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For my birthday, my partner surprised me with what I can only describe as a candy-go-round. [1] It has six compartments with push-button dispensers, and dispenses into a little removable tray.

It is one of the most interesting and unexpected gifts I've ever received. I'll have to remember to post a picture of it once it's got something inside it.

[1] Probably intended for holding various rices and pulses or similar, but that's boring. Packaging is all in (I think) Japanese characters, no English to be seen.

#ingenious#kitchen#MerryGoRound
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Enrico "meldrian" Michaelis

Meine Frau & ich haben auf dem #Sofa zwecks #Unterhaltung häufig unsere #Notebook auf dem Schoß.
Grundlegendes klappt auf beiden Geräten aber #Streaming & #Gaming kann ich vergessen, da zieht sie mich mit dem #Tuxedo #Pulse gefühlt um den Faktor 100 ab.
Von der Laufzeit her übertrifft ihr Gerät mein #Acer #Travelmate "nur" um ~ das Doppelte.
#SpaßMitSchrott hat eben auch Grenzen.

Manchmal, wenn ich lieb frage, darf ich auch mal das Notebook & Updates installieren oder so 😅
#SzenenEinerEhe

Teilausschnitt eines Sofas inkl. Sofakissen. Zwei Notebooks mit TuxedoOS sind zu sehen. Links Acer Travelmate B115 auf 1366x768 Pixel Auflösung, rechts Tuxedo Pulse 14 auf 2880x1800 Pixel Auflösung.
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@Impish4249 @allanb

Rotary phones were in use long after that in Canada, and probably other places, but touch-tone was also available. In the late 80s/early 90s I still had a line that would only do pulse dialing, because touch-tone dialing was an add-on charge with the phone company where I lived.

It was a significant amount; just adding touch-tone support increased the monthly bill by almost 10%. Yes, this was a BS charge, because it was just a flag they set on your account. It didn't cost them anything to provide tone dialing. They still do the same thing with caller-ID, so I don't have it. "We don't care. We're the phone company; we don't have to."

At the time, many (perhaps most) phones you could buy had push-button dialing, but there was a switch on the phone to choose pulse or tone dialing. If you set it to pulse, you'd push the 7 button, and then you'd hear 7 clicks, etc.

So kind of "hybrid dialing".

#Canada#phone#telephone
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Philo Sophies

Guest post by Yervant Kulbashian (Engineering Manager, #AI #Platform):

"The Green Swan - The #Logical #Pulse" - Part 2

The 2nd part of his complete essay deals mainly with the questions, what #logic actually is, how it comes about #language-guided, how children learn it and which #mistakes they make here. So all #questions, which have to be asked also for the development of #language #based #logic on #machines.

The original text in English is available on my page.

philosophies.de/index.php/2023

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Philo Sophies

Guest post by Yervant Kulbashian (Engineering Manager, #AI #Platform):

"The Green Swan - The #Logical #Pulse" - Part 2

The 2nd part of his complete essay deals mainly with the questions, what #logic actually is, how it comes about #language-guided, how children learn it and which #mistakes they make here. So all #questions, which have to be asked also for the development of #language #based #logic on #machines.

The original text in English is available on my page.

philosophies.de/index.php/2023

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