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> The best book on the matter I've read of how to learn by ear is "The Gift of Music" by Victor Wooten.

Do you confirm the name? I cannot find any reference to it. We do have 'The Music Lesson' and 'The Spirit of Music'.


My bad. It's the music lesson.

The spirit of music is supposed to be the sequel but I haven't read it yet.


silverblue ;-)


you are right, brainfart ;)


Thanks. I also like this contemporary rendition by Heather Lee & Kim Cunio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cMtCHvwjAU


It would be interesting to see whether a label emerges, to denote content created pre-chatGPT; ex: certified pre-2023 AI-free content.

Also, it would be possible to train bots on an archive of such material.(accordingly, out of date; so less useful in numerous ways).


China do have new laws requiring people on the web to indicate with a watermark (or similar) if their stuff was created with the help of AI. See: https://cacm.acm.org/news/267778-china-bans-ai-generated-med...

Even if western governments adopt similar laws, however, I'm not sure if they would be that effective. People would start messing with the definition of AI. E.g. 80 years ago a spelling and grammar checker would probably have fit society's definition of AI, and both of those techs arguably have a cultural impact on the web. Spellcheckers lead to less new words or dialectal variations of words coming into existence, for example.


I was thinking the same, but as the pictures on the EXWM site suggest: could you not run a dedicated instance for the window manager? And do all your other Emacs tasks in embedded instances, so that the former is not so likely to crash?


The Emacs instance running as the WM is just Emacs in fullscreen. You can use it as your editor. But you can also launch X11 programs and manage them as you do with text buffers. Kill a program, kill a buffer. Same thing.

But you can, of course, launch a graphical Emacs within EXWM. There you get a second Emacs thread.

One can also put X11 buffers in char-mode to pass through keybinds directly to that window. That way you don't have to do weird sequences to pass through emacs keybinds to another Emacs.


The keyboard shortcuts are signalled in the menu; they are Shift-C and Shift-V


This is great, thanks. Is there a way to access the menu via a key shortcut?


Right now no, but it would be very useful so i 'd like to add this, since you can use the keyboard to control the menu... (except well... opening it!). Any preferred key you 'd like this assigned to?


Great! No strong thoughts on a specific key. Maybe Shift-F, or Shift-F10? Or Esc-F, since another comment suggested Esc as a general prefix key?


Their Twitter thread (to be found on the front page) recently announces a block-based interface, similar to Scratch, Snap... Example here: https://t.co/aZKscZAHCS

I am honestly wondering which of these alternatives I should start from, to introduce my 8 and 11 yo to programming. Maybe start obvious (so... Scratch, which is used at their school), then introduce the others as needed?


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