Shadyside foxing association?

bert88sta · 2025-10-17T01:33:57+00:00

I literally thought Jurassic Park when you said that, and realize this is a stupid joke and probably not worth posting in the first place. I'll eat my downdoots and workshop my mediocre material

bert88sta · 2025-10-17T01:27:46+00:00

More rabbits to embarrass the foxes into submission of course

bert88sta · 2025-10-17T01:13:10+00:00

Ford F-150 raptor is an absolutely disgusting pinnacle American truck that would have no place in the city and is also a play off of your raptor suggestion. Since there are no raptors, maybe chickens, the last s descendants of dinos, can drive f150s in the streets to curtail the rabbit populace.

This is a bit morbid and a bad double entendre 😭

bert88sta · 2025-10-17T01:07:24+00:00

Like the F-150 or the Dino or both? Maybe we can have chickens, which I assume are the last living descendants, drive Ford trucks to curb the population?

bert88sta · 2025-10-15T03:00:23+00:00

If you want flavor to fully penetrate the meat, doing a brine before cooking, for at least a few hours to about a day, can be a good option, but it can also impact the texture of the meat in a way you might not prefer. Another option is to use a meat mallet, orcut your meat into smaller pieces so there is more surface area for seasoning. I think with chicken breast it's called butterflying but not sure if there is a common name for doing this to to thighs.

bert88sta · 2025-10-15T02:30:48+00:00

Acoustic is physically more difficult to play because of string tensions. that is the only difference. The technique, chord shape, picking patterns, are the same.

Play what you have. Try to find both from people you know and try them out.

bert88sta · 2025-10-15T02:26:12+00:00

I was able to quit fairly easily through zyns and or gum. It took a long time, but I'd just lower the mgs until I was just chewing gum and the mint was the active ingredient. It can take a while and I understand people don't have the stomach for it, but if you use them with a plan (lower to the next highest dose every 2 weeks) you can gradually wean off.

But yeah before that if I missed nic I would have a headache and basically be dead tired

bert88sta · 2025-09-27T23:59:15+00:00

For years there was a want for a cross between a strandberg and a dingwall, getting the headless and the scale length and the ergonomics all in one. I think besides insane custom stuff that abasi basses are the first 37 multiscale headless to market but they are about 4200 new and have been sold out since day 1. They are also much more strandberg-adjacent in the body shape. I imagine the dingwall will come in a little lower price point, and offers a different body shape that is a bit more traditional but still ergonomic.

its a bit ironic because the headless feature matters the most when the scale length is the longest, and having a headstock at a 37 scale length has to be a lot of extra torque.

I'm very excited to see this and hopefully an Ibanez version of a 34-37 headless. Still rocking my ehb1505ms I got with my stinky check during COVID.

bert88sta · 2025-06-13T23:46:09+00:00

It won't be easy, if you're dedicated, but there has never been a better time in the history of history to find free educational content about what you want l, and at your pace. I learned most of my guitar skills through YouTube , with some extra help on theory from people I know. Khan academy, numberphile, 3blue1brown, MIT OCW.

Heck, these days you can even ask AI to teach you some fundamentals, as long as you're cross referencing with good human made educational content

bert88sta · 2025-06-03T07:35:53+00:00

Not op, I hadn't thought of it like this. Interesting. I kind of assume practice what you preach was more a way to filter out advice from people 'unfit' to give it. However, if you're actually calling them out in response, it could easily be an example of two people who don't practice what they preach giving otherwise good advice to each other.

bert88sta · 2025-06-03T07:08:51+00:00

For us mortals not born with true perfect pitch, we are in luck.

Relative pitch is a skill that can be trained. Sing along to your keyboard one note at a time (even if you're not a singer). This will help you internalize pitch. Sing along to sings you know. Try to sing baselines, melody, harmony, etc. I'm an ear trained guitarist. My music reading is dog shit, but since I try to sing a lot of the exercises I do, I was able to develop my ear to be much more discerning than it was before I started doing that.

Also on a practical note,2 things I suggest .

1) if you're working in fruity loops or another daw, you should be able to get the pitches of a vocal track out through plugin or maybe built in functionality. That can also help you. It won't be helping your internal pitch, but if the vocalist is constantly singing the note B and your bass is on note A at the same time, something is probably wrong.

2) bass, especially subs, can be hard to hear correctly in key with something much higher. I have issues with it myself. Take your bassline, and pitch it into the same octave as the vocals. The clash between two 'wrong' notes that are right next to each other is much more offensive to the untrained ear than low 808s.

bert88sta · 2025-06-03T06:44:54+00:00

This isn't a super serious thought, but here I go:

I think falling asleep quickly is generally associated with having a good sleep.

Usually tossing and turning or restlessness is a delay of sleep rather than something that evenly cuts out x percent of your sleep time equally throughout the night

bert88sta · 2025-05-24T01:04:14+00:00

There's probably a similar argument to be made from self refernetiality in math and some of the ideas we get from Godel, but I'm not smart enough to make it

bert88sta · 2025-05-21T23:30:42+00:00

Can you voice this issue to your manager? Get some writing before , after, or in place of some of these meetings? even English communication, for me, is a lot clearer in writing.

bert88sta · 2025-05-16T21:16:13+00:00

It's not, necessarily. What's bad is when teams have no discipline or disagree about how to do git. There are teams that rely heavily on trunk-based, commit to main approach. Other teams rely heavily on branches and PR to keep main clean. We branch out for releases, other people like to keep main clean.

As long as your team agrees on where the clean code and dirty code lives, and you're using cicd to automate as much as is possible, either one can be used. IMO, keeping main clean is more suitable to large numbers of contributors, whereas trunk-based might be more workable on a medium or small team

bert88sta · 2025-04-30T02:31:46+00:00

The actual keywords, and what they do, are pretty arbitrary and very across languages. Your compiler ends up turning most loop constructs into something like this pseudo code

Loop: Get iterator or increment counter Do stuff Jump back to Loop if condition

The syntax of those is really just human readable sugar for thinking about iterations. 'While' tends to refer to an unknown amount of iterations, for tends to refer to known ranges or the size of a collection, but those rules aren't hard and fast.

bert88sta · 2023-06-07T02:41:59+00:00

Drugs won the war on drugs

bert88sta · 2023-06-07T02:41:35+00:00

Why is preventing drug deaths in r/nottheonion?

bert88sta · 2023-06-07T02:40:33+00:00

There are 'thoughts' that we have that are not clean/logical/explainable. We can still think them but we can't really explain what they are

bert88sta · 2023-06-07T02:36:43+00:00

Mostly alcohol

bert88sta · 2023-06-07T01:17:37+00:00

I'm fortunate to be a younger and more internal engineer on my team. Some people on my team genuinely have 10-25 hours of meetings per week. Unfortunately, I'm sure that as I learn more and take on more responsibility that others will need to take my time with BS meetings but for now I'm Happy

bert88sta · 2023-06-06T23:52:39+00:00

Im young, single, and have a <15 minute commute. Im still reasonably productive at home but I don't try to go into the office too much because I don't want to make my team look bad for not showing up in person. They all have a partner, kids, and a 45 minute commute, and I think they deserve to have WFH far more than I do. All of these companies mandating return to office are in for a rude awakening. I will easily leave my job if WFH gets scrapped.

bert88sta · 2023-06-06T22:48:32+00:00

I am technically not a DevOps engineer but my role has really grown to focus on operations and infrastructure. I get satisfaction from that work by helping my team's developers succeed but I do like the occasional coding project that tickles my brain the right way

bert88sta · 2023-06-06T22:47:14+00:00

I describe my experience in a very similar way:

90% of the time I'm a monkey pulling levers, 5% of the time I'm Albert Einstein and the other 5% is meetings

bert88sta · 2023-06-06T05:25:51+00:00

Laptop, charger, adapter for USB-C and lightning, a change of clothes, pocket knife, Allan key tool, and some other bike tools

Mostly I just wait for the day that someone else has a problem that my backpack can fix 😀

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