elektronaut

Ideally, you want your hands to hover while typing, not resting on your wrists.

I had surgery done in one hand a year ago. It has restored my ability to do most things (like cycling or using a gamepad), but regular keyboard and mouse use is still a problem.

For me, the biggest impact has been switching to a vertical mouse. That, along with a tented split keyboard allows me to work most days without aggravating my CTS.

It’s the source material, not the codec. Some albums sound vastly better on say Apple Music, regardless of lossless or lossy encoding. It’s almost like Spotify have older, inferior masters that they’ve never updated.

You’re right that it’s not the technology. I’ve released a few albums, and they sound virtually indistinguishable across various services since they’re from the same master files.

> Modern bikes are getting lighter and lighter.

The trend over the last few years have been disk brakes, aerodynamic features and wider tires, all of which come with a weight penalty. Some brands are now starting to converge their aero and lightweight offerings, though.

I suspect the parent is referring to elevation, not distance. 1km in distance would only take a few minutes.

Cycling is very low impact, as long as your bike fits and you’re not grinding away in a heavy gear.

Thank you!

I play guitar in a post-rock band called Caves of Steel. Our third album "Path to Ground" was slated for release around this time last year, but the global pandemic kind of took the wind out of those sails for a little while. I miss playing shows.

Anyway, here are some links. I'd wager it works well as coding music.

https://cavesofsteel.no

https://cavesofsteel.bandcamp.com/album/path-to-ground

https://open.spotify.com/album/4iSBQI59jBi6nTTofI727e?si=HEM...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjB58T1ziyo

This is why I’ve come around on the 80 character rule after switching to Emacs, fitting four buffers side by side on my 27” monitor just works.

120 characters/3 columns is great for more verbose languages, but I find it a bit too wide for a vertical split on a 15” laptop monitor.

It’s just files inside a magic folder. Edits are stored in sidecar files. So even if the database is corrupted, you can still recover.

You don’t need to have your photos inside the catalog either, they can be referenced externally.

If you like to maintain your own structure, you might like the Sessions feature. It’s an folder-based alternative to the monolithic catalog.

For .no, I reckon it's a combination of small population and the fact that you need to be a citizen to buy one. Until recently, they were only available to organizations. There's also restrictions on the number of registered domains you can have (100 for organizations, 5 for individuals), that limits squatting somewhat.

People unable to use public transit are eligible for subsidized taxi rides.

Yeah, C major (C/F/G) can be a bit awkward on guitar, the F barre chord is a painful hurdle for new players to get over.

A major (A/D/E) is probably the easiest key to play. G major is arguably the most useful, because you have access to all the important chords in open position: G, Am, C, D, Em.

Phrygian is quite common in metal, along with phrygian dominant. Great scales for dissonance and tension.

Functional harmony kind of goes out the window once you stray from the major/minor modes anyway. You have to lean heavily on the root to maintain the tonality, or else the perceived key center tends to shift.

Em is the iii chord in C, and it’s rarely used because it doesn’t really add any movement. Harmony is all about the cycle between tension and release, and there are other chords that do a much better job at filling the roles a iii chord could have.

It’s useful for dreamy and somewhat static chord progressions though.

For the low B on my 7 string, I get better intonation and tuning results by using power chords up and down the neck with distortion on rather than relying on a tuner. Fretting tension and picking intensity becomes a huge factor with low tension and high string gauges.

Pianos are like that too. There is a LOT of string tension, and the soundboard warps. Raising the pitch requires carefully balancing by tiny adjustments in several passes.

Very good point. In my experience, it's still worth doing even with good locking tuners. Slack around the post is only part of the equation, the string can also bind at the nut. Especially on guitars without straight string pull.

You can also achieve the same stability with regular tuners. You don't need more than a wrap or two around the post if you lock the string under itself.

Great enclosures. The all-metal design is an important property for guitar pedals, it acts as a noise shield. For the same reason, they're probably not the greatest choice for radio circuits.

That doesn’t sound right, the ii chord of C major is Dm, not D. I’m guessing E minor or G major judging solely by the chords.

Stuva means to stow. Kallax is a swedish village.

There's not really any magic to it. Just keep doing it, and after a while it'll start to sound right. And eventually the pain mostly goes away.

Keep at it. Absolutely everyone started where you are now. 15 minutes is more than enough to start seeing improvement from day to day.

Being relaxed and having a light touch is key to playing effortlessly. Beginners tend to press down way too hard. But don't worry too much about that for now, it'll develop automatically. If you're having trouble angling the fingers right, try moving your thumb around instead.

Tab is terrible at conveying rythmic information, playing anything moderately complex is very hard unless you're already familiar with the material. And I'd say it's a very lossy format if it's reliant on out of band information like a recording to make sense.

Fingering is a problem that mostly goes away as you gain an innate sense of what sounds good versus economy of movement and the ability to mute. For music written on guitar, it's usually relatively easy to tell what position works best.

Every guitar is different, too. String gauges, pickups, resonant notes, action height and intonation all play into it, and most of those are subject to personal preferences.

Spot on. Mastering for a wider dynamic range on vinyl makes sense. Not only because of the inherent physical limitations, but it's also reasonable to expect the listener has a decent sound system to go with the record player. It's also common for level to vary between records. Wider grooves allow for more loudness, so it's a tradeoff versus running time and playback speed.

Fortunately, the shift from CDs to digital as primary target has brought an end to the Loudness War. The various services have standards for perceived loudness, so there's no incentive for the mastering engineer to squeeze a few extra decibels out of the mix - past a certain point you're accomplishing nothing but killing your headroom margin.

I tried it for about a week and went back to monospaced. It wasn't a very pleasant experience. Code and prose are very different things. Special characters are very significant when programming, and tend to run together and be hard to read with a proportional font. Double space indents are hard to follow, and alignment beyond indentation is hard to get right.

It might be workable if you're working exclusively with your own code using tabs for alignment, but that's a luxury not everyone has.

It is completely optional, just pass the --skip-javascript option when you generate a new app.

I'm sure you could run elisp scripts with mod_cgi.

But who needs Apache? Just M-x package-install elnode, and you've got yourself a web server.

You can email the user a one-time token for setting a new password.

You should never store the users password.

Yep, that's a viable solution. GIF and PNG include the dimensions in the first few bytes. JPEG is a little more complex, but you don't need to download much of the file to get dimensions.

I've used fastimage with success: https://github.com/sdsykes/fastimage