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Tarifs don't bring in revenue from the countries that they are imposed on; they are paid by importers and ultimately shoppers in the United States; that is, they are taxes.

I once had to deal with a complicated report in Word that had been "improved" by several editors using inconsistent indenting styles. It couldn't be fixed in Word by even Word expe…

Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) have discovered that the persistent fatigue in patients with long-COVID has a biological cause, namely mitochon…

most renaissance and baroque works for plucked instruments (lutes, baroque guitars) were originally notated in tablature and such scores can certainly be found at IMSLP. If you thi…

You're speaking of the renaissance lute. The baroque lute was most often in an open D minor tuning for the top (fretted) strings: ADFADF.

Haken and co-author Kenneth Appel produced the first proof of the 4-color conjecture, using computers to verify portions. Haken died at his home in Illinois with many of his family…

>Bach wrote The Well-Tempered Clavier to show off how one well temperament system (no one knows which one) sounds okay in every major and minor key. The keys closer to C sound swee…

You'd better wake up sooner: "Static analysis with SL has matured to the point where it has been applied industrially in the Facebook Infer program analyzer, an open source tool us…

I heard a delightful story about a student who submitted as his own composition a chorale harmonization by Bach that he'd found in an obscure place. He was surprised to receive a f…

Fossilized, not frozen.

The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded. The title should refer to unexploded-bomb hunters; that is, the unexploded refers to bombs, not hunters.

The Globe and Mail reports that the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto has analyzed the My2022 app that Olympians are required to install on their device and found that encry…

Canadians are generally very satisfied with the quality and availability of healthcare in Canada. The issue in this case is not the quality of care but the possibility that the pro…

No matter what topology is used, the basic issue is the same: if any of the p2p links introduces unacceptable latency (such as the inter-ISP link I described), the whole system is …

The magical belief that p2p is always superior to server-client for this kind of application has to be refuted. I live in Kingston Ontario, a medium-sized city between Montreal and…

Jamulus software is not only free (gratis and libre) but its use is completely anonymous: you may have to open a port but you don't have to open your inbox to spam or register in a…

"No dedicated hardware"; but for best results you'll need a wired ethernet connection, wired headphones, a good microphone and an audio interface, and on Windows an ASIO driver. "F…

The Samsung Galaxy A40 is 144.4 x 69.2 x 7.9 mm and has a 5.9" display, a 3100 mah battery and an earphone jack.

Well if any of the O(N^2) connections has unacceptable latency, you'd understand why a server is sensible. Reducing computation won't improve latency in the connections. One has no…

> P2P is the way forward here IMHO. But if any of the O(N^2) P2P links has unacceptable latency, eliminating the server would be counter-productive because the client-to-server con…

"need to find a server midway between all the users" Nonsense. Did you read my post? The server is in Montreal; all the clients are 200 miles west of Montreal in Kingston. Physical…

"requires a central server" is misleading. You can set up a server wherever; there's no central server. Except for the multiple-ISP issue I discussed, there's no reason access to a…

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