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Sheet music is about reproducibility, and is a means to quickly learn a piece. You learn new pieces MUCH MUCH MUCH faster once you have decent sight reading skills. It also allows you to put in your own notes, compose your own passages or variations, and have them available for reading years later. It also gives you a common vocabulary and framework for talking about musical and instrument techniques and common patterns in music.

Learning an instrument without learning how to read music is like learning to code without learning anything anything about programming theory and methodology, and without going back to look at any of your past work. Yes, you can do it, but you'll cut yourself off at the knees with all the bad habits you pick up, and any ability to deeply reason about it will be coincidental (just a "gut" feeling most of the time).

Do yourself a favour and do it right. Get a teacher. Learn proper posture (stops you from getting tired or injuring yourself), proper techniques (allows you to play more complex things with less effort required), and a good training regimen (so you can get maximum coverage of all techniques available to you at a manageable pace).

People ask me how I got so good at guitar in so short a time, when they've been plucking away at it for years, even decades. It's simply because I chose to find a teacher FIRST, and an instrument SECOND, and went through all the fundamentals, starting with very boring and basic pieces like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ysOIJFm3Rg
They care more about woke politics then about tor or foss or even science. Fake diversity is disgusting. Stallman is a good dude. Body dismorphia is real and can be very successfully treated. Trust the science.
Have you read the document [1] they cite as evidence that Stallman is transphobic? This is what it actually says:

> Please think about how to treat other participants with respect, especially when you disagree with them. For instance, call them by the names they use, and honor their preferences about their gender identity.

> Honoring people's preferences about gender identity includes not referring to them in ways that conflict with that identity. For instance, not to use pronouns for them that conflict with it. There are several ways to avoid that; one way is to use gender-neutral pronouns, since they don't conflict with any possible gender identity.

That apparently makes Stallman a transphobe.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210325014959/https://www.gnu.o...
That's the real reason for the outrage. This isn't about safety at all this is about protecting Amazon.

The driver with face all the penalties if a accident occurs. The camera footage will only show what the drivers are doing and not what their dispatchers are doing.
imagine the thermodynamic losses.
Yeah not sure that your stereotype is correct. Lots of evangelicals who are otherwise apolitical are very much against abortion.
I'm no expert, but one thing which concerns me about Venus is the feasibility of sourcing local materials. It would be way more expensive to fetch resources from the surface and carry them up to floating cities, even in the energy cost alone, not accounting for the hellish conditions the equipment must endure - for thousands of duty cycles.

On Mars, the regolith is right there. You can just scoop it up and use it. Much easier to turn into buildings, extract resources from it, and so on.

I think we can colonize Venus, and ultimately should, but it presents a lot more problems than Mars. Mars makes a lot of sense as a first step.
The number of downvotes / flagged comments on this page suggests that this site is heavily biased towards the left / atheist crowd.

Then again, reading the comments for a couple of days will do the same :)
Too bad they already happened - fueled by cheap money from 2007 onwards.

What I foresee in my own crystal ball is a new Great Depression.
How do you look one up you don’t recognize? Like there must be dictionaries but what is your “alphabetical order”??
> Across the country, the prices for real estate rose by 1.3% in February compared with the month before. however, in Toronto, the rise for similar period was 2.6%. This actually makes the strongest gain in 5 months. However, although the prices rise in both Toronto and Vancouver, listings and sales are falling in these cities.

But the article has no date. Seems like marketing copy to me.
They care more about woke politics then tor or foss or science fpr that matter. Fake diversity is disgusting.
I was just skimming through things, but it looks like MP and REI might have parted ways last year: https://rockandice.com/climbing-news/mountain-project-and-re...
The HP2000/HP3000 is where where I cut my teeth on developing on a timeshare system in the mid 80s. Great systems and they set my expectations for what computing should be at an early age.
> On a slight side note, kids can't even write their own names in kanji. You can imagine how happy we got when we were taught kanjis that were part of our name.

Do you have any thoughts on the implications (social, mainly) of logographic writing systems?

Also would be interested in having a sense of the historic patterns of literacy in Japan in context of Tokugawa caste system.

/tia
Classical guitar and piano, classically trained on both.

While I admire those who can just grab an instrument and have a great time, musical notation isn't just a way to real and play something, it's the foundation of learning technique, growth, exploration and developing as a musician.

The idea that practicing correctly makes perfect (no, practice alone does not make perfect) is at the core of this. Musical notation (along with a teacher) provides the guidance and structure necessary to learn and grow.

There's also the ability to communicate about music in general. A simple example of this is a book I have with practice exercises for the piano. Once I taught my kids to read musical notation and use a metronome (super important) I could simply ask them to learn and practice the scale on page 42 and that was that. On the guitar, Scott Tennant communicated his practice exercises to the worth through "Pumping Nylon".

It's easy to say "Yeah, but I can just listen to someone playing the scale and copy it by ear". Well, that's missing the point. None of this material would have survived decades or centuries if it were not for the evolution of domain-specific notation as a means of communication in the art. That's the other aspect of musical notation, it's a means for making works of art survive for centuries, something that is impossible without being able to write things down.

To go into CS for a moment, the power of notation got driven into my head when my Physics professor in the early 80's convinced me to not take a FORTRAN class and sign-up for an APL class he was teaching instead. It was absolutely amazing. At the time it was like being from the future. In just a few characters I could do what took heaps of code in COBOL or FORTRAN, and the power of communicating such ideas through notation was just unbelievable. Sometimes I wonder if I took to APL (which I used professionally for ten years afterwards) because I was fluent in musical notation already.

All of that said, I think it is great to "just play". Nothing wrong with that. I'll also add that it took me a long time to be able to pull away from sheet music and "just play". And so I do have a level of admiration for people who are able to do that and came at it without any form of formal training. At the end of the day, if your goals in music are not to be a concert pianist/guitarist, frankly, if you are having fun, go for it. Just be conscious of the fact that once bad habits are learned it is extremely difficult to unlearn them. That's were a formal and traditional beginning in music tends to be useful and important.
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The desire for identity and “to belong” is exceptionally powerful.
[Holds down PgDn for ~20 continuous seconds while not blinking]

"Reflective" and "surreal" come to mind...
>when the police wants to interview you, the decision for your arrest was already made;

That's not true. The police will interview everyone connected to a crime. Like if your SO turns up dead you're going to be one of the first people the police talk to. Depending on what else they've found they will have varying levels of suspicion. That level will absolutely change on how you do in that interview or if you refuse to talk.
> made it politically viable for the US government to inject a massive stimulus into the economy

Well, Britain transferred all its money to the US for arms, so that would help the US economy. (Churchill spent the last year of the war concerned with how to pay for it.) Also, there were wage and price controls to control speculation (and inflation.)
Mountain Project's About page includes this bit:

> In 2015, REI acquired Mountain Project to solidify the future of this amazing resource for the climbing community. Every line of code was redone from ground zero and traffic skyrocketed. In 2020, REI returned Mountain Project to its founders.

And the site footer links to Adventure Projects, Inc. It looks like REI hasn't been involved since May 2020, and Adventure Projects was acquired by onX in December 2020.
I think we get to see a much slower one. With each protest, each natural disaster, each fabricated media outrage, each shift from pragmatism to luxury beliefs, each openly corrupt politician getting away with a slap in the wrist, each case of the justice system working to protect criminals at the expensive of victims, each case of institutions practicing racism under the guise of anti-racism, each open manipulation of fiat currency for the purposes of enriching politicians and government, each bill where only 20% of the money goes to the people and the other 80% is pork, each virtue signal at the cost of reality - every one slowly erodes our organizational capacity as a society to react and meet the contractual obligations of governance.

Our unconscious notices, even if our conscious choses to rationalize or woke it away.

The fuse is lit.
I have a very religious coworker who voted for Trump. I asked why he would vote for the least holy president in history. He said he was willing to because he was "saving" the supreme court.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news:

https://talkpoverty.org/2017/08/23/u-s-still-forcibly-steril...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93578d/staggering-number-of-...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/not-just-ice-a-california-pris...

Those wages you are thinking of? Frequently they are well under one dollar per hour, sometimes as low as two cents per hour, and pay of any kind is not legally required:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-...

> We imprison people of ANY ethnicity who commit crimes.

Police and prosecutorial discretion means that this isn't true, statistically. As I mentioned, the US imprisons ethnic minorities at a rate of 17x higher than China per capita, despite the farcical claim that all citizens have equal protection under the law. If they did, the number of people of different ethnicities imprisoned would roughly match the distribution of ethnicities in US society. They do not.
How do masks not meet the scientific standard of efficacy? I understand you're not making an anti-mask argument, but I'm just genuinely curious to understand why you say this. Besides the obvious benefit of masks mitigating the spray of viral aerosol, as far as I am aware, masks have a lot of scientific support for their efficacy.
Fun article to read. The author started to get into the more likely failure modes at the end when time ran out.

Stability is probably the most important. Next is failure of the wood near the screws, which affects stability. Wood has its own considerations due to the grain. The American Wood Council has a fastener calculator which shows a few of the things that matter when doing structural design with wood.

http://www.awc.org/calculators/connections/ccstyle.asp
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Courts are very reticent to overturn a patent even if it is completely bogus. There are many of these bogus patents, the worst has to be a guy who patented "driving LEDs via their I2C interface" which is on par with patenting driving a car.
def it would be great to have graphs, more insights on listening habits. Currently we don't store/analyze data, but we plan to. which will allow us to serve more meaningful results.

thank you for trying, and take your time to write down your thoughts, they will have great impact on how Echoes evolve. may be we should create a public roadmap, also for these feature requests. There is an announcement integration in the app, top-right notification icon, we'll keep you posted.
Only ~7% of the population is atheist or agnostic. ~70% is Christian.

You would expect the majority of pretty much anything to be Christian.
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WalMart steals from suppliers, governments, and employees.

eBay & Alibaba learned to steal from customers (fraud, counterfeits).

Amazon also stole from investors. Like many before and since.

Bezos' single core innovation was somehow persuading Wall Street to go along with the scheme. He never tried to hide or obfuscate the plan.

Amazingly, uniquely, that gamble paid off.
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Stripe for X
Stripe for freight, Stripe for transport, Stripe for peeling oranges...

Please stop declaring yourself to be Stripe for x and try to be original.
The ownership of the media, or any other industry, is hardly representative of the overall population.
Population of Canada: 38,000,000

Population of China : 1,427,647,786

Shanghai alone has 27,000,000 people.
There are 12,500,000 households in Canada.

It would take less than 1% of the Chinese population purchasing a home in Canada to double demand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_of_Canada

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop...

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/170913/t001a...
And next up on [ Rachel | Tucker ]...

Let’s all have a nice huddle where we talk about how the other guys are idiots and the pogroms they’re planning against us.

Must see tv.
Thanks. A DDG search for that term gives me all the background I wanted.
Bitcoin’s price is backed by the sunk cost of energy used to mine it. If any critical mass of miners began using cheap or free renewable energy, the price of BTC would fall precipitously.

Miners have, in the past, resisted improvements to the network that would reduce their profits so this all seems pretty unlikely as well.
You forgot NFTs, which are what I would consider to really be like the tulip mania [1] of old.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
just turn on the news
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A ham sandwich is a battery....

Bitcoin is not a battery. Its fiat currency that uses a lot of energy to perform a fraction of the transactions that would be needed for it to be used for normal day to day transactions (filling up your gas tank, buying a coffee, etc).

If anything, I'd say Bitcoin is the exact opposite of a battery, it's an energy sink. I say that because its fiat money. With the example used of aluminum, you've taken energy and made a durable good/commodity. You don't need to have faith in aluminum that it exists, it just there. Drop it on your foot and you'll have proof. With Bitcoin, it will just take a lack of faith and the whole thing becomes worthless.

Bitcoin is interesting, it might become a reserve/hedge investment like diamonds or gold. But let's not put it in the halls of the Duracell bunny.
I have a very hard time buying the idea that cloud cities are a more achievable idea.
>1. France never did a genocide unlike other European countries

Wow are you really that uniformed?

Algeria, Senegal and Vietnam comes instantly to my mind
My conversations with Americans were on reddit exclusively, so those statistics are very surprising.
What is the difference between a postcard shipped via national post office vs a letter slipped into a DHL express envelope, in plain terms?

Both serve the same purpose, transfer a piece of paper. One of them does not get delivered if you forgot to lick another piece of special paper onto it (stamps) before dropping it into the mailbox, oh and btw make sure you drop it in the correct mailbox, it is not the same mailbox where the orher envelope works.

One gets delivered to the door while the other is delivered to your closest pickup point.

Remote delivery is complex, even the old way. Sadly such technology long ago stopped being about making things simpler for customers, unless the entire end-to-end chain is inside their walled garden and making it ever harder to get outside of it to where all your other friends are.
Exactly the situation in any cashdesk, for instance at banks. One or even multiple cameras per cashier.
Good point.

The social aspect seems to be the biggest motivating factor for what makes people either join or leave a religion.

People often choose to stop a belief because of the failings of their parents, spiritual leader, etc without thought to their direct relationship with their deity and the belief system itself.

- In other words, if you are Catholic and your priest was a criminal does that mean the next logical step is to become an atheist?

- If you’re an atheist and science says that the inherent beauty of laws of the universe means that it is a possibility that our world was engineered by powerful being(s) does that mean you should jump your belief all the way to creationism?
I agree with that broadly. I was just confused by the claim I quoted above.
One possibility: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1634312023/
In the new populism I’m seeing, both deficits and abortion aren’t front line issues, but stopping endless wars is very high.
Had to flag this not because it break any rules its just 100% too dumb to be on HN. I had to double check if this wasn't satire.
Legal precedent suggests you are probably granting the public access to take it and use it any way they want.

Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

> Ultimately, the Ninth Circuit's affirmation of the district court's grant of the preliminary injunction prohibited LinkedIn from denying hiQ access to publicly available data on public LinkedIn users' profiles.
> Python aborts almost immediately whenever it can

doesn't sound very strong
I care to disagree.

If someone is saying it ONLY to make someone give him money it is not good enough answer. My take on this is that a lot of those people just slap "Open Source" on their product to catch people who can invest and care about open source.

If someone does not really care about open source but is just throwing statements around to look good and get money from people, that is not the right way.
Because building a cloud city isn't not end of the problem (and not a small one in itself). Sustaining a cloud city is very difficult. Terraforming Mars is being considered for the fact that it could be a near permanent solution.
Cotton is not a great suture material: low tensile strength when wet and it’ll absorb/wick bodily fluids, which sets the scene for an infection.

Catgut and silk were traditionally used, but there are tons of synthetic ones too.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godles...
Maybe this?

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godles...

Roughly halfway down: "I think it seamlessly merged into the modern social justice movement."
So English is like Javascript, both languages are spoken/written by the majority of its intended engineers, have ton of resources/books/materials and lastly both the languages are easy to start but difficult to master.
Nowadays you draw it in your phone/computer. In the old days you looked up by "radical" and number of strokes in large tables.
Bitcoin is an amazing wedge to install distributed solar and storage throughout the nation. Right now, utilities and governments make it hard to monetize these assets, and bitcoin provide an easy alternative.

This builds the supply chain and labor force that are needed to perform a full clean energy transition. I don't have a strong opinion on cryptocurrency, but I have a strong opinion on energy supply chains.

Plug: I'm building https://cryptoclean.energy/ with this exact thesis. Check it out to get a renewable energy system for your mining rig.
We don't have to go down that slippery slope. It is not plausible that the specific issue here is something that encompasses a huge portion of the human condition. Alternatively, if it is a manifestation of something that is, but at a much lower level than with this individual, there are prominent things in the DSM for which this is also the case.
Must share my favorite piece of piano + software conjunction: Pianoteq [0] see the video and hear how amazing it is [1]

Pianoteq makes digital pianos sound like a real piano without using pre-recorded samples, but by instead generating sound via an advanced model.

[0] https://www.modartt.com/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvGTsIkdsBU
I get your point that it's easier to learn music faster by learning to read sheet music. But there's also no such thing as doing it right without context. If someone wants to just jam & relax by playing the piano, learning to read sheet music may not be doing it right.
> And as I posed in another comment, what incentive does Amazon have for it to be anything other than this, given that if it really does lead to more privacy intrusions, many more staff will quit and regulators would take action?

They could have calculated that productivity increases due to the nanny cam were worth any blowback from unhappy workers and regulators. At this point the workers don't trust what Amazon says. The cameras will be viewed by workers with mistrust and they will assume they are being watched constantly and the "safety" purpose is bs. Amazon probably knows this, even if they intend it to actually be used for safety. This is the same reason some convenience stores put up fake cameras.

They are a beurocratic organization with middle managers doing everything they can to squeeze productivity gains out everything and every one. There may be some good guys in there but those good guys don't have their careers grow. The managers without morals rise to the top while shit rolls down hill and the guys on the bottom get worse and worse treatment.
OTOH in Mandarin, the correct way to say things is actually more or less like that :) Most of the time tenses are inferred from context, copula (the verb "to be" in "I am hungry" or "there is no rain") is omitted, and there are some prepositions but very often you don't need them (for example, you would indeed say "I go store").

A pity that it has a super complex pronunciation, tonal system and writing system to go with the extremely straightforward grammar.
gravity on venus is more similar to earth than mars, too