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A self-help deepity from Epictetus 🤔

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Tricky one. Lots of double letters to guess at and not enough easy short words!

Decodex 2026-04-21
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Interesting quote. He's probably talking about "General Skepticism" rather than conspiracy theories, which is how I first read it :)

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Quite a tricky one. Vague and slightly poncy grammar :)

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And what about after No? It's short for "numero" so like "Mr" I wouldn't put the '.' because that's the actual last letter. Opinion varies on this.

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Not sure about "GIGFUAWNRC" 🤔

Decodex 2026-04-18
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Lots of long words and braggadocio in today's quote. But a couple of the short ones are still the best way in I think.

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It was a simile involving flints and sparks. My pedantic quibble is that I think the spark is probably coming off the iron, not off the flint :) The spark probably actually is a bit of burning iron. Yes please rest your eyes! 👀

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Inspiring. Though technically incorrect I think.

Decodex 2026-04-16
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Support real artists! Also these are beautiful pictures.

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

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😂 Archie didn't know it but he didn't even need a lever. Shooting anything into orbit will do it.

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Maybe because the OS is primarily intended for military use. You want to know: will I get my regular rocket launcher down here OK, or do I need the one with caterpillar tracks?

Ah I think it's saying that an unclassified road might still be rendered in yellow if it has a decent surface? I certainly know of yellows with practically non-existent surfaces though, and some whites can be quite good.

But that surely is the same thing as the yellows on the OS map? The B roads (which have numbers) are brown. And then there are the "whites" (which I think are also sometimes called "unclassified"). What's an example of a yellow that isn't a C road?

On my Landrangers (which are all pretty old) the roads less than 4m are just drawn as narrower on the map. Same shade of yellow I think (but I'll check). But what is a C road anyway? I wasn't sure there even was such a thing (I usually call those roads "yellows").

Oh dear! Hope they recover 🤞

That's a bit like saying why is it hard for poor people to grasp that they should just spend their last remaining reserves of money on lottery tickets.

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But maybe some things are better left out?

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Decodex 2026-04-14
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is making the sounds, as if they're just playing through it a bit more. Everything is there, just a bit more subtle. But is that a good thing? It's very well recorded, but so is Tennstedt (and lots of others these days).

I also gave it a closer listen now that everybody is talking about it. And then, after that, the 3rd movement with Tennstedt for comparison. There's nothing wrong with the Bychkov but, for me, it's a bit less arresting. It seems there's less variety and less expression in the way the orchestra...

It depends. Yes you obviously can't go flat out all the time and you do have to be careful, but that's all part of the challenge and always has been. Potholes are particularly a problem now at night (when you should normally be able to go faster).

I didn't even know Bluesky did emails.

Lots of good driving roads in 🇬🇧 but most of them are the "C" roads (I mean yellow on the OS map) on which we still have a 60mph limit, which is not hugely unreasonable, and not enforced. But you do want a smaller car for those.

Also the car that many people from communist 🇷🇴 will remember as the Dacia. Not sure if it was the only model of Dacia but it was certainly quite ubiquitous.

You were way ahead of me :) I could never get my head around assembler at that time. Went from the ZX-81 to the Electron, which had a much better version of BASIC, but I was still saving to cassettes (mostly a "write-only" medium :)

"Little Car". Lots of nostalgia there :) The only ones I knew well were the ZX81, the Electron, BBC Micro, and then those Amstrad word processors (which you could program in a pretty terrible version of BASIC but on the plus side you had a disk drive :)

Yes was meant to be designed around "multimedia". Ofc an Android phone has a Linux kernel but the "desktop environment" is the bit that derives from BeOS. As for those home computers, there has been a very good and well-researched series of videos about them recently on a YouTube channel called...

Never heard of Xenix! Did you ever come across BeOS? I knew one guy who raved about it in the late 90s and had installed it at home. It evolved into Android.

That started with the "home computers" of the 80s which were a lot of fun, and didn't run Windows. They weren't open-source either though. Nothing was until Stallman pioneered that. It made a huge difference (for me anyway).