Lyander

This is the pessimal profile post of the week.

Hah! Random curiosity leads to many an odd query. And yes I am glad for the distinction of confusing the local vernacular slightly XD

optimist is pink, and smells faintly of roses. Pessimist is the nasty, yellowish stuff, tinged with industrial pollution.

I haven't seen much optimist for years. Sad.

Damn right, let me be a crochety old fart with lots of sedate days.

Take care. If "lovely" equates to great for tea, a volcano would make a great stove. Not a very safe one mind you.

Fuuuuudge. Obviously stay safe and be ready. Hopefully it won't bother you with more than worry.

Ya it was one of the worst industrial accident….we studied it in-depth during my mechanical engineering degree

"now Dow Chemical"

I also seem to remember that the company changed everything it possible could so as /not to be/ the company that did that stuff to Bhopal.

That seems to be the case exactly, yeah. I can fully understand why though, no one would dare take ownership of what's damn near a genocide

I use her track “Dear John’ as a negative test track. if it sounds good, my system isn’t resolving enough. and i like Taylor Swift.

HAH! Never heard of a "negative test track" before but that unfortunately seems to describe a fair portion of what I often listen to :P

@Lyander Yes, a track used with a known flaw. In the case of Dear John, it is compressed and brick wall filtered really badly.

Thankfully the vendor was nice enough to offer a full replacement, just need to swallow about $6 in shipping back and forth to their store, sigh.

Ducky One 2 SF is a pleasure to type on (not that I'm a connoisseur of good keyboards... yet?) but I'm 2 for 2 on QC problems.

Always good to avoid keycaps flying around.

Especially when we just got a FOURTH cat... albeit one that stays in an outside shed instead of contributing to the caterwauling kerfuffle in the home, haha.

As long as people can comprehend, I don't see why that would hold you back. Or you could wait till 2679 when humans move past shallowness.

Bit optimistic on that timeframe, no? Hah! But yeah, in all I guess it's just nerves and being super critical of every misspeaking, sigh.

When in doubt, don't. Somebody /with/ that accent will cringe when you make mistakes, even if they don't have a go at you for it.

The Keychron has been on my list but I'd rather not have to deal with batteries nor need BT, though quality of life things are always nice to have. And yep,, bought into the hype too and while I expected some deck flex the caps flying off was a severe irritant.

> The Keychron has been on my list but I'd rather not have to deal with batteries nor need BT

It also plugs in via USB cable :) Not trying to sell you on it, but it does function like a regular wired kbd when plugged in.

@philipmorgan spaced on this, sorry! And yeah the option to go wireless is a nice-to-have but given my luck with batteries I'm doing my utmost to avoid them as best I can; it just feels to me like a more overt way to shorten an appliance's lifespan, giving it a built-in battery.

https://hypebeast.com/2021/5/netflix-trese-anime-release-date-new-trailer

Update: My knees said no treadmill so stationary bike it was.

Did you get the B.F.G.?

I'm pretty basic so that's my favourite off the entire soundtrack. I actually get a bit teary and really into it when just listening to the damned track.

"8-10 minutes to finish starting up" Good grief, I didn't think even Windows could be that slow.

Haha, thermals haven't been kind to the old friend and I'm pretty sure doing a proper reinstall of Windows (and maybe a battery swap plus a move to a 2.5 SSD) will do wonders for it, but with the new job I honestly can't afford much downtime. Amusingly I'll still be on the laptop for work since I don't have a proper webcam so I'll be suffering still.

And yup, my interest in computers is nascent but I do remember what they were like in the early aughts. Even this relatively cruddy stock cooler from AMD (lowest tier, about two rungs below yours) is significantly more tolerable.

The ubersticky thermal paste is less pleasant though. Argh.

What?! No one called One-Call to do the locates? Hang in there. Hopefully water will return sooner than expected.

@Senorx12562 Might have been cuz from what we could tell it was a damned klutzy job.

@luckybaer got off easy, water returned a just few hours back, albeit still kinda icky-scummy. Might not be entirely sealed still so it's good luck we already buy gallons of water jugs to drink out of.

Dear eco warriors: said jugs are reused.

Wait.. sorry I got distracted.. you broke what working your pole?

Take a multimeter and measure the pot, for each channel you'll have three pins. Not sure about the config but between two of them you'll have the same high value regardless of position 100K maybe.
Then between the first and the other pin it should vary according to volume position, if at min it's not 0 then you have a problem. Compare with other channel. If it's a balanced pot you have 4 channels.

This couldn’t possibly go poorly!

Thanks @m17xr2b! Will be doing that when I get some free time to take the thing apart. Not been able to confirm what the actual issue is yet but this is handy.

And definitely so, @DigMe. Not tryna jinx myself or anything silly like that.

Precisely what I thought. Guess that means I'm going all in on Team Red for this build after all.

Is P50 = 1USD still a decent rule of thumb for a quick exchange rate calc? I remember when it was P25 = 1USD...

Yup, it's close enough that I just multiply/divide by 50. Don't think I existed when the rate was that low but hah, I'd be in a position to try a fair bit more gear if that were still the case :P

You might benefit from a book similar to this one (which I have in my library): https://www.amazon.com/New-Stereo-Soundbook-Alton-Everest-dp-0830639039/dp/0830639039/

Interesting, never heard of "stereo M/S"
https://www.uaudio.com/blog/mid-side-mic-recording/

Looks a treat, appreciate the recommendation! The frustrating thing is I remember reading up on all this when I was looking into measurement mics about a year or so ago but it's all fallen out the other ear haha. Might look for a proper reference book in the future too.

Two thumbs up for Poland.

By-the-numbers American slashers, history, and booze. Damn right.

@Lyander add to the list fantastic passive amps from Khozmo. :-)

I wondered if a breakup was going to happen since they had not released anything in a while...

Yeah, it wasn't until I someone else pointed out it'd been ages since RAM came out that this started seeming matter-of-course. Makes a guy wonder whether they've tried to build new stuff and just failed to meet expectations.

Good discussion on /. about this yesterday.

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/21/02/19/2221218/nvidia-limits-rtx-3060-crypto-speeds-as-it-introduces-mining-cards

Isn't it in part to allow people who actually want graphics cards to game to get some? Miners seem to be a bigger problem than scalpers as far as supply goes.

Whoops sorry, somehow missed these. Can't say for sure it's a good way to combat the GPU scarcity since as bad as miners are making things the overall market just seems fucked.

Also, say what you will but the wastefulness of this (vis a vis their lack of secondhand utility) really does rub me the wrong way.