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Hmmm, I disagree, having played electric and acoustic guitars for over two decades and begun learning piano and synths for the first time in 2025.

For one, you can’t easily play two melodies simultaneously across several octaves, using both of your hands, with an electric guitar.

Stringed electronic instruments do have their advantages, but so do the others. Each music making thing has its place in the spectrum.

Two books that have helped me greatly in my musical life, in case people haven’t heard of them, are The Listening Book, and Bridge of Waves, by W.A. Mathieu.


There are certainly guitarists who can play simultaneous melodies.

If you're limiting to a 6 string guitar the distance between the two melodies would be limited compared to a piano but guitars don't have to be limited to 6 strings.

Classical guitar is full of this kind of thing.

Having taken piano lessons but being more into guitar I think the thing is almost all people who play piano are introduced to this and it is a core concept in far more piano music than guitar music. But it is not impossible on guitar, and many works for piano that get adapted to guitar require the player to do so.

E.x. there are plenty of players who have studied and played the Well Tempered Clavier on guitar.


You can play with both hands on a Chapman stick, right hand can do the bass, the left the melody/chords or vice-versa (Chapman stick is played tapping the strings with both hands)

You are completely right about the polyphonic expressivity of piano. What I lack is the intonation (bending) of tone.

Guitars certainly have a more intimate connection between the touch of fingers and the sound, including the bending of the tone, one of Hendrix’s virtuosities.

Keyboards can approach that with polyphonic touch keys like the Hydrasynth (lean into keys, pressing them harder, for bending the tone in a configured patch), sustain pedals, and pitch bend/modulation controls, but not the nuanced touch of skin on a vibrating string.

I think synth guitars exist, too, but don’t know anything about them. The pedalboards are enough, maybe :)


> I think synth guitars exist

Of course they exists, just listen to Pat Metheny. There are Midi hexapickups that can play any synth with MIDI and full expression.


This brings to mind this question:

Should HN allow links to sites that break the back button, like all Meta sites (Ig, Fb, etc)?


My favorite part of the video is when Stéphane “makes a mistake” and shows it, like enlightened people, such as Cliff Stoll — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yUZTTLpDtk — do :)

Potentially unrelated tangent thought:

The Man Who Listens to Horses (1997) is an excellent book by Monty Roberts about learning the language of horses and observing and listening to animals: https://www.biblio.com/search.php?stage=1&title=The+Man+Who+...

Video demonstration of the above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYtTz9GtAT4


The F-15C (and the F-16), yes.

The F-15E was a different story, which I remember from flamewars at flightsim forums over how slow of a climber it was :)



^^ A lovely gateway to the world of single panel comics, really enjoyed the Solar Sands video on the topic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4npsyTE-m_k)


Yes, but Wacom recently discontinued macOS driver support for older versions of the Intuos, and I had to downgrade to an older driver to make it work.

When it doesn’t anymore I’ll need to get something else, probably an iPad so I can also use it as a 2nd screen.


In case you need alternative to the official driver, https://opentabletdriver.net/ is a well maintained driver.


Brought REM’s ÜBerlin to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZITh-XIikgI


Vinyl record covers are nicely-sized artworks for displaying in a room.

Listening to an album you love, while taking the time to flip the record or tape, or taking the time listen to an entire album in your streaming service of choice, helps you to notice things and be present.

Recommended film: Perfect Days by Wim Wenders - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Days

Recommended book: Bridge of Waves by W.A. Mathieu - https://www.shambhala.com/bridge-of-waves-288.html

In 02026: Slow down, and fix things.

Slow is smooth.

Smooth is fast.


I think 2026 will bring many to Linux because of Steam Machine: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine


I can't help but think that Steam Machine/SteamOS/Linux gaming in general is severely bottlenecked by anti-cheat. Nearly all serious multiplayer games require Windows specific anti-cheat.

Maybe there's a critical mass of Linux users that will force AC support. Maybe new cheating paradigms (DMA) will obsolete local AC. I suppose one of those could happen in the next 10 years.


Arc Raiders on linux is fully supported and a lot of fun. Lots of people have steam decks and lots of people will have a steam machine. There will be FPS multi on linux. The larger studios might not, but many more will.


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