Who else would fund a study?

It'd be nice if the gov't could do it. Or at least enforced some regulation so that a study is forced to preprint so we at least know when a study was attempted but didn't end up publishing the results

Ultimately these industry-funded studies are still gov't funded as well. They are "public-private partnerships" but it's stupid how we don't talk about the fact that usually the majority of the grants come from the gov't. Even when a study is mostly funded by the industry it's relying on utilize existing infrastructure or early-stage research initiated by government funds.

Lockdown was such a massive mistake. Masks are good, vaccines are good, shutting down everyone's lives in hopes of protecting already extremely unhealthy people, to which effectiveness was never established, was devastating to the world. Cities were hollowed out - ask ANYONE who lives in NYC, LA, even smaller cities like Seattle, and they'll tell you how nightlife was decimated by pandemic.

National and state parks were closed. Flights cancelled. There was not much to do outside.

There were a lot more people outside during lockdown. There were running and cycling booms.

Literally every form of outdoor recreational equipment from cornhole to million dollar power boats had a huge sales boom during covid.

I'm from 2207 and it's not a big deal.

Don't listen to the raccoon.

Naming software has gotten so much worse. We're just at full on random words now. Looking forward to next project management software called "Dumbbell" or something.

Yeah. A Google search wouldn't have hurt before naming a project.

It's not much worse than all the tracking adtech used by FAANG industry. Smartest people in the world working on these systems.

I'd contend that it absolutely is. Adtech is creepy and invasive and weird. Flock is going a step further and actively tracking our movement through the cities where we live.

I don't like either of those activities, but I think one of them is much worse.

One is making implicit assumptions based on data available to it. The other is literally saying "hey they're right here at this time". At least adtech has _some_ level of obfuscation to it.

But I'm with you both suck.

The guy probably owns like 4,000 of these plugins and has factored in that 5% will get caught per year and makes bank from the rest of them.

I think it's good. I've definitely seen resource inflation exactly that OP is alluding to in enterprise. A desire to have some huge cloud based solution with AWS, spark bla bla when a python script with pandas in a cron job was faster.

In Mexico you have quincenaras with like 500 people and a dress that's worn for 1 day that costs like $2,000.

Sounds like an Indian wedding ... upper-middle class indians now spend around Rs. 50 lakhs (around USD 55,555) for a wedding here in South India.

This is what humans should be doing with their lives, and not spending 8 hours/day staring at screens. I'm so serious.

Is there any quick test I can do to see if I can innately determine tones like this? If I fail said test, I can know that I'm not cut out for guitar.

The interesting thing that is not obvious to the general public (it certainly wasn't to me when I started) is that unless there is a medical condition that is extremel rare called cogential amusia, you can develop the skill. It's not easy, and some people definitely have more natural ability but it's learnable. You likely don't have amusia, as people that do have it have a hard time recognizing an instrumental section of a song. If you can recognize 'happy birthday' by someone humming the melody, you don't have it.

There are a bunch of ear training quizzes online and I believe also YouTube videos.

I don't think this is a general requirement for learning the guitar. It's just one aspect. For most people whether you can hear that something is a 3rd or a 5th shouldn't impact their ability to play songs and have fun on the guitar. A sense of rhythm is maybe more important. If you can whistle a tune or sing along anywhere close to a song you're probably ok.

I'd say the only way you're not cut out for an instrument is if you tell yourself you're not cut out for an instrument. Any other case will be a hyper rare exception.

This applies to most skills. How hard it's going to be or how far you'll go with sane effort may vary.