There’s so much variability in tonal systems, I don’t think we can make any kind of claim about “natural”.
Western Europeans are used to an 8 tone system that’s been even tempered. Move away from that at all and it sounds weird to most people. Even what most people think of as classical would sound odd to them in their original un-tempered forms with contemporary instruments.
Hell, most people don’t know what to make of minor chords, let alone something like pentatonic systems or even more “weird” to us tonal systems.
Professor Greenburg discusses this in “How to Understand Great Music” (if I remember right), which is in many libraries (It’s a Teaching Company production, which are university courses on DVD). He’s a fantastic presenter, very honest and direct about how music has developed.
Life is hard. Painful for a lot of it. But that doesn’t mean don’t live a meaningful life.
I’d argue all the difficulty is what makes anyone’s efforts meaningful. If there were zero strife, what would accomplishment look like?
Philosophers have stated this far better than I can, since the beginning of recorded history in Sumer.
And if it seems things are tough today, read “Hard Times” by Studs Terkel.
(I’ve had chronic, frequently debilitating pain for 30 years. For the last year, just walking/standing has been very difficult. My grandparent’s generation had it even harder - I remember, and understand better now).
When kids do linear algebra or they rise to the level of GM in chess within the first two decades of their lives, such people are obviously geniuses. Their intelligence is undeniable....
So I have this silly idea/longterm project of wanting to run a server on renewables on my farm. And I would like to reuse the heat generated by the server, for example to heat a grow room, or simply my house. How much heat does a server produce, and where would you consider it best applied? Has anyone built such a thing?
I have a server running 24/7 in my office, drawing 120 watts average (tested). Office is 10x10. It alone keeps that room 2-5 degrees warmer than the rest of the house. If I turn it off, room equalize to house.
As for comparison, those little square plug in space heaters consume 500 to 1500 watts, and you can see how much th heat.
1 watt = 3.4 btu
Depending on your use case, why not look to reduce power consumption? I’ve replaced that server with one that draws <20w at idle. That’s negligible.
Also, many, many, many apartments buildings aren’t built to handle such electrical loads (I’d bet loads of money most aren’t capable - why would you engineer a building for more than it’s projected to need? That just costs more).
In every apartment and rental house I’ve been in, you’d have to install a new service to be able to charge anything, because they’re already running close to max current capacity.
What’s that charger going to pull, in amps, for how long? It’ll need to be 220v, at least, and those are dedicated runs (think electric dryer or electric stove).
I’ve been using RealVNC for family computer help and have been wanting to setup a self hosted replaced for a while now, but haven’t had the time. RealVNC has recently axed their free levels, so I’ll use it as a reason to setup a self hosted solution....
You can run the client on every machine, so they’re all members of your mesh net. Easily access any of them from anywhere, at any time, using whatever remote utility you choose: VNC, RDP, Dameware, etc. You can easily map drives too, since your on the same LAN. (Just turn off MagicDNS - it can interfere with local name resolution).
You can run it on a single device in each location, enabling Subnet Routing, and that device will route traffic into the LAN on which it resides. I use a Raspberry Pi W Zero for this, and it works fine. I can print, configure my NAS, cable modem router, from anywhere. Q
I run the TS client on anything that can, Disable MagicDNS, set the TS network metric to 5000 (this pushes it’s routing priority way down, preventing accidental routes over TS when I’m home), and enable it to run as a service.
Worst case, if someone doesn’t want to run the client, you can setup Reverse VNC using your Tailscale network with the Funnel option enabled. This Funnels traffic into your network via an internet-exposed interface hosted by Tailscale (you can also host it yourself on a VPS).
Hello everyone, I hope I came to the right place to ask my stupid question. I’m currently working in a company that stuck way way back in time. I’m talking some people are still working in DOS level back in time. There is some revamping of this in progres, but it’s going to be a long run....
MD is a great idea to promote during this transition.
I’ve found you also need a company system that is independent of system management tools - some places use a help desk ticketing system, some use a change management system.
Some friends in the SMB space use a single system for their company (IT consulting firms) to track their clients, client hardware purchase dates, contracts, warranty, every change they make, Admin accounts, device ID’s, their billable time, etc.
This way all info on a client is maintained in a single place in case (this is the important bit) you get hit by a bus.
That’s a common refrain - “what happens if bob gets hit by a bus?”. Can’t have any knowledge dependent upon a single person, everything needs to be maintained in a single, accessible form, hosted on company servers and backed up.
Being a small operation, this could be a hard sell. Maybe an open-source help desk solution that you can host internally would be acceptible. The hardest part with that is defining roles and who has access to what.
Something you may consider - small orgs have difficulty documenting their systems (basically it’s a lack of manpower, you got shit to do, and documentation seems unimportant). Since there’s a transition, it would be incredibly useful to introduce requirements gathering and documentation. A typical model defines Business Requirements, which are mapped to System Requirements, which are then mapped to Technical Requirements (e.g. One Business Requirement will often map to several System Requirements, which usually map to multiple Technical Requirements).
Look into Business Systems Analysis, there’s some intro docs out there for how to do this, it’s pretty straightforward, and you don’t have to do all the detail, just having some documentation is better than none.
If you’re buying dozens of Office keys, then a site license for Windows and Office makes a lot more sense.
And those licenses are managed between you and MS. Then it’s a simple count of Office installations and you know how many licenses you should be using. You typically do an annual license “true up” with MS.
I’m pretty sceptical about ground effect planes, there’s a very good reason why they’ve never really taken off, despite so many countries and organisations giving them a try over the years, but I’d love to know what everyone else thinks.
I think that anything with such narrow operating parameter is always limited. Just the way things work. Take rockets - ones to put humans in orbit are very different than say sounding rockets, or other sub-orbitals, or even ones for satellites (and those vary based on LEO or GeoSynch).
Soviet Union used ground effects planes as naval vessels with missiles (Ekranoplan), which I guess the tradeoffs made sense.
When all they ever get from you is utterly unrelated, they’ll stop.
Or just change the subject completely, don’t even acknowledge what they said, or make it really ridiculous. Like they talk politics, say" yea, my dog does this weird thing when politicians come on the tv" then tell a long, meaning, drawn-out, meaningless, made-up story about your non-existent dog.
Or “I don’t really know anything about it, and don’t really care to. Hey have you seen that email about vacation?”
That’s why I said be repetitive. It takes time. When they learn that all you do is go off on a tangent, they’ll stop trying to use you for their personal sounding board.
In a way, you’re responding to them in kind by reframing the convo to a subject in which they aren’t interested.
You wanna be insensitive to others, and ignore the social cues that other’s aren’t interested just so you can selfishly rant? OK, I’ll do the same, only with a subject that isn’t divisive or inappropriate.
Why do we associate reverby electric guitar with the ocean? (kbin.melroy.org)
c.f. surf music and spongebob's sound cues...
The ten stages of genocide (www.hmd.org.uk)
Palestinians are at #8.
2meirl4meirl (lemmy.world)
How come there aren't any moral geniuses?
When kids do linear algebra or they rise to the level of GM in chess within the first two decades of their lives, such people are obviously geniuses. Their intelligence is undeniable....
Car Talk with Martok: No Sharpie Makeover? (lemmy.world)
Car Talk with Martok. All new episodes every Thursday!...
Server as heating device - how do I do this?
So I have this silly idea/longterm project of wanting to run a server on renewables on my farm. And I would like to reuse the heat generated by the server, for example to heat a grow room, or simply my house. How much heat does a server produce, and where would you consider it best applied? Has anyone built such a thing?
On my way to work this morning a tractor nearly crashed into me. The driver was shouting about the end of the world being nigh...
… I think it was Farmer Geddon.
ACLU backs efforts to sink bill stripping any nonprofit that 'bankrolls terrorists' of tax-exempt status (www.foxnews.com)
Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers (techcrunch.com)
Ruins of Uruk, modern-day Iraq, and reconstruction
remote assistance software suggestions
I’ve been using RealVNC for family computer help and have been wanting to setup a self hosted replaced for a while now, but haven’t had the time. RealVNC has recently axed their free levels, so I’ll use it as a reason to setup a self hosted solution....
Dumb Q: How to manage sw licences?
Hello everyone, I hope I came to the right place to ask my stupid question. I’m currently working in a company that stuck way way back in time. I’m talking some people are still working in DOS level back in time. There is some revamping of this in progres, but it’s going to be a long run....
MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! (www.youtube.com)
Seagliders' 35-minute trips to Auckland closer with $145m deal (www.nzherald.co.nz)
I’m pretty sceptical about ground effect planes, there’s a very good reason why they’ve never really taken off, despite so many countries and organisations giving them a try over the years, but I’d love to know what everyone else thinks.
Still trapped on Baltimore ship, months after bridge collapse (www.bbc.com)
Morale is low for the Dali's crew members, stranded on board by ongoing investigation into tragedy.
I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about?
cross-posted from: linux.community/post/906126...