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bluGill

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  • Music education: thoughts and experiences?

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  • Teaching to sing has the same problem. Other than likely kids have done enough singing before (while learning to talk) that they have got over the worst of it.

    Singing doesn't generalize to any other instrument any more than anything else either. If you want to play piano you have to practice the piano.

  • 400+ Arch Linux AUR Packages Compromised in a Supply Chain Attack Deploying Infostealers

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  • A sandbox that has enough protection to be secure also has enough restrictions as to be too annoying to use, and often is useless. Don't get me wrong, sandboxes can be very good, but only in specific situations. In general you need your applications to be secure without a sandbox.

  • Music education: thoughts and experiences?

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  • That is impossible. Everyone starts with "Twinkle twinkle little star" (or a similarly very easy tune) and that sound horrible. There is no way to make this rewarding, you have to force yourself through it - then the next 4-5 songs. Only after you have done this much can you find practice rewarding - until then you are bad and you know it.

    As for iPad kids - while the thing has changed, the complaint has changed, the sentiment has been expressed since prehistory times. Most kids grow up just fine, just like every other generation.

  • Music education: thoughts and experiences?

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  • No, the biggest problem is most of the students won't practice.

    Playing a lot of notes on their instrument would be a massive improvement. Depending on the goals it might even be a good thing to teach.

  • Music education: thoughts and experiences?

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  • There is more to learn in music than you will have time. This is true even if you start as a kid and become a professional who spends 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year on learning music. As such there is no one "best" method and thinking there is, is the first mistake you can make.

    The only thing I can state with confidence is time is important. You will not get good at anything without lots of practice. If you give me something specific you want to do/learn then I can give you a plan to get there (in some cases a good one, in others someone else can do better), but in the end you need to put in the time. If you do the time you will be better than someone who hasn't in that subject - but that does not make your better or worse than that other person overall, only in that area.

  • Why do you cook?

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  • I got tired of burned mac and cheese in college and decided I have to. Back then I couldn't afford to eat out. Now - well I could afford to eat out of I don't do something else, but I have yet to find a restaurant at less than $50/plate that isn't a disappointment - I can good the same for less, it tastes better, and is healthier.

  • I need a map...

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  • Start with a problem. What you trying to solve. Hosting music is different from backing up your computer. That is different from a home dashboard.

  • A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

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  • What makes you so sure? I mean, I would hope that future generations will have parks, but we don't know what the future is going to be like. There may be some consideration that we couldn't even conceive of that would make it not a good thing for them to have a park. Or maybe parks are considered good in future generations, but there's a reason that that is a particularly bad spot to have a park.

  • A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

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  • It is a jerk move for sure and the voters should be mad about this. If you can't keep your word without a contract that says a lot about your lack of honor.

    I'm talking pure legality here though. The cities actions are legal and should be. They are however dishonorable and nobody should deal with the city again.

  • A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead

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  • While in many ways it is a tragedy, the cure is often worse. I on balance oppose deed restrictions, either you own the land and pay taxes, or you give up all control. Deed restrictions just force future generations to live by your values and that is a bad thing.

  • Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

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  • My family has always liked working on things that are broke - what can go wrong, you were going to throw it anyway and sometimes you can fix it. If you can't fix it a vacuum in parts fits in the trash better than it put together, and sometimes you get a working vacuum. (the implication here is you don't put it together unless you think it will work)

  • Age-verification partner Yoti is reporting GrapheneOS users to authorities for using GrapheneOS, due to "past security concerns."

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  • Don't the Brits have very strong defamation laws? Seems like an easy lawsuit to win.

  • This community isn't your personal adviser

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  • Because I have no idea if the questioner is going to do that beforehand

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    Electric cars became more affordable across much of the world in 2025 — except the U.S

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  • The other thing they don't realize is data is a liability. People are catching on to the danger of data and they be taking action, both with novel applications of existing laws, and new laws. Soldiers have already been targeted because of data, so the idea that they can dodge liability is unlikely. Some countries already have laws in place as well.

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    Americans - a wee challenge!

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  • As of 2038 It is now called Kock castle, owned by Chase Koch, he moved to last year to Wichita Kansas

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    Intuit Becomes S&P 500’s Worst Performer This Year / Shares of Intuit dropped 8.9% on Tuesday, adding to a 51% decline so far this year, the worst performance among all stocks tracked by the S&am…

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  • If you have a complex situation you should pay for help. However most people should not have a complex situation where they need that help, and tax preparation has made a ton of money preying on people who have a simple tax situation. This long predates software.

  • People who have worked in customer service: Did you ever get hit with a "Do you know who I am!?" Did you in fact know who they were?

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  • My grandpa had an interesting twist. He was working bartender for a community charity event (this probably would be illegal today, but in the 1950s), and the other guy starting taking off his apron "I can't work here, those kids coming this way will tell my parents to not buy from my business if I refuse to serve them" (remember, 1950s, it was illegal to serve alcohol to kids, but odds are half the community only cared about that law if they thought the state police would find out, which in this type of event there was reasonable odds of).

    My grandpa responded "oh don't worry, if you don't want to serve someone just send them to me"

    "oh, is that why you were sending all those kids to me with a 'he's the boss'?"

    "Yes. That is also why they put two people who don't know each other on this job - odds are we don't worry about the same kids"

  • People who have worked in customer service: Did you ever get hit with a "Do you know who I am!?" Did you in fact know who they were?

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  • In every case I've seen of this, the cousin probably does own the store - and knows very well they have idiot relatives. If the relative says anything it will be "you should have been harder on [censored]"

  • People who have worked in customer service: Did you ever get hit with a "Do you know who I am!?" Did you in fact know who they were?

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  • Worked as the night manager at McDonalds for a while. Some drunk guy comes in and when we asked him to leave he 'my sister is the manager' (she was the assistant store manager) we were like so? Next day we told her and she said 'yeah, my brother is alcoholic, I'd have kicked him out sooner'