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by elihu 2y ago
Poly aftertouch is in MIDI 1.0 -- it just isn't used much. What MIDI 2.0 adds per-note pitch bend. That's a big deal, but you can also accomplish the same thing without all the complexity of MIDI 2.0 by using MPE, which is an ext
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by elihu 2y ago
I've recently come into possession of a number of back issues of "1/1 - the Journal of the Just Intonation Network" from the 80's and 90's. It's interesting how much content was devoted just to the topic
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by elihu 2y ago
The big question would be at what voltage? Most simple electronics want low voltage, but things like stoves and water heaters would want high voltage. To keep cable costs and resistive losses down, you'd want to keep the voltage as h
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by elihu 2y ago
I think where the article is out-of-touch is implying that timbre is still largely a mystery, when actually, for the most part, it isn't.
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by elihu 2y ago
There are a lot of famous guitar players, but there really aren't a lot of expressive controller players. I don't know of anyone who is famous for playing the Linnstrument, or the Osmose, or Continuum. Vangelis and the CS-80 is m
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by elihu 2y ago
It depends on what synth you're using, and how you're controlling it. Most synthesizers and controllers are profoundly lacking in expressive control, and of course a synthesizer that just plays back a recorded sample of a real pi
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by elihu 2y ago
> "Timbre’s role in music has always been underrated, or even ignored, probably because it is an intangible that’s difficult to describe, hard to categorize, and so far, immune to measurement. " In the mid-to-late 1800s, Herman
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by elihu 3y ago
I can see some potential issues with this: 1) Patents. The article goes into this a bit -- supposedly the folks behind SawStop have said they'd open up a key patent, but I wouldn't want the U.S. government to mandate this without
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by elihu 3y ago
They have released those at points in the past; I'm not sure if they're doing it on an ongoing basis, and their numbers include a large number of unidentified casualties. I think those usually make up about a third or so if I rem
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by elihu 3y ago
The problem is if they become used in disposable or short-lifetime materials, most of that carbon will go right back to being CO2 once the thing is thrown away and it decomposes. Ideally all that stuff would be sent to a facility where it c
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by elihu 3y ago
Do big container ships like this typically just have a standard propeller/rudder without some kind of directional thruster to assist in maneuvering? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller
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by elihu 3y ago
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Francis+Scott+Key+Bridge,+...
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by elihu 3y ago
There's one condition in particular that I think should absolutely be part of this: a requirement that Intel offers foundry services on an ongoing basis and giving equivalent access and prices to foundry customers as they give to their
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by elihu 3y ago
Ah, I was thinking about Starship. I forgot that the booster attempted simulated landing was going on at the same time.
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by elihu 3y ago
I think that's the ascent burn. It doesn't look like the engines re-lit at all for the descent. (I imagine they aren't supposed to light until they're a lot closer to the ground than they were when the video was lost.)
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by elihu 3y ago
John Oliver did an episode on Boeing quality control just 5 days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oCilY4szc
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by elihu 3y ago
Sure, but I've only seen variations of the Mazda 13B disassembled up close. I don't know if other Wankel engine housings look quite the same.
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by elihu 3y ago
It's kind of funny that that image looks an awful lot like the housing of a Mazda rotary engine. I'd be curious if MIT / Commenwealth Fusion have made any progress on their "remountable magnets" approach. The proble
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by elihu 3y ago
I'm not super knowledgeable, but my understanding is that ITER was designed around the best superconductors known at the time, which meant making the whole thing really big. A benefit of stronger magnets is that you can make it a lot s
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by elihu 3y ago
I've been playing Beyond All Reason (an open-source RTS) lately, and noticed that if I want to build a handful of some unit, I'd unconsciously click five times in a "shave and a haircut" pattern.
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by elihu 3y ago
Meanwhile, half of CO2 emissions from human causes since the industrial revolution have happened in about the last 40 years or so. Every time we mash the snooze bar for another decade the problem just gets that much harder to solve.
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by elihu 3y ago
The Sahara is kind of a funny example because it actually holds enormous quantities of water over on the eastern side, left over from the last time that whole area was a jungle. Libya gets most of its water from that aquifer. https:/&
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by elihu 3y ago
Ideally we'd use just intonation for digital music, but 12-tone equal temperament is so deeply ingrained in everything that you practically have to start over from scratch if you want something with more than 12 notes in the octave. MP
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by elihu 3y ago
The US did give them a lot (HIMARS, Bradleys, ATACMS, a few Abrams, cluster munitions) and Europe did too (Storm Shadow, Scalp, Leopards). I don't remember whether the Patriot batteries came from the U.S. or were traded out of some Eur
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by elihu 3y ago
What everyone was afraid would happen if Trump wins in 2024 -- him blocking aid to Ukraine -- has already happened. Trump winning would be bad news for Ukraine, but in practical terms they've already been thrown under the bus by Republ
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by elihu 3y ago
Avdiivka is a tiny fraction of all of Ukraine, but it's still noteworthy that Russia is making significant progress there, and pushing in at other points on the whole front. Ukraine's lines aren't at imminent risk of collapsi
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by elihu 3y ago
What you seem to be saying is that Australians had gas that was artificially cheap because it wasn't being bought and sold at international market rates, and once that started happening and the market was no longer distorted by trade l
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by elihu 3y ago
A random bit of trivia about Portland (and it probably explains a lot of the off-axis streets in other cities) is that there was a section laid out to align to true north, and another section of town that aligns with magnetic north. Eventu
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by elihu 3y ago
Nah, most of the random atoms floating around in space are going to be travelling very roughly as fast as the things (stars, planets, etc..) around them -- because anything travelling much faster is likely to eventually bump into something
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by elihu 3y ago
I've found that plywood that comes in 4'x8' sheets usually uses phenolic glue, whereas the stuff that comes in 5'x5' squares usually doesn't. "Exterior grade" or "marine grade" anything is

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