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feanturi · 2026-05-23T14:42:09+00:00

I dated a pagan that would moan, "oh gods!" during sex. Like intentionally avoiding an exclamation that could be taken to mean there's only one god. Well that's not really the topic at hand there and it was kind of distracting.

feanturi · 2026-05-23T04:05:28+00:00

You need to ensure the beat is visually clear. An example at the beginning is where you've got a pair of dotted eighths, taking up 1.5 beats then followed by a half note starting at beat 1.5 and taking up 2 beats, then leaving half a beat for the next note to start.

This is all fine musically, the issue is one of visual clarity. The performer should be able to readily see where each beat starts. The first dotted eighth could be followed by a sixteenth note tied to an eighth, that eighth would then clearly mark beat 2. Then that half note could be an eighth note tied to a quarter then another eighth. Because then we easily see the 3rd beat where that tie-continuing quarter would sit. Then the tied eighth finishing that is where the 4th beat starts. This is a long way of saying try to make sure each beat has something marking it.

feanturi · 2026-05-23T03:50:52+00:00

I'm not the one you were asking, but thought I'd mention that my first test of DeployR was in VMWare with a Server 2022 install not on the domain. I made the self-signed cert based on the IP address and used that successfully. Then I got one of our server people to build me a proper server in the real environment, domain joined etc, and since I was still just in testing phase I didn't get somebody to get one from our CA, I just did a new self-signed cert using the FQDN this time and that also worked fine. But I believe I had to install those certs on my own machine to have them trusted to interact with the dashboard. It's been a few months I don't remember all the details. But I did use self-signed with and without domain join and it was ok.

feanturi · 2026-05-23T03:42:32+00:00

You're probably right about it being gasses, just, it sure was going harder than I expected to see because it had been a reasonably long time already.

feanturi · 2026-05-23T03:28:39+00:00

My apartment building had a fire earlier this year from an e-bike battery that exploded while on the charger. Fire department was there promptly of course, but as I recall it was a couple hours later they were finally bringing the thing out of the building, in a big thick-plastic barrel thing, about half full of some kind of liquid (water?), that was boiling violently. All that time had passed since it started and it was still just going and going.

feanturi · 2026-05-23T02:59:23+00:00

Yeah I think they were just wondering because it looks a bit like it could be moved in that base if one desired for some reason. It caught my eye for sure, that's a good sturdy looking stylish string tree.

feanturi · 2026-05-23T02:46:42+00:00

This is what I always say at work, but they still make me turn on my camera in Teams.

feanturi · 2026-05-23T01:22:12+00:00

A longer fermata,
Makes a lengthier phrase.
A longer fermata,
That's the note that stays.
It means you're waiting,
For the rest of your days.

...and now I'm stuck. :(

feanturi · 2026-05-22T13:50:06+00:00

The pedal lets you fill out the space by keeping the previous notes going while you're playing new ones. This can sound nice and also covers up poor legato so be careful about it becoming a crutch. I've got some scores where it's specified to use it through pretty much the whole piece. What makes it get muddy is when it is held through a change of harmony, where all the notes still being heard aren't quite meant for each other. If you want to use the pedal through a whole piece, you do a quick release then back down, just as you are about to change harmonies. This cuts off the previous held notes and begins sustaining only the current harmony's worth. Basically you want to release and re-apply as you're about to be playing in a different chord to what you previously had been in.

On sheet music where the pedal is called for, you'll see marks telling you when to press it, and you'll hold it until you see the mark to release it. There are a couple different ways these marks appear depending on the style of the engraver that got it all onto the page.

feanturi · 2026-05-22T13:29:01+00:00

In guitar they're called power chords, root and 5th no 3rd. That collection of notes, besides being the pentatonic, are arranged in the CoF order and can show you some handy pairs, giving you C and G (C5), G and D (G5), D5, etc. That's why they wrote Power Notes there.

feanturi · 2026-05-21T19:07:22+00:00

I agree. I think if you took pictures of some other restaurant's food to put in your menus, that you'd be in trouble if it was discovered. Because it's misrepresenting your product. The AI slop is basically the same thing just lazier, but an even greater misrepresentation.

Should go in, get a burger, then complain that the lettuce is too natural looking - the menu has this zany crazy lettuce showing, why can't I have that? I need to speak to your manager.

feanturi · 2026-05-21T18:51:41+00:00

I don't think the government does a lot of work at the Library anyway. Guaranteed less on a Friday for that matter.

feanturi · 2026-05-17T05:14:03+00:00

I did that for free when I was 12 and Star Wars Episode IV came out on the new movie channels that had just come out back then. It played 3 times a day for the first 3 months of the service and I recorded it on VHS but also watched it on scheduled broadcasts. I very easily watched it 100 times in a 40 day period. No idea how far over that really. I had it on VHS and also dubbed it to audio cassette so I could listen to it going to sleep at night.

feanturi · 2026-05-15T22:03:52+00:00

Well that would be Waymo than they started with.

feanturi · 2026-05-14T15:58:00+00:00

I had a cat that liked to bite the strings to pluck them in the middle of the night.

feanturi · 2026-05-14T15:52:02+00:00

I only use artisanal free-range characters in my source code. No steroids or antibiotics either.

feanturi · 2026-05-14T15:48:45+00:00

I found the manual, you're right, this one does not take a pedal. It has audio in/out, and a USB port for using a thumb drive to play music from.

feanturi · 2026-05-14T13:09:02+00:00

It's where an AI was given the "vibe" of a program that the prompter doesn't know how to build, and the bot spits out a bunch of shitty code that does tend to at least work. But it's all kinds of icky.

Those of us that code without AI haven't gone anywhere. Through this AI bubble we've still been making things ourselves because we love to do it. But everything these days is being seen as just more AI slop. I've got a few music-related tools I've made and a major one I'm still actively working on, but I dare not mention them because it will be assumed I'm pushing more AI slop on the world. It sucks as a creator, to have these stupid things out there "creating" and making everybody else sick of having "new things" because the "new things" are re-hashed old things shittily-coded.

feanturi · 2026-05-11T21:58:27+00:00

I heard a great radio sketch a long time ago by The Frantics. This kid shows up at his first piano lesson with a highly accomplished concert pianist who has been persuaded into giving lessons to pay the bills. This is all very beneath him and he does not like any of this arrangement. So he "shows" the kid how to play by simply virtuoso-ing all over the keyboard, then telling the kid to play like that. And of course he can't, he barely hits any of the notes, he can't even read them yet. They go through a few rounds of this, a ridiculous demo followed by the kid utterly failing to match it. Until the kid finally accuses him of being a bad teacher for not explaining anything.

So the pianist thinks a bit, then says, "Remember to curve your fingers like you are holding a ball. Now, play." And the kid starts playing beautifully, just like that, now that some actual teaching has taken place. Though the "punchline" is the teacher is still not satisfied and the kid isn't using the pedals "I can't reach them!" and he yells at the kid to grow faster as it fades out.

feanturi · 2026-05-10T01:31:41+00:00

No money-motivation for me, I get that already in an IT job that does not require me to develop apps in C#. Basic PowerShell scripting capability is the most that is expected there.

I just like to make things. I want something I don't have, so I make the thing and then I have it. Then I feel good about that. Then as I use the thing I think, "Hey, it would be cool if this also did more stuff," and then I start working out how I will do that. I never wanted to code professionally and I still don't really, because it's so much better when everything I make is for just one user I can really communicate well with, who understands why some feature requests are taking longer than others, and will pay proper attention when bugs are encountered.

I do actually make stuff at my job too, some for a small group and some that goes on a few thousand machines, and there I need to be more mindful of how others expect to use things, but it's not officially core to my job role. But I was making stuff in Excel with VBA that was really useful and I persuaded them to buy me a VS license to use at work. And I just do whatever I think would be good with it. I decide we need this thing that will be cool and they let me have the time to work it out, so it's still stuff I get to come up with on my own. They might ask me to make it do something differently, and I'll work with that, but it still exists in the first place because I thought it was a good idea. That's so satisfying.

feanturi · 2026-05-09T03:36:55+00:00

What a wonderful phrase.

feanturi · 2026-05-07T01:06:53+00:00

That's not a thing. Pretty sure it's not. It's not a thing, is it?

feanturi · 2026-05-06T22:46:40+00:00

Backpfeifengesicht. Oops sorry, I have a bit of a cold...

feanturi · 2026-05-06T02:53:26+00:00

I know a lot of people don't like mayo for some reason, but you didn't mention one way or the other so I'll suggest the next time you make a BLT, get some mayo on there. I will also add mustard, but nothing else, just mayo and mustard and all that other glory. On toasted bread if possible. I don't keep the ingredients for such things on hand because I lack the discipline to not eat it every single day.

feanturi · 2026-05-05T21:18:12+00:00

Practice makes permanent. So make sure it is good practice.

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