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Complementary dessert and paint stripper or was it raki?

Greek Salad (from the source?) Smoked pork risotto. Both outside, gone nine (o'clock) and the place is jumping. (Well it is tolerably cooler now)

Cure, Paris/Show I haven't listened to the others as much, but these are some of my favourite live albums from Robert Smith & co. Robert Smith at his most vulnerable/heartbreaking -- the song, "Apart", from Paris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS6ZyAsUA-w

Ryan Truesdell: Shades of Sound: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard Vol.2 Very good. I'll be listening to this more. Some background on this project: Recording of July 2025: Shades of Sound: Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard Vol.2

on the golden reference HV you need enough voltage across the 5.1ohm 5W current sense resistor (R11 on the positive rail) to activate the current limit. *If* I remember correctly the stock 5.1 Ohm gives about 90mA and 2.6ohm (two 5.1ohms in parallel) gives about 175mA. V(drop)=IR so you are looking at about 0.09A*5.1Ohm = ~0.46V to activate the current limiter so V/I = R 0.46V/you required current in A = current senses resistor in ohms. This resistor value will probably need some fine tuning and you ideally want to use a 5W part rated for high voltage.

In the mean time. https://archive.org/details/the-nvidia-ai-gpu-black-market-investigating-smuggling-corruption-governments

Done as well. Go get ‘em, Nate!

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Done. Enjoy the ride.

^^ Bummer. I am not sure where Bloomberg comes into play. I guess I should have backed the project to get a physical copy to share. Anyway, The basics are that there is a thriving black market for the AI GPUs in China, and none of it is illegal there. And they explored both the direct smuggling of CPU's into China, and the crazy manufacturing of Non-SKU cards for use using defect cards. I am sure that they will fight this and it could be reposted. With all that, it was a bit long, I think they could have gotten it down to about 2 hours with some proper editing.

Whelp, I got through half of it, but Bloomberg had it taken down before I could make it to Friday. So... how does it end?

Love you guys. Put in some decently hard work this week. 46 mile gravel loop Sunday around the seacoast, a few runs, and the back/forth commute today add up to over a 100 mile week and it's only Thursday. I'm a little over half way to my fund raising goal. Onward. Upward.

Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway by Roberta Flack (1972) https://album.link/ksm7qv8qvcfv0 Example: Holy poop!! What a great album.

RIP Brent Hinds of Mastodon Died in a motorcycle crash

Chicken or Beef? Decisions Decisions. Technically, that's Cottage Pie.

Yes, I noticed that too. But I found those machining marks only on the inner rear panel, left and right sides. The rest of the chassis looks clean. I’m pretty sure they just used 3-axis machining, which is still miles better than what I could do on my home-garage CNC. Of course, 5-axis is another story, and I’ve been thinking about designing some more complex curved surfaces where 5-axis paths would actually make sense. Overall though, I’m quite happy with how this chassis turned out. I haven’t yet checked all the PCB mounting hole positions against the boards, but so far it looks promising.

I guess the machine shop cheaped out and didn’t use 5-axis tool paths for those steep facets. Otherwise we wouldn’t see the tool marks after heavy sandblasting. This should really have been a cast part. No objections from the environmentalists from the other side of the pond? I’m surprised.

I've posted this artist before, very smooth voice and nice writing....just an easy and joyful listen.

The original Jecklin Float Electrostatic headphone wasn't much chop sonically - yes it had vast, bright dynamics, but at the expense of no bass whatsoever. Also, no-one in their right mind would wear these anywhere near a camera. They didn't hold a candle to any version of the Stax Sigma or Sigma Pro and so they were sold.

RIP to Frank Caprio, the "Kindest Judge In The World." I've seen a lot of his videos, and some of them brought me to tears. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/nicest-judge-frank-caprio-dies/3793798/

Done a while back, just putting this to the top of unread 😊

Good riddance.

I aim to please!! I think these are old though... but can't find anything on them.

New Doc just dropped - I am busy for the next 4 hours.

I was hopping that the latest version will be a lot better than the old I still have ... and not using. Now my hope was killed by Spritzer, thanks!