Comment Re: Shocked! (Score 1) 47
In other news, they found out that if you bring a forklift to the gym you lift a lot heavier weights, but build less muscle...
Comment Re:When (Score 4, Informative) 521
Most retail businesses will add the tariffs on their existing inventory. This is normal and it's not to "make a quick buck", but to be able to restock. In some cases they may be able to absorb one restock cycle with profits (to get a price advantage over competitors), but given that retail margins are usually low, if something got stupidly high increases like a 20% or 50% tariff, you need to plan ahead or you'll end up understocked
Pythagoras Was Wrong: There Are No Universal Musical Harmonies, Study Finds (cam.ac.uk) 73
An anonymous reader shares a report: According to the Ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, 'consonance' -- a pleasant-sounding combination of notes -- is produced by special relationships between simple numbers such as 3 and 4. More recently, scholars have tried to find psychological explanations, but these 'integer ratios' are still credited with making a chord sound beautiful, and deviation from them is thought to make music 'dissonant,' unpleasant sounding.
But researchers from the University of Cambridge, Princeton and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, have now discovered two key ways in which Pythagoras was wrong. Their study, published in Nature Communications, shows that in normal listening contexts, we do not actually prefer chords to be perfectly in these mathematical ratios. "We prefer slight amounts of deviation. We like a little imperfection because this gives life to the sounds, and that is attractive to us," said co-author, Dr Peter Harrison, from Cambridge's Faculty of Music and Director of its Centre for Music and Science.
The researchers also found that the role played by these mathematical relationships disappears when you consider certain musical instruments that are less familiar to Western musicians, audiences and scholars. These instruments tend to be bells, gongs, types of xylophones and other kinds of pitched percussion instruments. In particular, they studied the 'bonang,' an instrument from the Javanese gamelan built from a collection of small gongs.
But researchers from the University of Cambridge, Princeton and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, have now discovered two key ways in which Pythagoras was wrong. Their study, published in Nature Communications, shows that in normal listening contexts, we do not actually prefer chords to be perfectly in these mathematical ratios. "We prefer slight amounts of deviation. We like a little imperfection because this gives life to the sounds, and that is attractive to us," said co-author, Dr Peter Harrison, from Cambridge's Faculty of Music and Director of its Centre for Music and Science.
The researchers also found that the role played by these mathematical relationships disappears when you consider certain musical instruments that are less familiar to Western musicians, audiences and scholars. These instruments tend to be bells, gongs, types of xylophones and other kinds of pitched percussion instruments. In particular, they studied the 'bonang,' an instrument from the Javanese gamelan built from a collection of small gongs.
Comment Recall? (Score 1) 145
> it's a decision rooted in safety concerns
Excelent decision! Now, how about a recall for those cars that are stuck with touch buttons?
Comment taxes or your social media (Score 1) 89
I hope some government will start saying 'leave your social media apps or we will have to raise taxes to pay for these units'.
Comment Re:Terawatt lasers, yeah right. (Score 1) 57
They turn them on in *picosecond* pulses, about 1000 of them per second. That means that a single millisecond of total operation will happen after 11 days of continuous operation, and they most likely will turn this on only during an electrical thunderstorm rather than all the time. If you do the matt it's about 1W of power usage.
Comment Classic US move (Score 0) 40
When everything else fails, bring in the military. Now, I wonder if they're going to miniaturize this Armored Car T (is it a Ford Model T?!?!) or just run over the patient with a full size...
Comment Re:Shameless plug (Score 1) 91
It depends a lot on your needs. MinIO
* Only does replication on multi-DCs (we do distributed and replicated erasure coding),
* Does not have a metadata database.
* It's really S3-like, as it uses its own SDK for connecting to it. It means anything talking 100% S3 might not work.
* It also lacks some enterpise features like object lock, versioning, etc.
* MinIO has a concept of “zones” or “server pools”. Initial MinIO cluster is a zone; then expanded on a zone-by-zone basis which limits scalability.
Comment Shameless plug (Score 1) 91
We sell easily scalable AWS S3 on prem. https://cloudian.com/
Comment Can we keep it short? (Score 1) 31
"Kill Amazon", period.
Comment Re: Clickbait headline (Score 1) 155
that's called 'a taxi'
Comment Re:This is rare... (Score 1) 147
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Comment Raising money? (Score 1) 61
Why do they even need to raise investing money if they can create it from nothing?
Comment Re: Not sure the relevance of WhatsApp these days (Score 2) 10
Yeah, there are countries like Argentina where most cell phone companies charge data per byte except WA text.
Comment Re:The Python 2 to 3 switch was horrible (Score 1) 233
wait, arrow functions? That's not a Python feature, that's something in JS
