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A big driver of cassettes then was the write ability, unlike 8 tracks. You could borrow your friend's new vinyl album, pop in a new cassette tape on your hi-fi, and record a copy of the album to the tape. Of course the Walkman then made listening to your new album fully portable.
There were consumer 8-track writers, and you could buy blank 8-tracks. But it was more expensive and less common; just never caught on.
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I do think HN should have an obit: category and filter them out the main page. It's one thing to have obits for people who wouldn't be covered by regular news, but "75 year old celebrity dies" is not any kind of new phenomenon. It generates a decent amount of upvotes and discussion based on name recognition and nostalgia, but every thread is essentially the same, "Oh, that's sad, I liked their work, .".
Meta: More often than I should have, I have emailed HN and asked "Why can you not extend/build/etc" this? And, as expected, we'd get into a great email discussion about why that would provide a meaningful improvement over the existing experience. This is a forum of builders, makers, and hackers, to their unspoken point. The primitives provided are "good enough," Hacker News is feature complete. To build this on top o…
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That's actually a really interesting visualization of a professionally structured verse.
Not sure why you were downvoted, it is super interesting. I know nothing of songwriting but it seems like that could be read by a singing performer in similarly to how sheet music is read by an instrument performer. In the graph, there's additional information than just the words that a singer would need to perform the song accurately. /re-iterate i know almost nothing of music except what i like which i've been info…
The version from the wedding band in Old School will forever be in my mind. https://youtu.be/FfUU1wJKXDc
While she didn't compose the song, she was the one to originally release it. Tina Turner's version came one year later with a sax and an iconic video, but otherwise Bonnie's version is pretty similar and not much worse imo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_(song)#Bonnie_Tyler_v...
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I've been learning to play an instrument over the past year or and and we did one of her songs in the class.
So no, she was not forgotten by the time of her death.
Growing up in the 80s, I've known (and sung) this song all my life. But I just saw this flowchart for the first time today: https://jeannr.tumblr.com/post/165291081/i-made-a-flow-chart... I believe that's the original source, but it looks cut off. Here's a full version: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b1/82/dc/b182dcc291495c013c98...
https://imgur.com/gallery/ZAQXJdY
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