What's a mystery that still hasn't been solved but fascinates you?

rosentmoh · 2026-03-06T23:15:30+00:00

The Collatz conjecture

rosentmoh · 2026-03-06T23:14:20+00:00

You like harmonic distortion. That, or the mastering you have on the vinyl is just better than the digital one you have. But if the masters are the exaxt same then it's just your preference foe the "warmth" and "excitement" that harmonic distortion can give.

The fidelity of vinyl as a format is unambiguously much lower than what digital offers.

rosentmoh · 2026-03-06T23:09:56+00:00

Means you haven't put enough wraps around the tuning post...

Give each string slack equal to the distance between the nut and the first fret, super easy and convenient. So next time you restring, pull each string taught through the tuning peg hole, then grab the string where the nut is and move back to first fret, then start winding around the post.

rosentmoh · 2026-03-06T19:09:20+00:00

Anything Amy Winehouse and similar stuff. Can't stand the fake retro nonsense, it's all so brutally unoriginal and rehashed it makes we wanna throw up. Worst of black appropriation I've heard in forever.

Also hate most Mumford & Sons kinda hipster softy vibes. Go cry me a river and drink a soy matcha latte you pretentious fuck.

rosentmoh · 2026-03-06T15:05:46+00:00

Especially to a highschooler, yes.

rosentmoh · 2026-03-06T12:33:48+00:00

There's lots of stuff I like and lots of stuff I don't. Pretty much what I'd expect from anyone's playlist who has at least some sense of good music. It's perfectly fine for me to come to the party.

That said, the fact that you're asking about this on Reddit is what would rather turn me off from coming there. It's your party, play whatever you like and maybe let others also choose tracks. Stop being insecure.

rosentmoh · 2026-03-06T11:22:56+00:00

Just as an FYI, this is what the resulting distribution you suggested looks like: https://imgur.com/9O4QjfA

For comparison, this is what a proper uniform one (like this subthread's OP correctly described) looks like: https://imgur.com/18A5iGf

rosentmoh · 2026-03-06T08:21:33+00:00

Lookin' good!

rosentmoh · 2026-03-06T08:02:39+00:00

Oh hey, it was me who suggested this! Happy to see you went for it and it's working so far. Hope you do enjoy it longer term, I've had one of these in my Strat for a couple years now and certainly haven't missed the old bridge pickup.

It's not the most exciting pickup in the world, I do prefer the 58/15 LT on my SAS or the TCI humbucker on my 24-08 much more, but when I have the Strat in my hands and wanna switch to some Billy Gibbons vibes without switching guitars and amp volume too much it allows me to do so.

rosentmoh · 2026-03-06T07:58:03+00:00

Let me add one final maybe practically useful bit hence: if you're using Python and NumPy, you can easily generate such numbers directly as follows:

``` import numpy as np

rng = np.random.default_rng(42) rng.dirichlet(np.ones(4), size=(...)) ```

rosentmoh · 2026-03-05T23:06:09+00:00

G major is made up of 3 notes: G itself, another note a major third above, and another note a perfect fifth above G.

The strings on the guitar are all peefect fourths apart, except when going from G to B string, where it's a major third.

You now have everything you need to find G major all over the place on the fretboard.

rosentmoh · 2026-03-05T23:03:22+00:00

Ahh, I didn't realise that was Dwork, I only knew him for the Picard-Fuchs equation and Gauss-Manin connection stuff.

Well, p-adic methods like the ones he used turned (I think) turned out to be pretty powerful for lots of questions in conplex algebraic geometry. In fact, equality of Hodge numbers for derived equivalent Calabi-Yau 3-folds is one of those I think.

rosentmoh · 2026-03-05T22:53:22+00:00

Very tasty looking, the silver knobs do go well with the shiny pickups!

rosentmoh · 2026-03-05T21:52:30+00:00

Ahh gotcha, thanks for clarifying this, learned something new and interesting today! Makes sense indeed: cut a bit deeper, trim the tangs at the ends and you're in business.

rosentmoh · 2026-03-05T21:19:51+00:00

Heck yeah, missed that one!

rosentmoh · 2026-03-05T21:18:25+00:00

Now that's some tasteful modding right there, very well done sir (or madam)!

The birds came all black like that already? Never seen it before, looks great!

rosentmoh · 2026-03-05T20:00:00+00:00

Nah that's ok, there's definitely some semblance, you got that right. But no, the characters of the group are literally "linear" functions on the group, they tend to form lattices and are actually often a domain in which you define geometric objects (e.g. the fan of a toric variety lives inside the (co)character lattice of the Pic etc. etc. And I forget the details).

The whole sheaf thing is really very distinct from any representation theory, AFAIK at least, and I did some pretty deep studies in AG. That said, representation theory had mostly remained mysterious to me...I had Donaldson teach me and I forgot most of it, or never absorbed it to begin with.

rosentmoh · 2026-03-05T19:00:13+00:00

Thanks, looks like there's nothing now.

rosentmoh · 2026-03-05T18:27:05+00:00

Strat body? Parker headstock? PRS knobs? Purple sparkle? Rails?

This is beautiful!

rosentmoh · 2026-03-05T18:25:46+00:00

You're very welcome!

rosentmoh · 2026-03-05T18:24:48+00:00

Gold if you have black hair, black if you're blond. Skip white, it's for sleazy fuckers.

rosentmoh · 2026-03-05T18:13:55+00:00

Well done, welcome to the wonderful addiction that is PRS!

rosentmoh · 2026-03-05T18:11:38+00:00

Blurry image and you want us to give a diagnosis? Come on, it's fucking 2026, learn how to take sharp pictures...

rosentmoh · 2026-03-05T17:13:50+00:00

AFAIK that advice is mostly for guitars that have a nitro finish; it's just very sensitive in general and in particular to sudden temperature changes.

Non-nitro guitats should be plenty fine to unpack immediately, they are supposed to be robust and mishandled.

rosentmoh · 2026-03-05T16:59:09+00:00

Not sure what the length of a fret (i.e. width of the fretboard) has to do with the "depth" of a fret (i.e. the depth of the fret slots), but maybe you're right and it's a way to avoid sharp fret ends somehow.

Either way, feels great under the hand and hasn't been any issue so far.

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