SubGenius

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by SubGenius 3y ago
Mostly classical music. Nothing in particular, I'll usually look up spotify-curated playlists like "Baroque classics" or "French Composers" etc. Music with singing is too distracting when I'm working, and so is
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by SubGenius 3y ago
Lucky you! Considering that the likelihood of Necro putting out a new record or playing live is almost zero. One can hope though! Their album Epitaph is what I like to call a "perfect" record, in the way that Aja by Steely Dan is
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by SubGenius 3y ago
Great read. Despite being into death metal for ages, I've never really paid attention to the lyrics. I tend to be overwhelmed by the intensity of the music itself, in a good way. I did look up the lyrics to Necrophagist many years ago,
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by SubGenius 3y ago
Santana's Woodstock version of Soul Sacrifice[0] must be one of the greatest live performances ever. The band is locked in, Santana's overdriven tone is excellent and just right. It's my favorite. Apparently they'd all d
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by SubGenius 3y ago
Perhaps you're looking for Kinopio.club? https://kinopio.club
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by SubGenius 3y ago
Steely Dan has had a lot of great drums on their records! Guitars and bass too. Their song FM is just brilliant...
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by SubGenius 3y ago
Impressions is a great track. My personal fave is a rendition by Pat Martino. Guitar nerds will like it. [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrrdbS2spkQ
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by SubGenius 3y ago
I use arch btw.
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by SubGenius 4y ago
Sound aside, the Strat is probably the most comfortable shape to play, for me anyway. I've found Les Pauls to feel heavier despite the actual weight of the guitar. My picking hand feels awkward on an LP body/bridge too. Of course,
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by SubGenius 4y ago
Not everyday you see Coltrane on HN. ;)
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by SubGenius 4y ago
One of the greats. I've always liked his tone, expression and the brilliant use of the whammy bar. His version of Nadia is the electric guitar played in perfection. [0] [0] - https://youtu.be/drAv2FoYji8
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by SubGenius 4y ago
- A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul: explores themes of belonging, ownership, home, independence, escape, freedom. - Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: explores love in it's many forms. - Lonesome Dove by Larry Mc
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by SubGenius 5y ago
Martino was amazing. He had some of the wildest "lines". You can think of an improvised guitar solo as a series of small blocks/lines with breaks in between to think, or just rest your fingers. Martino's lines just keep
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by SubGenius 5y ago
You're right about that bassline! I love the full, round but tight tone. You might like Richard Bona and Linley Marthe, both of whom played with Joe Zawinul's Syndicate project. They both have that similar kind of solid tone. - h
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by SubGenius 5y ago
They all sound like imitators(not really) because most of them played on the Bitches Brew record. At least Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, John McLaughlin. :)
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by SubGenius 5y ago
That does make sense to an extent. The average listener today is more likely to think of cheesy 80s synthy jazz fusion when they hear of the term, rather than something like Bitches Brew.
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by SubGenius 5y ago
Miles Davis had the greatest set of ears too. His thoughts on his contemporaries in these blind tests are very interesting, and hilarious. "For a long time, Miles Davis and I had been trying to get together for a blindfold session. I
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by SubGenius 5y ago
There's an excellent autobiography called Miles, by Quincy Troupe. I highly recommend it. I've read it a few times over the years. As for racism, Miles faced significant racism himself, being arrested, assaulted by police etc. I d
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by SubGenius 5y ago
I had an accident that left me with some pretty nasty nerve damage on my left hand. It's essentially a non-stop tingling/buzzing sensation with intermittent electric-shock like pinching. I switched to a Keynesian Advantage 2 late
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by SubGenius 6y ago
I started Gurlic a while back which has an environment community with regular posts, although discussions are non-existent since the site is unknown. https://gurlic.com/environment I've also started a new project calle
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by SubGenius 6y ago
Hey, my post clearly says to either sign up or use a throwaway Matrix account, and even asks to avoid using your main Matrix account. As for the password, Hummingbard needs it for the same reason that a server-hosted webmail client like Rou
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by SubGenius 6y ago
Hey, it's not integrated into a server, it just requires Dendrite (a beta Matrix server implementation) for certain features (like threading) that have not been implemented in the reference server (Synapse).
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by SubGenius 6y ago
Hey, I can't comment about Matrix's P2P implementation as I haven't played with it yet. It's still a heavy work-in-progress I believe. Regular Matrix is pretty straight-forward - you join rooms and send events. Events ge
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by SubGenius 6y ago
No but in the next couple days. I actually wanted to go with the strictest copyleft license, but there was a discussion earlier about dual-licensing, which left me quite confused. I'm not very knowledgeable at all in these matters and
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Show HN: Hummingbard – decentralized communities built on Matrix(hummingbard.com)
412 points by SubGenius 6y ago|83 comments
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by SubGenius 6y ago
Well, Discord is proprietary. I'm not super interested in the chat/IM aspects of Matrix. What I really like is the protocol and the built-in federation and pub/sub mechanism that you can use to build cool decentralized apps t
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by SubGenius 6y ago
Unfortunately I'm running a very minimal arch + i3 setup now, I wonder if I can install Neochat without pulling in a whole lot of KDE dependencies? Neochat looks great by the way!
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by SubGenius 6y ago
Matrix is not only an exciting ecosystem to build on top off, the overall community is pretty amazing too. Fossdem went great and I liked a lot of the talks. I'm beginning to build a couple of projects on matrix and am really hopeful f
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by SubGenius 6y ago
No! I was just watching him with Dave Weckl and John Patitucci, and hour ago. :(
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by SubGenius 6y ago
I have a Toshiba laptop from 2005 or so that just won't die. It runs Archlinux/i3 and is surprisingly speedy for its age.

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