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Is that last one actually Garage Band? I used to use it a very long time ago and I don't remember it ever looking like that. It does, however, look basically the same as Logic does today. I'm not sure if I'd consider it a good GUI or not.

How old is your paperwhite? I upgraded mine around the same time of the post you're replying to with roughly the same length inbetween. The difference in page turn between the two devices is night and day. The new ones are insanely fast. With that being said, it is noticeable and not nearly as quick as an iPad. Check out some demoes though to see if it is tolerable for you.

There are definitely other ways to derive all this but with a quick glance you don't really need to do any computation involving intervals. The key is either the second to last flat, a half step up from the last sharp, C, or F. To me this is much simpler than seeing 3 sharps and going, C->G->D->A. It's definitely good to know the latter but definitely not necessary for ascertaining the key.

> I was not learning to name the key signatures

It was mentioned the person was trying to memorize all these with anki or something. There's actually no need. You only need to memorize 2 key signatures and the rest follow a pattern.

C major has 0 sharps/flats F major has 1 flat

Every sharp key is a half step up from the last sharp shown. G major has 1 sharp F#. G is a half step up from F#. In A major the last sharp is G#, etc.

In flat keys, it's the second flat to the right. Bb has two flats in the signature. Bb and Eb. Ab has 4 where Ab is the 3rd.

All minor keys are a minor third down from their major key. Of course, you have to look at more of the music to determine if it is a in major or minor key.

If you can remember that you can tell what any key signature is pretty quickly.

This is the first thing I noticed when I saw a sample of music. How useful could sight reading random notes actually be? I can't imagine it's completely useless but a lot of music is remarkably similar and quite predictable. I'd imagine practicing sight reading music with real structure would be far more useful for understanding those patterns and helping learn new and more complex pieces.

I play electric bass and this comes up a lot in that community. Besides using different picks where you pick/pluck the strings also greatly affects the tone, whether it's right over the picks up, towards the bridge, near the neck, etc.

Also when using a pick, the angle at which you strike the strings with the pick affects the tone. Such as keeping the pick flat versus angled to the strings. I don't really know how to explain it well in words hopefully that makes sense.

Not sure I'll ever use this as it seems like a lot of work but wanted to say thank you for allowing me to download a demo without giving an email.

Also, even though I said I wouldn't use it, something that would be nice is a master volume, maybe I missed it. I often use VSTs standalone and being able to change the volume without messing with the preset would make it a bit easier to use.

Definitely the most interesting synth I've ever seen.

I'm an ok French speaker, technically my second language although I "learned" Spanish in high school. At some point in a conversation people will realize I am not a native speaker but I can get by. I used a variety of things, including Duolingo for a while and Babbel for a bit, both of which I started on. Based on my experience, neither will get you very far for speaking. You'd be better off getting a real teacher or taking a class.

I'm not convinced it would work very well on making you a better player but who knows. Either way, it sounds like a good way to injure yourself. Piano is a very percussive instrument and if you're hitting the keys with any force and they don't give the way you expect them to I imagine that won't be very great for your joints.

This seems like the subject part of RxSwift/Combine without any of the useful parts. For example, the networking example requires an explicit property whereas the code I would use for something like this would be to return an Observable directly. For most use cases, you don't have to handle state separately. Basically, this seems more complicated than using something like callbacks with this only having some very edge case benefits to that.

I graduated in this time period and that makes sense. I definitely didn't start doing what I wanted until some time later. I guess in a sense that makes my career overall a few years behind resume wise but at this point, being in the industry 15 years instead of 17 probably isn't going to move the needle too much in terms of salary but who knows. Either way, at this point in time, I don't feel like I've missed out really.

Also, I graduated from a pretty mediocre state school. I'm by no means starving.

I stopped after a few classes but I was amazed at how good I got in a short amount of time after learning how to break stuff down which isn't something I really thought about before. By all metrics I'm still a pretty terrible drawer but prior to that stick figures would have been challenging.

I do remember that. Sorry I can't find a better website but this is a similar joke.

https://www.reddit.com/r/restofthefuckingowl/comments/6f71jm...

I can't speak to this but I took a drawing class a long time ago. I'm not very good but it was a lot of drawing circles. When you see people freehand stuff it's kind of wild but that's not how people learn how to draw they're just very good at it from practice. Most of learning is drawing very basic shapes, usually circles, and erasing parts that don't make sense and continuing.

I'm assuming there are additional GDPR compliance asks in Europe when using apps. If that's the case I don't see how that is Apple's fault. I wish this article was a bit better but after reading a few of them I still don't get what the actual complaint is.

I think that's just life. I felt the same way in 2005 as you did. By 2015 when this person is talking about I had other life priorities and stopped playing games as much. I still play games from time to time and even get addicted here and there but, at least for me, I didn't stop playing because the quality of games went down. I can't really say they've gone up either though. If anything people have made about the same amount of great games, and bad ones, each year for a while now.

If that's all you want you can very easily do this with a cheap mixer and two devices capable of streaming.

What's the reasoning behind being over 40? I recently complained to my optometrist that I was having a harder time seeing things up close and he prescribed me weaker lenses for work/reading. My regular prescription is right around -7 in both eyes. I'm not over 40.

I imagine < 10000. https://github.com/KeeyanGhoreshi/PokemonFireredSingleSequen... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gjsAA_5Agk. I believe this is something like 200k and is a slightly different game. Quite a bit less than 10m either way.

A lot of people are focusing on the courier aspect of all this which is fine, but I didn't know there were any lotteries you could just outright win, with a profit, if you had enough money to buy enough tickets. I assumed people would design lotteries where the cost/reward ratio was such that this would never make sense.

Moonwalking with Einstein is a fun book. "Your Memory" by Higbee I read maybe 15-20 years ago and it's more on how to do this kind of stuff. I was able to memorize a deck of cards quite quickly at one point but these techniques require quite a bit of practice to keep.

Also, most of this information is freely available online at this point and there are a ton of resources for finding it probably but I remember it being a pretty useful book at the time.

At least in this case, by crossword conventions, the answer has to match the tense of the clue. At least all the ones I did followed this convention including the one you're talking about.

I did not see the one angry_moose is talking about but in a normal crossword, even without seeing the number of letters, if the clue was like, "Most populous city in the US" -> NYC vs "Most populous city in the United States" -> New York City. Again, not sure if that was the case here since I didn't see it. (edit: I went and saw it, the clue had MSG vs Madison Square Garden hence, NYC, not New York City)

Cool puzzle though.

Logic and Serato do 4 with a few clicks. The results in both are pretty good, definitely good enough for what this person is trying to do although with one less track I guess.

I agree Xcode might be one of the worst IDEs I have ever used but at basically every company I've worked for the update cycle was maybe once or twice a year and for the most part was painless. There's been maybe one or two upgrades of Xcode in my ~13 year career that were a headache.

I have no idea what libraries you're talking about but you don't really need to use any third party libraries to build a good iOS app. Unless you're doing something incredibly obscure most of the big/popular ones are very well maintained.

Can't speak for every app but I've worked on several through the years, a sizeable chunk of all the apps I've worked on were assets. It's possible to hide a lot of it from the app store size if you really wanted to but you'd end up downloading all the assets at some point anyway so there's really no point in putting the extra engineering effort in just to make your app store number look smaller.

This obviously isn't the case for every app and most of the ones I've worked on had a lot of bloat/crap in them as well.

I took skiing lessons a couple years ago. This is how it was done. I can't say it was any easier as I had never skied before and I never will again.

It's been a while since I watched it and I'm pretty sure he wasn't in debt but I thought the reason he decided to do it was to help pay for the treatment so he didn't go in debt and to leave a nest egg behind for his family when he died. It may not be exactly what the OP stated but it's a pretty similar situation.

If resources are limited and you plan on charging any type of money for the app, either one time or as a subscription, it's almost always better to go iOS first and port to Android later. I obviously can't speak for the ecosystems as a whole but anecdotally of the last few companies I've worked for a strong majority of paying users came from iOS.

While I agree that basically all subtractive synthesizers work the same way I started "learning" how they work when I was ~12. It wasn't until my mid 30s until I got into modular and I realized "hey all my synths are basically routed this way, neat." Has it changed the way I think about how I make a patch? Not at all. It is cool to know how they're architected but it in no way will really help you in learning how to use them so I agree with the comment you're replying to. Get an all in one synth and start making patches.

If you gave someone an SH-101 and explained to them how it was architected it wouldn't really help them make that signature acid bass sound so ya they'd be a little more knowledgeable on how synthesizers technically work but they still wouldn't be able to make any music with it. Whereas if I showed them how to make that bass sound they could now go try it on every other subtractive synth they run into even if it doesn't sound the same. Besides that, they'd learn how a lot of it works in a musical sense which is way more important to using synths than any technical knowledge will give you if you actually want to write music.

I program everyday in Swift. I attempted AoC for the first time in Swift last year and gave up after about a week or so for this exact reason and switched to python for the remainder. I don't want to struggle with the awkward string API to do things other languages can do in a line.