teknico

I wasn’t the only one, good. :-)

> It is not often I am blown away by a piece of hardware.

Indeed. The Korg M1 was definitely a milestone in the history of music synthesizers.

Oh wait…

Because it’s a friggin’ masterpiece, that’s why.

“Acoustic” is just silly, “analog” isn’t much better. I’d call them “mechanical”.

> “The Holly Grail”

Many possibilities, but none of them is a Monty Python movie. ;-)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_(disambiguation)

Same here with KDE Plasma. Also GPU usage, and CPU/GPU/SDDs/Wifi card temperatures.

Not a big company, but someone is trying this angle:

https://simulavr.com/

> a terrible singer

Too many people express this belief. It does not seem plausible, statistically. I wonder what made it so widespread.

I like this use of “telepathic” as sharing emotions, rather than thoughts, at a distance.

Another +1 for Todoist.

> Jokes are the unit tests of our understanding.

That’s deep. Never heard it before, it does make sense. Thanks.

It worked for me. iOS 16.3.1, Firefox 111.

Any details you’d be willing to share?

Oil on Canvas, gosh. Their final masterpiece before David Sylvian would go on to make those incredible solo records.

“Casa” and “A Day in New York” are among the most beautiful bossa nova records I know of.

In Italy too. Text-only version: https://www.servizitelevideo.rai.it/televideo/pub/solotesto....

Elixir, but there’s LiveBook already.

Italy is such a western country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carabinieri

I wish. Here’s hoping.

> (Unless I become enchanted by Zig first.)

You probably will. :-)

> Technically, everything should be passing a memory allocator if the function might allocate.

This is how Zig works.

> In practice, this too is too much even though it’s infinitely more practical and useful than failable allocations.

It seems to be working well enough for Zig.

And now we cannot read it anymore. Because we must be protected, I guess? :-P

Only Yamaha and Kawai make both acoustic and digital pianos. Both make expensive, cabinet digital pianos with grand piano-like actions. Yamaha caps action quality as you say, Kawai does not, and is the only one making a stage piano with a great action: the MP11SE.

I’ve owned Roland, Casio, and mostly Yamaha digital pianos, but since I tried a Kawai MP11SE, my hands won’t settle for anything less. I own an MP11 now: same action, fewer sounds, still good enough.

The Kawai MP11SE gets quite close: https://kawaius.com/technology/wooden-key-actions/

It seems you’re referring to digital pianos. Usually the term “electric piano” refers to the likes of Rhodes and Wurlitzer.

Also, try the action of a Kawai MP11 or MP11SE: it’s very close to a grand piano. Yamaha also has a great action but only in high end cabinet pianos, not in cheaper stage ones.

The Kawai MP11SE is the king of the hill as far as stage piano actions go. My MP11 is a delight (after spending three days to replace all the felts in back of the keys, a known defect).

The best action in a stage piano: http://www.kawaimp.com/mp11se/detail/touch/

In comparison: https://kawaius.com/technology/wooden-key-actions/

And this is how democracy dies.

Agreed. It’s also the easiest way to improve latency and fix bufferbloat. Unfortunately not all Merlin-supported routers support the CAKE algorithm.

My choices are the RT-AC86U, and the RT-AX68U if you need Wifi 6 support.

Don’t get the RT-AC88U though, it has no CAKE.

(If you’re lucky enough to have a gigabit connection, you’ll need more expensive stuff.)