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by john61 2y ago
> Instead we should simply be billing for carbon actually emitted. If you emit less, your bill is smaller. Poor people have the same human rights than rich people. Therefore it should not be dependent on money how much a person can emit.
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by john61 2y ago
I do not think it is reluctance of thinking when pianists would complain about Steinway changing the order of piano keys every few years, because a new Steinway engineer thinks his order is better.
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by john61 2y ago
Missing from the blog. The power reading of the Tosmota device should be calibrated: https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Power-Monitoring-Calibration/
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by john61 2y ago
> When do we stop finding new music? for me never. The older I get I find more interesting new music. Maybe because I play an instrument and live in a very diverse and rich physical cultural context, not in a playlist or AI generated con
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by john61 2y ago
Then it is fraud.
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by john61 2y ago
I am not interested in a fake soul, as I am not interested in an sex doll. This is independent of how good the fake is.
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by john61 3y ago
The guitar maker I know knocks on the raw soundboard and listens very close to the response. He can tell how it will sound in a guitar and how the guitar has to be built to support this particular soundboard and wanted characteristics of th
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by john61 3y ago
Octaves on a piano are tuned slightly wider and "out of tune" because of the Inharmonicity of the strings.
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by john61 3y ago
Does it run completely with free software without binary blobs? Any advancements in this regard? This is very important for sustainability in the long run.
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by john61 3y ago
Having only a facebook page and forcing people on that toxic platform, is a strong indication that they do not value freedom (of the web) and ethics. Again a good filter for business / people I want to avoid.
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by john61 3y ago
Usually bad web software correlates with bad content. Therefore having a slow device is an excellent filter helping to avoid garbage.
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by john61 3y ago
> It's mostly Austria, Germany, France and few other conservative countries who insist on using their local language for IT terms out of national pride or something, as using too much English is seen as an defeat/attack on thei
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by john61 3y ago
One of the hardship nowadays is that there are too many people. Therefore having children contributes to extinction of humanity.
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by john61 3y ago
I doubt that having children answers the big existential questions anymore, if the planet is probably going on fire during the lifetime of the next generation.
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by john61 3y ago
As great as such improvements are. Isn't it concerning for the future of Python's freedom that the president of the PSF is a Microsoft employee and a lot of important core devs are nowadays MS employees? Doesn't this give MS
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by john61 3y ago
Did you look for a broken (for example glass) used one?
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by john61 3y ago
On Windows antivirus is a necessity, not so on linux. So it OP made a fair practical real live comparison not a synthetic benchmark.
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by john61 3y ago
One more reason to use the bicycle.
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by john61 3y ago
My father built a prototype of such a device 20 years ago. He abandoned the project after trying the prototype, because it accelerated dramatically and he could not brake. He jumped sideways into the gutter and was really scared. My persona
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by john61 3y ago
Intermediate fasting is healthy, so it is probably the other way round.
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by john61 3y ago
You could join a freelancer programmer cooperative to share the risk and tell them that you cooperate with x others.
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by john61 3y ago
I do not doubt the usefulness of written music, as I do not doubt the usefulness of written speech. But you have to walk before you run. Often people play music by eye before they can really hear. Written music is a useful tool, hearing is
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by john61 3y ago
Yes the eye can be useful as I said, but it is not the primarily thing to use to learn music, like a lot of people and maybe app programmers think. I think a lot of bad music comes from not using your ears to full extent.
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by john61 3y ago
The best piano players in the world play by memory whole concerts evenings with incredible complex and hard to remember music like JS Bach. They play hundreds such of gigs a year reliable with a very big repertoire.
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by john61 3y ago
I learn by sheet music and ear. Ear is by far more precise because of the severe limitation of musical notation. As Mahler said: The essence of music is not in the notation.
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by john61 3y ago
There has always been a very old method to learn music without sheet music. It is called playing by ear. It is incredible that we have a word for that. Because nobody is saying he is learning to talk by ear. Because talking and making music
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by john61 3y ago
https://www.cygwin.com/ is available since 1995
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by john61 3y ago
https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/Pionee... https://freedombox.org/
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by john61 3y ago
This is like saying that bicycles are a major degradation from traditional mobile systems like cars, because they have no airbags and no ABS. The threat model for linux phones is completly different, since they use free software und hardwar
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by john61 3y ago
I bought a modern premium dishwasher a few years ago. The drying did not work very well, so I called the service. To my suprise only a few hours later a serviceman came plugged his laptop into the machine and prolonged the drying time and e

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