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by scrozier 4y ago
"When I’m able I’d much rather spend the time to educate someone about diversity and inclusion issues and see if I can change how they see the world a bit. ... And sometimes...the person involved doesn’t want to be educated." This
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by scrozier 4y ago
Exactly. A serious person with an overabundance of legit email gets an assistant or delegates better or whatever. If you're proud of your 100,000 message inbox, you're likely a disorganized poser. Not that there are any of those i
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by scrozier 4y ago
I'm a software developer by trade. I've had essential tremor all my life. Virtually all doctors say, "well, at least it's a benign condition." Right. And it's affected my life in countless ways, none of them go
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by scrozier 4y ago
Seems like a good technique, but boy, is that overused these days. Let's face it, not all questions are that interesting. Seems that a lot of people start with that, robotically.
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by scrozier 4y ago
Thank you! I've always found DeGrasse Tyson unbearable. He's clearly a very smart guy, but as a communicator of the people? Not at all sure why he's so popular. That clip is positively grotesque.
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by scrozier 4y ago
Judging from the comments, it's possible that satire doesn't translate easily around the world.
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by scrozier 4y ago
The DigiComp I did it for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_I
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by scrozier 4y ago
I have the opposite theory that the classical "masters" grabbed all the obvious low-hanging fruit and hypnotized the masses with mindless repetition for centuries. Finally, some of us have broken the spell, and can now enjoy more
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by scrozier 4y ago
We’ve paid for something several times now. They always make it sound like the car drives itself. But the real point of my comment was that if they can’t even keep the car in the middle of the lane, I seriously doubt their ability to hand
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by scrozier 4y ago
I own a Model 3 and love it. But you're 100% right: the "full self driving" claim Musk/Tesla has been making for years is bizarre. I live in a major city and have never had a trip using FSD where I didn't have to ta
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by scrozier 4y ago
However, if you can sight sing, it makes playing music on a wind instrument much easier, as you have a target in your head for what the note should sound like as you play it. Sight singing is a very good skill for instrumentalists.
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by scrozier 4y ago
This is fascinating to me! Although I'm moderately good at playing "by ear," I would never learn a piece the way you describe it. But maybe I should try! On the other hand, I'm a very good sight reader. Interesting how t
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by scrozier 4y ago
I think the distinction is one of degree, not of kind. "Sight reading" is just reading music and applying it to an instrument or voice, in real time. It's a natural outgrowth of learning to read music. I'm a very good si
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by scrozier 4y ago
Shape note notation doesn't, and doesn't try to, replace traditional notation, which is what Clairnote is trying to do.
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by scrozier 4y ago
You bring up interesting examples. The only one I know anything about is shape note singing. I guess your point is that shape note singing can be taught much more easily to beginners, and get them to a point of being able to enjoy making mu
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by scrozier 4y ago
That's an excellent point that I hadn't thought of. If one could just pick one's favorite notation, that would make the "competition" between traditional notation and others more fair. And more and more music is bei
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by scrozier 4y ago
As an experienced (semi-professional) musician, I think this is probably a false dichotomy. For one thing, "users of music notation" implies that these users know how to use it. Very many "amateur" musicians read traditi
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by scrozier 4y ago
As a very experienced "tech guy" and a very experienced musician, I notice this happens a lot on HN. Maybe because there's a very math-y, notation-rich aspect to music that appeals to technology types. I am absolutely all f
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by scrozier 4y ago
The distinction between reading music and sight reading aside (others have addressed it), learning to read music is honestly just rote practice. In the grand scheme of things, it's really not that hard. To play simple songs (all within
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by scrozier 4y ago
While we certainly run into Fbs or G##s, they are relatively rare. I don't think they undo the visual cue of seeing G# and knowing that's a black key. But you might be right. After all, if we're playing in the key of E, G#s a
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by scrozier 4y ago
Fair point. I can see how that might be nice. I will say that, if you play music a lot from traditional notation, that ambiguity completely disappears into the background.
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by scrozier 4y ago
> traditional music notation is really only used in classical music And jazz and pop and rock and.... It is a universal language that allows musicians from many backgrounds to come together and play a tune together. Jazz is the most obvi
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by scrozier 4y ago
Good points. I haven't thought a lot about it, but I still don't see how this new system is radically easier to learn. Looks like I have to be concerned with notes partially on lines, an irregular staff, two notes occupying the sa
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by scrozier 4y ago
This isn't a parallel argument. There are no ambiguities in standard musical notation that parallel the pronunciation issue you point out in English. Further, there are no non-traditional-music-notation "speakers" trying to l
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by scrozier 4y ago
Interesting, well thought out, and well-presented. Just not sure that it solves a problem. It certainly isn't radically easier to learn than traditional notation. And despite other comments here, huge numbers of young people learn tr
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by scrozier 5y ago
I was struck by the same line. No real reason to add the part about "no empathy." And it seems like something very close to empathy to understand that one had no empathy....
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by scrozier 5y ago
I've been doing web development since the web began, literally. The percentage of my time that I've cared about the stuff in this header is approximately .000047%. And when I do care, I can look it up and reacquaint myself. A full
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by scrozier 5y ago
But if one is trying to create a great sounding instrument synthesizer, it is quite easy to obtain 6-10 minutes of clean recording. Why do you have to find it? Not sure what the use case is here...?
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by scrozier 5y ago
I haven't been able to get a first word yet! And I'm pretty good at Wordle.
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by scrozier 5y ago
Yes. But/and I see posts on HN about every two weeks that indicate that most programmer types (a group that includes me) do not recognize that. (Your analogy to language is apt, I think.)

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