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I didn't read it in Arnold's voice till I saw your comment, so thank you.

But would you have refused to buy that guitar if it looked a little more different than a Fender Stratocaster? You clearly aren't bothered by it having a different headstock shape,…

I've been playing long enough that I disagree. Fender's quality is very good now compared to when I started playing. But so is everyone else's.

This is completely true, and there's a good reason. Almost everything anyone has tried to do to modernize electric guitars in a non-compatible way has had big downsides. Almost any…

This is incredibly hard to believe, Fender is many times bigger than PRS. Fender sells at least 10x more guitars than PRS.

I play guitar, I own a Fender guitar and a Fender amp, along with another non-fender amp and 2 other non Fender guitars. I'm just super sick of hearing about this story. Guitar pla…

Is this thing the basis of what Apple is doing in the Photos app in the most recent OS revisions? It seems to work a lot quicker than 30s now on iDevices and Macs.

All of it is good but none of it is a shortcut. The greats who became so good doing this had massive amounts of time to do it and put in massive amounts of effort.

I guess I'm showing my age but having read stuff like Michel Abrash's books years ago this article was a bit underwhelming. Like no one who wrote any code back in the 80s or 90s ev…

You might be able to argue he was a bigger star than any of them. His career lasted far longer. He had big movie appearances for 30 years, none of those people accomplished that. N…

The only problem with Chromebooks and the whole Google educational toolchain is it ruins school! My kid is on it, every kid hates it and every teacher hates it. You just can't argu…

This won't actually work. A Fuzz Face works the way it does because it actually gets affected by the guitar's impedance changing as you work the knobs on the guitar and pick differ…

There are certainly guitarists who can play simultaneous melodies. If you're limiting to a 6 string guitar the distance between the two melodies would be limited compared to a pian…

The whole thing about people being defensive is interesting. I love techno, but anyone who has learned other styles of music recognizes the repetitiveness and quirks of a lot of te…

LOL. Las Vegas water prices are ridiculously low for the paltry amount of water they have. It's hard to get people to not waste the water when the price is artificially kept low. L…

Reactions to your statement seem to hinge on whether or not the person replying has a CS degree from a math focused program! It makes perfect sense to me.

I still have an expensive Canon dedicated slide/film scanner from 20 years ago. IIRC at some point their value started going up as they became rare. Mine did something like 50MP sc…

Another reason that this matters (which is artificial) is that at least in the US so many car owners are on "permanent car payments". They never pay off their cars and trade them i…

This actually sounds a lot like the US problems with energy (electrical, gas) infrastructure and also things like telephone and internet providers. They've almost always got a stat…

The Fahrenheit scale is European, not American. It was created in Poland well before the United States broke off from Great Britain. We're just slow to change.

People will grumble switching from Slack to Teams but it won't actually mess up the business. Our business unit within a large public company was using it and we were spun off, Sla…

I don't re-read that much "fun" material. But I totally get it, some stuff is so good it will seem like a better option to re-read it compared to trying something new. That is an e…

This says it. Actual "tech" circles were historically not super into the Mac. Of course there were some people who loved it, but the bulk of the classic Mac fanbase was design type…

The writer seems to be one of the older crowd that made being a Mac user a huge part of their identity in the 80s and 90s. In the 80s that was tied in with the Mac being a pretty s…

It's the left wing gaslighting everyone over all the issues caused by making it harder and harder to build anything. You blame landlords and PE when in actuality the government has…