Replying to @doctormo@floss.social
Ooo don't you tellin' my sister she's flightless! That's not nice.
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Joined mastodonapp.uk back in Nov 2022. I have a 'backup' a/c on mendeddrum.org.
Oldish bloke, got to retirement age in 2024. Now retired, due to the old line about "when it stops being fun, stop doing it".
Anyway, old-school coder. I've worked with everything from punch-cards to Perl, via machine language and microcode, C, C++, SQL, etc, etc. Now a happy Linux user on Garuda.
Getting more radically 'left' as I get older. I despise all racists, homophobes, Nazis, etc.
Replying to @mcnado@mstdn.social
Trump has absolutely zero idea what 'communist' means. It's just another insult.
People in the US are also now seeing what a rational, left-leaning moderate Socialist running New York can do very quickly, and Trump is fucking terrified by how popular that is with 'the people'.
Replying to @firebreathingduck@vivaldi.net
@firebreathingduck @PhoenixSerenity @farah
I absolutely get that. The minimum wage there is just derisory. If I were there these days (never going to happen but) I'd comply with the local norm, of course.
Replying to @PhoenixSerenity@beige.party
Personally? If you put a 'service charge' on my bill, that's rude and I'm not paying it just on principle, at least not without arguing.
OTOH, if I'm in a lovely little bistro, and I get the bill with none of that crap, I will almost always offer *the server* a cash tip, and I'm probably in the situation where the owner/proprietor knows that I love the work from the kitchen, else I'd likely not be there, and then he and they will get a bump on the final bill, but - important - at my own discretion.
Replying to @Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
Yay, I learned a thing. Thank you Jody!
Replying to @keefeglise@mastodonapp.uk
I'd guess that ona normal harp, those combinations would likely require pedal-work which may or not be possible. A truly chromatic harp would presumably make all the combinations available, but not necessarily easy to play!
Replying to @keefeglise@mastodonapp.uk
Forgive me if I'm 'teaching granny to suck eggs' here, but you did ask!
Normal scale starts at a root, and progresses through some full tones and some semitones (white and black keys on a keyboard?) for the octave, so in the key of C as an example, it's all 'white notes', seven of them.
A chromatic scale is *all* semitones, so imagine running the scale on a keyboard, but playing *every note*, whether white or black. There are 12 to an octave.
Replying to @keefeglise@mastodonapp.uk
"I am not a harp player"(!) but my guess would be a very different playing technique, but when mastered, probably brilliant for jazz or other 'less structured' music!
You do realise BTW, that 'somewhere on the Fedi' there will be a harp player going "oo, oo, I know!"
Oh, I'd forgotten it was the British Grand Prix today. Some random celebs so far, and not much else. Oh well, it'll be more interesting than soccerball, and there's no Rugby on TV today!
"Needs must etc etc!"
Replying to @cstross@wandering.shop
There are sadly a lot of people out there that keep asking "can we...?" when they ought to be asking "should we...?"