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ginko commented on Why is choral music harder to appreciate?   marginalrevolution.com/ma... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
vintermann · 6 hours ago
I think it's a lot about economics, too. Choirs of any significant size have to be amateur. It's hard enough to do a 4 person band playing popular music full-time, with 20-30 people performing more niche music it just doesn't happen.

Small group a capella is slightly more viable, but it's very "amateur coded": even very good a capella groups perform a lot of covers, and rarely stick with one genre. They perform whatever they want, which is often also things with commercial appeal, but isn't ideal for long-term musical identity building.

Take Rajaton for instance. Extremely technically brilliant, but their own compositions are a relatively small part of their repertoire (and still more than most a capella groups!). Pop music covers and Christmas music are obviously a big part of what makes them commercially viable, in addition they perform commissioned work from acknowledged choral composers (Mia Marakoff, Michael McGlynn). When they do the occasional album with good stylistic coherence and their own compositions (like 2016 Salaisuus) it doesn't look like a commerical success.

ginko · 6 hours ago
>I think it's a lot about economics, too. Choirs of any significant size have to be amateur. It's hard enough to do a 4 person band playing popular music full-time, with 20-30 people performing more niche music it just doesn't happen.

That really depends where you live. In Vienna you definitely get all-professional choirs of that size for instance.

ginko commented on Writing with LLM is not a shame   reflexions.florianernotte... · Posted by u/flornt
latexr · a day ago
> clearly written by an LLM, the long emdash was even present.

Can we please stop propagating this accusation? Alright, sure, maybe LLMs overuse the em-dash, but it is a valid topographical mark which was in use way before LLMs and is even auto-inserted by default by popular software on popular operating systems—it is never sufficient on its own to identify LLM use (and yes, I just used it—multiple times—on purpose on 100% human-written text).

Sincerily,

Someone who enjoys and would like to be able to continue to use correct punctuation, but doesn’t judge those who don’t.

ginko · a day ago
So do you always put in the ALT+<code> incantation to get an emdash or copy&paste?

I feel the emdash is a tell because you have to go out of your way to use it on a computer keyboard. Something anyone other than the most dedicated punctuation geeks won't do for a random message on the internet.

Things are different for typeset books.

ginko commented on The oldest unopened bottle of wine in the world   openculture.com/2025/08/t... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
rwmj · a day ago
There's got to be some sort of remote sensing way to tell what it's made of. Mass spectroscopy maybe? Or X-ray scintillation?
ginko · a day ago
I feel like they could also probably take a miniscule sample (like a cubic mm) without upsetting things. That should be enough to do all kinds of analysis.
ginko commented on I made a floppy disk from scratch   kottke.org/25/08/i-made-a... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
wowczarek · 2 days ago
Great work! The video does state this clearly that it was about the journey first and foremost and that's great, but yet to me it feels unfinished when it ends as soon as we get to the really fun stuff, so it's complete in the sense of it being well-produced, publishable content, but it's uploaded as soon as it's publishable, and I'm left with "what, that's it?", as I've mostly been looking at milling and some coating. I get this often with similar videos today. Either it's just me (entirely possible) or it's a sign of the times.
ginko · 2 days ago
Yeah, I was hoping he'd get it at least to a somewhat usable state where you can at least load a small file (maybe with some file system sector fiddling).
ginko commented on Go is still not good   blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad
giancarlostoro · 3 days ago
No, this has been the case as long as Go has been around, then you look and its some C or C++ developer with specific needs, thats okay, its not for everyone.
ginko · 3 days ago
Go was announced as a replacement for C & C++ so I think it's reasonable to compare it to that.
ginko commented on Sütterlin   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C... · Posted by u/anonu
wjnc · 4 days ago
Question for the Deutsch HN-ers: Is this readable to your modern eye? Letter for letter I can see the relation to the handwriting I was taught in Dutch in the 80s, but as a text it looks like sanskrit to me. Obviously learnable, like learning greek or other foreign ciphers. But I would not imagine a neighbouring language written down less than a century ago to seem so foreign.
ginko · 4 days ago
It's easier than Kurrent[0], but not by a lot.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurrent

ginko commented on AnduinOS   anduinos.com/... · Posted by u/TheFreim
voidUpdate · 5 days ago
Don't loads use apt?
ginko · 5 days ago
Yeah and they're all Debian derivatives, IMO.
ginko commented on AnduinOS   anduinos.com/... · Posted by u/TheFreim
voidUpdate · 5 days ago
What does it actually mean to create a distro though? Is it just what software you package in your flavour of debian?
ginko · 5 days ago
To be an independent distro it should at least have its own package manager.
ginko commented on AnduinOS   anduinos.com/... · Posted by u/TheFreim
ThinkBeat · 6 days ago
I really wish people creating a distro, and even more so distro of a distro of a distro should not call it OS. (Debian - Ubuntu . AnduinOS)

I am alwasy happy to look at new operating system projects. It is a major hobby.

Could distros use AnduinDI AnduinUbuntu AnduinLinux. or just Anduin

I dont like getting my hopes up like that.

ginko · 6 days ago
This is also a pet peeve of mine.
ginko commented on A Lisp in 99LOC   github.com/Robert-van-Eng... · Posted by u/shikaan
lisper · 8 days ago
Lisp in ~100 lines of Python:

https://flownet.com/ron/l.py

ginko · 8 days ago
Can’t you just “import lisp”?

u/ginko

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