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New comment by bitbckt in "Geothermal heat map of US hot springs"

bitbckt — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:47:29 +0000

Yeah, I spent a few minutes poking around the springs in Northern Nevada I’m familiar with, and completely agree with your assessment. This is slop.

New comment by bitbckt in "Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom"

bitbckt — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:40:52 +0000

It's true that jazz charts are unlikely to use tenor clef. Nonetheless, it remains career limiting for a trombonist to be unable to read clefs.

Commercial players are likely to use the skill for transposing Bb treble lead sheets, or playing in a pit. Tenor clef shows up in modern musicals regularly.

Not to mention being shunned from quartet or choir opportunities that are the basis of networking in the industry.

New comment by bitbckt in "Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom"

bitbckt — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 23:54:01 +0000

As a semi-professional trombonist, C clefs are very important to me. Alto and tenor as-written, tenor as a means of transposing Bb treble, mezzo-soprano as a means of transposing F parts… they are not obsolete.

New comment by bitbckt in "Cheap Desktop 400GbE Switch MikroTik CRS804-4DDQ-HRM Review"

bitbckt — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:29:04 +0000

4-8 of them. 2 Sparks can operate without a switch.

New comment by bitbckt in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

bitbckt — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:14:57 +0000

They only use them at the honest seams, though.

New comment by bitbckt in "Beware Management Consultants"

bitbckt — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:24:13 +0000

“Liz Taylor’s ex-husband” is extremely vague…

New comment by bitbckt in "In San Francisco, even $180k tech salaries are no longer enough"

bitbckt — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:55:18 +0000

I was single, living alone (+ 2 cats, if they count) in a one bedroom apartment in North Beach 15 years ago on a $90k/year salary. I even had a parking space and a car!

I can understand how people did it then - I was one of them - but I don't understand how they would do it now.

New comment by bitbckt in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

bitbckt — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:17:31 +0000

Foobar2000 is not Windows only. https://www.foobar2000.org/

New comment by bitbckt in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

bitbckt — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:16:01 +0000

I'm running it on dual DGX Sparks.

New comment by bitbckt in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

bitbckt — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:42:00 +0000

The DAD AX32/AX64 is such a thing.

New comment by bitbckt in "Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place"

bitbckt — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:34:41 +0000

Multiple day outages in Winter are not unusual in our part of Maine. Nearly everyone has a whole home generator for good reason.

New comment by bitbckt in "Making regular GPS ultra-precise"

bitbckt — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:42:46 +0000

Do you mean GEODNET?

New comment by bitbckt in "Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know"

bitbckt — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:05:48 +0000

Just a bit under 15 years after we did this at Twitter.

New comment by bitbckt in "Practical SDR: Getting started with software-defined radio"

bitbckt — Fri, 30 May 2025 11:05:32 +0000

I feel attacked.

New comment by bitbckt in "When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines"

bitbckt — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:28:40 +0000

We never actually had a literal “Bieber Box”, but the joke took off.

Hot shards were definitely an issue, though.

New comment by bitbckt in "When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines"

bitbckt — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:26:10 +0000

Yes, we used the Yahoo! “Feeding Frenzy” paper as the basis for the design of Haplocheirus (the timeline service).

New comment by bitbckt in "Next Generation Out of Band Garbage Collection"

bitbckt — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 20:49:37 +0000

Amazing to see this happening. I wrote the non-moving Immix collector at Twitter for our Ruby runtime, Kiji.

Good luck!

New comment by bitbckt in "How economical is your local Taco Bell?"

bitbckt — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:59:08 +0000

It is also occasionally a wedding venue.

New comment by bitbckt in "Infinitone Microtonal Saxophone"

bitbckt — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 19:08:21 +0000

As a current semi-pro trombonist, I had the same reaction.

Relevant aside: Alan Kaplan has been recording Jacob Collier transcriptions for his YouTube channel. Check out “Moon River”.

New comment by bitbckt in "Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model"

bitbckt — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:29:11 +0000

Sweden is not Switzerland. And he died almost ten years ago.