I go to local performances of baroque-era and somewhat earlier music regularly. I have noticed on occasion in a small vocal performance that has 2 people per part, occasionally a female contralto is paired with a male tenor. (I don’t know enough to know how that works as far as needing to modify the original parts or not.)
Though conversely I’ve also seen a male countertenor paired with a female alto, so maybe it’s just generally “who’s available for this performance” rather than an issue with a general shortage.
I'm no professional choir composer/arranger by any means, but my impression from listening to and reading my fair share of choir music is that there's enough overlap between alto and tenor ranges for them to be able to cross over into one anothers' parts in a pinch. It's pretty rare for a composer to write a song with simultaneous use of the altos' upper range and the tenors' lower range, so there probably wouldn't be much need to rewrite anything to make that work.
In general the “housing is too expensive” people mean “I looked at every available house in both San Francisco and New York City, and didn’t find anything cheap!”
Many industries are concentrated in high cost of living cities or very high cost of living cities. Not everyone is a nurse who can work anywhere. Big cities generally have bigger salaries.
such annoying pedantry to point out that "akshually houses are cheap in southern missouri"
I mean, sure. but then there are 0 jobs and 0 community.
the housing shortage is a shortage of housing in the same places that there is industry and opportunity. the fact that there are ample plots of land upon which one could theoretically erect a tent is irrelevant
the cities mentioned account for nearly 10% of US GDP by themselves. That's not exactly what I would describe as a "jet set fart sniffing town." maybe you misread and thought the OP said Jackson or Sun Valley or something?
While I laughed at the headline, it also fondly reminds me of reading Slashdot in the late 90s-early 00s, back before the Internet and programming and computers had all gone to shit.
Good luck guys. At least working on this for decades is less damaging to the world than anything people do at Google and Facebook.
I always liked reading about it in uni in the mid-late 00s. It made me feel smart in my OS tutorials when I could rattle off all the design choices and how they differed from Linux and Windows
Follow the incentives. If I’m in charge of setting alarms, and something bad happens without an alarm going off, it’s my fault. If the alarm goes off and the operator ignores it, it’s their fault.
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