There is no one purely factual news source, you'll have to compare across multiple sources -- or just use Ground News, which does this for you.

So at a microscopic level, learning really does cause brain damage? I suppose it's not that surprising. Muscle needs a signal like this to build as well.

That would also explain why it's so easy to find body doubles.

Sorry, BRADLEY Lehman! Brain fart.

And to think that when I pointed out a typo in his paper (the specific frequency in Hz of a note had a wrong digit -- but this did not carry over into any other calculations), he said I was the first person to notice in the seven years the paper had been online to that point. Sorry, man!

This is why pianos are tuned after they're rolled out onto the stage. Even now, they don't stay in tune when mechanically jostled too much. However, most harpsichords have one string per note (some more modern ones have two) rather than the two or three of a piano (except in the bass), and not as wide a compass, and it is practical to completely tune one in fifteen or twenty minutes if it's not ridiculously far out to start with. The string tension is also far lower than that of a piano, which reduces labor but also risk of serious injury if a string should snap.

One modern approach to the problem might have been used back in the day: have two instruments, one of which is being tuned for the next set while the other is being used for performance. That's certainly how it's done now if the tuning change isn't itself part of the show or demonstration.

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.