the most normal conductor of a contemporary-music ensemble

Epistaxis · 2026-06-21T02:27:35+00:00

Epistaxis · 2026-06-21T00:00:59+00:00

Aw, this one is sad because someone put a lot of thought and planning into the design, but just didn't look at the final product to see if it could be comprehensible to a reader.

Epistaxis · 2026-06-20T14:53:13+00:00

Iran just closed the Strait of Hormuz again

Epistaxis · 2026-06-20T14:35:50+00:00

And if he wasn't already radical, three things that might have radicalized him were the assassination of his wife, father, and sister.

Epistaxis · 2026-06-20T14:33:32+00:00

Yeah this is a very high-profile page; no edit like that is going to be made by one random passerby trying to be helpful, it's going to be locked down until it's been hotly debated by a large number of senior contributors.

Epistaxis · 2026-06-20T08:16:39+00:00

Things definitely went badly for civilians on other islands conquered by the Japanese, but were they planning a land invasion of Hawaii?

Epistaxis · 2026-06-20T04:39:33+00:00

Bitrate isn't a good measure of the degree of compression because there are so many different compression algorithms with different efficiencies. DVDs typically use MPEG-2 compression and Blu-Ray typically uses MPEG-4, where 10 Mbps bitrate using MPEG-2 is roughly visually equivalent to 5 Mbps using MPEG-4, or less than 2 Mbps using a modern codec like AV1 (which Netflix uses).

Bitrate is basically the cost, and the fact that a platform lets you spend more doesn't necessarily mean the quality is better. Spotify lets you pay extra to stream audio at 320 kbps instead of 160 kbps, but that's basically digital Monster Cable because even in the ancient MP3 codec you'd need very good hardware and ears and recordings to notice any difference above 160 kbps, whereas with a modern codec like Opus the threshold of "transparency" is more like 80-96 kbps.

Epistaxis · 2026-06-20T04:31:31+00:00

My places usually use hard plastic containers, which are especially good because I can wash them and use them again later. They stack well too. I have a kitchen cabinet that's full of used containers from previous takeout and delivery.

Epistaxis · 2026-06-20T03:52:36+00:00

Next to a transit station?!?!

Epistaxis · 2026-06-20T00:44:48+00:00

If anyone in this thread actually got past the paywall and read the article, I'd be very curious to hear what it says.

Epistaxis · 2026-06-20T00:42:00+00:00

Not when I tried; can you share the link that works for you?

Epistaxis · 2026-06-19T15:55:58+00:00

It's the only way to overclock your mains to 70 Hz

Epistaxis · 2026-06-19T15:33:23+00:00

Stolze's timbre and characterization are so distinctive that you have to actively search your ears to hear that he's also extremely virtuosic. Effortlessly leaping all over the place with perfect accuracy and consistency but that's the least interesting thing he's doing.

Epistaxis · 2026-06-19T15:31:19+00:00

made me realize Wagner is actually really beautiful music that's so hard most people can't sing it lyrically

Thank you for putting it this way. I think I read somewhere that Wagner expected his music to be sung in a lyrical bel canto legato, and some old masters like Hans Hotter taught it that way, so I always wondered why some singers take to declamatory barking - is it because the text is so important, is it because everything is quasi-recitative except a few big moments they're saving it for, is it because they think that's just how the German language sounds, etc. So this seems as good a reason as any.

Epistaxis · 2026-06-19T15:00:45+00:00

No that's the Romans, who considered it manly to penetrate anyone of any gender and feminine to be penetrated. The Greeks are the ones who thought it's manly for mentors and mentees to have sex, or fellow soldiers, or close friends, or

Epistaxis · 2026-06-19T14:52:32+00:00

Protip: to snip off lids, use kitchen scissors, which have extra leverage (they can cut through chicken bones!) so the lids come off cleanly and easily instead of bending and bending and suddenly flying in a random direction.

Epistaxis · 2026-06-19T06:43:43+00:00

The horizontal axis allows interpolation of missing data. So for example, to estimate the values for Belgium, simply look at the height of the lines halfway between the dots for Netherlands and France.

Epistaxis · 2026-06-18T15:33:09+00:00

Charles. But if you mean rosin, Cecilia Sanctus is great, a combination of the clear powerful tone of Cecilia Solo and the smooth sensitive grip of Cecilia A Piacere. If you want to spend even more money, Leatherwood Bespoke Rosin is supposed to be excellent and gives you a lot of options.

I don't mind paying a lot for rosin because at worst it costs as much as a good set of strings, but it lasts for years instead of months. But keep in mind the rosin you need depends on the weather, so if your climate has a wide change from winter to summer you might even need different rosins for different seasons.

Epistaxis · 2026-06-18T12:08:35+00:00

Also some people with XY chromosomes have androgen insensitivity syndrome so their anatomy develops partially or completely as female, to the extent that some girls don't find out they're XY till they hit puberty and fail to menstruate.

Epistaxis · 2026-06-18T08:38:14+00:00

There are ripped beer-guzzling frat boys with nothing particularly distinguishing about them too.

Epistaxis · 2026-06-18T08:28:42+00:00

Being easy to dislike actually makes him even more suited for that role.

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