I am moderately insulted that they want me to believe that graph theoreticians at Amazon sit at a desk with a bunch of optical T&M equipment. Sort of silly!
Italian born and raised, but moved around in various contries.
I own a handful of Bialetti mokas of different sizes. A couple of those are from my teenager years, I don't even remember buying them, they might have been from my parents. I still use them multiple times daily.
Mokas are for life. As long as you replace the plastic gasket once in a while (a couple bucks) and you don't accidentally melt the handle (which you can replace anyway) they'll outlive all of us.
Came here to say this. Everytime i look at a moka I am delighted about how sturdy it is, and think about how no one builds stuff built to last as long anymore. cast aluminum ftw.
Pressed steel panels and all parts available since 1946. They're made for caterers so you probably won't ever need to repair it if you're using it domestically.
We've had ours since 2004ish and it still looks and works exactly like new.
Not affiliated any more, so I don't even have it. But yeah documents you write on payroll are corporate intellectual property (same as code is) so I couldn't just share it even if I wrote it myself.
I wish they added it to the SRE book. But it's not a hard sell if someone already believes that you need to distribute computation/data for higher reliability. Same goes for labor/know-how.
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