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by john61 3y ago
A study of measuring the effectiveness of selling your car to increase physical activity would be very interesting. But in our present economical logic who would profit from such a study and finance it?
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by john61 3y ago
Usually mediocrity becomes popular. If you want the best you have to look into niches usually crowded with great above average people. Be it music or software.
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by john61 3y ago
This is not what music makes sound good. Music sounds good if it is expressing human emotions that are resonating within us. In terms of IT: A syntacticaly and grammaticaly correct computer program is not automaticaly a good program.
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by john61 3y ago
In Austria there are illegal.
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by john61 3y ago
That is why I ride a bicycle.
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by john61 3y ago
Market share is a quantity ratio. For me it is not important that a lot of people use Linux besides me. But it is very important who uses it. That is because this is not a consumer good with buyers and sellers, and therefore this not a mark
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by john61 3y ago
A lot of enjoyable meals with friends and overweight is not necessaraly correlated. There are a lot of social gourmets that have normal weight. Usually overweight comes from cheap garbage fastfood, sweet drinks and low physical movement. Ex
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by john61 3y ago
There is the German word "Rechner" for Computer but nowadays it is seldom used.
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by john61 3y ago
It is no problem to write buggy unmaintainable code in a strongly typed language. It is also perfectly possible to write clean and maintainable code in a duck type language.
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by john61 3y ago
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
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by john61 3y ago
Regulation is not made for the benefit of individuals, but for the benefit of society as a whole. In this case, for the environment or the planet. I doubt that people don't want a planet to live.
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by john61 3y ago
Great musicians vary the timing and other parameters according to the live situation / mood / acoustics / audience. It is never the same.
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by john61 3y ago
There is a saying "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture". Spoken language is unsuitable to express musical ideas.
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by john61 3y ago
What about charging efficiency?
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by john61 4y ago
The solution is obvious. Just look at Vienna, not far away from Munich. A lot of flats belong directly to the city of Vienna and a lot of subsidized and owner restricted flats exist. The prices on the free market were also rising the last y
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by john61 4y ago
Get a good teacher.
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by john61 4y ago
Most of the information a pianist uses for fingering are the feeling of the hand and the sound of the piano while playing. This is not visible. Eyes are of little use for musicians. There are blind master pianists.
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by john61 4y ago
My taste, my pianistict abilities, my arm, shoulder and body movements and my musical idea for the interpretation and imagination of the sound of the piece can not be seen in a photo of my hand. Not even a good teacher can give you a finish
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by john61 4y ago
Piano fingering is a very subjective matter, because every hand, finger, arm and taste is different. I doubt that a robot fingering is of any use. You have to find it out for yourself under guidance of a teacher and maybe inspiration by fin
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by john61 4y ago
Postscript?
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by john61 4y ago
not sure if there is an English translation: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-8274-2186-9
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by john61 4y ago
The surrealistic manifesto by Breton excludes AI, since it has no thought: "Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express—verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner—the actual functioning of
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by john61 4y ago
What is often unknown is that the ear <-> brain interface is not one way but two ways. That means that the brain actively changes physically the mechanics of the ear for better hearing in a feedback loop. Therefore all sorts of "
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by john61 4y ago
yes making music. No smartphone as primary phone anymore. Using old computer gear until it literally falls apart. (I am typing this on a Thinkpad X60 from 2006, fine machine)
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by john61 4y ago
It is the same for me in software as a software engineer. My life is getting more and more analogue and offline.
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by john61 4y ago
I remember to having read this post back in 2004, in a state of transitioning my main language to the esoteric hacker language python, since I did not like java or perl at all. The argument in the article resonated with me and enforced my b
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by john61 4y ago
I do dinner canceling one or two times a week for more than ten years now. And I am still enjoying it. No reason to drop it.
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by john61 4y ago
yes for years. Own SBC Hardware Olimex A20-OLinuXinu at home via cable internet. SMTP sending through a smarthost from a local mail provider with good reputation to avoid delivery problems. Software: Debian stable, exim4, courier, spamassas
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by john61 4y ago
Play with him together. Ask him to play a very easy bass line while you are playing / improvising a simple melody, and then change. Do no stop when he stops. Keep the time rigorously and request that from him. My teachers lesson always
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by john61 4y ago
For the PinePhone you can install a free OS running the Baseband Processor: https://hackaday.com/2022/07/12/open-firmware-for-pinephone-... Probably illegal and the firmware running the radio hardware is stil

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