ben7799

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by ben7799 1mo ago
And this is totally the way a lot of amateurs end up being coached in some of endurance sports. E.x. in cycling a lot of the high volume low intensity work is targeted at the elite athletes that are putting in 20+ hours a week of training t
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by ben7799 2mo ago
I didn't read it in Arnold's voice till I saw your comment, so thank you.
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by ben7799 3mo ago
But would you have refused to buy that guitar if it looked a little more different than a Fender Stratocaster? You clearly aren't bothered by it having a different headstock shape, Suhr could and probably will just change the body shap
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by ben7799 3mo ago
I've been playing long enough that I disagree. Fender's quality is very good now compared to when I started playing. But so is everyone else's.
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by ben7799 3mo ago
This is completely true, and there's a good reason. Almost everything anyone has tried to do to modernize electric guitars in a non-compatible way has had big downsides. Almost any guitar with a pre-amp or whatever built into it that w
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by ben7799 3mo ago
This is incredibly hard to believe, Fender is many times bigger than PRS. Fender sells at least 10x more guitars than PRS.
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by ben7799 3mo ago
I play guitar, I own a Fender guitar and a Fender amp, along with another non-fender amp and 2 other non Fender guitars. I'm just super sick of hearing about this story. Guitar players online are way too worked up about this. Fende
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by ben7799 4mo ago
Is this thing the basis of what Apple is doing in the Photos app in the most recent OS revisions? It seems to work a lot quicker than 30s now on iDevices and Macs.
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by ben7799 5mo ago
All of it is good but none of it is a shortcut. The greats who became so good doing this had massive amounts of time to do it and put in massive amounts of effort.
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by ben7799 6mo ago
I guess I'm showing my age but having read stuff like Michel Abrash's books years ago this article was a bit underwhelming. Like no one who wrote any code back in the 80s or 90s even for a homebrew game was skipping this stuff, it
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by ben7799 6mo ago
You might be able to argue he was a bigger star than any of them. His career lasted far longer. He had big movie appearances for 30 years, none of those people accomplished that. Norris' first movie role was in 1968, first big credite
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by ben7799 7mo ago
The only problem with Chromebooks and the whole Google educational toolchain is it ruins school! My kid is on it, every kid hates it and every teacher hates it. You just can't argue with the pricing. I'm amazed at how bad every
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by ben7799 7mo ago
This won't actually work. A Fuzz Face works the way it does because it actually gets affected by the guitar's impedance changing as you work the knobs on the guitar and pick differently. The Fuzz Face has minimal input filtering,
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by ben7799 7mo ago
There are certainly guitarists who can play simultaneous melodies. If you're limiting to a 6 string guitar the distance between the two melodies would be limited compared to a piano but guitars don't have to be limited to 6 string
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by ben7799 7mo ago
The whole thing about people being defensive is interesting. I love techno, but anyone who has learned other styles of music recognizes the repetitiveness and quirks of a lot of techno and some other electronic genres. They do a great job
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by ben7799 9mo ago
LOL. Las Vegas water prices are ridiculously low for the paltry amount of water they have. It's hard to get people to not waste the water when the price is artificially kept low. Las Vegas water is less expensive than mine, and we
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by ben7799 10mo ago
Reactions to your statement seem to hinge on whether or not the person replying has a CS degree from a math focused program! It makes perfect sense to me.
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by ben7799 10mo ago
I still have an expensive Canon dedicated slide/film scanner from 20 years ago. IIRC at some point their value started going up as they became rare. Mine did something like 50MP scans of 35mm film/slides. The quality was more tha
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by ben7799 11mo ago
Another reason that this matters (which is artificial) is that at least in the US so many car owners are on "permanent car payments". They never pay off their cars and trade them in on another one and just keep making payments wit
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by ben7799 1y ago
This actually sounds a lot like the US problems with energy (electrical, gas) infrastructure and also things like telephone and internet providers. They've almost always got a state approved monopoly or duopoly and then magically the s
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by ben7799 1y ago
The Fahrenheit scale is European, not American. It was created in Poland well before the United States broke off from Great Britain. We're just slow to change.
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by ben7799 1y ago
People will grumble switching from Slack to Teams but it won't actually mess up the business. Our business unit within a large public company was using it and we were spun off, Slack was going to be $1M/yr and the CFO/Execs d
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by ben7799 1y ago
I don't re-read that much "fun" material. But I totally get it, some stuff is so good it will seem like a better option to re-read it compared to trying something new. That is an elite level of book though. I just started
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by ben7799 1y ago
This says it. Actual "tech" circles were historically not super into the Mac. Of course there were some people who loved it, but the bulk of the classic Mac fanbase was design type people and people who were mostly recreationa
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by ben7799 1y ago
The writer seems to be one of the older crowd that made being a Mac user a huge part of their identity in the 80s and 90s. In the 80s that was tied in with the Mac being a pretty superior computer only accessible to the wealthy. In the
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by ben7799 1y ago
It's the left wing gaslighting everyone over all the issues caused by making it harder and harder to build anything. You blame landlords and PE when in actuality the government has stopped construction in it's tracks. This the
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by ben7799 1y ago
I worked at Cisco 1999-2001, it was my first job out of school. I worked in a group that did network management software, so we weren't touching iOS. But it was kind of wild at that point there were still company mailing lists where t
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by ben7799 1y ago
You are agreeing with abundance theory here 100%. The author of the article is one of the Abundance folks. The issues with code and permitting and environmental review take up a substantial portion of the book.
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by ben7799 1y ago
Technically I did my first programming in the 80s as a kid. I went to college in the 1990s. I definitely learned Perl and used it. However I would say an awful lot of the professionals I was around already thought Perl had a bad smell ev
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by ben7799 1y ago
That still doesn't prove anything. The market demand for the Ford GT could have been 1/2 what Ford produced but the market demand for the F430 was double what Ferrari actually produced. I am not saying that is actually the case,

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