Yes... but those musical ideas permeate all of music. Getting offbeat is a common musical tool to create tension and resolution. There is the syncopation. There is the swing in Jazz. Leaving out the dominant chord in Bossa Nova. The Fermata in the First Viennese School and many other versions of the same idea.

But somehow *you* cracked the secret, so the security was actually next to zero.

Yeah, the enemy would never guess that a large office building completely devoid of windows might possibly be a telephone switch.

270 sqm, about the same latitude as Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 824 mm or 32.4 inches of rain every year, average temperature 10C / 50 F.

I really doubt your take on this. We are not talking about aleatoric music, where a random generator determines which notes and which riffs are combined, and with which metronome they are played along a randomized bass line.

This is something very else. An AI does not know about chords and timing and the difference between major and minor scales. It just takes the whole body of music out there and recombines it into a new piece of music. And if the seeding material contains music from the bands which goes off sheet to convey emotionality, then AI will mimic this.

Look at East Europe to see how towns with machine-built houses look like, and let me tell you: You don't want to live in a machine-built house. And don't get started with 3D printed houses or other gimicky stuff! 3D printing works only for housing built on newly developed land, because the necessary 3D printers are so large and have to somehow be moved on site and mounted there, which makes it impossible to use for instance in hilly environments. What you call hand-built (and which in fact is 95% machine work) works also when closing an empty space between already built houses, something which is very important in cities like Vienna. And finally look at your average house and at the total cost compared with the labor cost, and you will see that labor is not the factor which makes houses expensive!

I am sure they keep going that long. Currently, we are talking about 5000 charging cycles until the battery drops below 80% capacity. At a range of 300 miles, this is äquivalent to 1.5 million miles.

So much? Here around, the total price (panels + batteries + installation) costs less than $25.000. My sister-in-law just installed 20 square meters of solar and 12.5 kWh of batteries at her home.

The deciphering of military ranks is easy. A lieutenant is the deputy of the rank named directly behind. The word comes from French lieu = place and tenant = taker. A lieutenant colonel is the deputy of the colonel, a lieutenant general the deputy of a general, and a lieutenant without any specification is the deputy of a captain.

The major is the highest (Latin: maior) of captains - he is the connection between the captains, the heads (Latin: capus) of the companies, with the Staff, the colonel and his deputy, the lieutenant colonel. In the same way, the major general is the connection between the colonels and the General Staff.

The fact that there is no fracking under Fort Worth or Tulsa or any other settlement of comparable size.

As I said, it's easy to pay some damage in rural areas, where there are only a few buildings, and they are mostly timber frame and can be repaired with some filler and a new coat of paint.

It's quite different if it's below an area with 1.3 million inhabitants, some very large chemical plants and most of the buildings are made from concrete and stone and not designed to withstand earth quakes.

My take is: The U.S. president will go on a site, hold a speech, and then we hear nothing for five years, then there are cost overruns on the site, and finally, the plant will never go online, but instead, a giga battery will be installed at the site.

Nuclear is simply expensive, and I don't think its price will go down. And don't you come with "France! France! France!" chants: France's nuclear power plants never turned a profit. France's customers pay for the electricity with their taxes.

The U.S. is far less dense populated in the places where they are fracking than both Switzerland as a country and even more in the region around Basel. Taking out a policy to cover earth quake damage claims will be much cheaper for the fracking regions in the U.S. than in Basel.

I am using both at work, and frankly, chat is better with Slack, and so is 1:1 conferencing. Teams I am only using because the company organizes the phone conferences in Teams.

The problems are manifold. Basel, Switzerland has had a geothermal project. They had to shut it down because it caused too many earth quakes. Basically, the insurance for all the damage was far larger than the revenue from the energy they provided.