biggieshellz

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by biggieshellz 6y ago
To be fair, General Mojo's Well-Laid Plan is from "Duster" by Gary Burton's band with Larry Coryell, which is considered to be one of the first fusion records and was really influential at the time.
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
No sophisticated software, but you could take a turntable and play a 33 1/3 RPM record at half speed (16 2/3 RPM) and that would drop the recording by an octave but keep the notes the same.
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
Same reason Tesla talks a big game but has skipped their 401(k) match for three straight years. If they can get the people they need for less $$$, they will.
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
Oh wow -- this takes me back to when I first experienced the graphical Internet on a Macintosh IIsi! Thanks!
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
You can't split them up into several smaller gear pairs, so you actually need two gears with 720 and 1151 teeth. A gear with 1151 teeth is impractical to make, both in terms of size and in terms of the manufacturing capability at the
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
960 watts will not power a hair dryer, an Instant Pot, a space heater, a full-sized coffee maker, or a toaster.
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
We could test that it's safe, yes. Effective, no. You have to have the people out in the community, for both the vaccinated group and the control group, and then compare who gets infected in each group. The testing actually took les
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
The only one I can think of would be the Rotax 912, which is certified to run on mogas ("motor gas" / unleaded). But as you said, that's more for light sport and trainers.
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
This is simply disinformation. The "inability to count votes" in many of the swing states this year was due to their Republican legislatures refusing to pass legislation allowing for the absentee ballots to be counted as they arr
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
I could tell the difference between them if you play them back to back. But if I woke up in the morning and listened to one of them, I wouldn't be able to tell you whether it was the one in C or the one in Db. Not sure if there are re
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
We don't know the mechanism, but we have hints. Surprisingly enough, relative pitch is the one most unique to humans. Birds have perfect pitch, and can fail to recognize a song if it's pitch-shifted by even a small amount. An
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
I have a friend who's a trumpet player who has it. He can lay in bed and write out an arrangement, whereas most of us mere mortals would need to reference a piano or a guitar. Other than that, it's mostly a cool parlor trick. Th
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
Semi-pro musician for 20+ years here. You can't teach this. My mom has perfect pitch, and I do not. I can play a record and move the pitch knob to make it play a bit fast, and it will bother her enough to get up off the couch and ch
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
A few notes here: * This is intended to treat presbycusis, or old-age hearing loss, where the highest frequencies are lost first. It would not be effective for noise-induced hearing loss, where the frequencies around 4 KHz are lost first (
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by biggieshellz 6y ago
Agreed. Sounds like the Lotus Elise, where if the extruded/bonded aluminum chassis is damaged, the repair procedure is basically "remove everything from the chassis and swap it to a new chassis."
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by biggieshellz 7y ago
Not to get off topic, but the building code reforms are necessary in order to help control the ridiculous rises in housing prices and rents here. We have the same problem as California, where neighborhood associations want to freeze things
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by biggieshellz 7y ago
See http://www.retrolinear.com/new-stuff/dreaded-foam.aspx -- the same foam was used inside Hammond organs and Moog synths, with similar results.
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by biggieshellz 7y ago
You say that, but phone phreaking was possible because of in-band signaling. People back in the day had much the same tradeoffs we did; by necessity, they just came down on the side of less security / less portability / less reus
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by biggieshellz 7y ago
But the piston going down and up doesn't make a pulse. On a four-stroke engine, the pulse is generated when the intake valve opens, which happens once per two crank revolutions. When the piston goes down and up for the power and exha
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by biggieshellz 7y ago
Question on your RPM: You should see one pulse for every 2 crank revolutions, right? So if you measure 600 pulses per minute, that's really 1200 RPM, right?
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by biggieshellz 7y ago
Keep in mind that noise-induced hearing loss doesn't go from the high frequencies down -- that's presbycusis (hearing loss caused by aging). Noise-induced hearing loss creates a "noise notch" at around 4 KHz due to the
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by biggieshellz 7y ago
For general aviation (small prop planes), it's because so much of the cost of running one comes from the engine. The most common piston engines are supposed to make it 1500-2000 hours between overhauls, and an overhaul runs around $16
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by biggieshellz 7y ago
It's not like Neil Young can hear it anyway. Dude has had tinnitus for decades, and there's no way he doesn't have major noise-induced hearing loss from standing in front of those cranked Fender Deluxes for all those years.
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by biggieshellz 7y ago
Sure, that's an audiogram. It tells you what your threshold of hearing is at a certain set of frequencies. Additionally, sometimes they'll do bone conduction, which can characterize whether your loss is conductive (for example,
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by biggieshellz 7y ago
The problem is that patients don't always know what is supposed to sound right, especially if they've been going without hearing aids for years. If you take a person with a high-frequency loss and correct it to the normal range,
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by biggieshellz 7y ago
Not an audiologist, but an engineer/musician with some mild hearing loss and some interest in these things. What needs to happen to bring the prices down is a unified prescription for hearing aids, like we have with eyeglasses. You ca
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by biggieshellz 8y ago
Meh. I feel like this article misses the point. Swing is 3 against 2, metrically speaking, but it is also folklore, tradition, and a tremendous amount of micro-information in where each note is placed relative to the beat. The "cutti
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by biggieshellz 8y ago
"people lot tone" -> "pilot tone", I think.
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by biggieshellz 8y ago
Why is that? If you wear your PPE (helmet with appropriate shade while welding, face shield while grinding), I would think you would be protected.
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by biggieshellz 8y ago
More unnerving to me is seeing people around all that noise without hearing protection. They mention in the video that many of the printers were deaf -- I wouldn't be surprised if those that weren't to start, ended up that way!

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