Friday, January 26th, 2024
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
— Francis Bacon
- Damn, dropping a role in RDS PostgreSQL shouldn’t be this much of a pain in the ass. https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/226784/cannot-revoke-permissions-or-drop-user-in-pgsql-aws-rds. Seriously? You wouldn’t let me execute
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MUS106 Lecture 8: Refinement vs Innovation
- Buddy Holly (1936-1959)
- musical family that plays country music
- opens for Elvis Presley in 1955
- band: The Crickets — first modern rock group
- 1956 - Decca Records (one of Big Six corporate label)
- Decca Records didn’t like Buddy Holly
- 1957 - “That’ll Be The Day” (top of billboard); signed by a subsidiary of Decca Records
- ”Peggy Sue” (1957): simple song lyrics but interesting music
- ”hiccups”
- double-tracked tom-tom, dry one in studio, another one in an echo chamber; this inspired double-tracked vocals later
- non-diatonic chord
- all down-strum on guitar, why? different energy
- relationship between music and lyrics?
- ”Not Fade Away” (1957)
- hard-to-discern downbeat
- Bo Diddley beat (Cuban clave)
- again, relationship between music and lyrics?
- influence of Buddy Holly
- complex songwriting
- complex studio techniques
- collaborative rock band format
- ”self-contained” (McCartney), can do it all
- ”The Day the Music Died”
- had to go on a brutal tour (24 cities in 3 weeks) with a lot of other artists to earn money (got conned)
- plane the artists chartered crashed
- Alan Freed (1921-65)
- popularized the term “Rock and Roll” (didn’t coin it though)
- “Moondog” show
- charged for inciting a riot in Boston due to large rock concert with teenage
- social objection to rock and roll
- lyrics (full of sex)
- dislike for teenage defiance
- race (white people fearing that music made by black people might get popular and lead to desegregation)
ECS165A pre-milestone thoughts
requirements
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content
- what does it take to build a databsae
- necessary components
- types of databases
- querying?
- explore modern database solutions
- overall architecture
- key components
- strengths and weaknesses
- what does it take to build a databsae
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length: 5 pages minimum
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bibliography required
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- multi-version concurrency control