sporkologist

Would it help to have a higher rust/concrete ratio?

I think a bullshit job is one where you don't get paid, or get paid very little.

I just think of that f***ing Disney smirk.

It's obviously his fault, but the cops could have prevented him from tragically taking his own life

drugs and heart disease being the main cause of Floyd's death

It's Floyd's fault, he was minutes from death's door, wheezing and barely hanging on to life, when the police showed up and tried to extend his life by kneeling on his neck, but he was too ill and he passed away as if by coincidence

They are intimidating them, you know, like fascists do sometimes

The 2nd amendment is good for them, the 1st, not so much

There are toddlers running amok in government! At least this time we're not talking about the President

Yeah it tells the glue machine to lay it on a little thicker next time.

Yeah but it's still "Elon's 2nd hand NFT"

Do NFT's really only have value upon their first sale? Wouldn't that be basically a donation to Elon with no expectation of value on the secondary market?

No, more likely Microsoft Paint 3D

3-axis mill for $45k? And looks flimsy. Compare to a Haas at the same price.

This legislator needs to know that the Beatles are using backwards masking on their records and this is causing the youth to be rebellious

How does your service compare to Protolabs?

Take sand out, put a bunch of highly processed synthetic polymers in. Sounds good for the environment.

Calculators are faster, they have real buttons. Much more reliable than hoping you hit the right area on the glass screen with your not-so-precise finger.

I couldn't find a source for that, but if they did that, they are screwed, because no physical chain of evidence (videos of the drawing, the actual lotto ball machine, etc)

Sure you can say non-funny things, but don't expect your audience to stick around forever, if they are searching for laffs.

It's very hard to imagine a machine that could pull this one off. Was each lottery ball prepared with a weight that would favor it? What kind of mechanical scheme is even possible that could do this? An extremely precise lightning-fast hidden OCR-reading robot system? I'm on the side of "shit happens" for this one.

Less-funny people complaining

The keyboard is extremely inefficient. It was not designed for efficiency. It was designed to look like the Ionian mode, with accidentals on a separate row.

If you are offering the Janko keyboard as any kind of alternative, I would have to politely disagree. The video with the guy playing stride piano from 1912 was not really that compelling given music especially since 1920. But, like Coltrane brought back the soprano sax from relative obscurity (Sidney Bechet was an early exponent of the instrument from 3 decades previous), there may very well be a new player of the Janko keyboard who brings it from the past into the present.

How efficient does one need a keyboard to be? What is the millisecond improvement of a Janko kbd over standard? Why is 10 fingers at a time on a Janko keyboard better than 10 fingers at a time on a standard keyboard? What kind of musical situation demands 10 simultaneous notes from the keyboard player? Why do you say the current standard keyboard is "extremely inefficient"?

I'm coming from a place where I do know the jargon. That doesn't mean I have to like it.

Why does the jargon matter? It all describes the same stuff.

I'm not talking about heptology. I'm talking about music.

It's called an analogy. It was about terminology and jargon. I'll try to be more non-abstract going forward.

stop rejecting every change that diverges from the status quo out of hand. Actually consider real changes, instead of worshiping the 17th century system we use today as if it's the epitome of perfection.

Such outrage! Much lazy!

You do not welcome changes. You approach the very idea of progress with condescending skepticism.

You sure have me figured out. Progress is overrated; everyone should be playing harpsichord only. And no parallel 5ths, and also the tritone is the interval of the devil.

Instead, people like you insist we all stick with 17th century western notation for eternity

Not that good of a reader, I avoid sheet music when I can

I wish I could say that your attitude was rare in music. Unfortunately, it represents the majority in professional circles.

The attitude of needing to know your scales? I too have found that to be the prevailing attitude in professional circles. It's a quite useful attitude to have actually, when one finds themselves in musical territory.

Factoring in different muscle memory for each individual key also requires tons of extra dedicated practice. That skill is totally unnecessary, and could be completely factored out by using a chromatic layout, allowing the learner to focus a significant amount more time and effort on those other skills you mentioned.

Many musicians would pay good money to have a playing advantage like you claim.

> To get where this is second nature just requires a lot of time. Issues with the keyboard's ergonomics are small in comparison.

Agreed

I just did. Mathematical proof.

Is that right. I don't recall seeing any theorems, lemmas, axioms, or really anything resembling proving anything, mathematical or not, but I have seen a lot of blustery naïve rhetoric. Just saying an accordion-nightmare keyboard is better, does not make it so. Please pardon me if I remain skeptical.

How much evidence must I provide

How about a study that addresses your claim: "It means the student can skip learning 11/12ths of the required muscle memory. That's a very significant, and very measurable gain."

You are making a big claim here. Not sure why you're surprised that someone is asking for clarification.

the student can skip learning 11/12ths of the required muscle memory. That's a very significant, and very measurable gain.

Citation needed