The Official Status Thread
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Status: The reviews are in!
https://bofa.lol/@burnunit/100674474777065106
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Status: Chuckled at this guy because of who he swears upon.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
Add to that, guitar is frickin' hard. Piano? Given as little as two fingers one can slowly play basic melodies with little effort. Guitar? Not a chance, you fat finger Freddy.
Yep, made that mistake. Bought a reasonable acoustic to learn on and then completely failed to create repeatable results. Stupid fingers.
I've been really intrigued by this thing, but I can see a good chance of another guitar gathering dust if I buy it...
https://www.highya.com/fret-zealot-reviews
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Status: Making artwork for a client:
OK, so we have two versions based on the design documents...
These have purple on them, we need to stick to the brand image guidelines.
Oh, that's just a sentinel for the printers. Anywhere that's pure magenta will be transparent.
We can't have purple on it.
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@Cursorkeys
Interesting. That's a bit much for an app and a bunch of LEDs on a glorified duct tape. I guess it has to be, though. I wonder if I couldn't fail making one myself and fsck up the fret-board in the process.
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@Cursorkeys I bought a copy of Rocksmith, but I never got around to actually using it.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
their policy is to card anyone who looks under 40.
Same here. I never get carded, and I just turned 30. :(
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@mott555
I'm 39 and never got carded
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Bought a reasonable acoustic to learn on and then completely failed to create repeatable results. Stupid fingers.
Your brain needs a firmware update.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys I bought a copy of Rocksmith, but I never got around to actually using it.
That looks very cool, cheaper too although it's a different method.
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Your brain needs a firmware update.
Isn't that the truth. I could also do with the fixes for procrastination and co-ordination in general.
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Status: Gamerboner turned to 11!!!
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
more or less force you to stay in tune at least with themselves if not with the rest of the group
Meh, you can still bend notes up or down. But, yes, trombone more challenging.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I would like to apologize to @julianlam, @barisu, @pitaj, and @psychobunny for scaring them with a bug report comment.
Well that raises new and troubling questions.
That's the part that scared them.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
Bought a reasonable acoustic to learn on
A lot of people don't realize it, but electrics are usually easier to play than acoustics. Lighter strings, lower action, far more adjustable, etc. On a good day I can emulate Eddie Van Halen on an electric, but my acoustics tear up my fingertips even on basic open-chord patterns.
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Status: This bacon has had the life sucked out of it.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
their policy is to card anyone who looks under 40.
Same here. I never get carded, and I just turned 30. :(
I'm clean-shaven, which I suspect might make a difference. Also, it was Hawaii, which could also make a difference since I'm sure they get underage tourists wanting to buy alcohol all the time.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: This bacon has had the life sucked out of it.
If by "life" you mean "pork" then yes, I'm pretty sure it doesn't have any "life" in it.
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Status: Time to continue working with
VSTSAzure DevOps!Wait, what?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Why are you dragging me into a meeting to discuss what's next?
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@JazzyJosh said in The Official Status Thread:
trombone more challenging
It's probably similarly challenging to a classical string instrument (e.g., violin or cello). All will take much practice to do well at, and it isn't at all nice to listen to someone playing when they're just starting out.
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Encoded some videos (What kind of videos? Never mind that.) to WebM, sent them to my phone, found out they won't play in the media player. Then a while later, hit the wrong open option and found out they do play perfectly... in Chrome.
I... what? Why do those use two separate libraries?
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@heterodox Because, that's why. I always open all my videos with VLC because it still supports everything even on mobile.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@heterodox Because, that's why. I always open all my videos with VLC because it still supports everything even on mobile.
I know you don't like this song, but I'd rather not install another video player when I already have one. I'm perfectly capable of re-encoding the videos; I'll just have to figure out what part of the encoding in particular the system media player doesn't like. (The exact same encoding used to work on my Nexus 5 with an older version of Android, so this seems like a regression.)
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
I... what? Why do those use two separate libraries?
Each app bundles its own libraries. Unless it doesn't.
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@heterodox said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm perfectly capable of re-encoding the videos; I'll just have to figure out what part of the encoding in particular the system media player doesn't like. (The exact same encoding used to work on my Nexus 5 with an older version of Android, so this seems like a regression.)
Okay, WEIRD. Right after writing this post I got a prompt for a system update, took it, rebooted, and the videos work in the system media player now. No idea if it was the update or just the reboot that fixed it (probably the latter, since I don't see it in the functional patch list) but I'm a happy camper.
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@coldandtired said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat I still have an electric keyboard and an acoustic guitar that I bought in a moment of musical inspiration. For all the use they've had the courier might as well have forgotten them.
My digital piano was one of the first things I pulled out of storage when I moved into my apartment, after more than two years without it. So far, I've played it (badly) once, and bought a USB-MIDI interface so it will talk to the computer. It turns out, it does that badly, too, though I think (most of?) the blame for that is on my software. It doesn't really care all that much about making noise; it's mostly about putting pretty dots on paper (or screen). To the extent it does care about making noise, it mostly cares about making noise through the computer, not an external MIDI device. And to the limited extent it's willing to talk to an external device, apparently it doesn't particularly care about sending notes to the right MIDI channel; it seems to just send everything to channel 1. :(
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Since I got the guitar. Which I'm still shit at.
A college roommate was learning guitar and tried to teach me. I wasn't sufficiently interested to stick with it long enough to get to the point where my fingers didn't hurt. 30+ years later, I have no idea how to make any chord.
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@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
completely failed to create repeatable results. Stupid fingers.
Yes. That is my relationship with the piano. I can plink out a melody that's recognizable, most of the time. But try to do anything a little more complex, so that more than one finger at a time is playing, and it falls apart, badly. Even something that I've practiced over and over and over and over, I'll make a mistake in one spot. Next time, I'll play that right, but make a mistake somewhere else that I played perfectly the previous time. Stupid fingers.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Lighter strings, lower action
I've never attempted to play an electric guitar, but I once had the opportunity to play around with a cello at an "instrument petting zoo." I expected it to be like my roommate's guitar, but the force to press the strings against the fingerboard is almost zero. A glissando is effortless, not at all uncomfortable on the fingers. I was amazed.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: This bacon has had the life sucked out of it.
That appears to be fake bacon that never had any life to begin with.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
it seems to just send everything to channel 1.
Wow how rude!
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Why are you dragging me into a meeting to discuss what's next?
- Unattractive people
- No charts
- Not important to that meeting
- No sticks
- No donuts :(
- I'm pretty sure I didn't impress anyone
0/6
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Cursorkeys said in The Official Status Thread:
completely failed to create repeatable results. Stupid fingers.
Yes. That is my relationship with the piano. I can plink out a melody that's recognizable, most of the time. But try to do anything a little more complex, so that more than one finger at a time is playing, and it falls apart, badly. Even something that I've practiced over and over and over and over, I'll make a mistake in one spot. Next time, I'll play that right, but make a mistake somewhere else that I played perfectly the previous time. Stupid fingers.
My music extrapolation and reproduction systems are single-thread and expect only a single note (kinda like those early sound-to-midi transcribers). Additionally, due to coordination interfaces not efficiently multiplexing, I can only use one hand at a time in directed mode (which is required for accurate timing) because context switching is way too expensive to execute in real time.
This allows me to play a normal trombone just fine, but operating a bass trombone is not possible.
Funny enough, my mouth is on a different channel, which is why I can do that while controlling a trombone, but as a component it suffers the same multiplex issues and therefore I cannot whistle and hum accurately in real time.
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Status: Since yesterday evening, I've had both my kids living in the same household with me for the first time since my ex-wife and I separated almost 8 years ago. And we've already had several petty squabbles about who should have done what when but didn't. Families!
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Stupid fingers.
Practice is vital. Most instruments require that you can do different (but mostly related) things with each hand to use properly. A spin-off from that is that you get so that you find it easy to rub your stomach at the same time as patting your head. ;)
Also, remember that even great maestros make mistakes. They keep going as if nothing happened when they do. Don't worry about mistakes, worry about what you do next.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Found out that there are people alive today who have talked to people who talked to those who fought in the battle of Waterloo. The past isn't so distant after all…
Has any of them been in a movie with Kevin Bacon?
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Has any of them been in a movie with Kevin Bacon?
In that particular chain, no. I'm also not sure what their Erdös Number is (but I'm pretty sure mine is lower ).
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@dkf now you have to tell us your Erdős number.
Also, if you're going to use diacritics, at least use the right ones.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, if you're going to use diacritics, at least use the right ones.
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@dkf the typical method is to not use diacritics at all.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf now you have to tell us your Erdős number.
I'm not sure what it is, but I've written papers with all sorts of people so that means I'm probably fairly low for a non-mathematician.
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Status: Finally, the latest edition of Mr. Jetson teaches computers and networks was delivered! I am happy to see he has done fuck all to update the Linux chapter after I told him his writing was full of errors. Except for updating the preface to state "This book has been updated for Windows 10" and in the ToC seeing "Install Linux alongside Windows 7" Also, still uses "Ubuntu 14" with a promise to update when "Ubuntu 16" is released. Well, we now got "Ubuntu 18" so that update is kinda overdue. Well done.
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@izzion I was looking at that page. I got bored after a while…
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
you get so that you find it easy to rub your stomach at the same time as patting your head.
Yeah, that takes a lot of command queuing for me to perform, and I can usually only maintain that act for about ten seconds.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
you get so that you find it easy to rub your stomach at the same time as patting your head.
Yeah, that takes a lot of command queuing for me to perform, and I can usually only maintain that act for about ten seconds.
You need to restructure your neuro-architecture to have specialized co-processors for control of each limb.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
I can only use one hand at a time in directed mode (which is required for accurate timing) because context switching is way too expensive to execute in real time.
I'm a bit lazy as a guitarist. Since I'm mostly influenced by 70's and 80's heavy metal, I play with a lot of gain/distortion. A side effect of that is that with a strong-enough fretting technique, you don't necessarily need to pick the strings. So most of the time my picking hand isn't doing nearly as much as it really should be, at least during lead playing and soloing.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
you get so that you find it easy to rub your stomach at the same time as patting your head.
Yeah, that takes a lot of command queuing for me to perform, and I can usually only maintain that act for about ten seconds.
You need to restructure your neuro-architecture to have specialized co-processors for control of each limb.
So simple!
The damn abstraction layer gets in the way way too much IMHO.
Actually, I once designed a Lego RCX-based robot control system like this. Transmitting IR commands is fucking slow, and it suffered the same problems I described above....