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by bitbckt 5d ago
It's true that jazz charts are unlikely to use tenor clef. Nonetheless, it remains career limiting for a trombonist to be unable to read clefs. Commercial players are likely to use the skill for transposing Bb treble lead sheets, or pl
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by bitbckt 6d ago
As a semi-professional trombonist, C clefs are very important to me. Alto and tenor as-written, tenor as a means of transposing Bb treble, mezzo-soprano as a means of transposing F parts… they are not obsolete.
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by bitbckt 13d ago
4-8 of them. 2 Sparks can operate without a switch.
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by bitbckt 15d ago
They only use them at the honest seams, though.
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by bitbckt 29d ago
“Liz Taylor’s ex-husband” is extremely vague…
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by bitbckt 3mo ago
I was single, living alone (+ 2 cats, if they count) in a one bedroom apartment in North Beach 15 years ago on a $90k/year salary. I even had a parking space and a car! I can understand how people did it then - I was one of them - but
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by bitbckt 3mo ago
Foobar2000 is not Windows only. https://www.foobar2000.org/
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by bitbckt 5mo ago
I'm running it on dual DGX Sparks.
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by bitbckt 6mo ago
The DAD AX32/AX64 is such a thing.
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by bitbckt 7mo ago
Multiple day outages in Winter are not unusual in our part of Maine. Nearly everyone has a whole home generator for good reason.
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by bitbckt 11mo ago
Do you mean GEODNET?
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by bitbckt 1y ago
Just a bit under 15 years after we did this at Twitter.
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by bitbckt 1y ago
I feel attacked.
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by bitbckt 2y ago
We never actually had a literal “Bieber Box”, but the joke took off. Hot shards were definitely an issue, though.
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by bitbckt 2y ago
Yes, we used the Yahoo! “Feeding Frenzy” paper as the basis for the design of Haplocheirus (the timeline service).
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by bitbckt 2y ago
Amazing to see this happening. I wrote the non-moving Immix collector at Twitter for our Ruby runtime, Kiji. Good luck!
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by bitbckt 2y ago
It is also occasionally a wedding venue.
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by bitbckt 2y ago
As a current semi-pro trombonist, I had the same reaction. Relevant aside: Alan Kaplan has been recording Jacob Collier transcriptions for his YouTube channel. Check out “Moon River”.
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by bitbckt 2y ago
Sweden is not Switzerland. And he died almost ten years ago.
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by bitbckt 2y ago
The rack I’m referring to is in my home. YMMV, of course.
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by bitbckt 2y ago
I have an SN2700 in my rack, next to a pair of Arista 7060CXs (as a point of comparison). These are wildly under-rated devices outside of the STH fanbase. You may be surprised at how quiet and low power these Mellanox switches can be.
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by bitbckt 2y ago
I’m paying about $50 service fees for the two blades currently out for repair. The 10” replacements cost over $200, and the 8” dado would require buying a new stack… around $250. The same folks who sharpen and true my blades do the repairs.
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by bitbckt 2y ago
Yes, and they are consumable and replaceable by design, which goes to my point: the blade is not irreparably destroyed by the activation. The missing teeth need to be replaced and the plate needs to be re-checked for runout, but most carbid
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by bitbckt 2y ago
I have had two brake activations in as many weeks, one on a dado stack (don’t ask). Neither destroyed the blade. Both blades will be back in service within a week. Just putting out there: the popular idea that blades are always trash after
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by bitbckt 2y ago
I still keep a maxed out Octane2 in running order for posterity. Occasionally logging in to it reminds me just how a desktop environment should feel. We truly have lost something since then.
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by bitbckt 2y ago
“Cum tree” doesn’t do it for you?
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by bitbckt 2y ago
Facebook was where Thrift originated.
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by bitbckt 3y ago
There aren’t many of these venues left. Keep showing up!
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by bitbckt 3y ago
Both uses of “crud” and “fried” are parts of the lexicon where I grew up, nowhere near Antarctica. I suppose they must(?) have been imported from somewhere, but neither seems very unique to McMurdo.
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by bitbckt 3y ago
Entomology is the study of insects. You mean etymology. :)

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