Mechanical snail

111 reputation

🐌. Native speaker of American English. Linux user. Familiar with several programming languages in the procedural, OO, and functional paradigms.

Link rot is evil. Archive everything. The keyboard is king. Correctness over performance. Canonicalize, normalize, deduplicate. Don't repeat yourself. UTF-8 > UTF-16. Use static typing: good for tooling. Re-use; don't re-invent. Correctness, then clarity, then concision and elegance. Play devil's advocate. First understand opponents' positions.

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Aug 20	revised	Is this piece of renaissance music really in the locrian mode? Add the image itself inline (it's obviously public domain, so fine). Also, could you add a [tag:renaissance-music] tag?
Aug 20	comment	What is a chromatic scale? You mean heptatonic?
Aug 20	comment	Why do minor keys sound “sad”? @BenAlpert: psychoacoustics?
Aug 20	suggested	suggested edit on Is this piece of renaissance music really in the locrian mode?
Aug 19	comment	Software that slows down music to help in transcribing. useful shortcuts: [ and ] to slow down and speed up; = for normal speed.
Aug 19	comment	Can the the same note be trilled two different ways? @MatthewRead Not necessarily just theoretical. Schubert liked to do things like this.
Aug 19	awarded	Citizen Patrol
Aug 19	comment	Why do we need note names like B♭, D♭ etc.? Why not use only A♯, C♯ and so on? Possible duplicate: music.stackexchange.com/questions/2/…
Aug 19	awarded	Supporter
Aug 19	comment	Why do we need note names like B♭, D♭ etc.? Why not use only A♯, C♯ and so on? Technically you should say 12-equal temperament, since in e.g. in 19-ET they are 1 step apart (except B#=Cb and E#=Fb).
May 25	wiki	created absolute-pitch description