With guitar you are much more likely to have to re-tune during a performance. I can think of a couple of reasons.
Steel core strings (on guitar) have a much higher coefficient of thermal expansion than gut-core strings (on orchestra instruments). If you start a concert at dusk your guitar will go quite a bit sharp if you have a cool breeze blowing across the stage after the sun sets.
Some of the playing styles require large bends or use of a tremelo which is much more likely to throw some of your strings out during a performance. Having a pedal means you can quickly re-tune between songs without having to blast it over the PA.
Also at an orchestra it is expected that the crowd will be relatively quiet so that the musicians can hear their instruments while they are tuning. At a rock concert you will have a tough time hearing your instrument while tuning, and you don't necessarily want to subject the crowd to your tuning noise over the PA.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and I should add - most other string instruments aren't fretted so the musician has the opportunity to correctly intonate a slightly off-pitch string. The frets on guitar means the strings have to be perfectly tuned unless you can bend them in (which isn't really a standard skill)
Actually gut strings are horribly unstable, but are virtually obsolete, having been supplanted by steel and synthetic cores. But orchestral musicians have learned to discreetly tune when they notice that their instrument has drifted out of tune. But like you say, being able to hear yourself helps. The same instruments in a quieter setting are often tuned by ear.
Not true, I can walk into most banks here in South Africa and open an account that allows me to trade on foreign stock exchanges. Minimum deposits are in the order of USD5k, and
require only local ID to open.
Doing this anonymously would be much harder, but that's not what you were suggesting.
Living in South Africa, I actually turn off 2FA wherever I can. I use a strong random password per site stored in a password manager, but my phone number is controlled by a drone at a telco helpdesk which can easily be convinced to port my SIM to another.
SIM-swap fraud is super common here, so turning on 2FA actually reduces the security of my account.
> Users and administrators almost certainly prefer a 20 minute IO latency over data corruption.
If the drive part of a RAID setup I would actually prefer it just reports itself failed and doesn't slow down access to the array by scanning itself for 20 minutes.
As far as I know, that is one of the main differences when buying enterprise or nas drives compared to consumer drives. With nas drives, the firmware gives up very quickly since the drive is assumed to be part of an array with redundancy. Consumer drives will retry reads for a very long time before reporting i/o error.
It's about time Botswana did something about their elephant numbers. Chobe is practically overrun with elephants, and until now, the government seemed unwilling to keep the numbers under control.
If they can raise money for conservation by combining their culling activities with trophy hunting I think it is a win for everybody. This can turn a pure cost-centre into a revenue generating activity with the income applied to other desperately underfunded efforts like Rhino conservation.
I support hunting for food, but don't support trophy hunting unless it is part of a culling program or part of removing problem animals.
I question whether Botswana needs to kill their elephants, especially as reports have Botswana containing 1/3 of the entire African Elephant population.
>Chobe is practically overrun with elephants
And the proposed law will not fix that, hunting would only be allowed outside preservation areas.
I like the final line of the article:
>Mr Guma therefore said government should swiftly act on how best to resolve the human/wildlife conflict and that the lift on the hunting ban and shooting of elephants in areas not designated as game reserves could be remedial to the crisis.
> I question whether Botswana needs to kill their elephants, especially as reports have Botswana containing 1/3 of the entire African Elephant population.
Obviously killing elephants (any animal really) in large numbers is a big problem on many levels. Transporting elephants is also difficult and expensive, and more importantly you need someplace to put them. Most of the other big game reserves in Southern Africa also have problems keeping their elephant numbers in check. Where would you take them?
> And the proposed law will not fix that, hunting would only be allowed outside preservation areas.
I haven't been up there in a couple of years, but the fencing around Chobe is spotty at best, the entire riverfront is unfenced (at least the part you get to see as a visitor), so I don't think there is really a big restriction on the Elephants' freedom of movement. I am guessing this is one of the reasons why they can cause so much damage to the crops of local farmers, they aren't really fenced inside the game reserve properly.
Targeting the elephants outside the park does more to alleviate the farmers' immediate problem, but its the same population of elephants (in the broad sense, not the herd sense) inside and outside the park.
I've never understood the purpose of IP aliases like the "secondary em0" the author is setting up with systemd.networkd. These aliases are practically useless, you cannot bind() to them without knowing the IP, you cannot use them in firewall rules, you cannot setup dhcp for them etc. What are people using them for?
I'm not sure what the low level difference is between an alias like in the article, or a "eth0:1" type alias (made with ifconfig eth0:1 xx.xx.xx.xx up), but the "eth0:1" type alias seems infinitely more useful.
This is also a major deficiency of the Ubuntu 18.04 netplan implementation, it can only do the systemd.networkd type aliases and not the "eth0:1" type ones. What gives?
People don't seem to use them on Linux for containers, but on FreeBSD that was the way to set up IP addresses for jails. You just had tons of aliases on an interface and you gave these IPs to jails. Anything that binds to 0.0.0.0 inside a jail gets bound to the jail's IP.
Now you can use VNET/VIMAGE to give jails separate virtual network interfaces. If you want to. The option to use aliases is still there of course.
Yep. It was kind of funny watching a couple graybeards trying to figure out how keepalived was assigning addresses and how to view them. It’s a rare treat when you can help someone like that with something they might normally help you with.
In many cases, the IP is the thing that comes first and foremost. You'll put it in DNS, you'll bind services to it (often because that's what the DNS is pointing to) or use it for outgoing traffic, and so on. Any interface name for it is simply an implementation detail, and you can live without it and even simplify your life if you don't have to come up with and keep track of those names.
(This is especially the case if you may at some point shift an IP alias between systems in order to move traffic from one to the other.)
Fellow saffer here. I signed up for your beta yesterday and I am quite excited, I think this has the potential to become an absolutely amazing product.
As a developer, do you plan on having a market/app store where I can sell my "apps" to other root users?
I have a Thinkpad Yoga 2 --- 3800x1800 I think --- I find that the GTK-based stuff works well on HiDPI, but not automatically, so you need to fiddle with the GTK settings a bit.
The QT stuff is worse since they cannot be fixed by adjusting only the font size.
The older (Xaw3D,TK) stuff is really bad.
I have never seen different DPI on different displays working.
99% of my day is spent in the terminal (xfce4-terminal) though and the crisp text makes it all worth while.
Steel core strings (on guitar) have a much higher coefficient of thermal expansion than gut-core strings (on orchestra instruments). If you start a concert at dusk your guitar will go quite a bit sharp if you have a cool breeze blowing across the stage after the sun sets.
Some of the playing styles require large bends or use of a tremelo which is much more likely to throw some of your strings out during a performance. Having a pedal means you can quickly re-tune between songs without having to blast it over the PA.
Also at an orchestra it is expected that the crowd will be relatively quiet so that the musicians can hear their instruments while they are tuning. At a rock concert you will have a tough time hearing your instrument while tuning, and you don't necessarily want to subject the crowd to your tuning noise over the PA.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and I should add - most other string instruments aren't fretted so the musician has the opportunity to correctly intonate a slightly off-pitch string. The frets on guitar means the strings have to be perfectly tuned unless you can bend them in (which isn't really a standard skill)