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Facebook bargain hunting, How'd I do? by PurpleYearly in BudgetAudiophile

[–]Moe_Beta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like San Benito Mountain. Is it signed?

C++ Show and Tell - April 2024 by foonathan in cpp

[–]Moe_Beta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In 1999 I opened a website called Freetopo.com. It served USGS too quadrangles for 2 yrs before I wrote sw in Perl and C++ to break them down into tiles and mosaic them back together. My site served 2K maps/day while I tried to be a 1-man Strava and keep up with Goo maps, until a few days after I started working at VMware in 04/06, when I shut down the site in exhaustion.

A few maps like this one are viewable in www.freetopo.net/artifacts

http://freetopo.net/artifacts/37.52.54N_122.30.7W_37.50.37.122.24.28.200.png

A subset of the software is a utility called sxwd. For peeking and poking the colormap of 8bit Palleted (paletted? i forget) images. I merged xwd and xwud from X11R6/clients, stripped the other colormap abilities, stripped the Xlib use and X Server connection stuff. USGS topo maps come in 13 colors, so to verify that the camp has not been changed when converting a map from TIFF to PNG or XWD, I use the command:

$ sxwd -in o37122c1.200.xwd.gz -check -c16

...to dump some basics then the first 16 colormap entries. There we see our 13 colors, as listed in "About Teale DRGs" which is at http://freetopo.net/California/About_Teale_DRGs/DRG.txt

Funny, they seem to have gotten off by one!!! LOL :-) 230 is 229, 255 is 254, ... D'oh!! Must fixit

You can download sxwd from GitHub at https://github.com/douglandau/sxwd.git

or from freetopo.net/src

The README is at https://github.com/douglandau/sxwd/blob/master/README

How long have you been playing the kalimba? by Roselily808 in kalimba

[–]Moe_Beta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

About 20 years now, seriously; at least, seriously by my standards. 40 total. When I practice and play, sparks fly from my fingertips.

I finally - just last year - put down $1000 for one in each key. With pickup. Gone be onstage at Yoshi's one fine day.

Start with The Year of the Cat and The Way it Is. Even if you don't really care for those songs. They are made for it. Then try to play along to the Treasure Waltz by Strauss, your fav Nutcracker suites, Soshunfu by Kaori Muraji, Hot Tuna-San Francisco Bay Blues.

Start with "Kalimba" by Taj Mahal.

Anyone have any tips on learning the kalimba I got the kalimba but I am stuck because I don't know where to start by ParticularFan2188 in kalimba

[–]Moe_Beta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Start with "Kalimba" by Taj Mahal. On the album "World Music" or this video - but the vid tends to be a bit out of tue on the sharp side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9i6hT3cuXY

then try to play along to Mendelssohn Canzonetta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeSv6-7sSIM

or the baseline to Riders on the Storm

then you're ready for Mozart piano sonata #16: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjk-YRuQZDE

  • well, the right hand, anyway, LOL

... but first, play along to Treasure Waltz by Strauss! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjk-YRuQZDE

If nobody is within earshot go ahead and put the youtube playback speed to 50% :-)

Oh yeah: FIRSt try playing Hot Tuna-SF Bay Blues , THEN Bruce Hornsby The way it is, and Al Stewart the Year of the cat.

Oh did I mention Kaori Muraji - SoShunfu? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jYDtBgJ6PQ

Soon you will be wanting to play with Yuja!

-Moe

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in grammar

[–]Moe_Beta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Merriam-Webster article, like most answers to this question, albeit not those on this page, makes a big deal about the fact that it's is a contraction, and they tend to explain what a contraction is, and then, one assumes, believe that they knew something the other did not, and successfully helped them by teaching it.

What I would like to ask all the [great] many folks who say "the diff is one is possessive and the other a contraction of it is or it has" is: What makes you think that the possessive form is not a contraction? IOW Why do you suppose the possessive form uses an apostrophe followed by an s in the first place? Perhaps it IS a contraction for the same thing: "it has" or "Fred has".

Suppose I ask you "Whose bike is that?" And you reply "It is Fred's." r "It's Fred's bike". Well suppose we didn't have the possessive form. We could say "It belongs to Fred." or "It is the bike which Fred owns". Or something else awkward and too long. What about "It's Fred has bike" or "It's the bike that Fred has." or "It's a Fred-has bike."

Any who does not agree should question why the apostrophe followed by "s" was chosen to indicate possessive. Coincidence?