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It should be "novus ludus" not "nova ludus". (now go and write 100 times...)

Fwiw that post states:

It has been pointed out to us that since we have our servers in the US, we are under US jurisdiction. We do not believe this to be the case. We do not have a legal presence in the US, no company incorporated in the US, no staff in the US, and no one in the US with login access to any servers located in the US. Even if a US court were to serve us with a court order, subpoena or other instruction to hand over user data, Australian communications and privacy law explicitly forbids us from doing so.

"Mental content" seems way to broad for what is rather the sensorimotor part of speech.

Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-03069-4

https://listenbrainz.org/ is an open source scrobbler, with the advantage that it leverages the musicbrainz database and connects listens to artist and track IDs instead of names, avoiding duplicate confusion. You can keep last.fm and submit to both of you like.

Not sure how much difference this makes over the long run

I tune in all fourths as well. For me it has made a huge difference since I made the jump some years ago. Putting voicings, patterns, etc., into muscular memory is faster and a lot less work. For my purposes, it makes the instrument more intuitive with a better ear-hand connection. Even very advanced players trip on the G-B strings oddity (with things like playing a fast, angular melody on different string sets, without preparation, for example).

Or just clone into local-projects and quicklisp will load from there.

Org-mode

I use the <apps> key, usually I hit it with the base of my right hand.

Actually most if not all of those verb endings are used colloquially (the most important exception would be the second person plural, which is only used in some regions of Portugal).

I don't know about phenomenal AI, but Band-in-a-box is a classic tool for this kind of thing.

project: https://github.com/chee/eclweb

I like the snappy UI, but I think it needs a search box for communities/posts at least.

It's very obvious because you have to activate the wdired mode, and then accept the changes.

most of the post IIWW ("classical") music that was composed in Europe is so unconnected to - not just wider audience - but what I'd call a physical aspect of music: pulse and resonance

On the contrary, pulse and resonance are two of the most intensively explored themes on post WW2 music!

Just two examples from the top of my head (among uncountable others...):

- pulse: https://youtu.be/qdzvk1BJOBQ (Ligeti)

- resonance: https://youtu.be/1v7onrjN6RE (Grisey)

AFAIK, yes: https://www.sbcl.org/manual/index.html#Threading

I didn't try Corman Lisp (I will), but it should be noted that sbcl works just fine in windows, despite a warning it used to carry about it being unstable. The difficulty of developing in windows, in my experience, has more to do with external things like ssl or sqlite, that may not be present in the system or may not be installed in the way that's expected by a lisp library, which wasn't as tested under windows.

Despite the title, I don't think the article is about algebra "making you smarter", but more whether you can learn it successfully and if by pursuing such an endeavor you can hamper age-induced cognitive decline.

I'm a guitarist/composer/improvisor/programmer. Listen here: http://nunotrocado.com/projectos.html

In my opinion -- this is only my opinion -- immersion by living in a country is overrated as a technique. It helps for sure, but it really isn't necessary. The elements above are what are needed -- without these, even immersion is ineffective. I've met Irish guys living in Barcelona who couldn't speak any of the local languages. I've first hand experience living in several places where I never learned the local language because there was always a way around it.

Immersion works when there's no other way around it. In particular for native english speakers, you'd have to be in a situation where either most people you interact with don't know enough english for communication to be effective, or (and this is very rare in my limited experience) you would have to make an effort to stop using your native language altogether, even when locals address you in it. It also helps when there aren't any family/friends/compatriots around so you can't really "cheat" and you won't be able to function on a daily basis unless you learn and practice the local language.

If it matters, as a customer /user, I'd rather forego all my data on their cloud and wait whatever time is necessary for them to rebuild the systems, than have Garmin pay the ransom.

Let me put this in a more constructive way: why do you think "global media" are rooting for Bolsonaro's failure? And: given the less than ideal infrastructure to face the pandemic, what has been Bolsonaro's policy to counteract this? Can we honestly say that he's been "doing what he can"?

How chilling that several Brazilian posters are actually afraid of publishing negative opinions about the government.

Political leader which doesn't fit

He doesn't fit because he's more incompetent, more corrupt, more egocentric, emptier of any moral values, more oblivious to the interests of his co-citizens, than any other political leader ever was (in Brazil and elsewhere), right?

There's cl-collider (https://github.com/byulparan/cl-collider) for those interested in controlling the SuperCollider server with Common Lisp, which is a particular fruitful combination (DSLs, flexibility, etc).

If you have, say, a list on consecutive lines with a blank line in between them, and you want to delete a character after the second word, add some text at the end, and delete the blank line - with keyboard macros you record these transformations once and then apply them to the rest of the items.

WSL2 is great but there are still some very annoying bugs, like when the host sleeps/hibernates and the clock drifts [1], or windows detach from the x server and can't be brought back.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4114

What was the students' response? Did they have a background in programming?

I feel that text is actually more effective, even though I agree there's much to commend about visual dataflow languages for music. But all the dragging around boxes and connections can become irksome, not to mention the energy spent aligning stuff and trying to prevent the (inevitable) dish of spaghetti that you get above a small level of complexity. Other general advantages of text: faster editing (leverage the features of the IDE, keyboard vs mouse, etc.), easier to organize and comment code, generally easier to debug, version control, and some languages are much more flexible and powerful than anything graphical. See Supercollider, and its clients using various general purpose languages, csound, Faust, and many others. Max and PD are great though, with a nicer learning curve, fantastic projects done with them and a thriving community of users. Each to his/her own...

Guitarrist here, played hundreds or thousands of standards gigs.

It's true that you can assume that good musicians will play a tune in any given key. However, I think in the real world nobody plays equally well in all keys. Also, even for instrumentalists, things don't lay the same way in different keys. Sometimes people intentionally call tunes in uncommon keys to force them off the beaten path, which is telling.

I think singers should be able to sing in all keys, just like everybody else. That said, in a jam session, student practice or other informal setting it's recommended that the singer brings sheet music for everyone for other keys than the "usual one". Also nowadays people will reach for their cell phone and "real book" app.

On the other hand, I won't be caught reading standards off the paper in public, so there's that too.