> The insanity of spain’s anti pirate laws ...
Unsure about the state of affairs in Iberia, but the TFA is about Italia.
Besides, there is more than one country in Iberia
Readit Newsiosonofuturista commented on Why are the violins the biggest section in the orchestra? phys.org/news/2024-09-vio... · Posted by u/samizdis
Tuning typically follows a little ritual, where (1) the concertmaster stands to indicate that tuning should begin, (2) the oboe gives the 440 Hz A tone, which by the way, they normally have an electronic tuner these days to help them nail that pitch, (3) the brass and winds tune off the oboe, (4) the concertmaster tunes her violin off the oboe, (5) the concertmaster plays the A for the strings, who tune their open A string off that note, (6) the strings tune their other three strings to their A, usually by ear.
Source: Me, playing in amateur orchestras for twenty-plus years.
Sidenote: I find the sound of an orchestra tuning to be a deep joy! All those instruments sliding into place is just delightful
Believe it or not...
As a regular orquestral concert goer (I would say I average a concert a week per year at least) reading your description of the tuning process gave me goosebumps.
It really is one of the best sounds on the world! The tension! The anticipation! And then seeing and hearing a well rehearsed group of people move from casual conversation mode into serious business mode in a few seconds. And from chaos comes order. And then the silence, only broken by the applause when the maestro and soloist(s) arrive.
One of life's biggest pleasures if I may say so.
IT work does not force you to stare at content that's spreading brain rot...
Unless you work with in a cloud-native, ai-native environment that has more microservices than developers I guess (I jest, I jest).
Don't jest, just say more micro services than paying customers and you have my work life described.
iosonofuturista commented on Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal' colorado.edu/asmagazine/2... · Posted by u/caf
There's such a volume of lost plays. Athens held annual festivals where you'd have perhaps 20 tragedies and 5 comedies over 5 days[1]. That's just one city state. Only 32 full plays survive.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysia
Edit: Reading the article, I'm surprised they don't seem to have done any computer-based textual analysis of the authorship. We have other plays attributed to Euripides so matching 98 lines of text shouldn't be too difficult.
My understanding from reading the article, is that the issue is not so much matching the deciphered lines, but the interpretation of that deciphering. So they want the scholarship agreement on what is actually written on the papyrus.
I imagine there are plenty of missing words being inserted, unreadable letters being guessed and so on.
So the way to do it for now, has to rely more on experience and intuition than a database search.
iosonofuturista commented on Horizontal running inside circular walls of Moon settlements royalsocietypublishing.or... · Posted by u/T-A
Ex collegiate track and XC athlete, yes, we'd alternate directions once in a while when doing long workouts on the track. It's a 36.5m radius, and it does get to you eventually. You feel it in your knees long before your ankles. I ran distance events (1500, 3200, 5k), so I think I had it easier than the 200m and 400m guys (and especially the 400m/300m hurdle guys) whose spikes were desperately clawing at the track to hold the turn, but I did have some workouts with a lot of laps. We didn't bother to make it exactly even, but if we were doing ladder workouts we'd switch directions somewhere near the middle.
Indoor meets often had 200m tracks with tighter (frequently nonstandard!) radii. The good ones were banked, though it never seemed to be at the right angle, always too steep or too shallow.
Every race still goes counterclockwise, though.
Maybe it's my XC side talking, but I'd love to see a track in a figure 8 with an underpass. Left turn, over the bridge, right turn , under the bridge, and repeat! It would break up those monotonous 8 and 12 lap races nicely, and you could fit a longer track in a shorter rectangular building by using the hypotenuse. I'm sure people would hate the hilly incline, though...
That would be extremely interesting, but the fact that you have an incline would change the ideal body type and tactics so much it would be a different sport at that point.
But I would love to see it for medium distances, just to see what crazy stuff would happen!
iosonofuturista commented on The Curse of Monkey Island filfre.net/2024/04/the-cu... · Posted by u/cybersoyuz
Is that the latest game? I played it on the Switch and it seemed like there was a reference on the island that she's cheating on him or something.
Not cheating, the reference (a tree carving IIRC) would be in the tree before the events of the first game of the series, so before guybrush would have met Elaine. It’s understandable that she would have lovers before guybrush, but the implication that one could have been the big bad LeChuck, makes guybrush fume, even if it’s just an initial.
'hoppscotch' is another one doing stupid shit: https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch/pull/3266
4 thumbs down and a frown emoji are “too heated” and close the PR? What horrible way to handle things. Another one bites the dust…
iosonofuturista commented on Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018) notes.atomutek.org/power-... · Posted by u/guardienaveugle
Oh hey Matt nice to see you around here. This post is popular, maybe release the code? :)
I second this motion... I really want to apply this to stoner doom and really see if it's all about "bong" "wizard" "weed" "mammoths" or not!
Popcar2 , a note on your disclaimer that you are not affiliated with the Godot foundation. Is that usual in projects using an engine? Or is it because of your , IMHO, poor naming choice.
Think of this way, if the tagline of the project was “EstragonOS, a fake os made in godot”, would the disclaimer be so proeminent in the page?
I think you know you are playing with fire, to make the disclaimer a larger font. It’s not too late, consider a rename.
Drums are actually made to be able to fill medium sized halls, not so much to be used in a small garage. Drums are the reason why rock bands have to be so loud _still today_. Back in the days loud tube amps were also the reason..
I do not like drums, especially cymbals and snare drums, anymore.. But drum machines are great! :-)
But it's really not the same thing, so we have to accommodate.