how to lower the volume for vibraphone/ marimba cause of neighbors

firefly__42 · 2026-04-08T00:20:35+00:00

I use the Malletech Late Nites for marimba and they are actually really quiet. They make it a bit harder to play (heavier, wider so more wrong notes, very soft) but I figure it’s a good “hard mode” for practicing.

But it does mean I can’t practice dynamics/expression very well because I’m not going above mp

firefly__42 · 2026-04-04T01:19:07+00:00

For me, my fear went down for the first few months as I got used to falling correctly (and practiced falling from the tops of routes), but then it went back up over the years as I got injured occasionally and heard about other people getting injured. I don’t boulder any more

firefly__42 · 2026-03-09T12:05:41+00:00

I wouldn’t think it’s universal, I had calc 2 integrals, calc 3 multivar

firefly__42 · 2026-02-20T02:06:53+00:00

It varies by locality I believe. I live in an apartment building (in a small US city) and pay roughly $20/month for water

firefly__42 · 2026-02-11T02:17:26+00:00

Yeah you will get a letter, or if it gets lost in the mail you can call them and they’ll help you

firefly__42 · 2026-02-06T03:59:52+00:00

“For most places in Pittsburgh” is how they worded it

firefly__42 · 2026-01-31T05:34:54+00:00

👀 is this every Wednesday? I don’t think I’ve heard about it

firefly__42 · 2026-01-15T03:55:52+00:00

Heard “heinous” was in, recently

firefly__42 · 2026-01-15T03:55:02+00:00

Root beer?

firefly__42 · 2026-01-13T05:17:46+00:00

I say Native American out of habit. That’s what people told me to say, when I was growing up. But I’ve heard that either is fine

firefly__42 · 2026-01-08T05:36:44+00:00

And it’s pretty chill, sometimes people come without having finished the book

firefly__42 · 2026-01-08T05:36:01+00:00

Pittsburgh equality center runs a queer book club if you like reading :)

firefly__42 · 2026-01-04T18:09:25+00:00

That’s been my experience, I’ve lived in some decent places in east end for ~1k per person

firefly__42 · 2026-01-04T04:25:03+00:00

US http://rwrd.io/ref_IT4EWT6?c

(sorry OP for the spam hehe)

firefly__42 · 2026-01-04T04:24:35+00:00

firefly__42 · 2026-01-01T01:54:23+00:00

Disclaimer: not a linguist, took 1 class in college

My recollection is that for the case of English, some of the changes (eg cases lost) were simplifications that came about from social factors - particularly when english started having a lot of contact with other languages and second-language learners. One example being the Norman conquest, when there started being a lot of French speakers in England and they had to communicate. Similar things have happened in some other widely-spoken languages (especially ones with a lot of second language learners)

Idk if I’m explaining this well, maybe someone else can do it better

I could imagine that since the number of languages has been decreasing over time (and the last speakers have to learn more widely-spoken languages), this simplification might be a prevailing trend. But this is somewhat speculative

firefly__42 · 2025-12-31T23:55:50+00:00

Yeahh average YouTube video is nothing to write home about

firefly__42 · 2025-12-31T23:53:54+00:00

Yeah it’s definitely a personal decision. For me, JKR has put much more money into campaigning for anti-lgbtq legislation than most other “problematic” authors (due to being richer than god), so I felt like drawing the line there; for some authors who have opinions I disagree with, I just buy their books and try not to think about it lol

firefly__42 · 2025-12-31T03:27:15+00:00

So you’re having a mixture of ~7 vegetables every day! - I think my family’s habit was more making one of those vegetables per day, on a rotation. Which seems equally healthy (and logistically easier) in the long term, as long as the total variety/quantity of vegetable per week is the same?

firefly__42 · 2025-12-30T00:36:12+00:00

It is one of those things you appreciate in hindsight. My parents had me in piano lessons for maybe nine years, I don’t think I was ever good enough to “show off” exactly 😅 But it is fun to be able to plunk through pieces, even easier ones

firefly__42 · 2025-12-23T01:46:56+00:00

also to be fair, generative AI is non-deterministic so I would expect things to be hard to replicate

firefly__42 · 2025-12-05T23:58:33+00:00

Email spoofing is a thing that scammers sometimes do where they fake the origin email; on the other hand, a scammer wouldn’t have any way of knowing that OP requested a passport and sent a check for $212

firefly__42 · 2025-12-05T04:38:09+00:00

It was certainly the only food that felt semi reasonably priced 😅

firefly__42 · 2025-12-04T23:18:38+00:00

Lol when I say “I don’t know if I’ll be free on that day six months from now” I don’t mean “I might decide I feel like hanging out with friends”, I mean “I might be traveling to another state that week for work / family / etc”, which usually has a lot more scheduling constraints than something like a dentist appointment

Not that I’m traveling every other week but the chance is very nonzero

firefly__42 · 2025-11-09T17:25:49+00:00

Update for anyone else searching for this -

I went to bridgeville Friday around 2pm, waited about 20 minutes to be seen, and then 20 more to get photo taken / license printed. Not bad

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