ASCII tab

ASCII tab is a text file format used for writing guitar, bass guitar and drum tabulatures (a form of musical notation) that uses plain ASCII numbers, letters and symbols. It is the only widespread file format for representing tabulature, and is extensively used for disseminating tabulature via the Internet.

Tablature

Tablature (or tab for short) is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering or the location of the played notes rather than musical pitches.

Musical notation

Musical notation is any system used to visually represent music. Systems of notation generally represent the elements of a piece of music that are considered important for its performance in the context of a given musical tradition. The process of interpreting musical notation is often referred to as reading music.

If that information is incorrect, please contribute your expertise by editing the entries, because they lead me to believe calling ASCII tablatures notation is acceptable.

Even the article refers to them as notation.

Um, that’s just a screenshot of a ChatGPT session…! WTF? Obviously that’s not music notation. It’s ASCII tablature, a rather barebones way of notating music for guitar.

Our scanning system wasn’t intended to support this style of notation.

People use it to learn/teach how an existing song is played, it’s not intended to actually notate music.

Using something to communicate how to play a song certainly sounds like a form of music notation to me.

Fascinating! Because this notation is already used by another tool (and possibly more), it might not be as silly as it sounds. From the headline it sounds like some really weird API was added to something.

Happy to see this sort of optimism in the wake of AI causing people’s programs to get bad reviews because the AI thinks they can do things they can’t.

Thanks for the share. Maybe I’m looking too far into it, or just in one of those moods, but this really is oddly inspirational to me.

I’ve never celebrated the 4th of July because I’ve been patriotic, I’ve done it because it’s fun. When I stopped believing in God I didn’t stop celebrating Christmas. In the same way Christmas is about gifts and seeing family, the 4th of July is about fireworks and seeing friends.

Lol when I first saw iPhone my brain read it as the default signature iPhones put in emails.

Sent from my iPhone.

I don’t really understand the thought behind the question. In the sense of legality? Obviously. In the sense of someone saying something? Obviously. In the sense that people have free will? No. The people that work at water facilities are typically technically government employees. If all of them suddenly went rogue would you count that as “the government doing it”? Because they wouldn’t be acting in line with the government, but they’re still “the government.”

So, no, but actually yes, but actually no.

It’s like saying “what’s actually preventing a secret service member from shooting the president?” Nothing? Everything? How do you answer?

I really don’t care people using skate boards, even doing it around a workplace isn’t necessarily taboo in my mind, but they were in the office right outside someone’s door. Do it in the parking lot or something.

If you want those on separate lines you need to add two spaces on the end of each line!

I promise you, people make mistakes in every language lol.

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Slightly less than double, actually. (Doesn’t really change the meat of the argument or anything though.)

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PowerPoint is actually turning complete so… https://youtu.be/uNjxe8ShM-8

There was one puzzle I looked up the answer to and I was furious.

Isn’t that just what a fossil is? If you get a little creative about how you define pickling?

https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll175.xml (this is not a raw XML file, don’t be fooled.) Anyone in italics in the YEAS section is a Democrat that voted to table the impeachment.

I have been losing interest in Blue Prince. (This is spoiler free.) Many of the late game puzzles are beginning to feel grindy. I need to get specific rooms but it’s random chance if I do, and then when I get them it’s not guaranteed I’ll even know how to solve what’s going on. It’s been very enjoyable up until now but it’s lost some appeal in the end.

I have been playing a little Animal Crossing because my spouse got back into it. I have been playing a little Luigi’s Mansion 3 and Mario + Rabbids because I’ve been using my switch more.

Be the meme you wanna see

I fly the original pride progress flag on my house and I really like it. If it is shocking to you that not everyone agrees with what makes a flag look good look no further than the US’s state flags. They’re a mess. They’re all over the place. People have different tastes. I think the “state seal on blue background” is bad but clearly enough people in those places don’t dislike it enough to change it.