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* Perl MIDI::Score -- https://metacpan.org/pod/MIDI::Score

* Csound standard numeric scores -- https://csound.com/docs/manual/ScoreTop.html

* CsBeats (alternative score language for Csound) -- https://csound.com/docs/manual/CsBeats.html


Lilypond, too. Though it needs a full scheme interpreter to evaluate macros (provided by both the system and the user), it can emit midi files.

Lilypond isn't well-known enough!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LilyPond#Integration_into_Medi...

https://www.mutopiaproject.org

https://lilypond.org/text-input.html

     \relative c' { 
        \key d
        \major
        fis4 fis g a
        a g fis e
        d d e fis
        fis4. e8 e2
     }
...but why is it so complicated? A novice interpretation of "music" is "a bunch of notes!" ... my amateur interpretation of "music" is "layers of notes".

You can either spam 100 notes in a row, or you effectively end up with:

    melody   = [ a, b, [c+d], e, ... ]
    bassline = [ b, _, b,     _, ... ]
    music = melody + bassline
    score = [
       "a bunch of helper text",
       + melody,
       + bassline,
       + page_size, etc...
    ]
...so Lilypond basically made "Tex4Music", and the format serves a few dual purposes:

Engraving! Basically "typesetting" the music for human eyeballs (ie: `*.ly` => `*.pdf`).

Rendering! Basically "playing" the music for human ears (ie: `*.ly` => `*.mid`)

Librarification! Basically, if your music format has "variables" and "for-loops", you can end up with an end score that's something like: `song = [ intro + chorus + bridge + chorus + outro ]`, and then not have to chase down and modify all the places you use `chorus` when you modify it. (See this answer for more precision: https://music.stackexchange.com/a/130894 )

...now imagine doing all of the above for multiple instruments and parceling out `guitar.pdf`, `bass.pdf`, `drums.pdf` and `whole-song.pdf`

TL;DR: Music is haaard, and a lot closer to programming than you think!


Lilypond is the only music engraving system I'm aware of that can handle polytempo scores. The TEX-ness really comes in handy.

What's a highlander market, or a highlander hopeful? Google wasn't helpful.

I interpreted it as "there can only be one" which I believe is a quote from the Highlander movie; it's a "winner takes all" and that winner gets the title of "highlander."

In this situation then everyone who _isn't_ the winner will go broke -> sell off all their stuff on the cheap because they're desperate -> the winner gets all their hardware for a great deal and becomes even more powerful.


A shrinking consolidation market in which "loser's" assets are absorbed by the "winners".

You've heard it here first!


But it was never intended for 4:3. They were always in frame, just digitally removed.

> In the UK you are required by law to have working brakes on a bicycle.

But are you required to have them on a unicycle?


> ccTLDs reflect the ISO country codes of each country, and are intended for use by those countries, while gTLDs are arbitrary and reflect the fact that DNS was designed in the US. The ".gov" gTLD, for example, is for use by the US government, while the UK is stuck with ".gov.uk".

Fun fact, the UK's ISO country code is not actually "uk", but "gb". IIRC, ".uk" was grandfathered in (from JANET?) as an exception: ".gb" officially existed for a while in parallel, but no one ever used it and I think it's now defunct.


I don't think having the Scoti in the northeast of what is now Scotland from 300 BC to 1 BC inclusive is right. I don't think the term appeared until ~300 AD, and it originally applied to people from Ireland: it only later came to be applied to the inhabitants of northern Britain when Irish became commonly spoken there (whether by immigration, conquest, or deliberate self-Gaelicisation under the influence of Irish missionaries).


Indeed, and having the "Scoti" replaced by the "Picts" isn't terribly accurate?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1l_Riata

Edit: The "Scots" are supposed to have conquered the Picts in the mid 9th century leading to what would eventually become Scotland.


More recently, the idea that the Picts conquered the Scots (which they'd done once before, in the eighth century) and adopted their language (something which they seem to have already started on) has gained ground.


> Let me introduce you to Colchester, the oldest recorded town in the UK.

And a candidate for the location of Camelot, thanks to its Roman name, Camulodunum.


The article says it's been updated. Possibly the submitted headline reflects the original version?


Was wondering the same the moment I posted.

Here’s what appears to be the prior version from archive.ph, which does align more with the submitted hed:

Authorities are now considering whether a falling object, possibly from space, caused damage to the windshield and frame on a United 737 MAX over Colorado on Thursday. Various reports that include watermarked photos of the damage suggest the plane was struck by a falling object not long after taking off from Denver for Los Angeles. One of the photos shows a pilot’s arm peppered with small cuts and scratches. In his remarks after the incident, the captain reportedly described the object that hit the plane as “space debris,” which would suggest it was from a rocket or satellite or some other human-made object. Some reports say it was possibly a meteorite.

Whatever hit the plane, it was an enormously rare event and likely the first time it’s ever happened. The plane diverted without incident to Salt Lake City where the approximately 130 passengers were put on another plane to finish the last half of the 90-minute flight. Apparently only one layer of the windshield was damaged, and there was no depressurization. The crew descended from 36,000 feet to 26,000 feet for the diversion, likely to ease the pressure differential on the remaining layers of windshield. Neither the airline nor FAA have commented.

Would be nice to update the HN hed though.


> For those who don't know it, this is the name the department has had for most of its history

Not really. It's the old name of the Department of the Army. Except for the first nine years of the DoW's existence, the Navy had its own, independent department, as did the USAF once it was established as a separate branch.

The Department of Defense didn't exist until after WW2, and was called the National Military Establishment for the first couple of years.

You see a similar pattern in the UK, which had the War Office for the Army, the Admiralty for the Royal Navy and the Air Ministry for the RAF: after WW2, the Ministry of Defence was created, initially liaising and co-ordinating between the service ministries, and then fully absorbing and replacing them.

tl;dr the Department of War is the old name of the Department of the Army, not of the Department of Defense.


So no more M*A*S*H theme-song on YouTube?


I wonder how many people necked a bottle of paracetamol thinking it would be painless.


That's not in the lyrics, so what's your point here?


“suicide is painless, it brings on many changes “


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