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Re:Geothermal Heat Map of US Hot Springs on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:47PM (#49839287)
Yeah, I spent a few minutes poking around the springs in Northern Nevada I’m familiar with, and completely agree with your assessment. This is slop.
Re:Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:40PM (#49664238)
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 playing in a pit. Tenor clef shows up in modern musicals regularly.

Not to mention being shunned from quartet or choir opportunities that are the basis of networking in the industry.

Re:Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:54PM (#49651709)
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.
Re:Cheap Desktop 400GbE Switch MikroTik CRS804-4DDQ-HRM Review on Thursday September 03, 2026 @02:29PM (#49554456)
4-8 of them. 2 Sparks can operate without a switch.
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @05:14PM (#49528308)
They only use them at the honest seams, though.
Re:Beware Management Consultants on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @09:24PM (#49355372)
“Liz Taylor’s ex-husband” is extremely vague…
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 I don't understand how they would do it now.

Foobar2000 is not Windows only. https://www.foobar2000.org/
Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:16PM (#47798146)
I'm running it on dual DGX Sparks.
The DAD AX32/AX64 is such a thing.
Re:Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @12:34PM (#46978019)
Multiple day outages in Winter are not unusual in our part of Maine. Nearly everyone has a whole home generator for good reason.
Re:Making regular GPS ultra-precise on Monday October 13, 2025 @08:42AM (#45567734)
Do you mean GEODNET?
Just a bit under 15 years after we did this at Twitter.
I feel attacked.
Re:When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:28AM (#43113906)
We never actually had a literal “Bieber Box”, but the joke took off.

Hot shards were definitely an issue, though.

Re:When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:26AM (#43113886)
Yes, we used the Yahoo! “Feeding Frenzy” paper as the basis for the design of Haplocheirus (the timeline service).
Re:Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection on Sunday November 03, 2024 @03:49PM (#42036000)
Amazing to see this happening. I wrote the non-moving Immix collector at Twitter for our Ruby runtime, Kiji.

Good luck!

Re:How economical is your local Taco Bell? on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @11:59AM (#41512605)
It is also occasionally a wedding venue.
Re:Infinitone Microtonal Saxophone on Sunday June 23, 2024 @03:08PM (#40769778)
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”.

Sweden is not Switzerland. And he died almost ten years ago.
Re:Sysadmin friendly high speed Ethernet switching on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @11:51AM (#40145861)
The rack I’m referring to is in my home. YMMV, of course.
Re:Sysadmin friendly high speed Ethernet switching on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @11:10AM (#40145297)
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.

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. They’re local to me here in Maine.

Ruminating a bit:

Cheaper blades are replaced more often with use and can’t generally be sharpened; SawStop tech doesn’t change the lifetime of a blade unless an activation happens. So, if you’re already willing to run to the box store for another blade semi-regularly, whether one survives activation perhaps isn’t material?

On the other hand, somebody who doesn’t regularly use their saw is probably both more price conscious and less likely to need sharpening/replacement often. I assume they care most about whether an activation forces them to buy a new blade (and a $100 brake). I suspect those are the people who propagate “SawStop = trashed blade”. For them, it’s true.

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 carbide-toothed blades are repairable.

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 an activation is not true.

That said, cheap big box store blades without carbide teeth will die a horrible death.

Re:The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics on Friday April 05, 2024 @01:10PM (#39944771)
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.
“Cum tree” doesn’t do it for you?
Facebook was where Thrift originated.
Re:Miles Davis and the recording of Kind of Blue on Monday March 04, 2024 @08:26PM (#39598327)
There aren’t many of these venues left. Keep showing up!
Re:Antarctic English on Friday March 01, 2024 @09:26AM (#39562064)
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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