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by neonscribe 5mo ago
You can discover beliefs that are shocking today, such as this excerpt from the article "Adolescence": "In the case of girls, let them run, leap and climb with their brothers for the first twelve years or so of life. But as p
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by neonscribe 5mo ago
Learn to play by ear. Practice scales. Practice arpeggios. Learn open chords. Learn barre chords. Learn moveable shapes. Learn to move among chord shapes. Practice with a metronome. Find people to play with. Learn to read music. Learn to si
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by neonscribe 6mo ago
The AirPods Max are the most comfortable headphones I've ever worn. My head and my ears are both significantly larger than average and they are the only ones that don't squash my ears. I keep the Apple bra on it, inside a 3rd-part
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by neonscribe 1y ago
Is there some important shortcoming of all the existing Common Lisp implementations that you would like to correct?
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by neonscribe 1y ago
Do you have a goal in mind for this project?
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by neonscribe 1y ago
The lack of agreement on how to spell chord symbols is a genuine problem. Brandt and Roemer's 1976 Standardized Chord Symbol Notation provides a reasonable standard, which was adopted by Sher Music in their "New Real" line of
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by neonscribe 1y ago
There are now six volumes of Real Books from Hal Leonard, plus a several others organized around genres or artists, plus the Sher Music books. A few thousand songs. Not every player has every book, but they are all available. Most songs are
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by neonscribe 1y ago
If the band is flipping through their books, paper or electronic, to choose what tune to play next, that isn't a performance worthy of the term. It's a jam session. Which is fine, but hopefully nobody is paying to listen to it.
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by neonscribe 1y ago
iReal Pro is a great resource, but what it provides are not lead sheets, they are just chord charts. Lead sheets have the melody of the song in standard notation, along with chord names and sometimes lyrics. iReal Pro's charts give cho
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by neonscribe 2y ago
First-class continuations remains the hardest nut to crack to implement any full specification of Scheme, especially if performance and/or compactness and/or simplicity of implementation and/or integration with other language
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by neonscribe 2y ago
I was lucky enough to meet Alonzo Church and Haskell Curry at the ACM Symposium on LISP and Functional Programming at CMU in August 1982. Curry was clearly not well and only lived about two weeks after the conference, but Church was in good
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by neonscribe 2y ago
"Whatever you can get away with" is the entire basis of equal temperament.
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by neonscribe 2y ago
It's a shame to describe the tritone sub for G7 as C# F G# B, when the proper way to spell it is either Db F Ab Cb or C# E# G# B. Of course, then you'd have to explain about enharmonic equivalence and how chords are usually spelle
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by neonscribe 2y ago
Gosling created a Unix clone of the PDP-10 Emacs in 1981, about five years later.
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by neonscribe 3y ago
Obviously this is a joke, but the real message should be: if you can't manage your own memory, you should be using a language implementation with automatic memory management. If your code really needs to run "close to the metal&qu
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by neonscribe 3y ago
Dynamic scoping is usually implemented with shallow binding, where a single value cell for a variable is located at a fixed address, with each new binding saving and restoring the enclosing value on the stack. This allows constant time vari
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by neonscribe 3y ago
Hot take: the third chord should be D, not G.
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by neonscribe 4y ago
32GB is just for the system. It has a microSD slot for music.
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by neonscribe 4y ago
He said "in the 10s", so I guess it could be up to a couple hundred. Still, a remarkably small number for a business like that.
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by neonscribe 5y ago
We may live in the future, but many of us still work with people who live in the past. I know Apple always tries hard to be forward-thinking, but USB-A is one of those ubiquitous standards that won't disappear for quite some time.
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by neonscribe 5y ago
If I had to choose between an SD card slot and a USB-A port, I definitely would have chosen a USB-A port. I would take both, if possible. I would even give up a USB-C port for a USB-A port, but that might be a little backward-thinking. The
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by neonscribe 6y ago
Or you can just treat your smart TV like a dumb TV. If you ignore the smart part, they generally work just fine as a monitor and speakers and HDMI input switch with ARC and CEC. Choose your TV for the picture quality and whatever other feat
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by neonscribe 6y ago
https://emacsformacosx.com/ is a very good port to MacOS. One advantage of Emacs on MacOS is that the Command key is not part of the traditional Emacs key bindings. This port uses Option for Meta and supports most of the us
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by neonscribe 7y ago
Not quite. The organization will defend the organization, but a more mature and less toxic organization will do that by removing the toxic elements instead of enabling them. The founder sets the tone, though, and ultimately Uber had to remo
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by neonscribe 7y ago
Bluetooth audio quality, while still noticeably worse than wired connections, is much better on iOS devices using the AAC codec than on earlier codecs. Check device specs before buying. Many currently available Bluetooth devices, even some
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by neonscribe 7y ago
"Biro" is British Isles (and elsewhere?, but not US) slang for a ballpoint pen, from László Bíró, the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen.
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by neonscribe 7y ago
USB-C has its issues, but it is clearly better than any previous connector.
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by neonscribe 8y ago
What is the use case for Cygwin vs. WSL at this point?
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by neonscribe 8y ago
IBM's "Peanut" became the PCjr, one of the great flops of the early PC era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PCjr
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by neonscribe 8y ago
2009

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