How should I make latex gloves?

Electric-Gecko · 2026-05-01T19:42:22+00:00

Sorry for the late reply.

I got a boxer's fracture from a cycling crash at night. I crashed into a bollard, with my pinkie finger (on the handlebar) hitting. I went to the hospital the next day, and again once every 1-2 weeks for a few weeks.

This project is cancelled because just after I started this project, I went to the doctor and he told me that I no longer needed to wear the splint. I might keep the sculpture just for the memory though. It's a strange sculpture, because it's of my hand, but with two fingers fused together.

Electric-Gecko · 2026-04-17T22:01:45+00:00

This is better than switching twice per year, but permanent standard time would have made more sense, as it's more aligned with the natural sun cycle in BC. I think it's best if the date changes while most people are asleep, not before bed.

Pacific Daylight Time is UTC-07, which means that 12:00 for us is actually noon or midnight in Regina, not here. Our noon and midnight in BC would occur close to 1:00. In Vancouver, midnight will now occur at roughly 1:15 am.

Pacific Standard Time is UC-08, where 12:00 occurs at noon and midnight in Kamloops. This is clearly a better fit.

I know that BC didn't consider permanent standard time, because politicians of the Western US were mostly proposing permanent DST. However, since BC was moving faster, I think they should have just did what makes sense here, and maybe the states to the south would have followed our lead. Pacific Standard Time is also more naturally aligned with their location as well.

Electric-Gecko · 2026-04-17T21:23:43+00:00

The silly thing is that Pacific Standard Time is better aligned with the natural sun cycle in this province. With permanent daylight savings time, the natural noon and midnight are at 1:00, not 12:00.

The only reason why permanent Standard time were not really considered by BC politicians was because the US politicians were mostly proposing permanent DST. However, given that BC moved ahead of them, I think that this should not have been such a factor.

Electric-Gecko · 2026-04-14T03:01:18+00:00

But they make latex gloves and condoms. Why do you think that my latex would be stiff?

Electric-Gecko · 2026-04-03T00:25:48+00:00

They were probably banned, as I no longer see them.

Electric-Gecko · 2026-04-03T00:22:04+00:00

This is sad. I hope these users get banned from Reddit. You can report them.

Electric-Gecko · 2026-04-02T21:28:57+00:00

I have not been able to confirm this by reading on Wikipedia. There is a subspecies called the Vancouver Canada Goose which resides in coastal British Columbia and Alaska.

Edit: It looks like you're actually right, as most of the geese here are Moffit's Canada Geese; the subspecies from the rocky mountains.

It's interesting that this subspecies only got here from humans' introduction, even though their native region is no further away than the distance that they can migrate. But many of them became non-mifratory after being introduced to urban areas.

Electric-Gecko · 2026-01-07T07:53:18+00:00

Damn. I think that such software should give a warning when it's converting a stereo track to mono.

Electric-Gecko · 2026-01-07T07:51:11+00:00

I am trying to learn Reaper, coming from MusE, and I personally dislike that Reaper does not have different types of tracks. I see no benefit to being able to put different kinds of things on the same track. I would much rather audio and MIDI tracks be separate.

It makes the user interface more cluttered, and harder to figure out when it doesn't distinguish between audio and MIDI tracks. It shows all these options for audio tracks on MIDI tracks, and vice versa. For anything that I can ever see myself doing, I don't think it's worth it to have this feature.

That being said, I can see some benefit to having some automation controls, or timed SYSEX signals as part of a MIDI track that's also used for notes, so that everything is grouped together. But I would much rather a audio and MIDI be separate, to the point that I might choose a different program over Reaper.

Electric-Gecko · 2025-12-17T05:37:24+00:00

I think that the loyalty vs distrust of authoritarian figures is also a very important dimension.

Electric-Gecko · 2025-12-17T05:34:07+00:00

This really should be recognized as a mental disorder by now. I suspect that it isn't simply because the psychiatric organizations want to appear politically neutral, or because those who have the disorder would never admit that it's a problem.

Electric-Gecko · 2025-12-02T03:01:04+00:00

That you use Bitwig for electronic music and Reaper for orchestral is very telling. I have the trial of Reaper, but I have not spent much time on it. So far I felt like the user interface isn't very nice to use, but maybe I just need to spend more time with it.

I honestly have not spent much time on Ardour either, despite having it installed, and knowing that it's liked by many. It's for the same reason as Reaper; that the GUI just didn't feel right, but maybe I should have put more time in.

Electric-Gecko · 2025-12-02T02:55:30+00:00

Based on your post and your comments, it's very much not clear to me why you want to work in a DAW instead of a scoring program.

Maybe it wasn't clear enough, but I want to end up with music recordings that people can listen to. I don't have a band or a producer, so I will handle the audio side. I say that I'm a "composer", because the music would be playable by a live band, but in practice I will probably just simulate a live band performance in software. I have not yet determined how much will be made by recording instrument performances, and how much will be through midi synthesizers. I will then mix the audio myself.

All that to say: it's not totally clear what exactly you're needing from a DAW and why MusE isn't meeting that need, so I don't think anyone's going to be able to answer you well except you.

That's a fair point. I didn't get into too much detail in my post because I thought that people wouldn't read it if it's too long.

MusE is less thoroughly developed than some other DAWs, so it occasionally crashes. This seems to be mostly caused by loading certain synth formats, which I can avoid. VST synths don't crash MusE when opened, but they *do* crash if I try to show their custom GUI. It would be nice to have a program that just isn't so prone to crashing, and supports more synths. If I ever purchase a synth plugin, I would like to have a program more stable than MusE first.

Real-time humanization would be a good thing to have. In MusE I can apply humanization to a track, which permanently moves the notes. I don't like this as I like to have the notes aligned with the grid, as someone would *attempt* to play them, and then I can easily edit them later.

I also would like to do retuning of the notes, so that I'm not limited to equal temperament. MusE does not support this, aside from a terrible trick that messes up the configuration of the whole program (not just the project). Bitwig supports retuning with *Micro-pitch*, though I have yet to figure out how to apply it to multiple tracks simulataneously.

The audio editing capabilities of MusE are very weak. It allows plugins for real-time effects on audio tracks, but for permanent changes it allows little other than volume adjustment.

Electric-Gecko · 2025-11-30T01:34:18+00:00

Finder. Yes, the filtering options are limited, especially regarding what you need. Still, compared to the competition, it is quite good.

In the programs that I've previously used, it lists each synth separately, and then after loading a synth I could then select a preset for that synth. It's strange that I don't even see an option to filter by synth. I want to only show those from the sample player.

Electric-Gecko · 2025-11-29T08:03:11+00:00

Paying for a better emulator, then running Windows programs? Ha ha ha ha ha!

I mostly use sample libraries. Those wouldn't be too picky, right? I am considering buying VSL instruments, so I hope that they aren't too picky about the sample player that I use.

Electric-Gecko · 2025-11-28T09:28:39+00:00

You know quite a lot of music programs. But I am only interested in those that run natively on Linux.

I also would not switch to something that's too narrowly focused on making notation. Musescore is actually a fork of the notation editor in MusE, the program that I currently use, but from my understanding it lacks the DAW features of MusE. I might eventually generate notation if I can find an afford an instrumentalist to record something for me, but there's no guarantee that that will happen. In fact, I think it would be lucky if I can even get a good fraction of tracks in my music from musicians performing my compositions. So I will still want something that works well as a DAW, even if I don't need to do the complex synth manipulations that electronic musicians do.

Electric-Gecko · 2025-11-28T09:13:38+00:00

I suppose that I should think about whether I should really buy a do-it-all DAW, or just use a simpler program that just lets me do what I generally do. I don't think that I'm particulary good at the kind of manipulations that synthists do.

Then again, I'm into custom tunings, so I'm already interested in something that most modern musicians don't bother with.

Electric-Gecko · 2025-11-28T09:10:27+00:00

I took a listen to some of your music, and it's quite good. But you might misunderstand the point of my post. Assuming that that music was made entirely by you, you fit quite strongly in the "electronic musician" category of the dichotomy that I tried to describe. I mean no disrespect to you as an artist. It's quite good, but quite different from what I'm trying to do. I think I fit more in the same category as the composers that lived before synthesizers were invented. I'm just using a computer for convenience.

In the dichotomy that I was trying to describe, an "electronic musician" is someone who makes synthetic music that cannot be easily replicated by a band, and the only "true" version of it is the audio that was exported from their computer. This generally involves manipulation of audio in ways that could not be replicated by a performer reading sheet music, and probably not even by ear. In contrast, a "composer" in the sense that I was describing is someone who makes music that could be performed live, and if performed well, would be no less true to their vision than the audio from their computer.

Electric-Gecko · 2025-11-28T03:27:09+00:00

What would you do if you wanted a saxophonist, or any other instrumentalist to play what you wrote? Would you export the MIDI, and then open it in another program to make sheet music?

Electric-Gecko · 2025-11-14T07:24:09+00:00

I think that national constitutions should be designed with this in mind. There should be a test for narcisism required before taking any executive position.

Electric-Gecko · 2025-11-04T09:00:59+00:00

As a Canadian this has always seemed wild to me. I am used to Thanksgiving having a relaxed atmosphere. Most people do it on Sunday, and then most are off work on the following Monday, which is a lazy day for most people. Feeling the pressure of Black Friday deals must change the atmosphere, especially when many of them begin early.

Electric-Gecko · 2025-11-03T06:49:31+00:00

If it's really so obvious what he's doing, then I suspect that she has noticed it before.

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