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For something similar from the same time: https://archive.org/details/MusicOnThePDP1X/02+Little+Fugue+...

Adding a few sine oscillators to the MIT PDP-1 (yes 1) and then togging them really fast to build up notes and scores.

A video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Led4jL-DnPk


It's a lot quieter than it used to be.

Even worse for planes on flight radar 24.


Maritime traffic dropped significantly during mid-2020 but has largely recovered. For example, Singapore's stats for Feb 2021 are basically flat year-on-year for container throughput.


https://twitter.com/MarineTraffic/status/1374650543344390147...

It's pretty insane that I can track what ship is where on the other side of the planet in real time.


too bad airplane don't have the same ability, otherwise, we'd know where MH370 went


> too bad airplane don't have the same ability

Airplanes have ADS-B, which is quite similar to the maritime AIS location broadcasting. The only significant difference is that satellite AIS coverage is high and ships don't go fast, so having no signal for a few hours is not as big a problem for ships.

ADS-B satellite coverage is currently provided by (at least) the iridium constellation, but that only came into effect in 2016.


Not sure if you are trolling or not but ... https://www.flightradar24.com/


They do: https://www.flightradar24.com/

They even found debris from it in the places they expected: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/searching-for-mh370-two-y...


Then build a new condo there because of the rich culture and force the festival to shut down at the new location.

I've had to deal with gentrification before, the only time I've seen it lose was when someone took a tractor and ploughed asbestos into the ground around the proposed site. The clean up costs were in the billions and the projects died because of all the bad publicity. The site getting known as the toxic exclusion zone was just the cherry on top.


I wonder what from?


Wokeness


It will come after them. Where there are rich people, there are people who want to exploit them using the government as attack vector.


Not overly. The Great Oxidation Event nearly destroyed all life on the planet. If it wasn't for a mutation that allowed life to live in an oxygen rich environment Earth could have gone the say way as Venus.


It might also be thought of as a natural consequence, i.e. evolution at work.


Don't forget paying reasonable salaries.


Odd that none of the teens Epstein slept with would be illegal to sleep with in Germany. Pedophilia is starting to mean 'sex I find icky' in the US.


German Law is a bit more complicated than people give it credit for. While the police might not proactively go after cases involving some older minors, they will if the person files a complaint.

If a situation involves "exploitation" under the law, as most of Epstein's crimes would be considered to, then it is also automatically illegal.


Yes, rape is a bad thing that gets reported in other countries too.


When I can call you sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist and a nazi before breakfast addressing the issues misses the point of why the issues are being raised.

Pretending that these people have any morals past gathering power is as stupid as pretending that the mob burning down your restaurant is your fault for not installing enough sprinklers to put out napalm.


So you want no one autistic to ever be in a position of leadership?


Not every autistic person is an asshole


but every person that falsely accuse an autistic of something he hasn't done, is.


Indeed autism poses a challenge for a person in a leadership position. One facet of autism is difficulty in certain social interactions and that difficulty can cause real harm to people. You shouldn't prejudge a person because of a diagnosis, nor should you pre-acquit.

You can embrace acceptance that people are different and realize that differences make some people better and worse for certain things.


>You can embrace acceptance that people are different and realize that differences make some people better and worse for certain things.

I find it astonishing that blatant abelism like yours is acceptable in polite society.

>You can embrace acceptance that genders are different and realize that differences make some genders better and worse for certain things.

>You can embrace acceptance that races are different and realize that differences make some races better and worse for certain things.


I thought that the parent post was diplomatic and well hedged, given the sensitivity of the subject material: "one facet [...] certain interactions [...] can cause [...]." Furthermore, the thesis that biology affects fitness is well established and is indeed essential to the process of evolution. Nature cannot be discounted, but, as I think you intend to emphasize, it's not the end of the discussion when humans can do so much at the application layer.

> [...] acceptance that genders are different [...]

Males are going to have a hard time being wet nurses.

> [...] races are different [...]

The San and Inuit people have some very useful adaptations for their respective extreme environments.

It's kind of challenging to take sweeping offense to a statement phrased using an existential quantifier.


Is it ableist to suggest that blind people don't make good air traffic controllers, that paralysed people don't make the best bicycle couriers or that a deaf person is perhaps not a suitable music critic? Everyone works within the limitations of our abilities, and some people are dealt difficult hands - but reality doesn't care about your feelings.


The key to not discriminating based on ability is to be sure you are endeavoring to enable a person to do something to the best of their abilities and not insisting that the only people allowed to do something are those who are best suited for it. But there is a separation between "not an ideal candidate for this job" and "not reasonably able to do this job".

Indeed, sometimes the person with the disability can be better at the job because of what they have learned in an effort to overcome - this is why you don't just slap a label on a person and declare them unfit because they match a description.

Being tolerant, respecting differences, however you want to put it does not mean being blind to outcomes.

People sometimes don't get this.


You should try to convince people Beethoven's music sucks because he was deaf. There's really no reason a deaf person can't be great with music.


Irrelevant to the topic, but he only went deaf at the end of his life.

I believe it is a reasonable assumption that someone would have a hard time composing music if he/she were born deaf.


The context isn't an autistic person being great at people but getting sidelined for the label of autistic so Beethoven seems a bit irrelevant.


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