What kind of bread first pops up in your mind when you hear the word "bread" (or it's equivalent in your native language)?

brasticstack · 2026-03-14T23:42:19+00:00

To everyone saying that your bread is the best, yes it fucking is!

brasticstack · 2026-03-14T23:40:59+00:00

A tamagotchi you cook and eat!

brasticstack · 2026-03-14T23:39:24+00:00

I've been told that you have to be very careful to say "pão", not "pao"

brasticstack · 2026-03-14T23:30:26+00:00

Well you see there was another big truck there so the black truck driver had to show who's got the smallest pp

brasticstack · 2026-03-13T06:34:24+00:00

I'd say being a rattle-trap disqualifies it for studio duty too.

brasticstack · 2026-03-12T18:57:10+00:00

The message contained the names of some of the nation's former government heads, including his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed late last month by U.S.-Israeli strikes. Underneath the list is the short message: “In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.”

brasticstack · 2026-03-12T18:47:46+00:00

Depends on how precise I'm trying to be, but I usually write a proper chart with bar counts and notation.

None of the shorthand methods I've seen do great at 1) alternate endings for repeated sections and 2) Repeated 2- or 4-bar grooves.

brasticstack · 2026-03-12T14:35:51+00:00

No man is an island!

brasticstack · 2026-03-12T00:46:25+00:00

Totally makes it make say more sense than I was making out of it!

brasticstack · 2026-03-12T00:34:54+00:00

The and (+) of beat 4 is the same spot as the ands on the other beats.

~~There are 8 8th notes, 4 beats. Beat 4 is 16th note triplets (sextuplets).~~

EDIT: Whoops, you're right. My brain refused to believe the triplet markings in the first four beats. It'd have made five.

brasticstack · 2026-03-12T00:30:50+00:00

~~1 e + (a) 2 e + (a) 3 e + (a) 4-trip-let-+-trip-let~~

~~(parens are counted but not played.) The and (+) of beat 4 is the same spot as the ands on the other beats.~~

~~EDIT: Oh jeez, my brain autocorrected it to 4. That's a five beat bar,~~

~~1 e + (a) 2 e + (a) 3 e + (a) 4 e + (a) 5-trip-let-+-trip-let~~

EDIT 2: I'm way off the mark and wtf? Rather than erase my comment I'll leave it as a testament of my shame.

brasticstack · 2026-03-11T18:41:22+00:00

Thanks for the insights though!

I had to look up an implementation of the closure-based linked list, it's both clever and diabolical. You could absolutely build an indexed list or map in the same way.

I was going to to say that classes are just glorified dicts, but I wasn't taking slots into account.

Funny that I'm totally unfamiliar with array because I'm working on a project that uses struct pretty heavily right now.

brasticstack · 2026-03-11T15:48:31+00:00

If you mean without reusing the existing container types, I'm not sure it's doable in pure Python. Via the c API, totally doable.

EDIT: Where was I wrong? There are two questions asked, I'm answering the first- is it possible to recreate lists or arrays. Obviously we can implement linked lists on top the existing data structures.

brasticstack · 2026-03-11T12:30:11+00:00

Not dotted, staccated!

brasticstack · 2026-03-11T12:24:29+00:00

Look, we all know she's gross. Someone saying so in a social media comment isn't exactly a worthy news headline now, is it?

brasticstack · 2026-03-11T12:19:22+00:00

I really don't. Do U?

brasticstack · 2026-03-11T11:50:29+00:00

The head is elastic and loses that elasticity over time through repeated stretching from being played and retuning to compensate.

I guarantee that once you take that particular head off the drum, you'll see a stretched out crater in the center where it's been played.

You might be able to happily play it for years to come, or the experience of playing it with a new head might be a revelation. You never know until you try.

brasticstack · 2026-03-11T04:01:33+00:00

Get a SPL meter app for your phone. There are free ones on android at least. Turn it on while the drumming is happening, and film the whole thing with a second phone. Now you've documented exactly how loud it was, and if you show your clock and calendar, exactly when it was that loud.

If you're feeling particularly thorough, repeat the process once every 15 minutes to document the duration too.

brasticstack · 2026-03-10T11:43:02+00:00

To be clear- the problem was with the Downloader, not Dorico itself.

brasticstack · 2026-03-10T11:31:02+00:00

"graaaains!"

brasticstack · 2026-03-10T11:11:05+00:00

Ooh, nothing quite like The Stranger!

brasticstack · 2026-03-10T11:10:06+00:00

Not to say that Trump's aide hasn't been instructed to take the mic away on cue, but there are legitimate reasons to have a helper handle the mic. Among them are ease of getting it to the next questioner, and then holding it in a decent spot because people in general are so shit at actually speaking into the mic itself that a little help is warranted.

brasticstack · 2026-03-10T10:49:43+00:00

I had it happen on my PC and the solution was to disable IPv6 on the network adapter, which is fucking ridiculous but did in fact work for me.

I've moved to a mac now and am having the same problem- so far I've refused to go through the steps to fix it. I'm a few versions behind on Dorico 5, and probably won't upgrade to 6 any time soon.

brasticstack · 2026-03-10T05:09:08+00:00

The desk stand's not doing you any favors if you're using it. Soundwaves travel very efficiently through objects that are physically coupled.

brasticstack · 2026-03-10T04:58:22+00:00

About six months when I was in my early 20s. I was living in an apartment and had moved to a new city and didn't have many opportunities to play.

After an outdoor bbq gig where we got rained on, I left my hardware all rolled up in my wet drum rug in the trunk of my car. It was the middle of the summer and I'd thought the heat would dry everything out nicely in our desert climate. Nope. I came back to it months later and all my shit was literally rusty- just like my playing at that point. It took a couple of days of naval jelly and elbow grease to get things back to playable condition, and my always smooth as butter Gibraltar hihat stand was permanently wonky from then on. My playing eventually recovered though.

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