Sure yeah I agree, I can’t tell the difference between notes a semitone apart or whatever. But the part about instrument timbre sounding different is very important. Most guitars are in standard tuning, and Emajor sounds different than Dmajor, even if you shifted up their pitch.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening as you go about your day — but Apple may be risking a Meta Glasses-style backlashEnglish
82·1 month agoYou can’t trust any corporation to keep your data safe and local. They lie about not sending it elsewhere, and even when they don’t, all it takes is one security breech, which every company has all the damn time.
Even with equal temperament, there is cultural context deep in our brains that affects what each key evokes in us.
But he pretty much made them the thing they are now, didn’t he?
Nancy and basically every other member of Congress, red or blue.
Fair enough. TBH I’ll still blame him for this kind of thing just for hoarding all that wealth, let alone the fact that he created the company in the first place.
Doesn’t the board pick the CEO?
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Linux question: I like to browse using ls. Than when I find what I'm looking for, I would like to directly move there with cd without having to retype the path. Is there an elegant solution for that?
112·1 month agoTo add,
!$ gets replaced with the last word from the previous command line
!! Repeats the most recent command
!-N Repeats the Nth previous command
!string Repeats the most recent command that began with ‘string’
IME Caddy will not do wildcard domains “by default” if you just configure sub.domain.com {} for everything. It will try to create a unique cert for each. You have to specifically configure it to use a wildcard cert.
Some of them might like that
Don’t worry. There are infinite potential Gods you could be angering no matter which choice you make.
Shit, you’re right. I was thinking of a normal mug. So “adding the donut hole” actually created two holes.
Not a topological ‘hole’ but you can count it if you preferI was wrong, its three! Posted this too early this morning.
That medieval peasants worked around 150 days a year is still largely accepted as a valid estimate by academic economic historians
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why do we live to work rather than work to live?
18·1 month agoThat’s true, but the point is in the current system we’re working a lot harder than necessary in order to benefit a few people at the top
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Any good file sync server with web interface other than Nextcloud?English
9·1 month agoOwncloud, Opencloud, Sync-in, and Seafile are some lighter-weight options I know of with docker builds.




This whole album (cover) is from Lebowski