Coffee brewers that have a hot plate under the carafe will burn and ruin coffee. The best method of keeping coffee fresh is to keep it in a sealed container (like a double walled carafe with a lid)
Microwaving coffee is actually a pretty decent way to re-heat it, but the taste will depend on how fresh it was kept prior
The distinction is meaningless in the land of Opcode’s and memory addresses
For example, a struct is just an imaginary “overlay” on top of a contiguous section of memory
Say you have a struct
struct Thing {
int a;
int b;
Thing* child;
}
Thing foo {}
You could easily get a reference to foo->child->b by doing pointer arithmetic
*((*((*foo) + size(int)*2)) +size(int))
(I’ve not used C much so I’ve probably got the syntax wrong)
Mostly because at the lowest level of computing (machine code and CPU instructions), pointers are the only method (that I know of) of any kind of indirection.
At the lowest level, there are 2 types of references:
Every higher level language feature for memory management (references, objects, safe pointers, garbage collection, etc) is just an abstraction over raw pointers
Pointers themselves are really just abstractions over raw integers, whose sole purpose is to index into RAM
With that in mind, pointers to pointers are a natural consequence of any kind of nested object hierarchy (linked lists, trees, objects with references to other objects, etc)
The only other kind of indirection would be self-modifying machine code (like a Wheeler Jump). But the computing world at large has nixed that idea for a multitude of reasons
See, I like to actually enjoy myself sometimes, instead of just hating the world
And part of that enjoyment is good coffee. Fresh, locally roasted coffee, that I grind fresh each morning. I either take it black, or with a splash of milk, depending on my mood
Drip brewers are perfectly fine, so long as you don’t use the hot plate. But the biggest impact on coffee flavor is the freshness of both the roast and the grind