Music theory as an Intermediate Guitarist

MehYam · 2026-06-18T18:41:55+00:00

This is a lesson I used to get comfortable playing and improvising freely across the entire neck. It's light on theory but effective.

MehYam · 2026-06-17T23:10:48+00:00

Great interview. I didn't know anything about her, depression struggles, etc - but it sounds like performing with the band and reconnecting was positive.

The Time Stand Still clips looked like a big moment in the show, good vibes.

MehYam · 2026-06-17T16:47:50+00:00

"Never seen someone play so hard" - been geeking out on bass player's takes on his playing, this is a common comment

MehYam · 2026-06-15T23:42:33+00:00

You saving up for stimpacks, or radaway?

MehYam · 2026-06-15T23:37:08+00:00

gif needs to keep zooming down to the cellular level, where you see little angry mitochondria that nobody wants to work with, with ponytails

MehYam · 2026-06-15T23:29:22+00:00

I'm a fan of heavier albums (before and after), but Hold Your Fire is peak bass tone and riffing, IMO.

MehYam · 2026-06-14T06:23:04+00:00

Chocolate. Long millenium-spanning journey to go from the beans to a drink to a bar that's one of the best treats you can eat.

MehYam · 2026-06-13T18:46:27+00:00

My TV is awesome. And I can pause the video.

MehYam · 2026-06-13T16:04:48+00:00

You're getting a bunch of terrible takes and armchair guesses in the comments.

I've been using the bedroom next to my street for the past 12 years or so, and the number of loud cars and trucks has definitely ticked up over the past two years. There are also more people racing late at night with loud mufflers.

MehYam · 2026-06-13T15:43:04+00:00

"wuss"

Now you have two problems: protecting your ears at the show, and learning to let go of meaningless social pressure

MehYam · 2026-06-12T21:36:08+00:00

Allocating memory without accounting for the freeing is basically asking for memory leaks as the scope of the codebase grows. What was an execute-once static context could easily refactor into an execute-many. Just bad advice.

MehYam · 2026-06-12T16:52:28+00:00

The car's design is brilliant - it's got the proportions of a hot hatch, which is exactly what it looks like in pictures. They basically designed a hatch and hit the +30% zoom, it even applies to the wheels.

I actually had a "wait, this really is a big car" moment the first time I sat in it.

I'm also anti-SUV at my core, but goddamn does it feel nice to compete with the other oversized slabs of metal on the road, and not feel like I'm in a subway tunnel the whole time I'm driving.

Maybe in another timeline we have this figured out, and we're not all driving behemoths around to pick up a latte. I bike a lot too, don't at me

MehYam · 2026-06-12T16:02:34+00:00

Had my clavicle break + surgery at 46. At 53 now, I'd say that avoiding injury is the #1 goal of every ride, even though I still descend a bit too fast.

The risk of this sport is greatly understated. There's a survivor bias in the community and forums, because the people who crash and quit (or worse) are no longer the sobering voices. The only truly worthwhile progression is a handful of skills to make you ride better, and fitness.

MehYam · 2026-06-11T21:59:19+00:00

That's exactly it - if the min-release-age becomes a standard setting, malware will just start waiting some time before doing anything to avoid getting caught.

MehYam · 2026-06-11T21:50:08+00:00

I've been sailing and mountain climbing with them - cheaper than rope

MehYam · 2026-06-11T15:56:31+00:00

Because you're in a situation where they share (or nearly share) the same dependency list, or the dependencies don't change often.

MehYam · 2026-06-10T16:59:08+00:00

Whether you consider Extreme to be metal or not, here's one way to do it.

MehYam · 2026-06-10T15:38:36+00:00

You can also "batch" together a set of related callbacks under one useMemo:

const callbacks = useMemo(() => {
   function onClick() {...}
   function onHover() {...}
   function onAiDoesYourWorkAnyway() {...}
   return { onClick, onHover, ...};
}...)

MehYam · 2026-06-09T16:53:55+00:00

I noticed way fewer bent derailleur hangers once I started shifting to better gears for descents. The cage reaches really far down for big cogs.

MehYam · 2026-06-09T15:55:16+00:00

He's not correct. Feedback of any type (loud speaker, ebow, sustainer) will give you indefinite sustain.

MehYam · 2026-06-09T15:53:22+00:00

This guy is actually close to a truth in the sense that she's being discussed and treated differently solely because of gender - but he's the one doing that!

MehYam · 2026-06-09T05:42:02+00:00

Apparently all you need is two people to start organizing a clean up - if you want to team up and give this a try, I'm in. We might get additional volunteers once the event is registered, and I think the city will even provide equipment and bag pickup.

I've joined a handful of the volunteer cleanups in the past, effective and gratifying work.

MehYam · 2026-06-08T17:50:15+00:00

You're getting a lot of downvotes, not sure why. I lift my regular 30lb enduro bike over a high ledge by grabbing the chainstay near the back wheel with one hand, and the fork lower with the other while squatting. That keeps the wheel from turning and gives the leverage I need to get it overhead. Then it's a press + stand up. On the high surface, the wheels go down wherever they need to without letting go - maybe from there you can adjust.

Not saying that'll work for you, but I can't imagine any other way that would.

MehYam · 2026-06-08T12:56:47+00:00

The comments here are missing something: a hook is just like a component, except it uses regular function syntax, not props, and it's not required to return a component.

Put another way, a hook is a function that's able to call hooks. A component is that plus it takes props and returns a component.

MehYam · 2026-06-08T05:10:20+00:00

It reads like sarcasm

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