His picking technique in particular.
For those who didn’t play guitar, if you search him in YT most of his video are of him playing to a backing track and just do an improvised performance on the spot.
Most agreed and regards him as one of the best. You’ll find the “Jesus/God” or “Gandalf” jokes thrown because of his mastery of the instrument.
Unfortunately (for me personally), the man is reluctant to spotlight. He is a private person and seems to didn’t enjoy interview. So a “clinic”/lesson type content by him is far and few between.
I’ve been studying his right hand for years, and it still boggle the mind. If you watched the video I linked and watched it at like 35% speed, you can kinda see how he make decisions in the moment and it make sense, but at full speed ? WTF
I am working on a 3D simulation asset for making footprints onto surfaces, for a client, in Blender.
I’m rather new to the simulation world, and although it seemed simple at first, the more I explore the more complex it gets. The client needs it for a handful of shots where two dinos are walking on a beach, so the deformation must look like that of sand in the end, and unfortunately I can’t rely on more sophisticated physics techniques such as MPM (material point method) because Blender doesn’t have them. Simply moving vertices like I’m doing is also a simpler approximation, more adequate to solve this simple problem unless you’re Industrial Light and Magic.So at each simulation step I need to raycast against the dino geometry to make the footprints per se (simple), then I need to track the amount of material that is being displaced by the dino feet and move the surrounding material up by the same amount, to create that bulge (less simple). It’s relatively incompressible material is why. The animation being imperfect (talons accidentally penetrating the ground inbetween steps) means I also have to detect and discard those interactions.
I have trouble letting go of a problem once I’ve started working on it so here I am, laying in my bed, thinking about the next steps…
Its 100% worth it to clean and regrease the bearings in your bike’s axles (if they are open bearing). And it’s really not a hugely intensive process.
I’ve been going down a massive rabbit hole of bicycle stuff, and it’s really similar to the older days of pc building, lots of possibilities for upgrades, lots of brands, compatibility is pretty wide but also needs to be paid attention to.
It’s loads of fun.
it’s really similar to the older days of pc building
I assume that means someone will come along and enshittify it sooner or later
Believe me, companies are already trying. It’s an uphill battle, though. This is actually one of the few triumphs for consumers in this regard, really.
Thanks to the French the components of bicycles have become remarkably standardized and interchangeable and have been for probably more than a hundred years by now. Every few years like clockwork some idiot C suite denizen at a startup bicycle company decides they ought to invent their own tire valve, or their own seat post, or their own derailleur mount, or their own handlebar stem size, or whatever the hell else because they’re salivating at the prospect of “lock in,” and they all think they’re the first genius to think of it. The market resoundingly ignores them, they go bankrupt and implode, and we all laugh. Rinse, repeat.
Things are starting to backslide with electric bicycles, though. Motherfuckers are insisting on using proprietary plugs and connectors, battery interfaces, etc., and most especially apps as every goddamn e-bike apparently feels the need to be app connected now for some reason. In that space in specifically some manufacturers are getting away with it.
The backsliding can only go so far until consumers get fed up and invent their own solutions.
Batteries aren’t hard tech. Open up any bike battery case and it’s just a string of 18650 cells strung together with a BMS chip. All highly replaceable.
the 1980s and 1990s were a horrible age for shitty cheap bikes, not sure if it could be worse
Pp ok x
I’ll rent you a chain for $7 a month if you’re interested
Not much I can say about my latest readdiction to Mindustry that isn’t pretty basic stuff. I suck at the game, so my strategy is basically “random bull go!” at various points and hope I am good. My conveyor management isn’t the best, so it’s an absolute mess that would make a lot of people cry. Same with how I do factory and power management. Wouldn’t put up any videos because it would make people generally angry. Basically the same reason I don’t show my cable management.
As for my very on and off furry obsession that is becoming more on than off, I have been playing through New Super Lucky’s Tale. I really like how simple yet charming the main character design is. Got to the 2nd hubworld. Pretty good platformer. Combines my all time favorite game genre with anthro animals, so I approve wholeheartedly! Been thinking of getting the full release of KilaFlow, which is furry adjacent enough for me to have played and LOVED the demo! It’s a fast paced 3D precision platformer where you have to replay the levels multiple times if you want all the level clear rewards. Has a computer theme because it’s basically you being a program written to clean up infected files in the form of animal like creatures.
I have nothing new to show on the music or Linux front other than I have been recently obsessed with a CD I got last month. Artist is KZlivetune and the CD album is と. It features various artists instead of livetune themselves singing, similar to Zedd never singing himself AFAIK. Is currently the album I consider to be my crown jewel.
Mindustry is fun! I haven’t played in a while, though. Protip: Ctrl+click a router :)
When writing BASH scripts:
- The
.shextension isn’t necessary. - Using
/usr/bin/env bashis better than/bin/bashas not everyone has their bash located in bin. - Try to use local variables when you can. If you use global variables that won’t be used anywhere else, unset them at the end of your script.
- Don’t use
set -euo pipefail. It will only cause more issues down the road. - Functions are your friend. If your repeating code, put it in a function.
These are some of the tips I learned while learning bash.
Don’t use set -euo pipefail. It will only cause more issues down the road.
Wait why? It’s dangerous if the script silently fails surely.
Also a cool tip
( Long Code here You want to track ) | tee -a log.txtIf writing a lot of bash scripts, I really recommend shellcheck. It’s a linter for bash that gives a lot of good advice and points out common issues/inefficiencies and errors. There’s plugins for most editors or you can just run it in a terminal. I also like that it has good documentation that tells you why something might be wrong or inadvisable.
- The
It’s not salt that hardens pulses (beans, lentils etc.), it’s acid. Salt your beans from the start, they’ll taste better. Also, most beans dont need to be soaked first, just cook them longer or start them hard for 20 mins then turn down the heat. Chickpeas, however, need to be soaked, unless you cook them with baking soda. But then you lose out on the aquafaba, so I say soak em.
My latest constructed language, Hearthsider (just started this week). None of this will make sense but here we go:
Verbs are a closed class. To form complete sentences you use an equivalent of “do”, plus a verbal noun phrase. This noun phrase can have determiners such as articles attached to them, which indicate things like whether the action was performed only once, repeatedly, etc. To say “X verbs Y”, it would translate literally to “X does Y a verb”. Plurality will likely not be indicated on nouns but will be in articles.
rMl t qb b sBsb zGK Light do 2sg a shine friend“Light shine upon you, friend!”
This is a fairly common greeting crosslinguically, so I have translations in my other two conlangs:
Outlander:
sg Bqqbsd rkr PLr sg Bqqb-sd PLr 2sg.AMI illuminate-OBJ lightCommonthroat:
L rLPq-p BCq-b sFsF-qn OPT light-3D illuminate-NA friend-2Here are the gloss abbreviations:
2sg = 2nd person singular pronoun
OPT = optative modal
2sg.AMI = 2nd person singular amicable pronoun
-OBJ = Object focus/trigger suffix
-3D = 3rd person distal noun suffix
-NA = Nonauthoritative verbal mood
-2 = 2nd person noun suffixVowel do a disappear why friend? Is there a vowel harmony type deal and they change, are you just listing root constents like a semitic language? Or have completely misunderstood and “rMl t qb b sBsb zGK” is not supposed to be the Hearthsider pronunciations?
Oh there are vowels, they’re just written differently. These are xenolangs, languages spoken by aliens, specifically These guys:
With a vocal tract like that they’re not going to be speaking the king’s English (or any other human language) any time soon. There are only eight qualitatively different noises they can make, and most languages only make use of six of them. Whines, growls, and grunts are “vowels”, and huffs (a quick exhalation through the nose), chuffs, and yips are “consonants”. They can also hiss, either plain or trilled, but only Hearthsider uses hisses in actual words.
They supplement this very meager set of sounds with contrasting vowel pitches (high, low, rising, and falling), but also volumes (weak, strong, weakening, and strengthening). Vowel length and “timing” are also important. There are long and short vowels, but also early (two-vowel sequences where the second vowel is held longer than the first, making the change “early” in the syllable) and late (holding the first vowel longer than the second, making the change “late” in the syllable)
Here’s a phoneme inventory for Hearthsider.
Vowels:
Phonation Tone Weak Strong Short Long Short Long Whine High d D f F Low b B c C Growl High j J k K Low g G h H Grunt High n N p P Low l L m M Hiss Plain t T v V Trilled w W x X And here are the consonants:
Phonation Tone Weak Strong Short Long Short Long Whine High d D f F Low b B c C Growl High j J k K Low g G h H Grunt High n N p P Low l L m M Hiss Plain t T v V Trilled w W x X Some random fun facts: Commonthroat has no pronouns. You have to either drop the word completely (very common on Earth) or inflect a noun in first, second, or third person (vary rare but not unknown on Earth, see Elamite). Outlander has a politeness distinction, with transactional, amicable, familial, and reverential pronouns in second and third person. Using familial pronouns to refer to coworkers or employees is considered vulgar unless they’re literally family. Last, Hearthsider has (or will have) a bunch of swear words drawn from liturgical vocabulary (cf Canadian French).
All languages use “to smell” where we would say “to feel” as in “feel happy” etc, because emotions are communicated through their musk. There is a rich set of “odor colors” that describe subjective olfactory experiences, rather than the typical (Western) human way of resorting to comparisons with sources of odors. In contrast, their color vocabulary works like English’s odor vocabulary. Other than “light” and “dark” they can only relate color sensations to familiar objects that are so colored, mostly fruits.
Ah! I wondered if it might be vowelless for such a reason. Fun! Big fan of Elam, but i don’t know many details of the language beyond the (increasingly solid, i believe) status as a sister-branch alongside Dravidian.
Thanks for sharing!!
I turned my hyper fixation into lemmy communities! You can too!
!carnivore@discuss.online - There are fives of us, fives!
!ketogenic@discuss.online - Dozens!
Tell you what. These are my hyperfixations by decade of life:
- Stargate SG1
- Anatomy and Physiology, Psychology, and Sociology of Sex
- Violence Prevention and Management in Psychiatry (actually became enough of an expert in this to teach)
- Esoteric Spiritual Practices including Tarot, Astrology, and Tea Leaf reading.
AMA, LOL
So I got interested in Tarot, coming at it from the opposite direction of learning that modern playing cards derived from them from my days of playing Magic: the Gathering and learning the phrase “Swords to Plowshares” is how we have Spades and not swords, but you still “cut” the book when playing spades as a trump suit in the card game.
So after that random run-on bit of origin, do you know of any card games that use the full 78 card Tarot deck? I’ve looked into it here and there, but never anything significant.
They’re mostly trick taking games similar to spades or hearts and there’s very few apps to get into them that aren’t in Italian or French let alone any local groups to learn that aren’t in France or Italy.
I’ve been trying to develop a solitaire game that uses the star chart of a chosen date-time/location as the board but I’m having difficulty working out the core mechanic of the 12 point solitaire game let alone the sign/house/planet modifiers.
And before you mention clock solitaire there’s basically no actual choice in that game all of the moves are purely determined by the state dealt at the beginning.
i dont have high hopes for the new sg series, consider what they done with the current amazon ip shows, BOYZ had a really bad final season, plus invincible glaringly obvious animation decay+ spending all thier budget on expensive VAs. i started getting fixated sg clips, and some of the sgu episodes i have been rewatching from an obscure channels. i notice youtube caught on to some of these videos once people started rewatching the show. i felt the budget for amazon shows got sucked up by ROP
idk how to respond to this other than yeah it’s probably gonna suck. Tbh I wouldn’t WANT them to go big budget and especially not cinematic; a big draw of Stargate was that people who have worked or lived in similar institutional settings are like,“yup that’s the vibe!” and Amazon will probably drag things out they shouldn’t just for the extra draaama.
My hyperfixated interests tend to be about technology in general, and adjacent to that, ive recently started watching around 7 episodes of Star Trek (currently on the 1st season of The Original Series), and plan to keep watching it for a long while.
My previous fixation lasted 7 months straight, and it was obsessively researching into computer memory architectures, mainly the unified and universal memory architectures. I haven’t even become bored of it yet, it’s just something I research less in now since I did it so thoroughly that I might need a break haha.
Ive also had another one that started around 10 months ago, around the same one as the memory architecture one, but is still going, and it’s about diving into how my mind works and how I can make things easier for myself (as well as find more evidence of me being neurodivergent, which has been very successful). Ive found that I’m very likely AuDHD (if you haven’t already realised from the previous statements), and I’ve been tying in many factors, including daily behaviours, a concussion I had 3 years and 3 days ago, etc, and have compiled it into a shit ton of digital notes.
im very partial to the most recent oldtrek, enterprise. Nutrek just sucks balls all around.(besides the animated ones)
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Are you able to isolate the vocals? If so, invert the phase, and then subtract the result from the original recording.
As for isolating the vocals, I’d wager that it is panned to the center, so if you manage to isolate anything with a perfect 50/50 left/right split, what you’ll have should be the vocals. Use that as a subtractor, and the end result should be most of the music. Yes, the music probably also has something panned to the center, which you would lose in this process, but maybe it’s good enough for someone to recognize the track.
The phase inversion trick can’t be used with mono tracks, nor can other tricks that use the stereo field.
I’m working to set up my new workshop. We moved into a new house a few months ago, and I’m finally getting to setting up the shop in earnest.
I’m setting up the shop in a 3 car garage. The garage has a one car bay and a two car bay. I want to be able to actually park a car in the one car bay. So I built a large wall separating the two bays. The wall covers probably 2/3 of the width. The rest will be covered by a curtain. The two car bay will be the actual woodshop area. The one car bay will be a place to park a car and will serve as a finishing space. The wall and curtain will keep sawdust contained within the two car bay. The wall also serves as a tool wall. Here’s what the wall currently looks like:
From the other side:
The wall is about 10’ wide and 12’ high.
In my old shop I had even more on the wall. But I’m trying out moving most of my bladed tools into a tool chest. I was going to build one, but I found this old steamer trunk by the side of the road. From the manifest glued to the back it looks like it was used by an air force airman in the 1980s to ship things home from Japan. I’ll be using it as a tool chest. I wanted to put wheels on it. But as it’s a bit of an artifact I didn’t want to actually modify the trunk itself or drill into. Instead I built a little cart for it to roll around on.
After I finish here, the last big step in setting up the shop will be installing the dust collection system. And I went overboard on this. This is very much a dream shop setup I’m building out. Currently in a bunch of boxes strewn about the shop is an entire Oneida Dust Gorilla and a network of piping to service the various machines.
I so wish I had a garage…
My workshop is in a (former) bedroom in a smallish UK terrace house and it’s so hard to keep the dust contained, and impossible to work with full sheet materials
Looking fab so far!
Thanks! The garage is nice. It has some real advantages. When it’s all set up, I’ll be able to back the pickup truck to the garage door and take a full sheet of plywood directly from the truck bed to the workbench. When the weather is nice, I like to open the doors and just work in the fresh air. Finally, while I do sweep and vacuum up, there’s always a little bit of dust left over. For that little bit of dust, I can grab the leaf blower and just blow the last bit of really fine dust out the garage door.
Mate I do sometimes wish I was American, or at least lived out in the country, just for the sake of S P A C E!
I love my little terraced house, but my little shed can’t hold that much and I want a workshop for my electronics
I’m getting hyperfixated on each one of these answers and it’s quite a shock to go to the next one. “Wait. How is a BASH script supposed to help build a garage workshop?”
Well. Let’s see…
My local community is dealing with a 150MW BESS facility that is scheduled to be built over the next 18 months so I’m trying to educate my other half on that so she can inject a little stability into the current group of doom and gloom. We have a ton of windpower nearby and a data center being built about 20 miles away with a few other BESS’ being built within about 40 miles.
I’m in the process of prepping the install of a new meter base, Enphase System Controller 3, Enphase IQ5 Combiner, and all the wiring for the system to function properly. I did some initial work last week to rebuild and insulate the exterior wall which has gained about 6 inches of thickness and is now insulated to R29. Hopefully on the 20th I can get the next portion done and everything finished for solar panel and battery installation.
I’m also working on a little project that will kind of recreate and reimagine one of the little slow MMO browser games. There was one I used to play called Aargh that was basically a big square map you could move around on and do little things or send messages to people. My version will have visuals for people using IPFS and more plain for regular users, and run almost completely using free Cloudflare services outside of IPFS assets. They are called slow MMO’s because you have a limited number of movement actions per day and you can not bank actions for later use. I’m still in the preliminary planning stage but I’m looking at two environments, one with actions that can move large distances around the map and another environment that is more limited and has a debuff which will prevent more actions if you do something wrong. It may never work and I doubt it will be popular but I think it will be interesting to try and build.
(This is a really cool thread OP, thanks for this - favourited!)
yea I think this is a great idea too
