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Guthrie Govan

His picking technique in particular.

For those who didn't play guitar, if you search him in YT most of his video are of him playing to a backing track and just do an improvised performance on the spot.

Most agreed and regards him as one of the best. You'll find the "Jesus/God" or "Gandalf" jokes thrown because of his mastery of the instrument.

Unfortunately (for me personally), the man is reluctant to spotlight. He is a private person and seems to didn't enjoy interview. So a "clinic"/lesson type content by him is far and few between.

I've been studying his right hand for years, and it still boggle the mind. If you watched the video I linked and watched it at like 35% speed, you can kinda see how he make decisions in the moment and it make sense, but at full speed ? WTF

Currently learning tech stuff to improve digital privacy. Not to a totally anonymous level, but better than completely oblivious. Attempting not to annoy my family with digital security info dumps. Finally found time to install Linux on an old laptop to mess around with. Also trying to find online communities via decentralised platforms because I deleted everything Meta. Neurodivergent safe spaces are the one thing I miss, so if anyone has any suggestions to check out please let me know.

I’m still hyper focused on reading, this is a life long thing.

This month my intense fixation is learning about GrapheneOS and looking at Pixel phones so I can mess around with that. Then I had to dive into researching Garmin watches because I rely on my Apple Watch a lot to keep daily life functioning (hello time blindness 😂).

I am working on a 3D simulation asset for making footprints onto surfaces, for a client, in Blender.
I'm rather new to the simulation world, and although it seemed simple at first, the more I explore the more complex it gets. The client needs it for a handful of shots where two dinos are walking on a beach, so the deformation must look like that of sand in the end, and unfortunately I can't rely on more sophisticated physics techniques such as MPM (material point method) because Blender doesn't have them. Simply moving vertices like I'm doing is also a simpler approximation, more adequate to solve this simple problem unless you're Industrial Light and Magic.

So at each simulation step I need to raycast against the dino geometry to make the footprints per se (simple), then I need to track the amount of material that is being displaced by the dino feet and move the surrounding material up by the same amount, to create that bulge (less simple). It's relatively incompressible material is why. The animation being imperfect (talons accidentally penetrating the ground inbetween steps) means I also have to detect and discard those interactions.

I have trouble letting go of a problem once I've started working on it so here I am, laying in my bed, thinking about the next steps...

Not much I can say about my latest readdiction to Mindustry that isn't pretty basic stuff. I suck at the game, so my strategy is basically "random bull go!" at various points and hope I am good. My conveyor management isn't the best, so it's an absolute mess that would make a lot of people cry. Same with how I do factory and power management. Wouldn't put up any videos because it would make people generally angry. Basically the same reason I don't show my cable management.

As for my very on and off furry obsession that is becoming more on than off, I have been playing through New Super Lucky's Tale. I really like how simple yet charming the main character design is. Got to the 2nd hubworld. Pretty good platformer. Combines my all time favorite game genre with anthro animals, so I approve wholeheartedly! Been thinking of getting the full release of KilaFlow, which is furry adjacent enough for me to have played and LOVED the demo! It's a fast paced 3D precision platformer where you have to replay the levels multiple times if you want all the level clear rewards. Has a computer theme because it's basically you being a program written to clean up infected files in the form of animal like creatures.

I have nothing new to show on the music or Linux front other than I have been recently obsessed with a CD I got last month. Artist is KZlivetune and the CD album is と. It features various artists instead of livetune themselves singing, similar to Zedd never singing himself AFAIK. Is currently the album I consider to be my crown jewel.

Tell you what. These are my hyperfixations by decade of life:

1. Stargate SG1
2. Anatomy and Physiology, Psychology, and Sociology of Sex
3. Violence Prevention and Management in Psychiatry (actually became enough of an expert in this to teach)
4. Esoteric Spiritual Practices including Tarot, Astrology, and Tea Leaf reading.

AMA, LOL

my off and on fixation, is mycoheterotrophic plants(full) of various orders and family, how they evolve when they diverged. especially thier extreme ephemeral nature and rarity.

(This is a really cool thread OP, thanks for this - favourited!)

My hyperfixated interests tend to be about technology in general, and adjacent to that, ive recently started watching around 7 episodes of Star Trek (currently on the 1st season of The Original Series), and plan to keep watching it for a long while.

My previous fixation lasted 7 months straight, and it was obsessively researching into computer memory architectures, mainly the unified and universal memory architectures. I haven’t even become bored of it yet, it’s just something I research less in now since I did it so thoroughly that I might need a break haha.

Ive also had another one that started around 10 months ago, around the same one as the memory architecture one, but is still going, and it’s about diving into how my mind works and how I can make things easier for myself (as well as find more evidence of me being neurodivergent, which has been very successful). Ive found that I’m very likely AuDHD (if you haven’t already realised from the previous statements), and I’ve been tying in many factors, including daily behaviours, a concussion I had 3 years and 3 days ago, etc, and have compiled it into a shit ton of digital notes.

Its 100% worth it to clean and regrease the bearings in your bike's axles (if they are open bearing). And it's really not a hugely intensive process.

I've been going down a massive rabbit hole of bicycle stuff, and it's really similar to the older days of pc building, lots of possibilities for upgrades, lots of brands, compatibility is pretty wide but also needs to be paid attention to.

It's loads of fun.

When writing BASH scripts:

• The .sh extension isn't necessary.
• Using /usr/bin/env bash is better than /bin/bash as not everyone has their bash located in bin.
• Try to use local variables when you can. If you use global variables that won't be used anywhere else, unset them at the end of your script.
• Don't use set -euo pipefail. It will only cause more issues down the road.
• Functions are your friend. If your repeating code, put it in a function.

These are some of the tips I learned while learning bash.

I'm working to set up my new workshop. We moved into a new house a few months ago, and I'm finally getting to setting up the shop in earnest.

I'm setting up the shop in a 3 car garage. The garage has a one car bay and a two car bay. I want to be able to actually park a car in the one car bay. So I built a large wall separating the two bays. The wall covers probably 2/3 of the width. The rest will be covered by a curtain. The two car bay will be the actual woodshop area. The one car bay will be a place to park a car and will serve as a finishing space. The wall and curtain will keep sawdust contained within the two car bay. The wall also serves as a tool wall. Here's what the wall currently looks like:

From the other side:

The wall is about 10' wide and 12' high.

In my old shop I had even more on the wall. But I'm trying out moving most of my bladed tools into a tool chest. I was going to build one, but I found this old steamer trunk by the side of the road. From the manifest glued to the back it looks like it was used by an air force airman in the 1980s to ship things home from Japan. I'll be using it as a tool chest. I wanted to put wheels on it. But as it's a bit of an artifact I didn't want to actually modify the trunk itself or drill into. Instead I built a little cart for it to roll around on.

After I finish here, the last big step in setting up the shop will be installing the dust collection system. And I went overboard on this. This is very much a dream shop setup I'm building out. Currently in a bunch of boxes strewn about the shop is an entire Oneida Dust Gorilla and a network of piping to service the various machines.

I’m getting hyperfixated on each one of these answers and it’s quite a shock to go to the next one. “Wait. How is a BASH script supposed to help build a garage workshop?”

Norwegian train car designation shorthand (incomplete).

B: Class B (which is the only class these days. So, meaning passenger seats)
M: Motorized (implies S. See below)
S: Steering capability
L: cargo space ("Lasterom")
C: Special capability of some sort, such as wheelchair ramp.
MU: Motorized car without driver capability (As in M without S)
P: Car with a pantagraph
R: Restaurant/bistro

So, for example, type 92 is a small set consisting of only two cars: A BM and a BS. Both cars have seating, the train can be controlled from both ends, but only one of them has a motor.

T93 is similar in layout.

T74 and T75 are both five-car trains, and I don't remember all of the cars, but I remember the middle of them is called BCMU or something like that.

The older T3 trains (now retired, I think), has a car designated LCR (or a different order), which means cargo space, food service, and some sort of special amenities that I never figured out. This train type also had class A with seating of a higher comfort level.

All of these types are printed on the side, usually next to a number, which is an internal serial number. So a 9214BM* means "Type 92, number 14, motor carriage (with passenger seating)".

*: I don't remember the exact syntax, but it's something like that.

EDIT: Un-fun fact I just realized long after using 9214 as an example above: It doesn'texist anymore.

My latest constructed language, Hearthsider (just started this week). None of this will make sense but here we go:

Verbs are a closed class. To form complete sentences you use an equivalent of "do", plus a verbal noun phrase. This noun phrase can have determiners such as articles attached to them, which indicate things like whether the action was performed only once, repeatedly, etc. To say "X verbs Y", it would translate literally to "X does Y a verb". Plurality will likely not be indicated on nouns but will be in articles.

rMl   t  qb  b sBsb    zGK
Light do 2sg a  shine  friend

"Light shine upon you, friend!"

This is a fairly common greeting crosslinguically, so I have translations in my other two conlangs:

Outlander:

sg Bqqbsd rkr PLr
sg      Bqqb-sd        PLr
2sg.AMI illuminate-OBJ light

Commonthroat:

L   rLPq-p      BCq-b         sFsF-qn
OPT light-3D    illuminate-NA friend-2

Here are the gloss abbreviations:

2sg = 2nd person singular pronoun
OPT = optative modal
2sg.AMI = 2nd person singular amicable pronoun
-OBJ = Object focus/trigger suffix
-3D = 3rd person distal noun suffix
-NA = Nonauthoritative verbal mood
-2 = 2nd person noun suffix

It's not salt that hardens pulses (beans, lentils etc.), it's acid. Salt your beans from the start, they'll taste better. Also, most beans dont need to be soaked first, just cook them longer or start them hard for 20 mins then turn down the heat. Chickpeas, however, need to be soaked, unless you cook them with baking soda. But then you lose out on the aquafaba, so I say soak em.

I've been reading up on the Salem witch trials for a personal project, and have listened to 3 separate audio books on them (In the Devil's Snare, The Witches, and A Delusion of Satan).

The similarities to today are more than I imagined. But the similarities between Reverend Parris--the original instigator, and the mouthpiece for the trials--and Donald Trump are unreal. Descriptions of both sound pretty much identical. Unlike The Crucible depicts he was not sidelined, or made a reluctant participant.

Description of Parris (2/3 books were released before 2016):

• Received a large inheritance from his father, but a failed merchant and businessman in both Barbados and New England.
• Considered charming, well-spoken, and handsome--educated and likely acquainted with the theater. Dropped out of Harvard.
• His wife, Elizabeth Parris was widely considered one of the most beautiful women in the area.
• Deeply fixated on status, and compensation. Puritans generally considered material luxuries sinful. Salem Village was an offshoot from Salem Town, of the most pious members, and Parris was the first ordained minster.
• His hiring, and tenure were deeply divisive, and hiring done behind closed doors. Most communities hired their ministers very openly.
• some of his biggest supporters was an influential family who made 60 separate accusations, all against political or personal rivals. The father, Thomas Putnam, was involved in hiring him. The 2 girls, Anne and Mercy Lewis, and also Anne Sr. were some of the central afflicted, and they were all highly educated and intelligent enough to manipulate people, and coordinate.
• Hired with irregular demands, including ownership of the parsonage (minister's home), and an unusually high salary.
• Constantly feuded with his congregation and named people in sermons. Generally who hadn't contributed, paid respect, or attended church, and who opposed him. There were a lot of sermons.
• Encouraged feuds and factions even before 1692, and actively stoked fears and paranoia during the accusations, hearings, and trials.
• Granted irregular legal powers and authority to make arrests by the Governor. Supported the use of spectral evidence (ghost stories).
• Never admitted any fault.

I am planning to make a post on this to read peoples opinion.

Anyway...
Not hyperfixated on it but I have been thinking about how common sexualization/pornification has become, especially on women.

It raises beauty standard to unrealistic levels, and usually makes people be ashamed of their bodies.

I have also been thinking about sexual assualts . Most victims are usually young girls and women.

Male victims are ignored, as if trauma wasnt a thing that everyone no matter the gender experiences in such crimes.

It is unfortunate that female victims usually have more consequences than male victims when it comes to sexual assualts. (They risk getting pregnant.)

The fact that porn(mostly consumed by males), movies, anime, and other forms of visual media are usually optimized( hypersexualized ) for "the male gaze".

Not mentioning the dark industry behind it that only encourages sex trafficking of innocent souls.

It makes me disgusted, am I dirty for being a male?
Why are males generally more focused on physical appearance than women?
Why is the male gaze > female gaze??

I dont know, makes me feel disgusted and ashamed of myself sometimes.

Perhaps I owe women an apology on behalf of all of the mess some men are doing.

I do realize that I am generalizing alot, and there are flaws in this thought, but I cant get it out of my head.
It's also one of the reasons that encouraged me to escape porn and the dark industry behind it

I'm revisiting a project where, I'm trying to subtract vocals off of an old radio talk show I still listen to religiously. They use techno music from DI.FM in the 2000s and the reason I still listen to the episodes at all is because of what music is used. It's a hard project to do because, first off, I have to find something to remove 'vocals' (in other words, the hosts talking in the show) and not only that, it is mostly mono. That's why it's difficult to do.

And someone before, when I was last on the Lemmy platform, was kind enough to DM me and ask if I sent audio snippets of the show so he can identify what tracks that was played. Since he claimed he had some archive of many tracks from that period. Problem is, I didn't go through with it because this show would be considered incredibly politically incorrect, moreso by today's standards and I don't want to go through the trouble of being asked about 'what the fuck is wrong with you' in regards to the content.

Like, I'd like to stop listening to it too, least at the rate I'm listening it. But until I have those episodes where the talking is removed, only then will I begin trying to splice and upload pieces to see what people can identify for me.

I turned my hyper fixation into lemmy communities! You can too!

!carnivore@discuss.online - There are fives of us, fives!

!ketogenic@discuss.online - Dozens!