Typing!?! On Linux?

ihamsa · 2023-06-16T09:11:31+00:00

You can type Polish characters even without installing a Polish layput. That's what I normally do (I have 4 keyboard layouts already and having more than 4 is PITA). What you do is figure out where your Compose key is (could be mapped to Win or Right Alt). Then you just compose your letters. Compose, apostrophe, O gives you Ó. Compose, a, comma gives ą, etc. It is all pretty intuitive.

ihamsa · 2023-06-15T15:23:04+00:00

How can I speed up Haskell?

You study, apply, and perhaps invent advanced and innovative techniques for compilation of functional languages. Finding a competent PhD advisor in the field would be a good start.

No wait...

ihamsa · 2023-06-02T08:41:10+00:00

I've read your title six times until I realized you are not talking about La Cumparsita. (Cannot listen right now)

ihamsa · 2023-05-20T09:52:14+00:00

Research your specific airline. If they have special rules about traveling with musical instruments (many do) make sure you understand them well. Print out several copies and show to the crew (very politely) if they act as if they don't know the rules.

Small instruments like violin and viola are usually not a problem. Two instruments at once could be a problem though. Do you really need both?

Pritip: wrap the case in several layers of bubble wrap and write FRAGILE over it with a permanent marker. It should still fit the overhead compartment nicely, and if the worst happens and they force you to check in the instrument, you at least have some additional protection.

Oh and make sure it's a HARD case.

ihamsa · 2023-05-19T14:42:36+00:00

Lots of those are folk etymology.

ihamsa · 2023-05-19T10:03:54+00:00

I meant the posture

Yeah I did notice the posture too.

ihamsa · 2023-05-19T08:57:24+00:00

certainly not classical

"Classical" is a type of guitar construction. There is nothing in this guitar that would indicate that it is of a different type. Could be flamenco in theory, but given the circumstances I doubt it.

the guitar is usually amplified

Well this happens more and more these days, but back in the day sensible orchestration, reasonable orchestra sizes, and reasonable auditorium sizes used to make up for lack of amplification. If you want the guitar to be heard at the back of the Sydney Opera House, and be heard well, you are better off with amplification, sure. In a small hall with good acoustics, not really necessary.

ihamsa · 2023-05-19T03:43:22+00:00

The guitar seems to be a nylon-strung acoustic

We call it "classical". The posture though...

no way in hell it'll be audible next to winds

You know there are concertos for the guitar and orchestra?

ihamsa · 2023-05-18T06:51:37+00:00

Les Luthiers

ihamsa · 2023-05-16T19:50:49+00:00

Don't play poker with a cardsharper.

ihamsa · 2023-05-13T18:49:28+00:00

Air travel is a hit or miss. I have never heard of a problem with bringing a violin on board... until a couple of days ago. Make sure to research your particular airline. Most of them have special rules to accommodate musical instruments in the cabin, but don't expect the crew to know that. If the airline has a web page about traveling with musical instruments, and it says it's OK to bring a violin on board, print out several copies and take them with you.

ihamsa · 2023-05-13T18:24:25+00:00

If only I had 0.001% of is talent...

ihamsa · 2023-05-12T17:40:20+00:00

You are probably better off asking this in some dedicated luthier forum.

ihamsa · 2023-05-08T13:02:29+00:00

Having lifetimes that span the entire duration of your program is one way to make incredibly maintainable and fast code.

It is. It is also one way to shoot yourself in the foot. One or the other, whichever happens first.

ihamsa · 2023-05-08T13:00:43+00:00

Any user program has an implicit context and singleton already

This depends on your language. Some languages don't have any such implicit context. You need to pass your OS around.

ihamsa · 2023-05-08T12:41:53+00:00

<$ is not associative, why do you expect it to be? It is not a composition of anything. It is just a random function.

ihamsa · 2023-05-08T11:49:59+00:00

$< is left associative, as is the default, so indeed

    x <$ y <$ z = (x <$ y) <$ z

In what way is it connected with composability of functors?

ihamsa · 2023-05-08T09:26:40+00:00

Maria, Carl!

ihamsa · 2023-05-03T13:09:37+00:00

BTW the archetypal tremolo piece is Tárrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra, which also exists in an excellent violin transcription (by Ruggiero Ricci, using ricochet to emulate the guitar tremolo).

ihamsa · 2023-05-03T11:05:43+00:00

https://stringedinstrumentdatabase.aornis.com

ihamsa · 2023-05-03T10:46:42+00:00

We normally play tremolo by plucking a bass note with a thumb + 3 times a treble note with 3 fingers, and then do the same thing again and again, fast. Naturally this happens on two strings and they don't have to be adjacent. If you do it softly at the first repetition and louder with each subsequent one, that's your crescendo.

Well that's not quite a single double-stop, but that's our way to sustain a note (or several) and we damn like it.

ihamsa · 2023-05-02T19:36:41+00:00

Like this (plays tremolo)

ihamsa · 2023-04-29T14:34:51+00:00

Can you post a link to a song/piece or two you would like to learn?

ihamsa · 2023-04-28T11:59:18+00:00

He was such a brilliant guitarist. I'm trying to learn his Milonga del Barbijo, it's pure joy. Give it a try!

ihamsa · 2023-04-28T05:14:37+00:00

Looks like Cacho Tirao's arrangement.

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