. I purchased several USA15 - USA25 bags of various brands. After not being overly impressed w/ any I ordered a bag from England to me here in North Carolina from none other than Mr. Coffee YouTube'r James Hoffman on the assumption if his coffee does not impress none will. Upon arrival I excitedly made a cup and drank waiting to be thrilled. I was left disappointed. It too was not overly impressive. His website https://shop.squaremilecoffee.com/[^] describes his various coffees as having "notes" of e.g. i.e. to wit "cherry, pineapple, syrupy", "date, hazelnut, cacao", "orange, caramel, almond" etc. If I want notes of cherry or date or orange I will consume a cherry a date etc.

The best coffee I ever had did not have "notes". It was many years ago at the house of my aunt and uncle. They had purchased a Krupps coffee maker w/ gold filter. Each week we would visit on Sundays. I would _run_ to the coffee maker, make myself a cup, and glug. It was delicious. Permit me to tell you what it tasted like. It did not taste like dates or almond. It tasted like ... _coffee_!. Amazing. The brand of coffee utilized was none other than Folgers ground, not even freshly ground whole bean. For those outside USA who may not know it is a common nationally advertised inexpensive brand, nothing fancy. Unfortunately after a few months the magic disappeared for reasons I do not know. I assumed the filter had gotten overly used perhaps but again I do not know.

I have given up on searching for high quality coffee and have settled on whole bean by Caribou which I find has a smoothness, Yuban ground which is mild, inoffensive and low acrylamide content, Folgers (ground, instant regular, instant decaf, all which almost actually taste like coffee except for some chocolate notes unfortunately).

Of course I do not utilize tap water, always filtered. My brewing technique is "cowboy". I am surprised plastic is utilized in coffee makers and drippers etc. I only utilize glass and ceramic. Of course I filter only via _unbleached_ paper pre-rinsed to attempt removal of any residual flavor. Perhaps I should add minerals as suggested here. Will consider same. Thank You. Have just ordered coffee minerals per recommendation here. Some Amazon reviewers are happy some are not.

Perhaps I should attempt kopi luwak.

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Very interesting & in-depth info. Lots to consider here. I had a Krupps and Krupps coffee long ago & it was very good. There has also been a huge shift in coffee varieties over the years (20-30) for sure & it has changed a lot so that it is quite difficult to get the "original coffee flavor" that we had back in the day.

Curious how others clean their coffee makers. Mine is a drip system - it heats water which boils up then drips through coffee grounds in a filter.

Once a month I "brew" a cup of vinegar to dissolve the hard deposits that form on the heating element. (Otherwise the machine only brews about 3/4 of the water before it quits.) Then several rinses to remove the vinegar.

Thanks! - CR

Just saw this message. I have used vinegar in the past too -- because we have "hard" water here and it will eventually destroy your coffee maker.

However, since using the Zero Water filter it makes it so you never have to clean your coffee maker again. It filters out all of the stuff from the water.
I hated the vinegar because like you said you have to cleanse the vinegar before you get a good cup of coffee again.

The water definitely makes a difference. Just a warning here - a friend of mine damaged his coffee machine with too pure water which leeched out copper from the boiler and caused issues. It may be something worth researching.

Very interesting. Thanks for additional info.

I started drinking coffee when I was around 8 years old. In New Orleans, everyone takes their coffee drinking seriously. Kids get it with milk. I am NOT however a coffee aficionado. IMO the water doesn't matter so much unless it is full of sulphur, "egg water" in Mississippi.

The cup doesn't matter, the temperature doesn't matter. It just needs to taste like coffee for me. At home, I drink dark roast, with chicory. Try it if you get a chance, I think you'll like it.

The only coffee I ever met and didn't like was gas station/convenience store coffee. Too old, too stale. too burned, and too acid.

Ed

We have a high content of sediment (maybe lyme) that gets into our groundwater here (Ohio). Various surrounding areas are better / worse. You can literally destroy a coffee maker in 1 month if you don't filter the water, because it will be filled with lyme scale. That's probably different than a lot of places too.

I put distilled water in my radiator because I saw what non-distilled water did. Also to the water kettle. As for our stomachs ...

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I have a ZeroWater pitcher, and it's amazing. Water here in the desert is so hard, kids have to get a weapon permit to carry a water pistol. Vets openly tell clients not to give their fur babies tap water - it will kill them. I use RO water that I have to buy from vending machines - that's obscene! But it still measures as unhealthy on the TDS meter that comes with the ZeroWater pitcher. Yes, it dramatically changes the taste of anything that takes water to make, including scotch and water. Great invention!

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Don't you hate when you're porting something, and you stare at the same section of non-working code over and over, comparing it to the reference source, and not seeing any meaningful difference?

Yet it doesn't work.

In this case, no sign of life. That has been my morning. Partial updates simply are not working on this display and I can't figure out for the life of me why.

The only "decent" documentation for the display is the source code that it shipped with.

This kind of thing is the absolute worst. Excepting the other things that are also the absolute worst.

To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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Yes, this morning actually, but with PowerBI.

Found the issue ~10 minutes ago, so here's to hoping you're just as lucky? Smile | :)

If the code looks the same, is it a word size difference or something else like address location / packing / preprocessing that happens when changing the code into the executable?

Did you try running the original sample through your tool chain (as original as possible)?

Maybe you will find the solution after dismissing these annoying questions? 😊

Nothing so low level I think. For starters, all of the rest of the code, including full frame updates work.

It's just the partial updates. I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but it's eluding me.

To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

Start with a partial update that just toggles/inverts the pixel at location 0 or (0,0) then move to (1,1), etc

Then toggle 2 x 2 pixels, translate, expand

Then try the other corners.

Edit changed insert to invert

Yeah I've tried. Whether I update nearly the whole screen or a tiny portion (8x1 is the smallest it will do since the last 3 bits of the x coordinate are ignored)

It's not doing anything. It's like the code isn't even there.

To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

Rule of thumb for good programmers having problems with code.
off by one somewhere! A loop, a counter, an array.

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