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Meh! We only need it for like 2-4 weeks a year, a fan works adequately. The nine months around that we need heating, which every home has.

Well, that was depressingly bleak. It is even AI generated.

You loosely have two major types of Ocs that are popular: English Vessel Flutes (aka "pendants") and "little geese" (aka "Japanese-fingering" or "traverse")... Pendants typically have about the same range as a Trombone. Traverse will generally have the same range as a Clarinet. Some sopranos have an extra 1-5 notes at the top allowing most recorder music to be played. You also get multi-chambered Ocs but these are "advanced" instruments.

The best way to learn is to move straight over tabs and onto to score, while playing scales and arpeggios to learn the fingerings. This will give you access to a lot more music options! (There is a TON of sheet for Trombone and Clarinet!)

The next thing to recommend is learning to transpose keys. This isn't as hard or daunting as it sounds at first! You kinda just pretend your instrument is tuned differently, this widens your options a lot.

Then the final recommendation following this would be getting yourself a chromatic tuner. One of the most challenging parts of playing the Ocarina is playing it in tune!

Some people kind of don't care, and just are out there living their best lives squeaking for the joy of it, power to them: But if you ever want to play with other people you want to learn to discipline your breath pressure to control your tone/intune.

Hello, Ocarina maker and long time player here! Ocs are unfortunately almost always significantly louder than recorders...

Hi, Ocarina maker here! This is a genuinely interesting idea, and some Ocarina like the Goslings do have a double keying with a single finger.

Sadly with English Vessel Flutes (4/6/8 holes) the holes need to all be roughly equidistant from the center of the chamber, which makes a two finger setup ergonomically complicated while keeping a tangential fipple. It is also very desirable to use the pads of the fingers to cover the holes, making a good air seal is tricky with the middle of the finger. On ergonomics, it is also worth mentioning some Ocs get quite big as well! My largest 6 hole is almost 300mm wide, my fingers are not quite long enough to span this...

When this was written there was a clearer divide between people with higher educational training, qualifications and interest and those without.

Some of us use chromatic tuners to fast (lazy) check our CNC speeds and feeds. 1/4Hz matters to me, go Korg!

xml-rpc.php paid for my pool... but I freely admit to a degree of "because the scanner said so".

In 2024 the word "Hacker" means someone who begs rich VC companies for money...

This is sadly not the correct site to find advice on doing naughty things with computers.

The elephant in the room: People who have gotten over the K8s learning curve almost all tell you it isn't actually that bad. Most people who have not attempted the learning curve, or have just dipped their toe in, will tell you they are scared of the complexity.

An anecdotal datapoint: My standard lecture teaching developers how to interact with K8s takes almost precisely 30 minutes to have them writing Helm charts for themselves. I have given it a whole bunch of times and it seems to do the job.

This article assumes a lot more self-determinism than is available in practice to most people.

Beyond that many of us have been running on fumes for years, I can't lose ten extra hours every week away from seeing my family, so I can up-skill for a new variation on the same career with ultimately the same bull.

Posting a nonsense job to accrue CVs and a call-list of details is a common tactic used by the people tasked with building the internal candidate database.

At some point an arbitrary conspiracy theory will be shown to be true; and the title of this article will have to change to read "Reducing people's belief systems through dialog with AI"...

Humanity is possibly racing to it's own destruction by making a buck along the way.

Humanity is possibly about to breed home appliances that pathfind our way to greater knowledge than we could ever have gotten to on our own.

AI might hit a wall and not progress for many years. Only time will tell...

Imagine working this hard to track down people sharing ideas, that you didn't work to produce or fund in the first place, in order to punish them for not giving you a financial cut... Companies like this are just holding humanity back.