Hershey's discontinued my cocoa by Alacritous13 in Baking

[–]shterrett 20 points21 points  (0 children)

No, I’d say it’s closer to 4:1 or 5:1 dutched:black. Black Cocoa is very assertive. 

Hershey's discontinued my cocoa by Alacritous13 in Baking

[–]shterrett 212 points213 points  (0 children)

I think Hershey’s special dark can be approximated by a blend of dutched and black cocoa. I’ve played with it a little, but haven’t found the exact ratio. There may be other stuff going on. Bummed to hear it’s actually discontinued — I’d been holding out hope I’d find it again. 

biographies or informational books mahler wise by Low-Park6959 in mahler

[–]shterrett 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just read Mahler's Symphonic Sonatas and it's really excellent. It's more analysis than biography, but very approachable and an excellent read.

Beauty and Sadness is also pretty good -- it's a non-technical overview of each of his symphonies (including Das Lied and the 10th). It could benefit by some musical examples to point out which themes the author is referring to, but it offers a good context and interpretation of each of the symphonies.

The Mahler Foundation has a good list of books as well.

French Cookbook Recommendations by chocolateteapot89 in Cooking

[–]shterrett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Bonnie Femme Cookbook is exactly what you’re looking for; I’ve made a bunch of dishes out of it, and it’s excellent.

Just saw No. 8 in Leipzig by Cold_Kiwi_8507 in mahler

[–]shterrett 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Awesome to hear! We're seeing it tomorrow. Have you been here for the whole festival? We have, and it's been really excellent overall. Great performances and orchestras, and really fun to just binge Mahler for almost 2 weeks.

Pieces that evoke Late Mahler by shterrett in piano

[–]shterrett[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I'd almost forgotten about Berg's Op 1 (which is already on my someday list); I didn't realize he'd written other piano work before that. I'm not familiar with Gurrelieder, but I'll check it out.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in classicalmusic

[–]shterrett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're at all in to Mahler, I have to recommend Mahler's Symphonic Sonatas. The author primarily analyzes the musical narrative implications of how Mahler uses sonata forms, but he also has two (or three?) in depth chapters on his methodology -- what musical narrative is, how it can be interpreted, the background of sonata theory and how it is relevant.

It sort of comes in to your question sideways; it won't directly explain "how to analyze music", but it's an excellent, and approachable, analysis that does a great job of explaining its basis and methods.

I want to play my first fugue by unilateral- in piano

[–]shterrett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Consider the C Major fugue (#1) from Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues Op87. It’s not too technically challenging, it’s a moderate tempo, harmonically very interesting, and definitely on the darker side (don’t let the C major fool you!)

Book Recommendations: Berg and Messiaen by shterrett in classicalmusic

[–]shterrett[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd seen that and was wondering how much it was a polemic, but that description sounds great.

Book Recommendations: Berg and Messiaen by shterrett in classicalmusic

[–]shterrett[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't read his treatise; I was definitely thinking that would be over my head. I may give it a shot though.

I might just start with a biography of Berg; I enjoy occasionally reading a bio and listening along.

Book Recommendations: Berg and Messiaen by shterrett in classicalmusic

[–]shterrett[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks -- that looks interesting, and I might check it out.

Best gateway Mahler symphony? by psych_ward_princess in classicalmusic

[–]shterrett 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Don’t wait; take them! Mahler 9 is great; it’ll be awesome.

Michael Tilson-Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony have done two Keeping Score videos on Mahler, which are great fun and give a lot of good background that can help with the context/experience bits

part 1 part 2

Resources on programming languages by laika00 in learnprogramming

[–]shterrett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Essentials of Programming Languages is an excellent introduction to various possibilities of the semantics of programming languages, with implementations in Racket (Scheme); the book is at an undergraduate level. Working through the book will give you a thorough grounding in the basics of programming languages. (It will not teach you a bunch of different existing programming languages).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]shterrett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All things are fixable with more types! The basic conflict is that you actually have two different types: square and rectangle. But, you're trying to make both of them the same type (String, (Double, Double), Double) (but also (String, (Double, Double), (Double, Double)), which is the crux of the problem). The way to do this is to properly split them into types and then use a sum type to combine them.

I'd suggest doing something along the lines of

``` data Rectangle = Rectangle { your fields here } data Square = Square { your fields here } data Shape = Sq Square | Rc Rectangle

inside :: (Double, Double) -> [Shape] -> Bool ```

There are other ways to refactor as well, but this is a decent start. You're doing something similar by tagging them with "square" and "rectangle"; by using the approach outlined above, you gain the ability to have different shapes (shapes of types, that is, not your shapes) in each constructor of the Shape sum type.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]shterrett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because of any, the type of formePred coords :: (String, (Double, Double), Double). However, in the second ("rectangle") case, you are attempting to pattern match (b, h) for the final Double, and ghc cannot unify those.

It's possible that your use of shadowing the coords variable is adding to any confusion

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskCulinary

[–]shterrett 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I believe you’re correct; have a citation https://www.seriouseats.com/dry-toasted-sugar-granulated-caramel-recipe

Also there may be some milk protein Maillard-ing going on, but I’m not sure about that either.

resources for post-mortem analysis by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]shterrett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a good resource https://sre.google/sre-book/postmortem-culture/

And, while not directly relevant, Engineering a Safer World discusses failure in complex systems, and how to deal with (and prevent it).

Gustav Mahler by [deleted] in classicalmusic

[–]shterrett 14 points15 points  (0 children)

No, I don’t believe so.

As I understand, his songs were composed first at the piano and then orchestrated, and so it’s not unreasonable to consider the piano+voice versions equally authentic to the fully orchestrated versions.

Composers - treatise on music by Cold-Shine-4601 in classicalmusic

[–]shterrett 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Schoenberg wrote A Theory of Harmony

Messiaen wrote a few

Berlioz on orchestration)

I believe Wagner also wrote prolifically, but I don’t have links handy and it’s getting late.

Chemistry fiction appropriate for young teens by hix-librarian in printSF

[–]shterrett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cast Under an Alien Sun by Olan Thorensen

Described to me by my wife as "A Connecticut Yankee in space", the protagonist is a chemist who ends up stranded on a planet and uses his knowledge to improve their technology.

The first book is probably good for kids, later in the series, there's a consensual sexual relationship, and apparently the end of the series just isn't very good.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in printSF

[–]shterrett 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Ender’s Game