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by flavio81 9y ago
Tip: Picks can work as a substitute feeler gauge. Pick thicknesses are often indicated on the pick (i.e. "2mm")
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by flavio81 9y ago
> Is it worth while to get a lefty guitar? If electric, you can just use the regular "righty" guitar, just fit the strings accordingly. Jimi Hendrix, probably the most famous electric guitar player ever, did this way. He was a
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by flavio81 9y ago
> How do you get your figure to press down just right on the string and not interfere with another. The main secret is: Press just behind the fret. This will give the cleanest sound with the less amount of pressure. Also, you need good e
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by flavio81 9y ago
Fingerstyle is easier on a classical guitar because of the spacing between the strings. However many guitar players play the electric fingerstyle as well. A really accomplished player, like Jeff Beck, can be equally proficient with fingerst
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by flavio81 9y ago
Great post, just to add some info: The 'screw' that counterbalances the pulling force on the neck exerted by the strings is the "truss rod" which sits inside the neck (on an electric guitar and some acoustics); this rod
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by flavio81 9y ago
> My favorite hard, hard instrument is the tambourine. It's amazing something so small and simple can present such challenges, but it does. And played well, it's extremely expressive. There's the brazilian "pandeiro&q
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by flavio81 9y ago
> There's a weird kind of asceticism around the notion of paying-ones-dues on an acoustic first So true. They are really two different instruments due to the avaliability of much more sustain on the electric, and the dimensions of t
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by flavio81 9y ago
> First and foremost, guitar is a pretty straightforward instrument for beginners. I agree with your assessment and comments! I play drums, guitar, keyboard and some bass. Guitar is the easiest by far. From the list, drums is the hardest
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by flavio81 9y ago
yes, there is; Common Lisp and it is an Ansi standard. This is what is commonly understood as "Lisp" (noun) as opposed as when writing "a Lisp" (adjective), in which case it could be Scheme, Racket, Clojure, etc.
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by flavio81 9y ago
>Lisp and ML are competing by nature(MLs are famous from their typesystems) and their "failure" is not because of unix, but because of their inability to deliver 'fast' & readable apps. ?! Lisp under SBCL is as fa
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by flavio81 9y ago
"for learning any language you want", as long as that language is Python, Ruby, Java, Javascript, Swift, PHP, C# and C++.
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by flavio81 9y ago
I am a millenial and i like your comment, although of course the "stack" that the article mentions has nothing to do with the "stack" you are referring to... PUSH POP PUSH PUSH PUSH POP POP POP ...
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by flavio81 9y ago
Three words: MKULTRA electronic warfare. This program tested many electronic devices to annoy target subjects. The russian also had their own, google the "LIDA Machine" (also patented in the US).
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by flavio81 9y ago
If you look at the design of said device (invented by Lev Sergeivich Termen aka Leo Theremin), you'll suspect that it will require a pretty powerful microwave beam to work.
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by flavio81 9y ago
At the end it is part of the long-standing problem of being able to differentiate "noise" (the pops and clicks) versus "data" (the audio of the recorded program). If anything, let me tell you that "clicks&pops&q
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by flavio81 9y ago
It has more moving parts than a normal turntable. Normal turntable, moving parts: 1. turntable spindle (2). Motor (sometimes integrated into the spindle assembly) 3. tonearm bearings ELPJ laser turntable 1. turntable
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by flavio81 9y ago
Not exactly. The browser, instead of downloading javascript, downloads WASM bytecode, and this bytecode gets compiled ahead-of-time to machine language and ran by the browser. The bytecode itself is the product of compiling a source code wr
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by flavio81 9y ago
This is a good question and deserves its own article. Much fun (sometimes justified) has been made of the archetipical "Smug lisp hacker" or "Smug lisp weenie" who thinks that Common Lisp is the best of the best. On the
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by flavio81 9y ago
Thanks, i thought PS stood for "postscript"!
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by flavio81 9y ago
+1000 Me too! C# or Common Lisp or Python or whatever, choosing the best choice for the specific project and circumstances.
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by flavio81 9y ago
I have no time to watch a full video. Who is speaking? On topic, my suggestion to make a better language is easy: create more tooling and portable libraries for Common Lisp. Port some of the nicer features of Clojure and Racket to Common Li
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by flavio81 9y ago
See asm.js. This is exactly what you propose. BTW, asm.js has been superseded by Webassembly which ditches Javascript completely.
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by flavio81 9y ago
Why should they complement Javascript? The browser should be language-agnostic, just as your bare metal (computer) is. Otherwise, then, we should tell people they "must" use C to write applications and that othrr languages should
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by flavio81 9y ago
Eventually it should replace Javascript. It ought to, because it defines a standard, versatile platform to execute code on the browser.
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by flavio81 9y ago
Great work guys! Keep on releasing more interesting libs for wasm!
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by flavio81 9y ago
In which way it is terrible? It is a Ps and PDF rendering engine. I don't know if you are already aware of this, but Postcript is almost a complete programming language, so writing a Ps renderer is like writing an interpreter (or comp
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by flavio81 9y ago
Everytime I read somebody pushing for the Go language, i recall this interesting, funny piece written about it. http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/
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by flavio81 9y ago
TL:DR; They have written a PS & PDF renderer that runs completely in the client, by using web-assembly. They show the performance to be not so far off using native code, and this allows offloading the CPU load of PDF rendering to the cl
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by flavio81 9y ago
Exactly. The Laser turntable was a really bad idea, one that attempts to solve a problem that doesn't really exist in practice: record wear. A stylus rides on the physical surface of the record. The information (audio) is on the physic
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by flavio81 9y ago
> Why introduce a second language to your project? This seems like a huge overhead for no benefit (you're still expected to write C at some point) If i was having an IoT company or start-up, i would make sure to hire proper engine

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