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by ofalkaed 1y ago
If you take a small plot of wild land, say 50'x50' and visit it everyday watching all the various mushrooms which will grow there (there will be far more then most people realize or expect) and try and find the sense in where and
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
As a fungophile who spends way too much time crawling around in the woods looking for mushrooms, I think fungus learned to crawl before we did.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Western theory is focused on the keyboard with violin as second fiddle, the rest of the instruments do their own thing unless they are forced to kowtow to a piano or violin. Each instrument is ultimately tuned to the physics which dictate h
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Try the wikipedia pages for Equal Temperament and Musical Temperament, they explain all of this. Here is a 1688 Stradivari[1] guitar with fixed frets and a EDO octave, they were reasonably common by that point. Much of the information regar
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
EDO on fretted instruments goes back to at least the 16th century and was essentially the standard well before the mid 19th. Equal temperament is an EDO scale whose divisions approximate justly tuned scales. The western 12TET scale is not a
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
To offer something better than this mess and correct. Fretted instruments are tehnically unequally tempered do to the physics the string, the fret board is EDO but in fretting the string we stretch it and raise its pitch. Fretted instrument
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Thank you for offering something clearer than the mess I made. Been 25 years since I studied this stuff and finally learned to just accept (and love) the modern standard.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Equally divided octave (EDO) with no tempering which is distinct from Equal temperament. Tempered scales are generally EDO with tempering. Other methods like just intonation don't really need to be tempered and generally are not in my
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
>Interestingly also, the notes used by modern keyboards and all modern instruments Vast majority of fretted instruments since the death of the lute are untempered. Edit: Which is not to suggest that lutes were tempered. Lutes and other t
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
In the early days the portals were great and you could find most anything by browsing them; click on topic, go through the subtopics and get a list of websites on that topic, if those did not have the information you needed you went to the
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
I feel better about limiting the size of my drop in the bucket than I would feel about just saying my drop doesn't matter even if it doesn't matter. I get my internet through my phone's hotspot with its 15gig a month plan, I
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
>The issue in most cases is that hardware that also runs windows will only support S5 Sleep so that Windows 11 can download fresh advertisements while your laptop is “sleeping”. That explains some things. When I got my new laptop I playe
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Many modern Thinkpads have superb compatibility as well these days, they sell linux laptops and many of their non-linux laptops are fully linux compatible. From what I saw when I was last laptop shopping much of their lineup works out of th
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
I would recommend spending some time with a none rolling release/less fiddly distro and see what you think. I haven't had to fiddle with linux since I switched to slackware and settled on a wm ~20 years ago; since then the only ti
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Really appreciate that when searching for commodities/goods the results are not dominated by amazon/etsy/ebay sellers, very low on multiple results from a single domain in general. Solves my biggest gripe with search engines
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
It would require you to read The Tunnel, assuming you have not already read it. Why not make a plain old boring website without comments for your quote collection and share it where you can? It would not be much work to do and it might work
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
They were not asked to read a book, they were asked to read 7 paragraphs aloud and then answer questions about it. It would have been nice if the study had a control group of students who sat down and read the same passage to themselves, we
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Notion[0], tabbed, static tiling window manager. Everything in its place and a place for everything. 0. https://notionwm.net
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
William Gass - The Tunnel. For the past year or so I have been trying to come up with a good way to help people understand it without explaining it all away. Think I have mostly figured out how to do it, just need to spend a month or two he
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Midnight-1AM also seems to be peak time for creating accounts so you can reply to your own submissions.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
That is not a federal US law, depends on where in the US you live and probably mostly city or county level.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
This popped up on HN last week: https://github.com/mieubrisse/cmdk I don't really get it but apparently some people really have issues with ls and cd and feel they use them too much.
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Bela Gem Brings Ultra-Low Latency Audio to PocketBeagle 2(beagleboard.org)
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Introduction to Digital Filters (2024)(ccrma.stanford.edu)
108 points by ofalkaed 1y ago|23 comments
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
>Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
I have not had a single crash on linux, but I did compile it myself. If you did compile it, did you do the release or just clone the repo? it says in the readme that the repo tends to be very unstable and you should always build from the la
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
>but want a tracker for MIDI. Renoise is probably your best option for a midi tracker, Radium (and most trackers) are meant to be stand alone and they always seem to have issues or irritating limitations when it comes to midi.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Voting on HN is not a like, it is about getting the good posts which produce good discussion at the top of the thread so we do not have to scroll through pedantry and nitpicking to get to the content. These posts offering old content are ha
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
Around a decade ago I used it for about a year, don't recall any stability issues on linux. So far no issues with my first few hours of use since reinstalling.
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by ofalkaed 1y ago
>Not sure how I've never come across this one before. From what I can tell, he has never put any real effort into making it known, it is primarily a personal project.

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