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Here's one thing that has bugged me for a while. Why is it said that the great red spot is around 500 years old? How do we know that it hasn't been around for much longer?

Do we have before/after evidence that at one point it didn't exist, and then around 500 years ago it existed?

Folks… despite the 'dreadful' link baiting in the title, this is a pretty great article.

Picture a piece for 3 players -- 2 soprano instruments and Basso Continuo (a bass instrument + let's say, harpsichord). It's a piece with a recurring harmonic structure; say, Passamezzo or ciacona -- think Pachelbel Canon.

The BC in this particular instance might only have barlines every 8 measures. The soprano parts might have barlines every 8 measures too, but might also have them where a significant change to their melodies change. Like, when a flurry of 16th notes begin to crop up.

Now, this isn't always the case -- it's definitely inconsistent, but such things show up enough that those hints cannot be discounted at all, and seem to be enough of a performance hint to at least be noted and appreciated by the performer.

No, bars were not standardised at all!

One could interpret placement of barlines as something close to paragraph markers -- not all the time, but often enough that they seem to indicate specific intent.

Musician checking in. Reading music in the original notation I have found to be particularly enlightening.

Where the manuscript writer (or print publisher) chose to put bar lines, for instance, can give clues as to intent in performance. I'm thinking specifically about Venetian publishers in the 17th century -- but there are plenty of other examples.

Notation can be incredibly important when trying to discern intent in some disciplines.

It's great for me to hear that Grendel's is still there. I used to love to go there for their Sour Cream Chocolate cake.

I don't imagine Elsie's diner is there (and also Tommy's). I loved to get bagels at Elsie's of a morning, knowing that the bagel would be infused with whatever else was on the grill that morning.

Wow, how is this not a thing?

Great idea.

I used to hang out there all the time in the '80s. My most memorable moment would have to be the time I complained to the waitress about the cockroaches that scurried from beneath my plate. Her answer?

"What do you expect from a restaurant that's in the f*cking basement?"

Strangely, that experience didn't stop me from returning to Algiers…

I guess my uninformed concern is… if I write an app that has an interface that manages a device that is suddenly embroiled in a class-action lawsuit, what are the chances that I'd be sucked into that lawsuit?

Are any developers avoiding working on IoT devices/interfaces because of the uncertainty regarding the security of these devices?

I have no idea of the liability of developers in this space, but the fact that the question even comes up in my mind certainly gives me pause.

Watching this made me nostalgic for world.std.com, in Boston -- that was many folks' first dialup ISP.

To be clear: It's a reed organ kit enclosed in a box that looks like a bible.

Your comment brings up a good question. Would a spanish-speaker transliterate those terms into a musical context, or into a language context first, since the words themselves are pretty equivalent?