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   by spindle 4y ago

   Sorry, but the best MP3 (and FLAC) player ever made is the Sansa Fuse with Rockbox firmware.
2. 122.▲
   by spindle 4y ago

   > average, "normal", users Right! Not to mention the users with memory problems. That is a lot of people. Dementia is common, just for a start.
3. 123.▲
   by spindle 4y ago

   I don't think we CAN downvote posts, can we? Only comments, I think. Pity, because other people have upvoted you and I'd like to help.
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   by spindle 4y ago

   https://archive.ph/ylZw1
5. 125.▲
   by spindle 4y ago

   https://archive.ph/7Vszw
6. 126.▲
   by spindle 4y ago

   https://archive.ph/4w7Oq
7. 127.▲
   by spindle 4y ago

   https://archive.ph/Rm230
8. 128.▲
   by spindle 4y ago

   Great summary explanation - thank you!
9. 129.▲
   by spindle 4y ago

   In my case, an MG and a Toyota, both from around 2000.
10. 130.▲
    by spindle 4y ago

    IIRC, THE Greg Egan has a (genuinely excellent, peer-reviewed) maths paper with John Baez, and a number of smaller or unpublished contributions to professional maths.
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    by spindle 4y ago

    I like this reply very much except that I wonder why people say that sports cars are uncomfortable. I find all the ones I've driven, including two mid-engined ones, super comfortable. Maybe it's just me. (In any case, your poin
12. 132.▲
    by spindle 4y ago

    If my master password is compromised, do I want all my other passwords to be compromised too?! Or have I misunderstood what "deterministic" means?
13. 133.▲
    by spindle 4y ago

    Strongly agree, and (as I'm sure you know) that story is an excerpt from Egan's wonderful novel "Diaspora".
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    by spindle 4y ago

    I didn't refer to a paragraph. What I said was wrong was the conflation of logical positivism with verificationism (so that an attack on verificationism becomes an attack on logical positivism). If you think he didn't mean to co
15. 135.▲
    by spindle 4y ago

    Strongly agree with you.
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    by spindle 4y ago

    Good question! Thank you! The short answer is that logical positivism was always extremely diverse, and there's no reason to think that there's a consistent core to it, but if there is then it has to do with a belief in making pr
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    by spindle 4y ago

    I love the style to pieces, but I stopped reading when on the very first page I tried I found something that was central to the post but plain wrong, namely the conflation of logical positivism with verificationism. That's totally inc
18. 138.▲
    by spindle 4y ago

    = https://archive.ph/GA7Nj
19. 139.▲
    by spindle 4y ago

    Yes, and Cuis is also good: https://cuis.st/ Cuis aims to be reasonably complete and polished, and very stable, while having fewer base classes than Squeak, and way fewer than Pharo.
20. 140.▲
    by spindle 4y ago

    Is there a better word than "sideloading" for running programs chosen by the user without the manufacturer intermediating? I almost want to call it "running programs", as in "Apple plans to support running programs
21. 141.▲
    by spindle 4y ago

    I'm sure we all expected exactly this to happen in due course, but I for one didn't expect it so soon after SBF went down.
22. 142.▲
    by spindle 4y ago

    I totally agree. I object to Electron apps when they use a lot of my CPU cycles AND they're for functions that I want to run all the time, like chat programs. Not a problem for a video editor.
23. 143.▲
    by spindle 4y ago

    I guess it's a poem. I like it
24. 144.▲
    by spindle 4y ago

    IMO those are good ideas. I've set up a few NixOS servers with various general-purpose VPS companies, and there are often minor irritations in getting the OS installed.
25. 145.▲
    by spindle 4y ago

    Thank you ssttoo! This is lovely.
26. 146.▲
    by spindle 4y ago

    paywall-eliding version: https://archive.ph/NscmB
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    by spindle 4y ago

    I totally agree with you, but I put part of the blame on the journalists here. They've made it sound as if the problem is merely whether the building is being used as intended, rather than whether the building is being used as agreed
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    by spindle 4y ago

    You made me very happy by specifying "USA" in the title instead of assuming that all readers were American :-)
29. 149.▲
    by spindle 4y ago

    It is crazy that Fujifilm cameras can't do phone-type HDR. I have one and I share your pain.
30. 150.▲
    by spindle 4y ago

    For me, it's partly the things you say, but also the zooooooooooom. Ain't no camera phone with good zoom.