> Halfway through my freshman year I decided to swap the motherboard and CPU for a crazy motherboard/CPU combo. There was a brief moment where Intel Celerons didn't really prevent you from using them in a dual CPU setup, so I had two 366mhz Celerons overclocked to ~433mhz (sometimes up to 533mhz, but that was less stable) and started playing around with OSs like Linux and BeOS to actually take advantage of them.

Half of HN alive at the time probably had that motherboard - ABIT BP6 was the reason I got my hands on a copy of W2K, and also started playing with Linux.

I've known > 10 people who have died from this cancer. It is my #1 fear (cancer wise). My best friend died 3 months to the day after being diagnosed. It is both a blessing and a curse how quickly this kills you. The day before he found out we went on a long walk. Within a couple of weeks we'd walk around the block, then just sit in his living room and talk for hours. The bad times lasted about 1 week and the last 2-3 days he was not really there.

I really hope this test becomes a reality and is OTC and not too expensive.

Professional pianist here. They are boring but that’s hardly the biggest issue with Hanon, unfortunately. The biggest problem is the instructions that the composer leaves for the student, which includes the insistence that the student lift the finger high off the keyboard with each note.

I can think of practically nothing more injurious to good technique and nothing more likely to induce tension than this.

Hanon could have some value if teachers and students would employ the concept of weight transfer from finger to finger with constant contact with the keyboard. But his idea of finger calisthenics is a relic of the 19th c.

So what do you use instead?

To be clear, Tie Fighter takes everything good about X-Wing and makes it markedly better: Graphics, gameplay, mission design, story, …

But I don’t mean to detract from the author’s point that the original developers caught lightning in a bottle in a way that hasn’t been replicated since.

Definitely agree. Compare Daredevil to something like moon knight and you see a huge different. Sure the new Disney shows have a bigger budget and world famous actors but they’re kids shows with a gritty look at best and have 10% the depth.