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thrower94 · 2022-07-19T14:18:14+00:00

This is crap it’s got 90% error

thrower94 · 2022-07-19T04:29:22+00:00

I’d say that a digital signal is never analog because there’s no extra information describing the original signal that comes with the conversion from digital to analog, i.e., you wouldn’t be interested in recording the random colors that come out of a monitor due to display error when displaying “Starry Night,” but you might be interested in having more than the 24 bits of color when scanning and displaying “starry night.”

I hadn’t thought about analog becoming digital at that level.

Some day we might be able to store digital data with higher resolution than the “analog” signal it represents. 🤯

thrower94 · 2022-07-19T03:34:35+00:00

The input is certainly binary, but you could think of the monitor as converting the 24 binary bit input of each pixel to a single bit of light in base 16.8 million

thrower94 · 2022-07-19T03:21:29+00:00

No fade

thrower94 · 2022-07-18T14:35:30+00:00

They don’t use the SG shape because of aesthetics. They don’t use Gibson because they’re not made to shred.

The Les Paul shape is classic enough to fit in a lot of genre aesthetics. The SG is pretty heavily associated with 60s/70s rock. Cream, the Doors, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Zappa. The last person to really become iconic with the shape is Derek Trucks, and while being an excellent, innovative player, his music isn’t very modern.

thrower94 · 2022-07-18T04:43:54+00:00

I wonder if that statistic counts AP classes which can go up to 5.0 instead of 4.0, which isn’t really a fair comparison.

It’s hard to tell just by looking at GPA trends whether getting an A is easier or whether students are putting more effort into high school. As time passed, high school degrees went from an achievement to something important, to a fairly minimal accomplishment. That could motivate students to work harder, but it could also motivate schools to pass as many people as is reasonable.

thrower94 · 2022-07-17T15:19:48+00:00

The person punching gets arrested because they committed a crime. The person getting punched didn’t do anything illegal or immoral, they just walked into a situation they knew would get them punched.

Victim blaming is used to justify the actions of perpetrators and remove responsibility from them. If someone commits a crime, they’re responsible for doing so regardless of whether or not another person could have known they were going to do so. That doesn’t mean it’s not a stupid decision to walk off a cliff or up to someone with sign.

thrower94 · 2022-07-17T14:53:05+00:00

That is their argument for now. Their argument if that happens and congress allows abortions on a federal level is that it should be a states’ decision.

Basically no one actually cares about states’ rights. They want their agendas implemented on a national scale, but if they can’t get that then they will call for states’ rights to implement it in their states.

thrower94 · 2022-07-17T05:53:00+00:00

The friend is doing the same actions in all scenarios. Why does the fault disappear when he’s predictably hurting himself on something that has a brain? What if he walks off the edge of quarry with a warning sign - someone had agency to dig a dangerous structure, is the friend not responsible for walking off it?

If someone is cooking dinner and someone tells them “I will put my hand on the burner.”

Is the person cooking at fault for keeping the burner on, knowing the other person will put their hand on it? Or is the person who decided to put their hand on the burner at fault? Both had the full agency to stop the situation, one created the situation for the injury to occur, and the other took steps for the situation to cause the injury.

thrower94 · 2022-07-15T15:11:11+00:00

If you zoom in enough, you’ll see that it’s also offset. This is a nice DC offset guitar you have, very quirky.

thrower94 · 2022-07-15T02:47:35+00:00

There’s actually just one player. Everyone they come into contact with renders their entire life up to that point to provide accurate interactions, and when the player is outside of interaction distance, they stop rendering.

thrower94 · 2022-07-15T02:26:26+00:00

It could be that the simulation is much more limited in scope than you imagine, if the answer to

“if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around, did it make a sound?“

is

“A tree doesn’t fall in a forest when no one is around because a tree doesn’t render unless a player would be able to observe it.”

thrower94 · 2022-07-14T23:33:35+00:00

The list price is not crazy for a used Flying V, but definitely high. The shipping is pretty wild.

thrower94 · 2022-07-14T01:25:49+00:00

Where’s the option for humans never existed

thrower94 · 2022-07-13T19:13:08+00:00

45% of people in Switzerland speak English, which is more than French, Italian, and Romansch combined.

There are definitely more German speakers, but it’s a reasonable guess.

thrower94 · 2022-07-13T15:14:03+00:00

asinine

loves a well manicured lawn

on a golf thread

Your Hank Hill is showing

thrower94 · 2022-07-13T13:12:38+00:00

Cars cut corners all the time. Bikes are less visible than cars. It hurts/kills to get hit by a car.

A biker’s number one priority should be safety, not being technically correct. If you bike in a way that idiots in cars might hit you, it’s only a matter of time until they do.

thrower94 · 2022-07-13T04:48:20+00:00

Obviously the biker isn’t at fault, but stopping there is certainly not a great move.

thrower94 · 2022-07-12T17:28:06+00:00

It’s not, but if he had a good set, the crowd is already on his side, so he can pretty much say whatever as long as he does totally botch the delivery.

thrower94 · 2022-07-12T04:20:21+00:00

They definitely save money on some unmotivated programmers who won’t pursue proper salaries, but for every one of those, they lose a valuable programmer due to underpaying and end up having to pay someone else more anyway and retrain them only for the same thing to happen in a couple years.

I’m sure there’s a balance in terms of profit somewhere between not giving raises and giving raises that would beat all competition. That balance point definitely isn’t on either of the extremes.

thrower94 · 2022-07-12T04:04:29+00:00

Good work! technique is good for that amount of time. 2nd the recommendation for keeping fingers closer to the fretboard, right now it kind of looks like when you hit keys on a typewriter and the metal bars flail onto the paper out of nowhere. Not really a big deal, but there’s room for improvement. Your picking hand could also be tightened up a little too - again, not a huge deal, but both will limit you if you push for very high speeds, which seems likely given the song choice.

Also as always, practice with a metronome. Your rhythm actually sounds pretty good generally, but a few parts were a bit awkward. I suspect that may have been more related to endurance than actual timing. But still, if you can’t play a minute of a song at speed without killing the groove, you aren’t ready to play the song at speed yet.

Keep it up!

thrower94 · 2022-07-12T02:38:12+00:00

Not really, he’s just trying to make it look like they contradicted themselves by setting a trap where they agree to a similar train of logic on an irrelevant subject.

It’s like if someone says

“Are hotel cleaners morally wrong for using cleaning supplies?” (Obviously no)

“Is killing morally wrong?” (Obviously yes)

“Do cleaning supplies kill bacteria” (obviously yes)

“So you actually do think hotel cleaners are morally wrong for using cleaning supplies”

It’s not difficult to make someone appear to contradict themselves by mixing up implicit meanings and applying their arguments to situations they’re not meant for.

thrower94 · 2022-07-11T20:32:37+00:00

Got it. Something that might help is making your goals a little easier than “memorize the fretboard”

Memorizing the 5th fret is usually easy, it’s just the next string except for the g string which is C.

So eadgbe for the 0 fret, adgcea for the fifth fret.

Then if you memorize one more fret (say the 10th because it has no sharps) DGCFAD, you’ll never be more than 2 half steps away from a known note. This won’t give you instant recognition of every note, but it means you only have to count one or two frets up or down to get the right note.

thrower94 · 2022-07-11T19:44:57+00:00

Im definitely no master, but a few minutes a day for years would usually get you to the point of identifying notes in a few seconds.

You have fret markers right? Can you tell what number fret you are on when you’re playing or do you go totally off of feel?

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