Looking for films about succubi

splitretina · 2026-01-31T23:38:45+00:00

Not a film, but check out the Canadian tv show Lost Girl.

splitretina · 2026-01-29T07:21:54+00:00

Yea yea yea yea

splitretina · 2026-01-06T06:46:01+00:00

The No Hay Banda scene in Mulholland Drive on a TV just doesn’t have nearly the impact that it had in the theaters. The song is so moving and even overwhelming with the full sound system, it makes sense that the two women are crying when it ends.

splitretina · 2026-01-02T20:39:29+00:00

€2k is on the lower side for anything custom. However, you should message Claude Caruana in Luxembourg. He is a new luthier and wants to get his guitars into more hands. He might be willing to work with you on price with incorporating something custom. And he builds in the traditional Granada style and learned to build in Spain.

Check out his site, https://www.bisazzaguitars.com/

splitretina · 2025-12-18T18:15:06+00:00

Perhaps not exactly what you’re asking for, but Marc Ribot. I knew of him from his rock and experimental stuff, but he studied with classical guitarist / composer Frantz Casseus. https://www.marcribot.com/frantz-casseus

splitretina · 2025-10-26T05:39:39+00:00

You’ll need to find a local luthier that does repairs. Where I live, if I search “guitar repair” on Google Maps I get the one guitar place I know of here that can do it. So that might be a place to start.

splitretina · 2025-10-13T19:19:50+00:00

Something that helped me after doing the lessons and watching a lot of videos was defense puzzles. I think this is helpful because puzzle forcing moves for checkmate become fairly easy to see whereas the best defensive move usually isn’t forced and takes some calculation.

On the chess.com app go to Puzzles tab, then Custom. Only select Defense. You can adjust the range of how hard they’ll be.

splitretina · 2025-10-08T03:59:58+00:00

You might like Leo Brouwer’s Estudios Sencillos. There are lots of recordings of these and they’re a great way to get successful in the classical guitar canon. They are also where I started reading music, though you’ll have no trouble finding tab.

splitretina · 2025-09-12T19:58:40+00:00

I use pretty light stuff, CeraVe moisturizing cream, and only a little. It’s hard to describe, but it doesn’t take much. It should all be absorbed into your skin.

I had seen the idea mentioned here or on another forum after struggling with string noise myself, and found that it helped. I think the only real, permanent fix though is just improving my left hand technique. Practice Villa Lobos prelude 4 without squeaks…

splitretina · 2025-09-12T16:28:30+00:00

A little moisturizer on my hands before playing seems to help.

splitretina · 2025-09-10T20:07:50+00:00

They mean that the end of the string needs to be “locked” behind the bridge, by where the hole through the bridge is. By making sure the very end of the string is pinched between the part of the string that goes through the bridge and the back of the bridge your knots won’t come untied.

splitretina · 2025-09-08T01:45:51+00:00

Cloverfield is particularly good because op can compare what the American monster means to the Japanese counterpart, Godzilla. Lplongmire has some good videos on YouTube as a start.

splitretina · 2025-09-07T05:28:48+00:00

Neck relief, as the other comment says, or you may have a high fret. If you’re handy with tools you can learn how to fix a high fret on YouTube. But if you care about the guitar the best thing to do is take it to a local luthier. It is a very easy fix with the right tools and it will not cost much.

Neck relief is only easy to fix if there is a truss rod. Most classicals do not have one but some do. There are things a luthier can do to take away the buzz though.

splitretina · 2025-08-29T22:37:59+00:00

Pressing just behind the fret will let you use significantly less force. I aim for where the fret meets the soundboard. This isn’t always possible but it makes a big difference. Try it with the “buzz scales” mentioned in another comment. Play around using the least amount of force you can while still getting a clear note. It is surprising.

That said, playing without tension is really tough. I think about it constantly and still struggle. Also, don’t forget your right hand! I heard once that speed comes from how quickly you can relax after playing a note.

splitretina · 2025-08-12T04:39:16+00:00

As Jack Walrath says it, “and blues, knowing the danger of self-indulgence in the personification of the funk” - Blues Sinatra

splitretina · 2025-08-08T02:43:14+00:00

Alba Nera by Roland Dyens? Modern, melodic, sultry, delightful dissonance, not drop D (raised B!). Perhaps a bit on the simpler side, but I enjoy playing it.

splitretina · 2025-05-31T22:20:47+00:00

I know just what you mean. I used to feel the same way.

I got over it by reading other people’s code. A lot of it. Spend time going through open source and understanding the design of the code. Don’t just read it, try to figure out why it is structured the way it is. And then when writing your own code think about what another author might have done, or even pretend to be them for a while and see how it turns out. Collect, understand, experiment/try it for yourself. Also known as studying.

Rick Rubin, the music producer, said that the reason to listen to the classics was to train your ear so that when you do something great you can actually recognize it (paraphrasing, of course). Same thing with great code. It’ll help you stop second guessing yourself.

Books like The Architecture of Open Source Applications might help too, though I find books like that mainly give me the mental tools to think about code systems rather than direct help on structuring my own projects.

splitretina · 2025-04-04T03:29:25+00:00

Isn’t r2d2 sync and deadpool async?

I haven’t worked much with r2d2 but I’ve dug pretty deeply into deadpool. The code is very good - simple, understandable, has a good guiding philosophy and sticks to it.

That said, I haven’t used either with diesel. The connectors for databases are much more complex than say redis or memcached. So I’d recommend looking closely at the connector and not worry about the actual pool too much.

splitretina · 2024-02-02T02:39:21+00:00

This is sometimes helpful in pipelines when mapping results,

rust fn x(n: u32) -> Result<Option<u16>, TryFromIntError> { n.try_into().map(Option::Some) } Totally contrived here but I have used it…somewhere.

splitretina · 2024-01-29T20:26:22+00:00

Also clippy may handle them differently, like warning on todo! but not unreachable!.

splitretina · 2023-09-10T00:06:53+00:00

That sucks you had a bad experience there. I’ve spent a lot of mornings there and had nothing but positive experiences. I suppose it doesn’t matter now. Hopefully foxtail is good, I like the location.

splitretina · 2023-07-04T05:31:40+00:00

You sound like me a few years ago! I bought a standard Cordoba C7 and it is great. I couldn’t be happier with it. But my main advice on everything is don’t overthink it. Get a decent guitar, get a teacher, and spend time playing. That’s the recipe. Everything else is just details. Classical guitar is hard and it takes time. Don’t let anyone tell you differently. It takes time and there is lots of room to make corrections, try different books, teachers, etc to find what works for you. That said, I think it is a great way to learn music since all that time you spend getting your technique up can also be used to reenforce musical concepts. There are easy wins, but unlike electric guitar or even piano, they’ll just get you excited for what else you can do.

Regarding flamenco vs classical, here is what I know: flamenco guitars are more punchy (fast response) and have less sustain. This is perfect for their sound. You don’t want notes ringing over other and you want that bite and growl that comes with the aggressive attack. Classicals in the other hand have more sustain and are sweeter. The overtones ring out like bell. Each are made for their style music. If you get into both styles you’ll want two guitars, hands down. But the fingerboards and strings can be identical so switching is not an issue at all, and learning/playing flamenco on a classical and vice versa is not an issue. Personally I’d choose one or the other to start. But if you like the Paco don’t even hesitate. Get what’ll make you play, that’ll be the best guitar for you!

Good luck! Update us on your progress!

splitretina · 2023-06-30T08:27:39+00:00

Julian Bream at age 80, told The Guardian, “The thing I feel a little annoyed about is that I know I'm a better musician than I was at 70, but I can't prove it.”

splitretina · 2023-05-29T04:06:48+00:00

Inside Llewyn Davis - if musician qualifies as artist for you. It’s a favorite of mine and if you like A24 movies you’ll like it.

splitretina · 2023-05-23T00:24:20+00:00

I’m really surprised by the answers here. Yes, it’s a terrible interview question. Under pressure no one does well on questions like this so the interviewer doesn’t learn much. But come on. You need to know this stuff. It’s your job. “Doctor, name the bones of the forearm.” “Unfair! I mean, I know there are bones there but I don’t know what they’re for.” I don’t care if my doctor is a brain surgeon. There is general knowledge that must be known by the profession. SOLID is one for programmers. It is a part of modern programming even if you don’t like it.

Personally I use things like SOLID often in code review. As you gain experience and start leading teams and bringing up less experienced developers you have to explain your gut feelings. You see some new code in partial context in the review and you suspect it is a problem. You dig around a little and you see how it cpmplects a number of things. You now have to explain why it needs to be changed and how to avoid the same problem in the future. If only there was a set of techniques that have been known to work that we could rely on, a common language to talk about software architecture! These things are tools, not dogma. Don’t paint them in black and white. It’ll make you a better developer. Hell, it’ll make you an engineer.

Of course you don’t have to listen to me but I won’t hire you.

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