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> bieng

I'm quite used to native english speakers putting e and i in random order. I understand because 'weird' is more or less pronounced like you would pronounce 'wierd' and english spelling is rather haphazard anyway. But 'bieng' is a a first . Please note, I'm not blaming you! I make plenty of mistakes myself and english spelling is weird. I'm just curious if you are a native english speaker or not?

I have a theory that for (esl) people that have different sounding ei and ie in their native language, this particular part of english spelling is actually easier than for native english speakers.

My guess is that you have english as a second language, because being (be-ing) is pronounced differently than other ei words and a native speaker would probably not write bi-eng ... was I correct?

Which is also what birds do I think. They also only have only one orifice

Look up diagrams of bird lungs.

Yes, the in/out is through the mouth+nose. But internally is' more like a one-way circle.

Interesting about that OSHA curve. I also read some (dutch) research once where they had a slightly different conclusion (though I now can't find it anywhere): People tended to underestimate the volume/sound pressure of bass , and coupled with the fact that bass is much harder to block with earplugs the loud bass at concerts was a major contributing factor to hearing damage for concert goers.

Now this does not contradict what you say, of course. It's very well possible that the human ear is less sensitive to bass and that people are underestimating the volume of bass.

Amen to that! The difference between overproduced generic 'producer music' and AI music (which is basically a remix of that I guess) is often minimal.

Both are excruciatingly boring.

90% of the music I listen these days is recordings by musicians that I saw live, and bought the CD at their gig. And even then about a quarter of the CD's I buy are misguidedly auto-tuned making the CD very bland compared to their live performance. I much prefer live recordings, where it's much harder to fix a mistake by one of the musicians because everything is audible on all microphones.

On the one hand it's great for (indy) music that you can have the equivalent of e 70s EMI studio in your living room. On the other hand the editing possibilities make people too perfectionist, wringing all personality out of their music.

It probably could. Point he's trying to make is that it very often isn't. Lots of pop music is just snapped to grid. Makes it easier to repeat and swap sections.

I'm not sure his demonstration is 'fair', as in someone really quantizing that track would probably do a slightly better job. But it does highlight the effect of over-quantization. Which happens a lot , together with the 'autotune-the-hell-out-of-it' fashion.

Lots of boring music being produced. But , while it wasn't really recorded because recording was expensive, musicians 'phoning it in' have probably always been the majority of popular music.

100% agreed.

This fashion of cranking the base and the high end and removing the middle (simulating a subwoofer with some tiny speakers, basically) can't die fast enough.

I mean, fair play for the writer. If he wants it to sound that way he's of course free to do so. But this style is used a lot in concerts and open air amplification and I hate it.

My theory is that this style is popular with people playing their music too loud. If your ear feels 'blocked' after a while, your music is too loud.

One thing with this style is that, because it leaves the middle (speech) frequencies relatively empty, it feels less blocking. And the high base makes that it doesn't really sound tinny or harsh. But they high base cane easily damage your hearing still.

Yeah for sure, you don't take it by the end of the handle for a light tap.

Still, if you want to have some guideline for that angle I would at least go for the end of the handle ;-)

I was slightly annoyed by the whole rigmarole about the angle as well. Silly of course because everybody should use the angle that suits them best. It's just that when I was taught 'hammering' as a kid, it was drilled into my head that I should always have the pivot point of the arc level with the thing I was hammering. So if you hammer from your wrist your wrist should be level with the impact point, and if swinging from the elbow the elbow should be there.

I couldn't stand angled mallets, because if you want to strike something on a flat surface you'll have to put your wrist awkwardly close to the surface.

Also, in the webpage he holds the mallet more than halfway up the handle, wasting the bottom half. I was similarly drilled to always hold it at the end of the handle to maximize the length.

And then I'm slightly annoyed because he confuses flaired and flared.

All in all a very nice website, where I can be comfortably annoyed by nice niche nerdy topics. A blast from the past in between the onslaught of AI related content ;-P

I read it as 'it's easier to dump the execs in Iceland than in space` :-D

Which might be true, though the second thing sounds promising as well...

They do the same with youtube accounts. My parents lost a ton a family movies that way. No warning either, just poof -> gone.

My uncle, who worked for oil companies all his life, always had the opinion that the Indians use english better than the English. :-)

'prepone' is an example of why I sometimes agree. Most indian guys I know also up the baudrate of english so much that they get twice the information flow compared to british english. With the disadvantage that both sides of the conversation need to speak indian english or you'll get protocol errors :-D

Yea no shit sherlock!

My stance used to be that the invention of the filter bubble combined with targeted advertising is the most dangerous invention for human society of the last 100 years.

AI turns that up to 11

Delivering the bits might not be hard. Storing the bits is hard. Or at least expensive.

st iGNUtius called it, amen. :-P