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Post by zuppy »

colkassad wrote: post #397
zuppy wrote: post #266

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Just ordered my first guitar and audio interface yesterday. Any tips for really starting from 0? I will be looking for some online courses, but there’s so much information online that it is hard for me to find out which is good for absolute beginners and which is not.

Not sure what exists out there, I started over 25 years ago. A good first step is to learn chords, starting with major and minor versions of each chord. Get comfortable switching between them. This is where most people quit as a lot of chords are not friendly to untrained fingers. What can help with this is a concept called the "1, 4, 5" rule (it's actually called the I, IV, V rule but let's keep it simple). Basicall…

thank you very much (to you and to all others who replied). i went with an electric guitar as it will allow me to play during the night, without bothering neighbours. when i will get better i would love an acoustic, especially for flamenco.

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Post by kevstev »

I have always felt I have not really understood things from the bottom up in terms of CS- like how do we really get from bits to software? I have been building Ben Eater's 6502 computer, which has been mostly enjoyable (cutting/stripping wires and getting them into the exact right small little hole is tedious at best, hurts my back at worst).

I have also been reading Modern Operating Systems by Tanenbaum- though a quite old edition from the early 200s- wondering if its worth putting on hold until I can get my hands on a newer edition.

Next up, I'd like to do Ben Eater's 8 bit computer as well as nand2tetris.

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Post by yboris »

ruslanuchan wrote: post #571

I've been into literature and philosophy for some time now. I'm following the "Masterpieces of World Literature" course [1] and have finished "Beyond Good and Evil" last month, currently reading Kierkegaard's Either/Or. Aside from that, I'm also participating in Leetcode 30 days of code challenge [2] [1] https://www.edx.org/course/masterpieces-of-world-literature [2] https://leetcode.com/explore/featured/card/30-day-…

Whenever it comes to philosophy, I always recommend Peter Singer -- just about anything by him is great. Consider Practical Ethics [1], or the recently-released-free The Life You Can Save 10th anniversary edition [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Ethics-Peter-Singer/dp/0521...

[2] https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/the-book/

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Post by rb666 »

Amesharea wrote: post #645
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For nutrition and diet I can highly recommend "How Not To Die" by Dr. Michael Gregger: https://nutritionfacts.org/book/

Isn't he completely anti-meat / pro-vegan? His research is cherry picked to a large part and he usually cites epidemiological studies. At least he did when I got into nutrition. Reading multiple books and doing research yourself is to recommend, at least there's one book with a whole website about the research used in each topic. ---> Boundless by Ben Greenfield.

Both "How not to Die" and "How not to Diet" contain hundreds and even into the thousands of references. All meticulously fact-checked by a team of researchers.

If all the research points to "meat" being problematic, wouldn't a truthful book be considered "anti-meat"? I am a meat lover myself, but Greger seems to follow the scientific process to the letter.

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Post by msci100 »

I'm writing a movie script.

It's a horror movie about a guy who renovates foreclosed houses for banks. But one of the houses he goes into has a ghost in it. He has to solve the mystery of why the ghost is there before he can leave.

I call it: "Repossessed"

Working tagline: "This is for closure."

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Post by iimblack »

gotts wrote: post #591
StrauXX wrote: post #24

Clojure! I played around with common lisp a bit a some months ago, though I basically used none of the lisp specific features like macros. After reading a few blog posts on functional programming and "the lisp way" I have decided to buy a book on Clojure. My end goal (for now) is to build a basic website with a backend.

Try out https://github.com/fulcrologic/fulcro-template full stack Clojure web app template powered by Fulcro.

Fulcro is huge and might be a lot if you're just starting to learn Clojure too. IMO Luminus is a pretty nice option that lets you start simple and add more complicated pieces as you require.

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Post by ebiester »

As I have a little time on my hands a few things.

Non-technical: I'm learning to create music to help satisfy my creative side. I'm starting with the piano, and when I can get to a basic proficiency, I'll slow down and jump to some voice lessons I bought a while back. Then, I'll put it together with reaper, using some of what I learned as a teenager.

Technical-Creative: I'm returning to my project to do a deeper dive on what makes programmers bad, mediocre, good, or great, and creating a track that others can follow. While I have the framework already, I am trying to learn a whole set of skills well enough to teach others.

Technical: I'm patching up holes in my EcmaScript ecosystem knowledge. I never really took the time to truly grok Shadow Dom, the Redux patterns, and the like, even though I was managing a team who was working in it.

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