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by analog31 16d ago
I know a lot of people with music degrees. This is a widely acknowledged problem. It doesn't have a simple answer, especially as academic music programs are shrinking. You can't teach everything except at a survey level. You hav
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by analog31 16d ago
No. The New Yorker never gets to the point. — Long time subscriber.
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by analog31 16d ago
As an aside, learn to properly care for cables. There are several YouTube videos on this topic, typically from musicians. Most importantly for small molded cables, avoid sharp bends and stress on the wire near the ends. Just a loose coil is
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by analog31 17d ago
Even in the past a lot of “aristocrats” had to earn a living. Among scholars, many worked as teachers or had sinecures that paid the bills, or held clergy posts with minimal responsibilities. Aristocrats were a dime a dozen.
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by analog31 17d ago
Falling below subsistence means people starve and cease to exist until supply and demand equalize or “something else” happens. That’s what Smith was getting at. Thus subsistence is a price floor for human labor. Something else could mean de
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by analog31 17d ago
Raw material cost of labor is subsistence. Adam Smith pointed this out.
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by analog31 19d ago
Possibly more competitive. I got my degree in the early 90s. Good point.
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by analog31 19d ago
A friend of mine who was a paramedic told me that getting people out of a building is actually heavy, dangerous work. "They always die on the crapper, up 3 flights of stairs." Also, in my town, the firefighters are also paramedics
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by analog31 19d ago
>>> Elite soloists, maybe — but that is actually a pretty expensive life to live. I would be surprised if many of them risked a life where they had no other job. Yes, they really did. Getting to that level requires training at an i
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by analog31 19d ago
One thing I've observed is that a subset of that weird and interesting music is only possible due to the availability of musicians who have gone through the classical training. Having access to players who are capable of doing anything
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by analog31 19d ago
Oddly enough I'm one of those parents. Yes, I cringed, but at the same time I would also have cringed at watching them go into something they hate just for the money. I've seen that too. An observation I made is that the tournamen
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by analog31 20d ago
It's way more than that. They are just more fluent at creating things like melodies and harmonies that "work" without essentially starting from scratch on every composition. I know music notation and can write things down, bu
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by analog31 20d ago
The only people I know who are productive as composers or arrangers are familiar with theory.
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by analog31 20d ago
Retiring from music due to RSI suggests practical experience. Disclosure: Musician
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by analog31 20d ago
The ones who are vetting these articles have PhDs. Disclosure: PhD
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by analog31 21d ago
My suggestion is, don't start with difficult soldering jobs. Instead, start with something easy, such as a kit that's intended to teach old school electronic assembly. For instance, something like a guitar pedal. Or, solder to the
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by analog31 21d ago
You only have to get it right once, or copy another guitar. Today, people buy a pre-made gauge. A viola da gamba still has tied frets, made from the same material as the strings -- cattle or sheep intestines. Among other things, movable fre
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by analog31 21d ago
I use the cheap cutters such as Hakko 170's. They're sharp and convenient but essentially consumable. They're made from a relatively soft steel, and wear out, usually because you cut things that aren't copper. Some compo
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by analog31 22d ago
Indeed, I'm the designated family surgeon. I've removed more splinters from people than I can count.
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by analog31 22d ago
True but you can do actual work under a stereoscopic microscope. It has a vaunted place on my workbench. Disclosure: Old person. ;-)
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by analog31 22d ago
I'm a musician, and am fluent at sight-reading. My perspective doesn't even consider the pro's and con's of conventional notation. The network effect is overwhelming. Written music involves a symbiosis between the compos
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by analog31 23d ago
What udder nonsense.
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by analog31 23d ago
Yes, this illustrates that the merits of a technology are relative to its use. Urban cycling in the US is a whole nother beast. It's dangerous enough without effective brakes.
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by analog31 24d ago
Canada also ships trash to the US.
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by analog31 24d ago
It's also a thing in the upper Midwest of the US. One trick is a studded winter tire in the front and a regular tire in back. The front tire keeps you in control without too much of a rolling resistance penalty. We have enough space he
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by analog31 24d ago
Commenting on my own post, I should expand a bit on "statutory damages." I got the idea from the music industry, where there are automatic civil damages for copying recordings. If you're caught, you get to pay X dollars per i
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by analog31 24d ago
I believe we need to criminalize possession of the data, with statutory damages per violation.
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by analog31 24d ago
Just wait until it needs a repair, and they tell you it's no longer being serviced. Been there. This is one of the cases where it might be better to lease it.
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by analog31 25d ago
Daily urban commuter here. I've had coaster brakes in the past. Bendix, Shimano, and Sturmey-Archer. I was attracted to the simplicity and lack of exposed cables. All were well maintained, by me, on wheels that I built. Concurring with
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by analog31 25d ago
I work in a mid sized engineering organization, and the older engineers (and engineer-adjacent people like me) mentor the younger ones all the time. One thing that can't be codified in procedures is what I call "situational awaren

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