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I like Dan Callaway on YouTube. Jeff Rolka is another good teacher. However, singing is complicated and choosing which exercises you'll use to teach folks ... You need 1. Vowel alignment 2. Coordination of voices 3. Breath support and vocal tension management 4. Mouth shape, tongue placement.

And then there's "how to read a song", deciding which words are emphasized, where to breathe, modifications to fit your voice, etc.

Re:Map of Metal on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @08:52AM (#48206876)
It's interesting because some of these bands are older than these terms. Alcest wasn't considered blackgaze until albums inspired by their own sound became popular, for example.

Metal also has history where a genre is aesthetically defined as well as sonically, which complicates things.

Would you ever blog/talk about it? Sounds interesting.
Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed on Thursday November 06, 2025 @07:34PM (#45842340)
When you have days like this, 2-10 billion and you want to search it, what are the cheapest options? Reindexing could be slow, be search should be reasonably quick. It would be really expensive to do this all in, say, Elastic, right? Especially if you had a bunch of columns?
Re:The Case Against 30-Year Mortgages on Saturday October 11, 2025 @01:11PM (#45550817)
Isn't the alternative less home ownership and less growth in quality of life? Didn't all of those programs increase demand which made people homeowners?

There are a number of reasons why homes are expensive today and it's not just "social programs bad".

Re:Ask HN: Do you read your own PR? on Thursday August 28, 2025 @01:03AM (#45048565)
Always, and sometimes I'll add authors notes as comments on the PR. This is actually one reason I dislike "all threads resolved" as a criterion for approving PRs (or specifically GitLab PRs).
Adjust the height to the highest setting.

Put gas in it. If there's a soft rubber thing near the gas, hit it twice to provide some fuel but no more as you risk "flooding" the engine.

Hold down any handle at the top of the mower, often the thing will require you to manually hold it down during start and all operations.

Look for the starter pull. It's often on the right, on the motor or mower handles. It's a piece of plastic attached to a cable. Give it a yank with a full follow through. It doesn't have to be maximum effort but too gentle won't work either.

Re:When Abandoned Mines Collapse on Thursday May 08, 2025 @07:30PM (#43932375)
Oldest city in America is in Florida
Re:Getting things "done" in large tech companies on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @08:47AM (#43904487)
> you can plausibly make up the rest about what you actually did there.

I would never do this, and if you would do this I wouldn't want to work with you. Maybe I'm a sucker, but I sleep alright.

I don't mind the end of remote work, as long as the "cool office" actually comes back. Here in Ann Arbor it feels like the tech scene died with remote work and all the jobs are remote.

From my perspective, wages have increased faster elsewhere, and there are far more remote jobs than local ones. The whole reason I moved to Ann Arbor for work was because UMich had created a little startup scene that I could aspire to. I expected the scene to grow, not fade. It really seemed like the beers on tap, foosball table tech job fantasy for a few years there.

Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? on Thursday March 27, 2025 @01:41PM (#43495963)
That's true. But, to the point of eliminating labor -- there's still a human in the loop here.

In fact I would argue that while people were still making capital decisions, the idea of optimizing them is only practical WITH some kind of software / calculator / computer. The tooling I write has added jobs, not eliminated them.

Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? on Thursday March 27, 2025 @06:49AM (#43492210)
> Look, the only purpose of software is automation and the only purpose of automation is labor elimination

I use software to design algorithms to make capital decisions, where distribution centers and warehouses are built. I am not automating a human job.

Re:3dfx, So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023) on Monday March 10, 2025 @11:56AM (#43321928)
Subspace/Continuum also used lag in its gameplay, with players warping to recently exploded spaceships so they could continue to invade. It was an established technique and had to be defended against.

Edit: typo

Shout out to any EG players!

In America, there are plenty of housed drug addicts. Your question is too simple to represent reality.
Isn't everyone concerned with cost of living? Isn't there a whole game of life where we all find some comfortable CoL and salary balance?

That's why salary via CoL never made any sense to me. It should be based on how hard people want to work.

These "it's cheaper in Michigan" ideas -- yeah you can come up with a boring lifestyle that is dirt cheap. I'm just in Michigan already. It's hard to leave. I'm a global dude. I travel domestically. I invest. These things don't have Michigan prices.

In my experience, companies based in Michigan pay 20-50k lower and do not have staff/principal roles available. You have to find a remote role to stay competitive wage wise. Some companies are not willing to pay as much for Michigan workers as they are NY/SF/elsewhere workers, too.

I think the reality is Columbus and Chicago are growing quicker than Detroit. The relative increase here might be "buzzing" but in absolute terms, it's desolate.

STOP works thanks to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), which offers consumers spam protections and senders a framework on how to behave.

(Edit: It's relevant that STOP didn't come from the TCPA itself, but definitely has teeth due to it)

https://www.infobip.com/blog/a-guide-to-global-sms-complianc...

A company that has internal customers that go to bed every day. Bankers, underwriters, etc
Re:What's New in F# 9 on Sunday November 10, 2024 @03:18PM (#42102362)
Npgsql is the popular C# driver, and has an F# wrapper. I'd start there.
Because punching holes in the network that makes data exfiltration simple is a generally considered a bad thing
Re:A Symbol for the Fediverse ⁂ on Friday August 23, 2024 @08:06AM (#41328259)
Arguably @ is a Fedi symbol already. Adding the domain is generally all it takes.
Re:Why won't some people pay for news? (2022) on Friday August 16, 2024 @04:49PM (#41270250)
Yes, there are regional papers that don't often cover large stories that achieve your criteria.

At least there are a couple I can think of, LGBT papers in particular.

Comparing Detroit to Singapore is pretty silly in my eyes. The second derivative for Detroit has been good for about twenty years, but the city has been decaying around economic events and poor business diversification.

Connect the Q-Line out towards Oakland County and to the People Mover. Get that train going to the airport. There are real infrastructure needs here and it doesn't take a lot to imagine them.

Recently have been enjoying developing with Azurite, this looks similar. Storage, queue, function, etc.
Reminds me of a Maria Bamford line, which is also used in this relevant piece https://www.vulture.com/2015/06/the-rise-of-consumer-comedy....

"…I do worship celebrities, because they’re very powerful, their moods create weather. I was feeling bad about it, and then I was like, “Well of course, I’m just a tiny, frightened animal. I’m gonna look towards the most powerful and fertile-appearing of our species for information on how to survive. I need to find out what that Jennifer Aniston is doing. She’s a strong, sexy monkey. She’s going to tell us where all the bananas are located.”

Re:Is .NET just miles ahead or am I delusional? on Saturday April 13, 2024 @06:38AM (#40022052)
C# is hard to beat. ReSharper (and IntelliJ) really pushed Visual Studio to have a very high quality developer experience. But I don't miss csproj files, even though they no longer enumerate the contents of the project. Ugh, the conflicts.
Re:Features I wish PostgreSQL had as a developer on Friday April 05, 2024 @06:48AM (#39940855)
A built in connection pooler would be nice! My first database tech was Microsoft SQL Server, and ADO.NET supports it out of the box, so when I made the move it was the most obvious missing feature to me.
Re:Redis Renamed to Redict on Saturday March 23, 2024 @06:59AM (#39798972)
That's good to know. Fwiw, I don't know anything about Drew nor was I trying to comment about him.
Re:Redis Renamed to Redict on Saturday March 23, 2024 @04:33AM (#39798383)
When developers do this is it really for the good of the community or is it a career advancing move?

Because the community has a bunch of redis protocol compatible choices and I don't understand why pushing redis in particular over others is the right choice.

We are ineffable! Dominaria will fall. ( edit: hope folks will appreciate the username ;) )

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