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by john61 5y ago
There is no cooking without taste. Does a computer have taste?
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by john61 5y ago
https://freedombox.org/ can make this easier. It is based on Debian and has a nice Web GUI. One can also order an appliance: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/Pionee...
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by john61 5y ago
I thought of building an ecological automower that can mow very high grass.
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by john61 5y ago
Last year I mowed only 2 or 3 times in the whole year because my automower died and I wanted to try what happens. The increase in insects and birds was incredible. I therefore do not repair or replace the mower. Instead I only regularly mow
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by john61 5y ago
For this I use I cron job and a bash script which curls sites I want to watch and grep them for content that I am interested in. It diffs to the last check and if there is one, mails the diff and the url to me.
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by john61 5y ago
I play the piano for a long time. And I have a clavichord that I tune myself and can tune microtonal to make such tests, which I do.
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by john61 5y ago
Yes I do not negate that microtonal has interesting effects. The question was why there a 12 tones in western music. And the answer is that minor 2nd is the smallest interval you can separate when played together. I should have been more pr
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by john61 5y ago
You can not differentiate two microtones playing together at the same time. Unfortunately, I could not test this with your link, because I could only play one after another.
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by john61 5y ago
Yes, of course, does breaking the rules not lead to better music automatically. But strictly adhering to the cultural/mathematical rules seems to lead to mediocre results.
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by john61 5y ago
yes, there are more than 12 tones, obviously. But If you play two neighbor microtonal tones together, you hear only one beating.
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by john61 5y ago
If they sound together, you hear only one beating tone. One after another, you can distinguish them below the 12 tone pitch.
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by john61 5y ago
You can test this in the Vienna museum of music. There is a live demonstration with a headphone and with two knobs for the frequency of two separate tones playing together. Also, it visually shows the pitch of those two. If you go below the
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by john61 5y ago
What is interesting is that master composers often broke the "mathematic" rules. Schubert, Beethoven or Chopin for example have sometimes very strange and unbelievable beautiful harmonics sprinkled in. Whereas mediocre composer do
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by john61 5y ago
There are twelve tones because the pitch between them is the smallest one that our ear can differentiate as two distinct tones. Is the pitch smaller, you hear only beats.
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by john61 5y ago
I am still surprised how far ahead the N900 was. It is still my daily driver because there is simply no comparable alternative.
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by john61 5y ago
No, because Google hast to comply with US law and has to transfer data to US officials.
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by john61 5y ago
A PC as file server and an Olimex A20 SBC Backupserver with 2 rotating ( one offsite) external encrypted sata harddiscs, rsnapshot and anacron that automatically backups all our servers, laptops and phones in the lan or known public ip.
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by john61 5y ago
“don’t build your app using Microsoft tech, only use open source” is not a religious advice but a political and strategic one. It is about power, not technology.
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by john61 5y ago
Well, then I must do something wrong. I run my personal email server based on Debian stable on my own SBC hardware in a colo for a couple of years now . Manual maintenance is just upgrade to the next stable Debian version every 3 years or s
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by john61 5y ago
Not the OP. But in my experience, a lot of people do not know about double entry bookkeeping, which solves a lot of problems people have trying a home made excel bookkeeping. It is not more work to do, but you have to learn a little bit abo
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by john61 5y ago
Schubert Winttereise with Sax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqWZ___E2tQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X8eJqnluDc https://www.gramola.at/en/shop/produkte/jazz/gramol
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by john61 5y ago
For me, the richest discovery is playing the music on my instrument for myself. The discovery of music in myself through improvisation is the richest possible discovery.
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by john61 5y ago
Would be nice if it would mention which proprietary software is necessary.
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by john61 5y ago
In Vienna/Austria there is a rpi or similar housing with a real ipv4 address: https://www.easyserver.at/serverhousing
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by john61 5y ago
I did not find a fan for my X230. Do you know a source?
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by john61 5y ago
Yes I know this rule: no thumb on black keys. My teacher says it is dumb, and I agree. It depends on the musical context. Thumb on black key can be a disaster or a brilliant solution. There a no rules and a lot of factors to consider. Good
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by john61 5y ago
On the modern grand you do no have to lift the key fully up to press it again. Therefore, you can play better legato without the pedal, and you can hit the same key faster. The dynamic force distribution on the key travel is also different.
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by john61 5y ago
Or just read the fingering of the masters?
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by john61 5y ago
"The algorithm minimizes the fingers speed needed to play a sequence of notes " This is a bad optimization. Because fingering should be a function of the desired musical effect. Speed can be one of them but most of the time others
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by john61 5y ago
That is very low for professional pianists.

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