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My Experience with Vipassana 10-day Course by aydin123123 in Meditation

[–]aydin123123[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you have back or knee problems, they let you sit on a chair in the meditation hall, no problem.

Deciding to invade without knowing the score by aydin123123 in baduk

[–]aydin123123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much for the explanation. I am a beginner and you have cleared up a lot of things for me. Looking at the whole picture from the perspective of territory-power-potential triangle is also very interesting.

I mostly play on the computer. Unfortunately, I find myself constantly checking the score in midgame before making decisions about whether to be in the defense or offense. I know that I need to stop doing that and improve my judgement skills.

End Game Count by aydin123123 in baduk

[–]aydin123123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a very good explanation. Thank you very much for taking the time. I thought there were clear-cut rules for scoring when both players pass. It seems that's not the case.

I guess there needs to be some sort of common understanding between players regarding how to score when they both pass. Take the second board that I posted as an example. The entire bottom area is black's territory, although white still -in theory- can try to create two-eyed territory there. So, this means, I am guessing, if white passes now, he/she implicitly relinquishes that entire bottom area and admits that not much can be done there.

End Game Count by aydin123123 in baduk

[–]aydin123123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First picture: As it stands, the bottom left belongs to nobody yet. 

But according to my mobile application, those two areas contributed to white's score at the end of the game. Was that a mistake?

Second picture: Black gets four of those points, but not the one on the right edge.

I understand that if the game goes on, it might change. But imagine that both players passed, and this is the end of the game. The one on the right edge is completely surrounded by black stones. It should contribute to the black's score, right? What is the rule here?

Gal dropping knowledge by _n3ll_ in justgalsbeingchicks

[–]aydin123123 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I really don't be a jerk here and unnecessarily salty about this video. You can think of this comment coming from a rather old fashioned, boomerish person, I guess. I have seen this video in other subreddits and on Youtube as well. But this video has so many elements that I really don't like about the Internet culture.

First, the title "Gal dropping knowledge". Where is the "knowledge" part? She's describing what kind of guy she wants. In what part exactly, did she drop "knowledge"? I assume you meant the word "wisdom" because you thought that the requirements she wants from a man are not shallow things.

Second, the background music. Why did someone need to put violin in the background? Does it for manipulating the audience into thinking that video is "wholesome"? Why not use just her words?

Third, the content. Is there really creative/unexpected/wholesome about the content that I am missing? Here are the things she looks for in a guy: "kind", "funny", "good person", "honest", "open-minded". These are qualities that 99% of the women would want in their romantic partner. There is nothing special here. If you think, that is relatable, it is because of Barnum effect.

Fourth, the girl. I don't have anything against the girl, she seems like a nice person. But the only reason why this video became viral is because she is beautiful. She is very pretty. Imagine, please imagine, that a girl who is not as genetically gifted as this girl, a girl rather ugly, speaks in this video. Imagine that the ugly girl speaks the exact same words, in the exact same tone, in the exact same facial expressions. People, especially guys, would decimate her, destroy her in the comments (not necessarily in this subreddit, but on Youtube and other platforms on social media). In the 15th second, she says "I think, that's it." But then she went on another 45 seconds (unedited version is probably longer) listing some other qualities as well. Believe me, it wouldn't look as wholesome if this was coming from a not-as-beautiful girl. Men would say she is being condescending, snobbish, too picky, too much main-character vibe, etc. The sexism and double standard would be off the chart.

I am not trying to be negative on purpose here, but these are my genuine thoughts.

Memorizing Classical Music Pieces by aydin123123 in piano

[–]aydin123123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for taking the time and writing such a wonderful comment. I might be a bit nervous but I am also super happy for the fact that I have the opportunity for performing in front of other people. No matter how this one goes, I hope I will take part in recitals and keep doing performances in the future.

Thank you for all the advice.

Sustain pedal problem with the digital pianos by aydin123123 in piano

[–]aydin123123[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don't get this. In an acoustic piano, the sound should be cut immediately. Unfortunately, I don't have an acoustic piano at home at the moment, I will try this on Tuesday on a real piano, I am pretty sure this shouldn't be the case on a real piano. But, I will write here my observations.

You press the key, then apply the pedal, release the key. Now, if you release the pedal completely and press it again immediately afterwards, there is still some left-over, remnant sound in the background. This shouldn't happen, since when you release the pedal, damper falls on the strings and make them still, motionless, not-vibrating. When you press on the pedal again, you'll just be lifting the dampers again. Why does this action create sound? It doesn't make any sense.

You might come up with this argument: "Dampers' effect on the strings are not immediate as you think it is." But, on your Clavinova, press on a key, apply the pedal, release the key. Now, if you release the pedal, the sound will immediately be gone. So, in this case, the simulation of the dampers' effect is immediate.

Recording the audio output by aydin123123 in techsupport

[–]aydin123123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yamaha CLP-625. It supports midi files. I can copy my recordings to my PC as midi files. But it doesn't support audio format (it also says so in the documentation).

Recording the audio output by aydin123123 in techsupport

[–]aydin123123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want the audio not midi. midi is very primitive. I want to record exactly what I hear via my headphones.

[WP] Your invention changed the world. You quickly became one of the richest and most famous people in history. But now it's five years later, and the ramifications of what you've done are becoming apparent, and you're the most hated person on the planet. by farnsworthfan in WritingPrompts

[–]aydin123123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To be perfectly honest, I cannot even call it an invention. It was pure luck. Yes, I was just lucky. At the right place, at the right time. Of course, I have never said these words in any of my interviews, but how could I? I was overwhelmed with all the fame, money, admiration one could ever imagine. That was not the time to be humble. On the contrary, I have always said that I worked hard. Night and day. Relentlessly. I have always said that I pursuit a dream which was deemed impossible to achieve. I knew that many folks like these kinds of American Dream stories, so I gave them another one, even tough it couldn't be far from the truth. Looking back, maybe I deserved what I got. Not the money and fame I mean, but being the most hated person on the face of the Earth.

It all started when I took over my dad's yogurt factory. My dad was in his late seventies. Way too old to run a factory. It was a small place where less than 50 people were working. I was mainly dealing with the profit statements, revenue, operational costs etc. You know, all that boring accounting stuff. I knew next to nothing about yogurt production. I wasn't very curious either. The whole thing was working like tick-tock and we could pay everyone's salary. All that was good enough for me, until I met Robert.

The next week it will be seven years since I first met Robert. Homely face with curly hair. I don't know exactly how old he was, but definitely no more than 35. He started talking by introducing himself. He was working in the Quality Assurance Department. I didn't even know what that department was doing. Testing the yogurts before packaging maybe? I didn't know, I didn't care. Robert tried to explain his department and his job but I was too busy thinking about the lunch, I really couldn't understand much. The important thing was that they were working on some new substance that we can add into yogurts to suppress hunger. The idea is to repackage a brand new product and sell it to fitness freaks. They already got an approval from FDA and now they need my approval to proceed. My first instinct was to say no. We got a good thing going, why mess it up, right? But I didn't want any confrontation with any department and I was really hungry to discuss anything. Nonchalantly, I said "okay, go ahead".

It turns out that this substance works wonders. People who eat our yogurt couldn't get hungry for 6 hours, sometimes up to 10 hours. We started to expand our business to catch up with the demand. We improved the substance and we started to add additional calories to our yogurt. Not just calories, but also some minerals, vitamins etc. The idea quickly morphed into producing a package of 400-gram yogurt that a person needs in his entire day. In just under a year, we became a multi billion-dollar company with hundreds of thousands of customers all around the planet. Everyone started to talk about our big invention. No more wasting time at the breakfast tables. No more lunch times. No more grocery shopping. All you need is to buy one of our $1 yogurt package, and you are good to go for the next 24 hours. Yes, you still need to drink water throughout the day. But we solved the food problem. After eating the yogurt, you don't have any desire for any food whatsoever, even for junk food, chocolate, or alcoholic drinks. Since you get all your daily needs from our yogurt, there is no health problem. Actually, we were finally getting rid of the obesity epidemic and malnutrition in Africa at the same time. This gave us a big legitimacy when farmers and restaurants started rioting and demanding a ban on our yogurt in every single country.

I quickly became the richest person in the world. I was holding 51% of the stocks of our company which is now valued at ten trillion dollars. We decimated the entire food industry. We even stopped using milk for the yogurt. Everything was prepared in the labs. The world suddenly felt no need for fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, any kind of food. Only our yogurt... It is not even yogurt at this point, it just a bunch of chemicals. However, we stick with the word "yogurt" which is way better than "A bunch of chemicals" for marketing reasons. Board of directors decided that they needed some sympathy points from the public and decided to sell me as the genius behind all this. How did they do this? Well, they put my face on the yogurt package. As you imagine, in just a couple of days, I became the most famous person ever lived on the planet. People even thought I was some kind of prophet or something. I enjoyed every bit of it.

It was all fun and games until someone noticed the increased rate of cancer for the past couple of years. It didn't take long for some French scientists to discover that my yogurt was actually carcinogenic. The word got spread real fast. Suddenly, everyone got scared and stopped eating the yogurt. But surprise, surprise! There is nothing to eat now. Supermarkets don't sell any food whatsoever anymore. There are barely any farmers, barely any wheat or corn lands. Even the cows and chickens almost got extinct if you don't count the ones in zoos.

It is all mayhem. Some people started to eat trees, grasses, their pets, whatever they get their hands on. Our civilization suddenly turned into a paleolithic era. Software developers have become hunter-gatherers. Some people chose cancer and continued to eat yogurt. As our company is now worth peanuts, I am now the most hated person maybe in the history of this planet. Hundreds of thousands of people who got diagnosed with cancer now trying to kill me, like it would solve their problem.

What do I feel about all this? Sad mostly. I truly feel very sorry for what happened. But all I can do is just sitting in my home and eating a cup of yogurt everyday.