ABC was originally designed for European folk music [0], not church music. The corpora as a result is largely fiddle tunes, particularly Irish (see for example https://thesession.org).
ABC started very simple, because most of the performance information for folk music isn't written down, it's inferred by the player according to the idiom of that particular tradition. As usage of ABC has grown it's gotten more powerful but still falls far short of formats designed for western classical, like MusicXML or Lilypond.
MIPS is increasingly common in rock helmets. Black Diamond (anecdotally the most common brand I see in the US) now has it in their higher end models, and Mammut as well.
You do not need perfect pitch to quickly learn fiddle tunes by ear (source: I play fiddle, can quickly learn by ear, do not have perfect pitch). You learn tunes primarily by relative pitch, which most people can develop.
There's also an element of violin-specific pitch detection; if you play violin for long enough, you can recognize the specific timbre of different notes on a violin (particularly easy for open strings) which helps ground you while listening to a tune.
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It would be pretty shocking for Amazon to break the S3 API at this point. There is a huge 3rd party ecosystem that would be affected. For example, in Rust land the object_store crate is at least as popular as the official SDK.
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I don't think this is meaningfully HTAP, it's gluing together two completely different databases under a single interface. As far as I can tell, it doesn't provide transactional or consistency guarantees different than what you'd get with something like Materialize.
This isn't new either, people have been building OLAP storage engines into MySQL/Postgres for years, e.g., pg_ducklake and timescale.
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