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No roof rack for the X. This is 1 of 1.5 that you got correct.
X can be ordered with a hitch. Not a problem.
The X is taken off-road by a large number of ppl.
No spare tire, though you can take one with you when off-roading. So, half point.

This vehicle is SUPERIOR as an SUV, compared to other luxury 'SUVs', such as Cayenne, After all, these are SPORT UTILITY vehicles, not necessarily major off-roaders.

Windbourne( moderating ).

Oldschool HDMI was 4.2 Gbit. The newer 2.0 spec is 18 GBit, which are almost certainly the most common now.

But you are correct (in spirit - we're talking Gbit, not GB) that the next gen, 2.1, claims to be 48Gbit, but a) they're not in wide enough use to test this argument (I don't know that any consumer gear has 2.1 yet), and b) you'd need to actually use that bandwidth (e.g. 4K/120, 8K), which again is not going to be common for some time.

It does look like HDMI 2.1 cables are thick enough to have decent shielding.

And yet it does:
https://smile.amazon.com/Mein-...

They are enhancing the customers experience.

Sounds like a good tag line for a WiFi connected, smartphone controlled vibrator -- even has a built-in camera.

I'm not sure about Amazon.ca, but they list "Digital" versions of shows on Amazon.com. You buy them like you would buy a DVD, but you can buy single episodes or whole seasons.

For example, here's a link to The Orville: https://www.amazon.com/Old-Wounds/dp/B074SY51TB/.

You could click that (or the Amazon.ca equivalent link), pay for Season 1 and/or 2, and then start watching.

Are you really claiming that the digital equivalent to sticking one of these smack-dab in the middle of the display counts as cheating?

> OK, so how exactly do I plug a USB mass storage device into that port and get it working? Oh that's right, I can't.

https://www.wd.com/products/ne...

If your budget is under $50

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d...

> isn't terribly relevant to the point I'm making.

Your point seems to be that users do stuff things?
That's true. And therefore we shouldn't tell them what's smart to do instead?

The fact is, if you install new hardware into your PCIe bus, you are implicitly trusting that hardware. Do you disagree? Or is your point that users attach crap to their bus? And therefore ... what? Stop telling them that's risky?

Frankly, it's hard to believe that Nvidia has the gall to sell a midrange card with 3GB, but they do.

...The only 3GB NVIDIA card currently manufactured is the entry level 1050.

Did you ever wonder why you don't have friends? Everybody who makes the mistake of buying this 1060 is going to end up hating Nvidia and all their mealy mouthed camp followers like you.

Ages ago, Microsoft made a book for writing bug-free C code. It was surprisingly good for its time.

Ducted units only have grease filters.
Recirculating hoods always have charcoal filters.

For example:

https://www.amazon.com/broan-r...

That 'chrome mesh filter' probably looks like just the grease filter for a ducted system, but is probably actually a charcoal filter that should be replaced regularly.

Most are good for 3-6 months depending on what and how much you cook.

e.g. you probably have (need) something like this for your particular brand/model of course:

https://www.amazon.com/Broan-B...

Even if you don't like C++ much, The Design and Evolution of C++ is a great book for understanding why pretty much any language ends up the way it does, seeing the tradeoffs and how a language comes to grow and expand from simple roots. It's way more interesting to read than you might expect (not very dry, and more about human interaction than you would expect).

Other than that reading through back posts in a lot of coding blogs that have been around a long time is probably a really good idea.

Also a side recommendation is Strunk & White Elements of Style, which apply somewhat to coding style as well as human writing. Very short. There are probably better books about writing words but none so applicable to coding I think (open to suggestions if people know of better ones).

Even if you don't like C++ much, The Design and Evolution of C++ is a great book for understanding why pretty much any language ends up the way it does, seeing the tradeoffs and how a language comes to grow and expand from simple roots. It's way more interesting to read than you might expect (not very dry, and more about human interaction than you would expect).

Other than that reading through back posts in a lot of coding blogs that have been around a long time is probably a really good idea.

Also a side recommendation is Strunk & White Elements of Style, which apply somewhat to coding style as well as human writing. Very short. There are probably better books about writing words but none so applicable to coding I think (open to suggestions if people know of better ones).

Amazon, The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit

Don't Make Me Think

Do all the exercises.

https://www.amazon.com/Compute...

The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric Raymond

and

Expert Programming: Deep C Secrets

The former does a good job, I thought, of outlining what it means to program in the UNIX style. The latter is perfect for a geek like me who wants to learn all about the ins/outs of semantics of a language that I love!

An Anonymous Coward objected to gtall's statement:

Libertarians had a field day....before 2007. Then their principles helped the banks dip the U.S. economy in shit and roll the rest of us. There was nothing the Bush Administration felt needed adult oversight in the banking industry.

by pointing out:

Uhhh, you are aware that Libertarians have never had much representation in the government, right? Like, in the last election we managed a whopping 3.3% of the vote. They currently hold 0 seats in the senate and 0 seats in the house. If you're blaming Libertarians for the crisis in 2008, I'd like some of what you're smoking. I do find it somewhat satisfying though that you're so terrified of us, even though we are not a large party.

You're conflating the Libertarian political party with adherents of economic libertarianism, as espoused by Alan Greenspan, friend and adoring devotee of Ayn Rand (and dedicated opponent of government oversight of banks and brokerages).

You may recall him as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve who presided over the Fed's determinedly hands-off policy towards regulation and oversight of the financial industry (which is, ironically, among its explicitly-defined core duties, as laid out in its charter) during the era of the housing bubble, the implosion of which tanked the world economy (a policy that Ben Bernanke, his devoted acolyte and successor as Fed Chairman, unswervingly followed)? The guy who, in the aftermath of that disaster, admitted in Congressional testimony that he was convinced the mortgage bankers and the Wall Street clowns who "securitized" toxic, sub-prime-rate mortgages and pimped them to their customers as absolutely safe investments (because the underlying "assets" were insured by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) would never act in ways that could harm the economy, because Ayn Rand said so? That guy?

That's the kind of libertarianism to which gtall is referring - the "unfettered, free-market capitalism is an unqualified benefit to society that must never be doubted or questioned" economic philosophy kind. Not the "I voted for Gary Johnson and all I got was this stupid sticker" variety ...

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Yeah, Amazon loves analytics so rather than rely on javascript which may be blocked by a browser or browser extension, it appears they just put everything they need in the URL.

Note, the minimum needed for the catalog address above was https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072....
It appears you posted your order number in your link. I recognize the 130-XXXXXX-XXXXX format.

https://www.amazon.com/firewoo...

It seems to me that there is a lot of other sloppiness in the design of Amazon web pages.

It's okay to recommend other products. Recommendations could be at the bottom of the page.

Why have a lot of blank space under the image?

Now Amazon web addresses have a lot of coding we are not allowed to understand. An example, this is the working Amazon web page address given above:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0722DMYTN/ref=br_msw_pdt-5/130-5936011-9843524

This is what Amazon wants sent: (For the address above, I removed the coding.)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0722DMYTN/ref=br_msw_pdt-5/130-5936011-9843524?_encoding=UTF8&smid=A3C4ATI46R3AXM&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=&pf_rd_r=XGG9QKGBQ5TP7MG7A7T4&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=182628c5-bc31-4d16-a82d-3758ab4ea7a9&pf_rd_i=desktop

(Google is now doing that with Google News.)

Macs do support 5k/60Hz, you are right that you use thunderbolt but only insofar as you need to get a thunderbolt3 to dual DisplayPort adaptor.

Since from that adaptor you can use DisplayPort, you can use any 5k monitor that has DisplayPort. Some may require both DisplayPort cables to be connected (see first link I posted as it talks a little about that).

Interactive computer instruction was implemented 60 years ago by the PLATO system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

See also "The Friendly Orange Glow"
https://www.amazon.com/Friendl...

For suitable topics and students, it works better than textbooks. Maths, for instance, or electronics. Subjects that lend themselves to many detailed, specific tests with mainly right/wrong answers.

One of the most strangely neglected areas of education and computing.

the bixby mod was just trimming the inside of the phone case, (not the phone itself) when you buy a phone case, mine is a Unicorn Beetle there are buttons on the case so you can access the buttons on the phone, i trimmed the inside of the phone case, it is just a rubber thing that touches the bixby button , the button is still there but it wont do anything because i disabled the button on the phone case, https://www.amazon.com/Samsung...

But speech is violence. In fact, literacy is violence.

I recently learned a friend from college (probably) committed suicide several years ago, and like you I have spent a lot of time thinking about what were the causes and how it could have been prevented.

On prevention, see my previous post which cites this book by David Conroy and related website:
https://www.amazon.com/Out-Nig...
https://www.metanoia.org/suici...

The key idea is to destigmatize asking for help due to suicidal thoughts by having our society view suicide as an *involuntary* act that occurs when pain exceeds coping resources. Anything that can reduce pain (including physical pain, but also social or emotional pain) or increase coping resources (such as emphatic listening) helps prevent suicide. Unfortunately, when suicide is seen in some other ways more common in our culture, the end result is often that more pain just tends to be heaped on existing pain when people reach out for help (so many people learn to avoid asking for help related to suicidal thoughts). So, David Conroy's reconceptualization makes sense to help caring individuals and organizations to think of ways to reduce pain and increase coping resources through daily activities for everyone and not mainly as some last ditch "suicide prevention" intervention.

David Conroy does make the point that limiting access to means or information is to an extent a "coping resource" so I doubt he would be against the Instagram move or cracking down on the groups you mention where people egg each other on.

But ultimately, progress is going to be best made by making people's lives happier and less painful day-to-day, and giving people a true sense that other people and society have their backs and want to help them. However, that is a much larger project than a few crackdowns like with Instagram.

On obtaining a better understanding of suicide, the below is from a book review I put here: https://github.com/pdfernhout/...

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Out of the Nightmare: Recovery from Depression and Suicidal Pain
by David Conroy
https://www.amazon.com/Out-Nig...

"Out of the Nightmare. An all-out assault on the barriers that stand between you and recovery from depression and suicidal pain. decomposes recovery from depression into recovery from envy, shame, self-pity, grandiosity, fear, stigma, social abuse, and the double binds and vicious circles of the mythology of suicide. A drug-free approach to getting better and staying better. This book provides counselors with a bold new non-technical framework that is free from the prejudices that deter the suicidal from seeking help. It provides those who have lost a loved one to suicide with a broad array of new conceptual tools to understand the tragedy and to find help for stuck positions of bereavement. Most importantly, it provides all those who suffer from depression with hundreds of resources to find their way out of the nightmare."

A suicide by an employee or within the families of employees touches many lives and can significantly impact productivity. Along with advice for suicidal individuals, the book includes suggestion for first responders, counselors, friends, and those who sadly are survivors of someone else's suicide. A major focus of the book includes deconstructing harmful ideas surrounding how people often think about or respond to those who have suicidal ideation and suggesting a more effective way of thinking about suicide prevention called the aggregate pain model.

Some key ideas from the book are summarized here:
https://www.metanoia.org/suici...

"Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain. That's all it's about. You are not a bad person, or crazy, or weak, or flawed, because you feel suicidal. It doesn't even mean that you really want to die - it only means that you have more pain than you can cope with right now. If I start piling weights on your shoulders, you will eventually collapse if I add enough weights... no matter how much you want to remain standing. Willpower has nothing to do with it. Of course you would cheer yourself up, if you could. Don't accept it if someone tells you, "That's not enough to be suicidal about." There are many kinds of pain that may lead to suicide. Whether or not the pain is bearable may differ from person to person. What might be bearable to someone else, may not be bearable to you. The point at which the pain becomes unbearable depends on what kinds of coping resources you have. Individuals vary greatly in their capacity to withstand pain. When pain exceeds pain-coping resources, suicidal feelings are the result. Suicide is neither wrong nor right; it is not a defect of character; it is morally neutral. It is simply an imbalance of pain versus coping resources. You can survive suicidal feelings if you do either of two things: (1) find a way to reduce your pain, or (2) find a way to increase your coping resources. Both are possible."

One of the fundamental challenges in an organization or society is to destigmatize asking for help to avoid the classic dillema those with suicidal thoughts face when they expect asking for help will only increase their pain from whatever reactions occur -- such as job loss or being ejected from a university community. By reconceptualizing suicide as an involuntary action that occurs when total pain exceeds resources for coping with pain, David Conroy provides a morally neutral way for organizations and society to think about suicide prevention in a productive way. Rather than focus mainly on intervening in a crisis, organizations can rethink their operations to reduce participant

bugnuts proclaimed:

The law says you have a right to not be detained without reasonable cause, and freedom in security of your belongings from unwarranted searches.

Checkpoints prevent these lawful protections.

Nope.

While it's crystal clear that drivers have an absolute 1st Amendment right to publish public warnings about police checkpoints (which posting a warning on Waze most definitely is - and therefor is protected protected behavior under the freedom of the press clause), driving itself is not a right. It's a privilege that requires a license from the state, which can be revoked for repeated violation of state or local traffic laws. Checkpoints, regardless of their pretext, are constitutionally-valid tools to enforce those laws, as courts at all levels have endlessly confirmed.

Granted that, in the USA, there's constant tension between the police and the public over constitutionally-protected behaviors. For instance, despite repeated court rulings that private individuals have an unlimited right to record traffic stops and other confrontations between cops and the public, there is a constant trickle of reports about officers who demand witnesses turn off or even surrender their smartphones under circumstances where LEOs have no authority to make such demands. The problem is that you're conflating those kinds of clear civil rights violations with the establishment of police traffic checkpoints, which, as I stated above, U.S. courts have consistently ruled are not inherently unconstitutional.

For the record, IANAL. I don't even like Perrry Mason. But I do understand the distinction between a constitutionally-protected right (i.e. - publishing the location of a police checkpoint to Waze), and a state-licensed privilege, such as operating a motor vehicle on public roads ...

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Here's an example. Multiple different products with the reviews all jumbled together and multiple sellers to boot.

Amazon-published eBooks, on which Amazon takes a cut of 30%, are also a common money-laundering source. Amazon has no desire to stop these babble-filled books from being sold because they are personally making so much money off of aiding and abetting these criminals.

Here's one prolific author, for example:
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=d...

• Google Photos gives you unlimited storage of photos up to 2048x2048 resolution. They also give unlimited storage of videos, though I can't find the current limitations. It used to be max 1080p and shorter than 15 minutes. Each Google account has 15 GB of additional storage for photos/videos which exceed these limits. And you can pay them for incrreased unrestricted storage.
• If you have an Amazon Prime account, it includes Prime Photos which gives you unlimited storage of photos of any resolution, including a lot of RAW formats.
• If you subscribe to Office 365, it includes 1 TB of cloud storage.

All three offer an app for your phone which will automatically backup new photos (and videos for Google Photos and Office OneDrive). I suppose you could try to abuse Google and Amazon's unlimited offering if you wanted; but most likely your ISP's bandwidth or data cap would be the bottleneck. Not the company's cloud storage capacity, which is measured in exabytes (millions of terabytes). Amazon actually has a trailer they can send you to copy 100 petabytes of data. That's 8333 years worth of data at a 1 TB/mo data cap.

How about you start selling Garam Masala, Tea Masala, or MSG? How about saffron?

Garam Masala MSG saffron

How about you start selling Garam Masala, Tea Masala, or MSG? How about saffron?

Garam Masala MSG saffron

How about you start selling Garam Masala, Tea Masala, or MSG? How about saffron?

Garam Masala MSG saffron

Glasses

Seriously, even I bought a Toro-branded Friendly Robotics/Robomow model (Toro iMow 30050) in 2002 from Amazon and still have it today. I think it was under $300 at the time (refurb). The company has been selling similar models continuously since then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robomow

Seriously? There are entire genres of literature devoted to answering this question, quite creatively. Here's my favorite anthology:

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

Take a look at "Dystopian" and "Post Apocalyptic" literature. Those two terms will help anyone interested. There are probably subgenres I'm not exactly aware of, but those broad classifications are a good starting point.

If anyone actually believes that everything that could possibly go wrong, has gone wrong, they are not very creative in their imagination of potential things to go wrong....

The books themselves were full of gibberish. Each of them was by a different author, but each of those authors wrote nothing but nonsense titles full of gibberish like:

"Everyone else forecast they?d find yourself collectively and partnered by the point they certainly were twenty. Well, they predicted correct; not in how they believed it can result. One-day within their sixteenth seasons, problems get a somewhat dreadful change, and products transform permanently."

The scam worked because back then kindle Unlimited paid out by how many pages you read ... but it measured this by recording the furthest page visited in the book. The genuinely curious would open the book, see the beginning was gibberish, then check further in to see if it was still gibberish. Plus I'm sure bots with Kindle Unlimited accounts "read" quite a few.

There is still one of these titles up:

https://www.amazon.com/Way-Sto...

This unit would be the smartphone for Zoolander...

they let the seeds spread to neighboring fields so they can sue any farmer who doesn't get with the program.

Re-read my post (which was modded down despite being accurate and giving citations).

Monsanto has never sued anyone for unintentional infringement.

The myth that they did comes from the film David vs. Goliath, which was a wildly inaccurate documentary.

Terminator genes would be a blessing.

They would indeed. They were a good idea, and were stopped by protests from anti-GMO activists, including Greenpeace, because they took away one of their best arguments against GMO: That the genes might spread into the wild.

https://smile.amazon.com/Deadl...

The title is terrible. Pretend instead it's "A history of the science and politics of vaccines."

I started reading it and ended up staying up late into the night until I finished.

It explains in detail all those things about vaccines that you'd vaguely heard of including things like the "vaccine court." and the vaccine panic in the 1880's is also interesting to read about.

Buy a copy, read it, then pass it to a friend.

It could have been the Russians, who regularly undertake malicious activity. But it could also be China, or a leak from within the DNC, or the Awan spy ring, who had access to DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schulz's computers and tablets, as well as those of some 40 other House Democrats.

It was Bernie!

He made the DNC "Feel the Bern!"

Someone at Slashdot seems to be pushing the "Russia supplied Wikileaks with the DNC hack info" theory as fact when it hasn't been proven. We've been hearing this supposition for over two years from Democrats and their media enabler who still can't bring themselves to believe the obvious truth that Hillary Clinton was a horribly corrupt and demonstratively incompetent candidate.

Anyone could have hacked the DNC, just like anyone could have hacked Hillary Clinton's illegal homebrew email server. It could have been the Russians, who regularly undertake malicious activity. But it could also be China, or a leak from within the DNC, or the Awan spy ring, who had access to DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schulz's computers and tablets, as well as those of some 40 other House Democrats.

But the Russia theory is pushed above all because that's the one that fuels Democratic activist outrage and the "Russian collusion" fantasy the mainstream media has spent two years pushing. Which is why we get this piece from the hard-left Daily Beast on the front page of Slashdot.

Anything to maintain the mass hysteria bubble.

/Cue up the cries of "Russian bot" in 5...4...3...

Umm... I resemble that remark. I once had to unscrew the oil pressure relief valve screw on my Volkswagen Beetle. I had this book
      https://www.amazon.com/Keep-Vo...
(only with a spiral binding, of course; who would want a glued binding that won't lay open??) The screw wouldn't come out no matter what--the driver kept slipping out of the slot when you put a lot of torque on it. The screw head was almost an inch across, so I ground a metal chisel to fit the slot, then drilled a hole in a block of wood big enough to drop the "handle" of the chisel in. Put the block on top of a hydraulic jack, and jacked the block + chisel up into the screw slot until there were perhaps a hundred pounds of weight on it. Put a large wrench on the hexagonal handle, and used a pipe (or was it a hammer?) to get a little more leverage on the wrench. The screw came loose :-).

Like we said in the Navy, if at first you don't succeed, use a bigger hammer.

I've also used a hammer and chisel to drive a bolt around, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?... @4:15.

you latch onto one thing and extrapolate from that. Normal, logical people don't do that.

Normal, logical people do that all the time. Extrapolation is necessary for daily life. Science requires extrapolation. We like to think it does not, but it actually depends on it.

There's a book: Getting Science Wrong that talks about this. You may not agree with all the conclusions he makes, but it does point out a lot of assumptions about the philosophy behind "science". One of those is that we can extrapolate to tomorrow based on observations from today.

You DO know that this is already the case in the US, yes?

Besides, a country where every rear view mirror invariably reminds the driver that objects in it are closer than they are and has a military that deems it necessary to print on their ordnance which end of the weapon should be pointed towards the enemy should maybe not complain about making the world idiot proof...

Still not enough? How about this label?

(linking to Amazon so nobody could claim it's just a hoax someone made up. Given the label the "made in the USA" information is kinda redundant...)

there is
https://www.amazon.com/FawkesB...
and don't call me Shirley

DigiShaman confided:

I'm all for 24-bit audio so long as it doesn't suffer from compression, otherwise a giant waste of time and money.

Compression is an extremely useful sonic tool in both studio and live performance applications. My favorite example is the rhythm guitar on Thunderclap Newman's only hit, Something In The Air

I suggest the problem is not compression, per se, but the brute-force application of compression in the post-production phase - and especially in the audio mastering process. There, the compression isn't being applied to a single instrument, or to a sub-group of instruments within the overall mix. Instead, it's just used to make the whole recording sound louder, by discarding all the dynamics in the mix, aside from periods of actual silence.

It's that ham-fistedness that makes much of modern pop music - and dance pop, in particular - so profoundly unlistenable to anyone with a trained ear. Or even a vague grasp of the meaning of the term "subtlety," for that matter.

In general, it's not a good idea to blame the tools for the shortcomings of the workman. The customs of modern music production are, I think, an excellent illustration of how and why to apply that maxim ...

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Now, I fully believe that it's possible for some golden-eared listeners to be able to tell 128kbps from flac - and I believe that it's possible for some to train themselves to tell the difference (though I don't know why you'd want to torture yourself for the rest of your life by doing that).

I don't consider myself golden-eared. My hearing above 12kHz is completely shot from having worked with high frequency sonars. But I do play piano and am pretty sensitive to small differences in sound.

The vast majority of the time, there's no difference between 128kbps and 256 kbps. But occasionally during certain parts of a song, the additional definition and clarity of 256k is audibly better than 128k. It doesn't happen often enough for me to dismiss 128k MP3s outright. For casual listening I believe 128k is just fine 99.7% of the time. But if I'm given a choice, given how cheap storage space has become, I will opt for the 256k or 320k version just to cover that extra 0.3%.

256k vs uncompressed is more a matter of preserving quality if you're going to edit the songs further. "Editing" doesn't necessarily mean going through second-by-second like a sound engineer would. Typically when you put together a bunch of songs into a playlist, some are louder than others. If you normalize all the songs in the playlist (make the quieter ones louder, and quiet down the too-loud ones), that constitutes editing. And the extra resolution of the uncompressed audio means less information is lost in the process.

I'll also add that your speakers make a difference. I have a set of studio monitors which I originally bought for my digital piano. They were so good I hated them. I could clearly hear when the digital piano sound samples were looped, and when the processor diminished its volume to simulate fade-out. When playing games, the repeating quality of sound samples were obvious, and detracted from the immersion. It was actually better to use inferior speakers or headphones because they muddied up the sound enough that I couldn't tell they were a digital sample. The vast majority of speakers sold for computers, headphones, and cars, fall into this "muddied up sound" category. Even the decent home theater speakers I bought were extraordinarily clear at first, but after a few years they loosened up to where they're muddying up the sound now. The studio monitors continue to put everything to shame though.

You mean like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Proster-Adapter-Interface-Converter-keyboard/dp/B07H2D3127/

That took exactly 5 seconds to find on Amazon. Boy am I tired!

Different AC here...no, not like that. That is a MIDI interface for devices that use standard MIDI DIN connectors to connect to a computer that has USB ports.

The issue here (I have a Casio WK-3800 with the same problem) is that USB is not peer-to-peer. The keyboard is a USB peripheral – it has a USB-B socket to connect to the USB-A port on a PC, i.e. it is a "device" connecting to a "host."

If it's class-compliant, you don't need a special driver for it to appear as a MIDI device. My Casio is not class-compliant.

That means I would need an adaptor that not only has a USB-B plug on one end and standard MIDI DIN plugs on the other, but acts as a USB host to translate the proprietary Casio data to standard MIDI commands. A simple physical adapter will not work; it requires logic.