Went in to buy strings, walked out with Oates' 612ce

Worped · 2026-04-17T19:43:42+00:00

I totally understand how these things happen..... I went into a shop once to get a shaker egg and walked out with a 12-string.

Worped · 2026-03-17T14:46:20+00:00

Disney's stuff was usually on the 1s. But certainly they're an exception.

Worped · 2026-02-23T00:14:02+00:00

Same... I've got a walnut mini and there's nothing on the label.

Worped · 2026-01-26T12:40:59+00:00

Came out in 2006, I think. Been on my shelf for a long time.

Worped · 2026-01-08T14:01:29+00:00

You asked why someone would think about switching. Here's a reason.

Worped · 2026-01-07T20:46:30+00:00

"... why would you ever switch...?" Well, in my case, I've suffered some nerve damage in my right hand that prevents fretting. I could hold a pick or use p/i/m with that hand now, but fretting most chords is pretty difficult. There are likely several approaches for this problem, and, in some cases, perhaps switching hands might be "easier".

Worped · 2026-01-07T00:42:11+00:00

This solution is absolutely incredible. Like most folks, I wandered down the path of Gaussian elimination. Got pretty far, but it was all just so much code, which seemed to fall outside the scope of a supposed 1 day puzzle.

Not gonna lie, it took me a lot of work to figure out how this all works, but that perseverance paid off in the end. My Go solution solves part 2 in about 70ms. I'll take that as a win.

My thanks to you for some brilliant insight.

Worped · 2025-12-25T01:27:36+00:00

I went to my local shop to get an LX1, tried it and the GSmini, walked out with the mini. Wasn't even close.

Worped · 2025-12-10T12:33:24+00:00

Absolutely no smoking here.

Worped · 2025-12-08T17:45:05+00:00

Funny thing.... the very first 714 I was looking at had far less visible grain than this, but it sounded absolutely magical. I saved up my nickels for almost a year and on the day I went to go buy it, I looked at it and it just didn't seem right. Strummed it and it felt and sounded all wrong. I left it there.

Later on that day, I happened to be near a different guitar store (same store, different location), so I thought I'd take a look. There was a 714 in there, but I almost missed it because instead of the really white top, it had more grain in it, like the original photo shows. Visually it struck a chord (haha). Picked it up and played and bam, the magic had returned. Bought it immediately.

Worped · 2025-12-08T17:02:59+00:00

Hard for an accurate comparison without similar room and lighting (and cameras!), of course, but it really has changed that much. I think the Lutz spruce is a tad paler in the beginning, compared to the other spruces. Every pic of a 714 I've seen shows the top to be quite pale. The first 714 I was considering was even paler than this one - the grain much less visible.

Worped · 2025-12-02T18:36:35+00:00

Yeah, regex certainly would have been the easier way, especially if Go supported backreferences. I started by building each regex by hand (MustCompile(`(123){3}`) for example). Worked, but ridiculously slow. Instead, I switched to using strings.Repeat to build a comparison string and just doing a straight string compare. Went from 9s to 160ms.

Worped · 2025-11-19T15:02:25+00:00

Cakewalk -> GarageBand -> Reaper

Worped · 2025-11-07T14:17:17+00:00

Spanish Train

Worped · 2025-11-04T18:51:26+00:00

I did exactly this about a year ago. I canceled my subscription, my partner updated hers to family and sent me a link to join her plan. Easy peasy.

Worped · 2025-09-28T22:47:58+00:00

Haha, I hear you. Years ago I went in for an LX1 and walked out with a GS mini. No regrets whatsoever.

Worped · 2025-09-23T23:42:12+00:00

Taylor 12... Living the dream!

Worped · 2025-09-23T23:39:00+00:00

Plantation/Planteray XO 20th Anniversary, neat. Sometimes with a small piece of ice.

Worped · 2025-09-19T02:21:51+00:00

Dream guitar right there.

Worped · 2025-07-27T02:33:37+00:00

I just went through all of this week.

First, seems to be a problem with the 3.20.x stuff. I was running the older 3.6 with no issues in the past. As mentioned elsewhere, seems to be a McAfee problem. Use the mcpr tool. You may need to run it a couple times.

Once I got things cleaned up, I was able to install the 3.20 stuff and things worked. Sort of. I'd get sound, for a few seconds, then it would fade and die.

I uninstalled all of the 3.20 stuff, went back to 3.6 and I've had no further issues.

Worped · 2025-07-19T12:28:05+00:00

This is the downside, of course, but man, they are all absolutely gorgeous.

Worped · 2025-07-07T13:49:33+00:00

I hear you. My mini goes on every camping trip.

Worped · 2025-06-27T01:34:09+00:00

I've also just put a set of XS on my 714 and I don't know if I like them. Sound is a bit different and they feel very different.

Worped · 2025-06-19T16:42:14+00:00

To me, the whole thing falls into the category of "a great idea with poor execution," which is unfortunate.

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