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Yeah it looks like whipped cream (chantilly) in the splits. Isn't that correct?

Can confirm, we served this stuff in our short-lived tea shop in New York and it made a huge difference in the quality of the product.

I suppose the railway engine is up there.... and the subway.... hmm

Clotted Cream is possibly England's greatest invention, apart from perhaps the Westminster System of government.

Worked for Amtrak didn't it? Well, "worked" to an extent.

Everyone hates those.

And how would that work in a sanitary and efficient way?

Sorry, I just got Black Mirror flashbacks to the Merits episode...

Because they (usually) have their own natural skin which protects the flesh. You can wash it too!

There's a practical concern there which is really relevant with little ones running around: glass breaks easily. A plastic bottle or cup or whatever vessel can fall from a shelf or counter to the floor and be unharmed and not harm any people. Glass containers, not so much. It's only viable for sensible humans with good coordination, and a lot of fully-grown ones don't even have that!

People die from food poisoning. No one has died from microplastics, so far as we can tell.

Eh, but "rules" only get you so far. There's tons and tons of situations where a human with eyes just needs to make a decision to "make it work." That's where "systems-based" engraving falls apart. It comes with practice and experience of doing the art over and over, and encountering all those little nuances in real scores and figuring out how to solve them.

The biggest problem is so much of music notation's meaning is defined by it's graphical information, not just the content. This is where it differs significantly from code or even text typesetting. At some point, you have to get into the nitty gritty of where to place symbols on the page. Lillypond gets you part of the way, but the last part is really hard to do and most users are more comfortable with a WYSIWYG setup.

Much more robust engraving support, and, frankly, being actually open source as opposed to owned by a big conglomerate who's gobbling up music companies right and left.

I'm a professional engraver. How much time you got? lol There's about 200-300 "standard" symbols for music notation, but that can balloon to upwards of 2,000 when factoring in all the nooks and crannies of the artform. Then you have to know what they all mean in order to convey the musical meaning the composer intends. Then you have to understand the psychology of players and what they would expect on a sheet of music and account for that. The "fixed positions" are very mailable depending on context, especially once we start factoring in accidentals and multiple voices on a single staff which can change the horizontal spacing in all sorts of dramatic ways. Then we have to deal with layout of the score so its density looks even and flows well, and has good page turns. Oh, and transposing instruments, cuz we still do that. And I haven't even mentioned lyrics for singers yet, which add tons and tons of new problems to solve.

It's a grueling art form, frankly, but I love it and I wouldn't do anything else.

Context: I'm Senior Product Designer for Sibelius and founder of Music Engraving Tips on Facebook/YouTube.

Or worse, only do shiny and "fun" things that customers don't care about while ignoring all sorts of practical bugs/issues.

I have two pinball machines in my basement waiting to be fixed up and restored. But I don't have the motivation to do the work, probably because I was never nostalgic for this era, I'm too young. I do find them fascinating from an engineering perspective, however.

This is the same mistake Lawrence Van Dough makes in Richie Rich. He assumes the massive vault must be full of gold bars and diamonds, the wealth of the family. But it's not. It's invested in banks and stocks etc. The money is not just sitting there, it's producing other activity in the economy.

Very sorry for your loss.

Except Philips isn't really a monopoly here.

Don't let the machines put you off. They can be very comfortable, and like all things, you get used to having a mask on at night after some adjustment time. There's also settings to adjust the ramp pressure so you can fall asleep before the air pressure changes too dramatically.

I'm an obese man and had severe sleep apnea. Last year I got a sleep study and started using a BiPAP machine from ResMed. The different was night and day (sorry). Huge improvements to my energy levels and ability to just function during the day.

One thing that was really interesting in this process was understanding the machine itself. Being used to crappy consumer electronics, I was amazed at how robust the build quality was and the engineering involved. Every little eventuality of medical accessibility problems, or things that could go wrong were accounted for in the design somewhere. It's incredibly simple to use, easy to clean, easy to get spare parts if needed. I guess that's the quality you get when your device costs upwards of $2,000.

That's a toughie.

MusicXML only works with conventional western notation, but MNX is attempting to expand that significantly. How far they will get with that, I don't know.

I work for Sibelius so I'm heavily involved in this world. MusicXML is a great standard and offered a solid basis for data interchange between music notation programs. But now there's a new group working to build a successor standard, MNX: https://w3c.github.io/mnx/docs/

It was originally going to be in XML but they recently switched to JSON, which is a good move, I think. I can't wait for it to be adopted as it will give so much more richness to the data set.

I was going to say, if gut big, much smart?

Couldn't have happened to nicer folks.

I hate the name "Threads" because all it makes me think about is nuclear war.

Amazing video. Those things are massive!

What a stupid headline.