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  1. Da5id Weatherwax
    Get one with decent weighted keys and that can channel its MIDI over USB as well as the standard DIN-5 connector. As a keyboardist, you'll miss the weighted feedback if you don't have it and having options on the ports will completely save your arse down the road. When it comes to instruments "inexpensive" is often a false economy that turns into "cheap"
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    I'll take that
  3. Da5id Weatherwax
    you really really want to join Love on my "needs killing" list, don't you. I've been planning this purchase for months, not as an impulse but because I damn well need it - my instrument setup has changed, including a couple of new ones, and my existing desk just doesn't have the channels or versatility to perform a seamless stream or facilitate a clean multichannel recording with the new setup... "Impulse buyer"? No. "Frustrated musician"? HELL yes!
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    Insane peeve: How the F did I get here from posting a random peeve about needing to order a new mixing desk online?
  5. Da5id Weatherwax
    Unless they are tortilla chips, then they are the same but different
  6. Da5id Weatherwax
    Remember ITA? If you;re an old-enough educator in the UK you will and you'll spit. It's not precisely "whole word by sight" but it starts that way with simple words. More complex ones you mentally break down into "bits you've seen before" - and they don't just have sounds to them, they have meanings. So you get it through your head early on that "threw" and "through" sound the same but the different spelling contains a different meaning, so to continue the same example you get it out of the gate that "threw out" and "throughout" are different, you know the pieces; "threw", "through" and "out" and it makes sense to a child's head.
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    I went into junior infants already able to read. I just needed ask Dad how some words were said and what they meant. It hadn't translated into writing in my head yet, and to this day my penmanship is abysmal, but the phonetic method of "teaching reading" actually set me back and royally pissed off my parents
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    As a keen cook I can confirm that - "frenching" is the process of cleaning away fat and gristle from bones in meat prep, but also used to be the description of reducing large vegetables to smaller and standard sized pieces so they all cooked at the same rate. and to refer back to our earlier discussion, "size" is spelled the same way on both sides of the Atlantic -Weird, huh?
  9. Da5id Weatherwax
    The cunning linguist is a master of many tongues...
  10. Da5id Weatherwax
    oh its WORSE than that. "Chps" in the USA = "Crisps" in the UK. "Fries" in the USA = "Chips" in the UK. This one though, is down to the early deep association the nascent USA had with France. "French Fries" - aka "Pommes Frites"
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    They ARE - which is why it's honestly harder to argue that they are wrong, instead of just different. The UK has experimented with a more phonetic approach to teaching reading, which failed miserably, the USA has had the whole "Phonix" thing. I just feel it a bit more than most having grown up in the UK, moved to the USA and finally adapted to the different keyboard and spelling just in time to have to relocate back to Scotland and begin the adaption process all over again.
  12. Da5id Weatherwax
    Sell your spuds in whatever units you want, but do your science in SI.
  13. Da5id Weatherwax
    In terms of the theory, in the USA's early years they had an understandable drive to establish a "baseline" for education - they recognised that they were a melting-pot of different cultures so they "standardised" and "simplified" their "English" spellings. The most obvious of these are the use of "z" instead of "s" fir the hard phoneme in -ise/-ize and the elimination or of the u in things like colo(u)r and neighbo(u)r. but I think the whole meter/metre thing is a symptom of the same
  14. Da5id Weatherwax
    If I remember correctly Mars caught up with YOU not so long ago, when you flubbed the conversion factors and cratered a multi-million-dollar lander
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    aww, cmon - without a proper classical education how can anyone these days be expected recognise the difference between latin-derived and greek-derived words when they sound identical and have related meanings?
  16. Da5id Weatherwax
    Part of ME thanks you for giving me a laugh that is all-too-rare in today's world. The other parts outvote it and demand proper retribution for it being such a BAD laugh. ETA: and yes it SHOULD have been "whilst" you colonial Philistine! (dont worry, I love you really)
  17. Da5id Weatherwax
    ok, now I have to kill you.
  18. Da5id Weatherwax
    Random peeve: Check availability of (insert random piece of kit on wishlist) and (supplier of choice) lists it as out of stock, but expected in three weeks. "Great" you think. That should be the week after payday. Three weeks later you go check. Out of stock but expected in 3 weeks.
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    Excuse me? I responded to it on a Sunday, as an ordained minister. IF you're here to express your butthurt that somebody else is actually admitting that the lady has a point, you're not in the "company of angels" that way , buddy. She's not "religion bashing" but honestly, if I were looking out on a congregation this day and heard your opinion coming back from anyone in there, I would tell them to leave, that I refused to officiate at a communion for such a sinner. YOU'RE the one gives religion its deserved bad name. Excommunico te.
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    "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." - Mohandas Ghandi.
  21. Da5id Weatherwax
    These right-wingers are claiming they are reimposing "traditional values" but they AREN'T. let's just focus on women's issues to give the clearest and starkest example. They are hammering reproductive health, equality of representation and pay, all this stuff they denigrate as the "woke agenda" - Tell me, how is that honoring the principle in their "traditional values" that a true "man" should DEFEND and PROTECT the women he loves? They are flying in the face of it. This is not "traditional values", its fascism.
  22. Da5id Weatherwax
    They ain't reading the same Bible I am. Admittedly, I'm an interfaith minister so I get to read it a bit more liberally than anyone who has a parochial church council or a bishop breathing down their neck. I've attended services in Notre Dame IRL. When the fire happened, I sat with dozens of other SL residents and prayed in the SL version of that cathedral. You can't tell me that's not "real" I've also attended solstice celebrations at an inworld recreation of stonehenge and found it MORE joyous and welcoming than the horrible sense of loneliness and abandonment that the IRL circle gives with Heritage restricting things so much (I much prefer Avebury IRL - that one's still alive, not pickled in aspic)
  23. Da5id Weatherwax
    SL provides a completely unprecedented freedom to be whoever and whatever you want to be. You can be anything - human, anthro furry, demon, goddess, elf, fae, non-anthro critter, robot, borg... In whatever setting you choose. I know there is the whole "it's a game" "it ISN'T a game" thing that gets discussed forever, but there are folks in SL who ARE using it to transcend the limitations they face in the physical world. Whether that's creating avatars for different aspects of one's true persona or whether it's the trans individual who can create an avatar and - for the time they are logged in and inhabiting that avatar - BE the gender they feel themselves to be. Or the disabled individual who isn't mobile IRL but in SL can experience an entire world. For the forces currently ranging themselves against the entire concept of universal civil rights, that makes SL a threat.
  24. Da5id Weatherwax
    Interesting... which tells me something about how the bake channels were constructed. The difference with applier behavior says that changing what's baked into the channel isn't a "new texture" as far as the mesh is concerned, so switching around the components of what gets baked into the final texture doesn't reset the alpha mode because "which texture is applied" hasn't changed, only its contents have. Thank you for that, like all geeks I'm a total sponge for little technical details like that even if I may never use them
  25. Da5id Weatherwax
    Isn't this the normal - and annoying - behavior of all objects? When a texture is applied that has an alpha channel, it's always immediately reverted to blending mode - you have to explicitly set it by a script or in editing after applying the texture if you want the alpha mode to be any different. The texture itself may be generated and baked server-side but I'd bet you anything that its applied to the body mesh using the same code paths as applying a texture to any other mesh and is therefore subject to the same broken behavior. It's just that the "auto masking" hack built into some viewers masks it for static meshes but not for rigged ones.
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