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Plymouth, Montserrat(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
That title alone is almost certain to result in a pissing match and virtue signalling regardless of where you post it, anyone actually interested in deeper discussion is probably going to skip the thread. Find a well done study that is more
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
The post I responded too was complete garbage and against those supposed prejudices of HN. This thread represents both sides in the same light so far and neither side comes across as happy. Happy people generally do not attack the beliefs o
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
I flagged it and am not an atheist or depressed, I just don't see any discussion of worth coming from this thread and the general trend in the comments are that of splitting the community that is HN into the same us vs them bullshit th
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
Standard summertime slump, been the norm on the internet since the rise of the big forums. Also election season in the US which never helps. The small specialized forums seem to be good at staying on topic but also tend to lose much of thei
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
After a 4th or 5th time I had a chisel go off the bench I learned my lesson. Chisels always go down blade first and when your floor is concrete it means a good amount of time fixing that edge. And it always tends to be the big chisels that
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
A few years ago I started in on a tool chest heavily influence by all that time I spent staring at the photo of the Studley chest on the back of one of my father's issues of Fine Woodworking. Even with my considerably more modest selec
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
When you work primarily with hand tools you need to get in the habit of taking the tool out of the chest when you need it and putting it away as soon as you are done with it or your bench quickly gets over run with tools leaving no space fo
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Making a Monument: The Studley Tool Cabinet(blog.lostartpress.com)
4 points by ofalkaed 2y ago|6 comments
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
I find most audio DSLs to be more enjoyable and practical than visual virtual synths and I am a poor excuse for a programmer who is far more comfortable with a real synth. I hate tweaking all those virtual knobs/sliders even on a touch
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
This looks like great fun and the price is almost good enough to make me not care about getting yet another device, and it might get me, looks to be the perfect match for one of my projects. Nice work.
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
Tk is definitely not for flashy UIs but I don't think it should be called clunky anymore. I loathed Tcl until I started into Tk, still causes me some grief but as a hobbyist the headaches of Tcl tend to be considerably smaller and easi
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
>No worries about it being too in-depth, I'm usually more concerned with things not going in-depth enough! I get practicality and conciseness being a concern and all, but I like knowing the why's behind the what's. General
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
Radiotron is the big book by RCA, 4th edition is the bible of tube design and ~1500 pages, but the vast bulk of it is not very applicable to audio frequency amplifiers and it goes into transmitters and receivers and so on. Part one of the 3
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
I use old man names, old man names in this case being those names which where archaic when I was little and only very old men had them. No idea why, just started doing it 25 years ago and kept it up. But hostname for my main computer has al
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
I am not a fan of how this book is structured for the amp stuff, opens up with an analogy to JFETs for the "solid state experts," really should start out with how tubes work and build off of that instead of something many would no
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
>rather the idea of doing arithmetic on notes (which I happen to think is a crude excuse for creativity). That is a very crude view of the relation between math and music in 20th and 21st centuries. The puzzles Bach was working out had m
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
I don't think many early composers get as mathematical as someone like Xenakis or even Schoenberg. Or maybe its just the way in which the math manifests in composition, Xenakis was far more direct with it than Bach. I can't see ho
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
That is more theory than practice unless you want to reduce Pythagoras down to a comma. I was referring more to people who decided to take Pythagoras and related writings as gospel.
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
A great deal has been written on this but the vast bulk requires a solid understanding of theory, Cambridge's History of Western Music Theory gives a lifetimes worth of material to study on this topic.
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
Up until fairly recently the only people who treated music like a science were people who did not have much if anything to do with music beyond listening and thinking about it. When composers and musicians started treating music like a scie
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
Doing some digging and all I found was some patches doing Autechre like things and the Autechre patches where Max/MSP patches from the EP7 era that came out around 2008 and were supposedly leaked but I remember Autechre releasing some
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
Tk has native look and styles and themes these days, perhaps not for Scheme? https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/styles.html Personally part of what drew me to Tk is the old clunky aesthetic which ended up freeing me from figh
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
>never really used Are you saying they don't use it or do use it just not a great deal? I am fairly certain I first learned about pd back around the turn of the century from an interview with Autechre where they mentioned using it b
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
What changed was the mentality, how the average person related too music. Before the romantic era most people could not afford any instrument beyond a folk instrument and certainly could not afford lessons or time to dedicate to practicing.
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
>Still hoping the older books are relevant. The older books which are still in publication seem to all be 8.5 or 8.6 and are relevant, I don't recall coming across anything which did not work yet but I am not exactly working through
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
Possibly the patches released by Autechre, I have seen them mislabeled as Apex Twin. Can you link or share them somewhere?
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
I feel much better about it in 2024 than I did in any year prior, probably because I finally sat down to actually learn it and tk. I am enjoying it quite a bit and I no longer hate doing GUI stuff.
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
I have a fondness for bash abuse and those odd sort of people who get fixated on bash. bed [0] the bash editor is one of my favorite examples, always surprised by how short and concise it is, far from a great editor but a great exercise and
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by ofalkaed 2y ago
I am an OED man myself. >Relating to or operating with signals or information represented by a continuously variable physical quantity, such as voltage, spatial position, etc., which in the case of measuring instruments can be displayed

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