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by mtalantikite 1y ago
A good jazz teacher would be able to lead you through this, or a classical teacher that has a composition background. You'll need to learn all your chords of course. Take a few keys every day and just practice your four triads for each
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
"I am still not quite sure how other people are learning this..." We practice our scales through the circle of fifths. I don't really follow what they mean by "activates" at F#. If this is getting the author to play
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Yeah, her customer is gen z or millennial women and queer men. It doesn't look like where I shop, but I'm not the target demo. A lot of the beauty and fragrance world looks like this these days, particularly as you go down towards
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
For sure. I suggested having an eau de parfum option, but it does make things smell totally different -- much weaker, doesn't last long on the body, and can get overpowered by the alcohol carrier. Plus as a small business it'd mea
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
That's actually been new for her, maybe the past two or so months after 10 years in business, and it seems to be working better than any other type of advertising she's done in the past.
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
She has, these prices are actually lower than they were before, as most customers don't seem to care about things like concentration. Likely it's just that most aren't that informed about the differences. They'll pay mor
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
My wife has a perfume business. She makes really high quality extrait de parfums [1] with expensive materials and great formulations. But the market is flooded with eau de parfums -- which are far more diluted than a extrait -- using cheap
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
You can thank T-Pain for it [1], but the hilarious thing is he can actually sing [2] unlike most of the others using it. [1] https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/06/t-pain-usher-ruined... [2] https:/&#
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Oh I get it, I practice Vajrayana Buddhism and a lot of the tradition is still transmitted orally and in person. But the gist of that method actually sounds a lot like how my music teacher approaches things, he won't let you move on in
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Yeah absolutely, I'm not arguing against theory by any means. I'm happy I know it, but often times I wish my early music teachers spent more time with me on following my ears than whatever it was they were trying to do. It wasn&#x
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
But I think most of us would take a musician with great instincts and not much theoretical understanding over one with extraordinary theory and poor instinct. How many thousands of boring jazz players have been pumped out by university prog
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
These are actually some of the preliminary contemplations on emptiness (sunyata) and non-self (anatman) that are done in Buddhist lineages. Each school does it slightly differently -- maybe ngondro in vajrayana, study of the heart sutra in
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
Well that's what happens when everything is 2x as expensive as it used to be.
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by mtalantikite 1y ago
I think people give the cue of stopping urination to help others find the muscles that you need to engage. Otherwise, yes, you absolutely can just do them any time you want. In yoga it’s called mula bandha [1]. You’re often instructed to en
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by mtalantikite 2y ago
I think the thing to consider is that the right-wing is focusing on the things that are the most likely to produce outrage amongst a certain part of the population when they talk about being woke. They'll hyper focus on one protest gon
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by mtalantikite 2y ago
As others have pointed out to you, "woke" is just from AAVE, meaning to be awake to the racial prejudices and social injustices of the world. Leadbelly used it at the end of his "Scottsboro Boys" [1] in 1938, and it like
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by mtalantikite 2y ago
Yeah, agreed. We built the country for the car and there’s no easy path out of that. Every time I’m in LA I think “man we could have had a city like Barcelona” and get bummed it’s just a sprawling car dependent amalgamation of suburbs. Ther
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by mtalantikite 2y ago
When I look around on the subway here in NYC I see every type of person imaginable. There are wealthy people going to work and unhoused people and everyone in between. There are certainly transit deserts and I have friends that live in them
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by mtalantikite 2y ago
Just stopping by to say that pastry/coffee shop lasted for something like 100 years in the East Village before closing about a decade ago. I remember dropping in from time to time at night with friends when I was in my early 20s and ne
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by mtalantikite 2y ago
For sure, walkability is an important factor. Although I think even with that it depends on what sort of shops are within walking distance. Years ago my current neighborhood of Williamsburg had mostly local shops -- a locally owned grocery
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by mtalantikite 2y ago
Same, but I think it really depends on the design on the neighborhood, regardless of if it's a city or a suburb. When I lived in "Brownstone Brooklyn" I had a stoop and would often hang out on it, as is common in neighborhood
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by mtalantikite 2y ago
It'd be one thing if they just didn't help more, but they actively exacerbated it. There was food in Ireland, it just wasn't for the Irish. From the article: > The problem was not that the land was barren.... But almost no
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by mtalantikite 2y ago
There was a commercial on during the Super Bowl last night that started with talking about how broken the healthcare and food system is in the US. “This system wasn’t built to help us. It was built to keep us sick and stuck” was one of the
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by mtalantikite 2y ago
I think like anything, the lineage evolves. If we're to call Madlib and Dilla 'lofi', as the wikipedia does, then we can follow that lineage to someone like Knxwledge, who just this week won a grammy for 'Why Lawd?'
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by mtalantikite 2y ago
The entire ML/AI ecosystem is in Python for the most part these days, so if anyone wants to get involved it means needing to touch Python to some degree. So, many developers might get handed projects that require working in Python, but
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by mtalantikite 2y ago
Oh interesting, so is this for separating out metrics for your main part of your run versus warmup? I guess I don't intentionally warmup so I've never thought to need that, but I can see that being useful for people that are more
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by mtalantikite 2y ago
Yeah agreed, the long touch to pause your workout when sweaty is annoying. Although WorkOutDoors has decent auto-pause. Definitely easier to navigate a playlist with physical buttons -- I run with airpods and just do the double/triple
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by mtalantikite 2y ago
Ok yeah, the map stuff makes a lot of sense then, if I were out on trails or somewhere unfamiliar I can see that being very helpful. I'm always just running the bridges of NYC, so it's hard to get lost! Although I might get more s
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by mtalantikite 2y ago
Genuinely curious, what do you need to change mid-run on your watch? I set an apple music playlist to start, open a run on WorkOutDoors, and go. I really am only interested in heart rate, distance traveled and pace. And if I need to stop fo
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by mtalantikite 2y ago
For sure, they're not fireproof of course, but they do survive and seem to be more resistant than non-native species [1]. And, like all things, of course there are many interdependent pieces in play, like those hurricane force winds, b

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