interglossa

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by interglossa 6mo ago
I tried it sometime ago. I liked the interface but haven't found much of a community around it. It is very unfortunate that diaspora did not thrive earlier.
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by interglossa 1y ago
Thanks for this post. I bought this model used in 2019 and still use it daily. Beautiful screen and form factor, a real gem. The updates stopped a long time ago.
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by interglossa 2y ago
I owned the eee 701 and it was fun using it in cafés. I graduated to the Acer 1410. Now I have a used Lenovo OG bought for $80 but its use case is similar to the netbook.
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by interglossa 2y ago
This is a blow in particular to anyone who likes the Radio3 classical music station. The BBC may even block VPNs like Proton so there might be no workaround eventually.
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by interglossa 2y ago
The fascination with home recording on disc is not new: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42037367
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by interglossa 2y ago
There is an argument that the loss of dynamic range and other factors in the compression required in mp3 or CD recordings make the latter inferior to vinyl. This was a prolonged debate forty years ago
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by interglossa 2y ago
I am surprised no one mentioned otomata: https://earslap.com/page/otomata.html
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by interglossa 2y ago
I used it to prepare for retirement. The investment in T-bills is not the sole strategy they proposed but the basic ideas are solid.
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by interglossa 2y ago
No. Dennis Cooper lost work this way years ago. They need to be aware of this and let some of their followers help them.
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by interglossa 3y ago
The Centrum brand is mentioned explicitly in some of the articles on this story as well as a guidance from a scientist to use established brands of multivitamin. Hmmm.
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by interglossa 3y ago
I also thought this was an actual harpsichord rather than a metaphor, until I followed the hyperlink back to your blog.
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by interglossa 3y ago
I worked with a very intelligent software engineer with a PhD in CS who encountered orgmode and it enticed him into the same OC spiral you are describing. He resolved the problem by switching to lab notebooks (8 1/2 x 11" or A4 si
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by interglossa 3y ago
Also see Gerard 't Hooft's site on how to become a good theoretical physicist ( https://goodtheorist.science ).
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by interglossa 3y ago
The Keybird X1 ( https://keybird-instruments.com/ ) is a more functional redesign - an acoustic which can be transported as two pieces of 43 and 16 kg and can be tuned by the owner. This can be purchased now.
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by interglossa 3y ago
Josef Hofmann and Daniel Barenboim played pianos with smaller keys.
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by interglossa 3y ago
The unwholesome horror is finally revealed.