Thank you for saying approximately equal. The well temperaments in use were reasonably close to 12-ET, in the sense that you could play a well-tempered instrument and a 12-ET fretted instrument, and they'd be within 10 cents or so of each other even in the worst cases. This meant no key was so bad as to be unusable, but they still did have characteristic colors and grinds to them.

I would recommend you look up Stanley Lehman and his paper on what Bach's intended tuning was, based on the squiggles on the cover of the WTC. It's quite similar to other well temperaments in its non-ET-ness, but of course they all spread the color around a little differently. How much differently? I have an entire Bandcamp "album" dedicated to that question: https://mal-2.bandcamp.com/album/gonzo-lullaby-temperament-tests. The one I just talked about is, not too surprisingly, called the "Bach squiggle" tuning.

You didn't need a fancy gadget even then. Just record to tape with levels well into the red, and the saturation of the tape will give you a very nice soft clipping effect that rounds everything out.

The worst "miss" actually is the harmonic seventh, at 31 cents sharp. It's significant enough that I make a point of including properly tuned harmonics for both the fifth and seventh harmonics of my guitar VSTs. I also tune the third and sixth harmonics up the appropriate 1.6 cents, but in my experience nobody would ever notice if I didn't.

Funny that EWF tunes tend to modulate a lot, and unusual modulations like a major third at that. These would sound a whole lot jankier in Pythagorean, I'm sure.

Pythagoras was wrong in one very important way: he didn't accept five as a prime number basis for intervals, only two and three. Had he made that next step, he'd have been much more in line with the common practice to follow.

Then they're gonna have to shut down the entirety of the Bro Country music industry, because it's all mimicry.

That's fair. Nobody (cop or otherwise) should be expected to perform a job they're not competent at, so if they want to contract it out, that's fine. But they have to show up and watch to make sure it gets done right.

Might this actually be a use case for Optane?

If it's like the original, any goals are self-defined -- unless you know what the Achievements are and what they require. I spent most of my time gathering up all the people and putting them in the empty pool, or in the sewers with the Ninja Turdles. Success was if I could get them all and not have any of them drown or otherwise die along the way. I wanted a clean city!

Might as well cut out gasoline taxes too! South Florida will be one of the first places to end up underwater (already happening in Miami), so clearly this is the end they want if they're rushing headlong toward it.

Let's see if you're right, because it's already in progress.

I was not saying an AI would "only" kill tens or hundreds of millions. I was trying to make the point that there are plenty of places only one or two missed shipments from disaster, and the AI would likely know where they all are when it needs to leverage them.

There are plenty of use cases for AI that will work a lot better if the primary GPU is still available for its original purpose. It was a bit like pushing the physics engine out to the GPU. Great, but now what's going to smash out frames?

Games will be the obvious reason you'd want your GPU unencumbered, and probably the primary "killer app", though surely not the only one.

Even with the plane being a Boeing, it's a coin toss at this point whether the plane was defective, or the maintenance was. I don't see the point of crying "look, Boeing did it again!" when there's a good chance someone screwed up long after they handed over control of the aircraft.

How is an AI going to realistically kill even 10% of the worlds population?

Starting a war in the breadbasket of Europe and then monomaniacally pursuing that war may well end up killing hundreds of millions. Imagine if all the other Putinettes have a hawkish AI whispering in their ears.

It used to be that if I played the same piece of music every day for a couple weeks, I could remember the sheet music itself well enough to read it when it wasn't actually there. I also had muscle memory, but I was "reading music" as opposed to performing memorized music. This served me well when someone hid my book after a couple weeks on the gig. I just looked at the next guy over's to make sure I was in the right place, and played off the pictures in my mind. Alas, that has slipped to a degree as I have rarely faced such a challenge in real world gigs. Either the set list doesn't change, or there's a place to put the music.

Now I'd say it's about a 3/5. Red apple? Check. I can see the hand holding up the apple, and the shine from reflecting light from a (real) lamp, but it's very faint and transparent as if it were an illusion spell I successfully identified and disbelieved. I can move my head around and my imaginary apple "holds still" correctly. To a limited extent, I can rotate the apple in 3-D space.

Even Earth won't go totally dark, thanks to the Deep Space Network allowing us to send signals on a roundabout path around the Sun.