Some classical works have a specific soloist, a violin concerto, say, others donâ(TM)t. We are not interested in every member of the orchestra. There are far fewer works in the classical catalog and many more recordings of each, sometimes with multiple reviews per recording. Yes, databases are flexible things. You could build a classical music database on top of one for books or even plumbing supplies, but a dedicated classical database is more likely to succeed. Classical has been a third class citizen on Apple iTunes forever. For us classical fans this is great news.

Classical listeners for a particular title (e.g. Symphony number 2) want to know the composer, conductor, soloists, orchestra, era, and sometimes recording date. They may want a playlist shuffled by work, not by individual movements. They may be interested in recordings of the same work by different conductors or soloists, etc.

Classical listeners, for a particular title (e.g. Symphony Number 2), want to know the composer first, then conductor, soloists, orchestra, opus number, era, first performance date and place, record label and sometimes recording date. They may want a playlist shuffled by work, but never by individual movements. They may be interested in recordings of the same work by different conductors or soloists, etc. For a popular music title, the main thing is the performer and songs can be shuffled freely. The database structure is totally different.

There was never a $20,000 toilet seat. The supposedly scandalous price was $640, and it turned out that the item was a fiberglass wall panel for a helicopter that had the toilet seat built in. The $7000 coffee pot was also a non story. It was a custom unit for a C-5A aircraft. Aircraft coffee makers have to withstand sudden decompression. The C-5B was redesigned to use commercial coffee makers which only cost $4000, in back then dollars.

I always get impeccable deliveries from Amazon drivers. Why should my guys have to compete with drivers who cut corners to deliver more per hour? I agree Amazon should allow for reasonable break time, but not on my porch without my permission (which Iâ(TM)d give actually, even put out a thermos of coffee).

Do the solar numbers include "behind the meter" PV installations, such as home roof tops? The New England grid (iso-ne.com) recently began including an estimate of behind the meter solar generation and it is much larger that the grid-connected solar they had been reporting. See https://isonewswire.com/2022/0...

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"Solar PV for power to the grid is not viable." At this very moment, per caiso.com, California is generating over half its electricity via solar and about 25% from wind. That is fairly typical of daytime there. They are also charging batteries for use after the sun goes down. They still burn natural gas at night, but much less during daytime. In the evening, when demand peaks, batteries are providing almost as much power as their nuclear plant, and more battery capacity is on the way. Not a complete solution yet, but sounds pretty viable to me.

This is not a great way to improve storage density. Biological DNA is essentially base 4 (symbols A,C,G,T). You would need twelve more letters to double storage density, i.e. to get to base 16 or hexadecimal. (You can represent any hex digit as two nibbles of base-4.) Adding that many letters, each a distinct amino acid, along with the necessary 12 transfer RNAs and suitable transcription enzymes would be complicated and could increase error rates. Biological DNA already has very high data storage density. Getting practical read and write mechanisms seems to be the main problem, not density.

Are there plans for the Voice of America to resume shortwave broadcasting to Russia? One of the most powerful things we can do is inform the Russian people of what is happening, to counteract the disinformation.

It may be illegal. One of the actions banned under the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act 18 USC 1030 (a, 5, A) is: "knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;" where protected computer is broadly defined.

One of the actions banned under the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act 18 USC 1030 (a, 5, A) is: "knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;" where "protected computer" is pretty broadly defined. Many states have similar laws. He might want to get a good criminal defense lawyer.

Fast compression and small code footprint are features that most image compression formats ignore. The former also implies low power, while the latter facilitates security audit. (A formal security proof for QOI would help.) Low energy per compression might be desirable for battery powered devices such as drones, medical devices and trail cameras. Not all the action is in high end imaging.

Deception this is, and highly irresponsible. No doubt there are large numbers of bots out there trying common passwords on zillions of account, hoping to find needles in the Internet haystack. That grossly inflates the denominator of the quoted statistics. The greater threat is when enterprise databases are breached and the hashed passwords are stolen. In that case, the passwords are brute forced off line at very high speed and typically a majority are broken. Then only one attempt is needed to login. Even 15 character random passwords wonâ(TM)t stop such attacks. 20 characters or 6 word random pass phrase (e.g. Diceware) are needed if simple hashes are used.

If we donâ(TM)t already have microwave and ultrasound detectors in our embassies and other overseas offices, someone should go to jail. Personal wearable detectors should not be hard to design. High energy beams should be easy to verify or rule out.