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You can discover beliefs that are shocking today, such as this excerpt from the article "Adolescence": "In the case of girls, let them run, leap and climb with their brothers for t…

Learn to play by ear. Practice scales. Practice arpeggios. Learn open chords. Learn barre chords. Learn moveable shapes. Learn to move among chord shapes. Practice with a metronome…

The AirPods Max are the most comfortable headphones I've ever worn. My head and my ears are both significantly larger than average and they are the only ones that don't squash my e…

Is there some important shortcoming of all the existing Common Lisp implementations that you would like to correct?

Do you have a goal in mind for this project?

The lack of agreement on how to spell chord symbols is a genuine problem. Brandt and Roemer's 1976 Standardized Chord Symbol Notation provides a reasonable standard, which was adop…

There are now six volumes of Real Books from Hal Leonard, plus a several others organized around genres or artists, plus the Sher Music books. A few thousand songs. Not every playe…

If the band is flipping through their books, paper or electronic, to choose what tune to play next, that isn't a performance worthy of the term. It's a jam session. Which is fine, …

iReal Pro is a great resource, but what it provides are not lead sheets, they are just chord charts. Lead sheets have the melody of the song in standard notation, along with chord …

First-class continuations remains the hardest nut to crack to implement any full specification of Scheme, especially if performance and/or compactness and/or simplicity of implemen…

I was lucky enough to meet Alonzo Church and Haskell Curry at the ACM Symposium on LISP and Functional Programming at CMU in August 1982. Curry was clearly not well and only lived …

"Whatever you can get away with" is the entire basis of equal temperament.

It's a shame to describe the tritone sub for G7 as C# F G# B, when the proper way to spell it is either Db F Ab Cb or C# E# G# B. Of course, then you'd have to explain about enharm…

Gosling created a Unix clone of the PDP-10 Emacs in 1981, about five years later.

Obviously this is a joke, but the real message should be: if you can't manage your own memory, you should be using a language implementation with automatic memory management. If yo…

Dynamic scoping is usually implemented with shallow binding, where a single value cell for a variable is located at a fixed address, with each new binding saving and restoring the …

Hot take: the third chord should be D, not G.

32GB is just for the system. It has a microSD slot for music.

He said "in the 10s", so I guess it could be up to a couple hundred. Still, a remarkably small number for a business like that.

We may live in the future, but many of us still work with people who live in the past. I know Apple always tries hard to be forward-thinking, but USB-A is one of those ubiquitous s…

If I had to choose between an SD card slot and a USB-A port, I definitely would have chosen a USB-A port. I would take both, if possible. I would even give up a USB-C port for a US…

Or you can just treat your smart TV like a dumb TV. If you ignore the smart part, they generally work just fine as a monitor and speakers and HDMI input switch with ARC and CEC. Ch…

https://emacsformacosx.com/ is a very good port to MacOS. One advantage of Emacs on MacOS is that the Command key is not part of the traditional Emacs key bindings. This port uses …

Not quite. The organization will defend the organization, but a more mature and less toxic organization will do that by removing the toxic elements instead of enabling them. The fo…

Bluetooth audio quality, while still noticeably worse than wired connections, is much better on iOS devices using the AAC codec than on earlier codecs. Check device specs before bu…