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by steamer25 8y ago
> The fundamental unit of Music Theory is the Interval (as in "frequency interval between notes"). A better explanation would have explained Intervals, how particular combinations of Intervals form Guess what... A perfect fifth
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by steamer25 8y ago
It's more about the ratios than the example frequencies I provided. That's more apparent if you play an instrument with an exposed string and a finger-board but still true if it's hidden under e.g., the hood of a piano. The d
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by steamer25 8y ago
You're here on HN reading (and commenting!) on Mother's Day (or just Sunday depending on your locality?). You don't seem completely unmotivated ;) .
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by steamer25 8y ago
> I'll just keep my eyes near the top of the screen and scroll so my eyes don't have to move That reminds me of the Spritz interface for reading text which came out a few years ago: http://spritzinc.com I'm a l
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by steamer25 8y ago
I was replying to another sub-thread here and had another thought: It might be easier for your son to express what he's learning if you can catch him while he's got e.g., a piano or guitar at hand. Humans have a hard time generati
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by steamer25 8y ago
> to fully appreciate musical qualities, you have to play around with sound @jimbokun: It might be easier for your son to express what he's learning if you can catch while he's got e.g., a piano or guitar at hand. Humans have a
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by steamer25 8y ago
I agree that to fully appreciate musical qualities, you have to play around with sound and that text alone won't suffice. On the other hand, your description of radiation hitting the retina might be a decent primer on color theory wh
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by steamer25 8y ago
The gist of music theory: It sounds interesting when sounds with simple frequency ratios are played at the same time. E.g., playing a 440 Hz tone at the same time and 660 Hz tone has a 2:3 ratio. Some combinations of frequencies, when playe
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by steamer25 8y ago
Khan describes the long straddle (3:53): https://youtu.be/2HIRaOQDRho
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by steamer25 9y ago
Eugene Khutoryansky has lots of good animated visualizations. E.g., this one on Maxwell's equations: https://youtu.be/9Tm2c6NJH4Y Circuit Jam helps a bit for practice: https://play.google.com/store&#x2F
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by steamer25 9y ago
It's ironic (cue pedants) because they're denouncing one-sided presentations that advance a particular agenda while using a facade of ostensibly independent-minded locals that are actually mouthpieces for their remote overlords. I
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by steamer25 9y ago
I can't register with my email. "There was an error with your request. Please try again."
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by steamer25 9y ago
I remember some documentary with Jack White talking about how he tries to make music composition more difficult on purpose. I had a very similar reaction to yours--the example they played under his voice over wasn't very impressive to
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by steamer25 9y ago
Could you point out some of the updated advice on ulcers?
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by steamer25 9y ago
I think that'd be an uphill battle. E.g., I, for one, oppose federal interference with the technical decisions of ISPs via so-called net neutrality. I've written my representatives on multiple occasions saying so. If I lived in Mo
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by steamer25 9y ago
I try to avoid hyphen-based range notation. It's sometimes hard to tell if a single hyphen was intended to be a minus sign. Double hyphens look like ASCII em-dashes. I've never heard of of the triple convention and would be confus
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by steamer25 9y ago
If anyone else was surprised as I was to hear that Verdana was disliked, here's the most compelling argument I found against it: While it was meticulously designed for on-screen legibility, these days higher resolution screens and anti
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by steamer25 9y ago
After my former employer had a successful exit, I spent a few months helping to integrate with the new parent company. Once that was done to satisfaction, though, all but four members of our tech department were laid off--including me. I us
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by steamer25 9y ago
This reminds me of the inspiration for the name of Taleb's "green lumber fallacy". From Wikipedia: The term green lumber refers to a story by authors Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan in their book What I Learned Losing A Million
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by steamer25 9y ago
For screen-cap/video instructions, I also try to take a little extra time* but towards making it concise/brief. * If the instructions are worth making, more time will be spent viewing them than producing them. I try to get the who
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by steamer25 9y ago
Using the opus codec (as Cleanfeed does) could potentially help with limited bandwidth scenarios: https://opus-codec.org/comparison/
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by steamer25 9y ago
Using a Wacom tablet with: * A drawing app e.g., OneNote or Sketchbook or Krita and * A screen sharing app e.g., join.me Has worked well for me. What's particularly nice is that you have a saveable, shareable, modifiable artifact when
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by steamer25 9y ago
The app seems pretty feasible. There'd probably be some issues with having to periodically resync the timing due to moving microphones or other skews coming in and out of phase but I don't imagine that'd be insurmountable. Th
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by steamer25 9y ago
When I need 10s of tracks (multiple drum mics, bass, guitars, keyboards, vocal mics, effects, etc.), I prefer to use Cakewalk Sonar. I've also heard good things about Reaper which is pretty inexpensive. I often end up using Audacity wh
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by steamer25 9y ago
I was actually thinking of it as an extension of the presumption of innocence on behalf of the citizenry and keeping the burden of proof on the government as a check against it's powers. Cops are citizens too but there is some level of
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by steamer25 9y ago
We just need to establish a legal precept that if the body cam footage isn't there to corroborate the cops' story, we assume the worst and they get held accountable for anything a plaintiff is able to plausibly allege. Under that
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by steamer25 9y ago
Best presentation of your point I've seen: http://www.darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/data-looks-better-nak...
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by steamer25 9y ago
I agree with you that cases of doxxing and/or incitement are different than broadly- or generally- offensive speech and there may be cases where it shouldn't necessarily be protected. I haven't heard those charges leveled aga
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Why It's a Bad Idea to Tell Students Words Are Violence(theatlantic.com)
59 points by steamer25 9y ago|72 comments
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by steamer25 9y ago
My friend owns a local outdoor recreation equipment/rental/guide shop. He actually said he'd kill for an app like yours based primarily on location. He and his wife like to go on road trips and seeing which areas have more ac

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