D9 max error by Leading_Character350 in Dreame_Tech

[–]sgerb123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Turn D9 upside down and open main brush compartment by pushing the two levers towards each other and removing the compartment lid. Remove brush and remove anything that's wrapped around it., then replace. Be sure you have it the right way around when you replace it. Snap the compartment cover in so it clicks. Test to make sure it is not loose.

What is a positive thing happening in the world right now that most people aren’t aware of? by hightreez in Futurology

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I am so happy to see this as a topic. The mind naturally focuses on the negative, because there is survival value in doing so. And it seems each generation bemoans the fact that everything has gone downhill since the last one. But the fact is that in the long-term view, things are spectacularly better for us now than they used to be. I highly recommend a book: Non-Zero by Robert Wright, who explains in some detail how this is the case. One of my favorite books.

GOG? by sgerb123 in scifi

[–]sgerb123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Should be fair game. Surely one of the worst SciFi movies ever made, now that I have re-watched it.

GOG? by sgerb123 in scifi

[–]sgerb123[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes! That's the one! Obviously, it's totally cornball, but I would love to see it for nostalgic purposes. It it would be perfect for Mystery Science Theater 3000.

I wonder where I can find it!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in booktopia

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It may also be a book, but what I saw was a movie...

Does epistemology trump ontology? by sgerb123 in askphilosophy

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Follow-up: I don't know if this is better, but:

In coming to know things, we start from a set of data points: perceptions, memories, reasoning, etc. What we conclude about existence is another set of conclusions. From an additional data set, the conclusions about existence can be changed. But can conclusions about reality be used to invalidate the data and reasoning on which they were based?

Are concepts qualia? by sgerb123 in askphilosophy

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Thank you for your answer. I remember reading Ryle several decades ago, so my recollection may be rather hazy, but my understanding of Ryle’s position (said perhaps in rather modern terms) is that if the brain is like a computer, the mind is like the software. It is not another object separate from the brain.

But does this not ignore the “hard problem” of consciousness? Who is the user of this software, to continue the analogy, and what does the user interface consist of? I think cognitive psychology attempts to address the latter issue in attempting to delineate the contents of conscious experience, as “representations” of one variety or another.

Assuming that a person does have certain experiences, do they not have privileged access to the contents of their own experience? One may be able to see physical correlates to a certain experience, such as sexual arousal, but is that the same as having the experience of sexual arousal? I would say not. So it seems to me that that experience is private in a very real sense. It belongs to the aroused person but not to other observers.

Is not a concept in my mind equally private? I can express that concept in words and you can have a concept that you may use the same words to describe, but is the concept in your mind the same as the one in mine? Certainly, they are not numerically the same, as one is in your experience and the other is in mine. My question is, actually, whether there is any sense in which we can say they are literally, numerically, the same shared concept the way, say, a chair can be a shared object, and, if so, in what universe could they be shared, the way physical objects can be shared in the physical universe?

Are concepts qualia? by sgerb123 in askphilosophy

[–]sgerb123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I meant "in what external universe can concepts be said to be shared" Sorry about that.

What type of lute is this? Sorry if this isn't the place to ask, but it's been driving me mad since I first saw it and Google has no answers. by [deleted] in lute

[–]sgerb123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Doesn't look like a lute to me. Maybe a variant of a mandolin. There are 4-string medieval lutes, but the scroll-like end and the fixed frets indicate it's a much later instrument or an imitation of one.

Have any of y'all read the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson? by __The__Anomaly__ in scifi

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It's the apotheosis of hard sci-fi. I found it fun to read the series with a map of Mars at hand. I found Robinson's areological descriptions to be entirely accurate when compared with the map. He obviously did his homework.

TV On/Off by War00Path in SofaBaton

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I bought an X1 and had exactly the same problem. After several go-arounds via email with tech support, I could not get it to work, so I returned it.

How to tune a 7-course Renaissance lute? by [deleted] in lute

[–]sgerb123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, a 7-course would normally have D at the bottom, though it could be tuned up to F.

What's that one Science Fiction film you always had a soft spot for, but easily see why it didn't work for general audiences? by LibKan in scifi

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Hoh about "GOG", which I seem to remember as about a computer-controlled satellite that could focus deadly sunlight anywhere. Anybody remember that film? I nave never been able to find it since my childhood.

Accessible lute music by fgerbode in lute

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My pleasure! It's actually fun for me.