I don't think this is generally true for the guitar. There are even songs that have notes intentionally out of tune (e.g. Scar Tissue by the Red Hot Chili Peppers).
Agree with the OP that the characteristics of the guitar, including its "out of perfect tune", is what gives its music its unique characteristic. It's not a bug it's a feature. There might be some people with perfect pitch who get annoyed but for most people that's "colour" and the sound they expect and associate with their favorite music. If you played those songs on an "ideal" guitar they would not sound right.
Outside of people like van halen also pretty much no one is exploring the entire neck on a single song. So the issue of the guitar not being perfectly intonated is irrelevant since they are using just a piece of its range.
A lot of simple songs are just open "cowboy" chords for sure. But those are played on the first frets while the guitar is typically intonated at the 12th fret and tuned with open strings. I would expect those first frets to be fairly "out" vs. the open strings.
If they are out most people don’t have the ear for it. A lot of people don’t even bust out their tuners and just tune off fretted note on previous string.
There is a lot more Claude Code can do for you that an AI chat bot can't because it a) has tool access b) has access to your source code.
- Root cause and fix failures.
- Run any code "what if scenario".
- Performance optimizations.
- Refactor.
There's no reason why you shouldn't (and you should) read all the code and understand it after Claude does any work for you but the experience vs. the "old" SO model of looking for some technical detail is very different.
I also have good experience with wearing ear protection in a quiet room. But I haven't been disciplined enough about it. My probably wrong rationale is that part of the issue is hearing loss and reducing the volume retrains your brain to be able to process smaller signals.
I consider myself very good at writing software. I built and shipped many projects. I built systems from zero. Embedded, distributed, SaaS- you name it.
I'm having a lot of fun with AI. Any idiot can't prompt their way to the same software I can write. Not yet anyways.
The promise/potential of ever-refining skills and agents drives this compulsion for me. "NEXT time it will be even better. And NOW it's set up to avoid the pitfalls I faced last time." You can feel the exponential engine-building.
I'm not a SWE. I'm a mechanical engineer who spends his life in excel. So when I first made my own node editor app and then asked Claude to read that for my workflow in my second project.... I felt like God herself.
We did not travel to the US during Trump's first presidency either.
That said, I do think some people are doing things for the wrong reasons and there is some manipulation of the masses at play here. One example is I expect most people don't really understand the tariff situation between Canada and the US and that most goods are still exempt from taxes and the agreements hold. I think some people want to punish the US for tariffs that don't exist.
As a Canadian we should push back strongly against attacks on our sovereignty. We should also be somewhat concerned about the direction our neighbor is going in general. But it's also a reality that the US is very very close to us both geographically, culturally, and economically. That's not going to change. It's not an "enemy country" despite their very questionable choice of leaders. I think the correct long term direction is open borders and open trade, somewhat like the EU, and we shouldn't lose sight of that because a bad leader is in place today.
It's very weird to me to see all the focus on US policies in the Canadian discourse while not enough focus on Canada. That feels like political distraction.
In 2025 there were about 18M personal vehicles and about 300K pedestrians crossed from Canada into the US. So yes, it's down (like 10%) but it's still a lot of people. Out of those the number of people that run into problems with the "Gestapo" is approximately, within rounding error, zero. You're a lot more likely to die in a car crash or get robbed or something.
Why does everything today have to be about hyperbole? You don't want to visit the US (like me) ... well don't. You don't like Trump ... fine. You disagree with the immigration policies, enforcement whatnot... fine. But enough with this bullshit fear mongering.
Palestine is only a state due to international recognition. It meets no definition of a state, it controls no land, has no currency, government, military, etc. It meets no criteria for statehood yet is recognized by most of the world as a state. Taiwan (and e.g. Somaliland) meet all the criteria for statehood and yet are not recognized as states. Venezuela, Iran and Cuba meet the criteria for statehood and ofcourse are actually recognized universally as states. State (pun intended) of the world.
I would like to believe there's no chance Xi would invade Taiwan but I also didn't think Putin would invade Ukraine. Those leaders are full of themselves. If we learnt much over the last few years is that anything can happen. China has both declared the intention and built the capabilities to invade Taiwan. As the saying goes if a loaded rifle is introduced in the first act of a play, it must be fired by the final act.
You're arguing semantics. The west refuses to recognize Taiwan as the legitimate government of China and refuses to recognize it as an independent country.
Whatever they claim, the west (and most of the world) due to Chinese leverage/power refuses to recognize.
Taiwan meets all the criteria for being a state. It controls land, population, it has a military, it has a government, currency, passports etc. etc. It's a de-facto country/state.
According to statements from both the US and Israel earlier today that was going to happen over all of Iran in a matter of hours. They have already done that over most of Iran's air space.
- Iran is going to run out of things to fire or things they use to fire off (launchers) pretty soon. The number of things they're been firing off has been on a sharp decrease.
- I am pretty sure Israel and the US are very far from depleting their stockpiles. They are going to completely demolish the regime and all its assets. There are many different types of munitions for different situations, many of them interchangeable.
- The only question mark is interceptors where we have a bit of a race between eliminating the ability of Iran to attack and the remaining (very expensive) interceptors. The lack of interceptors is not going to be a limit. Nobody knows for sure but it'd be a surprise if there aren't enough interceptors for both the US and Israel. The US might have some desire to keep some minimal stockpile for other theaters/concerns so maybe that's a concern.
- The US and Israel can not afford to let Iran gain leverage here and they won't.
Israel has taken extreme damage over the past couple of days. Iran hit Tel Aviv with cluster bombs last night. Many buildings destroyed. The Israeli censorship and propaganda can no longer contain the reality of the situation.
I know people that live there. But you believe whatever you want. Those cluster bombs are relatively small. They do minor damage. Nobody was even injured.
All your images are the single missile that got through to Tel Aviv where there was some civilian casualties because the sirens were delayed. Generally there is plenty of warning and bomb shelters. The minor property damage is meaningless and has no impact on Israel overall.
What is hitting Israel this round is lot less than the last round. I saw first hand the damage from the previous round where a lot more missiles got through when I visited Israel. It's still some tiny fraction of what Iran and Hezbollah are getting hit with.
This has zero impact on Israel. But by the time Israel is done with the Dahiye it's going to be a parking lot.
EDIT: Smotrich's son did get injured. He was lightly wounded. Cluster bombs are a) illegal b) totally ineffective other than causing broader property damage. You're live in fantasy land. I suggest visiting Israel after the war is over to see how destroyed it is ... not.
This is all from today, there's much more but it's not on me to do your homework for you. This isn't even going into how every day Israel is more hated by the entire world. The Zionist project has been defeated.
I'm a logical and rational person. Not a fanatic. Whether I minimize or maximize my "country's defeat" makes absolutely no difference. If Israel was defeated I'd have no problem saying that.
Israel is strategically in the best position it's been since its inception. Its economy is doing great and all the threats that have been around it have been decimated. It is a nuclear regional power that has demonstrated that nobody wishing it harm can hide. That's not to say that there aren't challenges but Iran and Hezbollah were the largest [EDIT: remaining] military threat and they're in the process of getting wiped out.
Instead of focusing on how bad Israel is how about look at what it has managed to accomplish in its relatively short time as a state and country. How much innovation. Compare to your "favorite" regimes around that are obsessed with Israel and oppressing their citizenry.
Israel only exists because of US taxpayers like me supporting it. That support no longer exists. Most of the US military facilities built in the Middle East to defend Israel have been destroyed and will not be rebuilt. The reason Israel attacked Iran now is because they know US support for their regime no longer exists. This was the last chance. The US and Israel are currently losing the war against Iran and when that defeat comes, that's the end of the road for Israel.
The US support is a fraction of Israel's budget. Fun fact, the US didn't use to support Israel when it was created. The support started much later.
Israel would do just fine without US support. Israel's enemies without oil and support from China and Russia would just be your typical third world country (I mean they're not far from that anyways).
The US and Israel are so winning against Iran. But hey, let's see. Talk in two weeks. The Iranian people also support Israel and the US by the way.
A by the way is that US facilities in the middle east were not built to "protect Israel" either.
Anyways, I'm not sure if you're interested in a real discussion here or not. I'm happy to have one.
The Iranian people absolutely do not support Israel. I'd show you dozens of videos of thousands of people in the street calling for Israel's destruction, but you said you don't want any more proof that counters your narrative. I assure you Israel needs the US to survive, which is why they are currently using the US military to commit war crimes. The UN created Israel, the UN requires the US to exist. Let's put it this way, now that the entire world hates Israel, it's time is limited. Socially, economically, militarily... it's over.
Agree with the OP that the characteristics of the guitar, including its "out of perfect tune", is what gives its music its unique characteristic. It's not a bug it's a feature. There might be some people with perfect pitch who get annoyed but for most people that's "colour" and the sound they expect and associate with their favorite music. If you played those songs on an "ideal" guitar they would not sound right.
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