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Thanks Ric! Something was meant to be, we had a power blip at ~3:45am EST and my alarm keypad beeping woke me up. Managed to watch the launch as well! Time for caffeine....a whole fucking bunch of it! 🤣 Have a 3.5-4 hour (if I'm lucky) drive in a bit.....

Congrats to Chris! Perfect launch.* *to time with my middle of the night switch from legs to breasts in the sous vide.

Anyone has some experience or tips simulating CFA3 SS mode in Ltspice? The transient analysis is barely moving for me, with or without servo, single ended or balanced input, not with arbitrarily large time step size neither, only way I tried to make run through is making open loop gain too low such that the close loop gain is no longer maintained by the ratio of the feedback resistors. I wonder if it's the cross feedback thing making it so slow. For reference CFA2 with current feedback runs fine; CFA3 open loop mode also runs fine, I'm getting gain of about 3.3 with gain resistors set to 10k || 1.9k, is this expected? (I use Jfet on the input) Thanks! Edit: Also attaching my ltspice sim file CFA3_ltspice.zip

Went to sleep last night with sniffles, woke up today with a cold or something. So much for Thanksgiving.

They have been officially released now: https://stax.co.jp/product/sr-009d/ List price is 385KYen with the 10% tax so likely in the 340kYen range for street price.

But hopefully not too far in the evening. https://theonion.com/astronaut-hates-long-nightly-spacewalk-to-iss-outhouse/

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oi-you-got-a-loicense-for-that-mate

I, ahem, like to sing sea shanties, so I cheerfully pay for Proton VPN. Don't let the UK government back you into a corner!

My anti virus subscription includes a VPN. Never needed (or used it) until the UK did the online "safety" act. access via VPN with IP location set to USA works fine for me in the UK... I'm just waiting for the UK to ban VPNs, strong encryption and storing anything locally - after all if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't be worried about the security forces, AI or anything looking at everything all the time... Of course politicians, Royalty, celebrities and rich people will exempt from the this.

Imgur are still blocking content to UK viewers. All I see is a blue box with "CONTENT NOT VIEWABLE IN YOUR REGION". Their caps, not mine Because our on-line regulator Ofcom has decided to sue them under the UK Online Safety Act. Imgur has responded by blocking all Imgur content to people from the UK. Ho hum. This is the BBC's article on the Imgur blue screen https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

That's awesome! Congrats to him on being the furthest from Trump one can get.

For those of you so inclined.....my nephew (niece's husband) Chris is in Russia (Kazakhstan) now, and he will be launching EARLY local time on a Soyuz rocket to go to the ISS!!! Streaming is available at https://plus.nasa.gov/ 3 highlights (times are EST):

Happy belated birthday!

Thanks for that. And this! This is really well shot/directed. Almost gives me a Jonathan Demme vibe (yes, I realize the chronology is reversed). Von Karajan is of course a favourite, but my first was this one: I grew to a big appreciation for Concertgebouw Orchestra, not just from this recording, but multiple recordings across multiple conductors. And since you're a Rick Wakeman fan, I will also recommend his soundtrack for Crimes of Passion. I know that seems like a non-sequitur, but it's not, trust me.

Happy belated birthday! (party favour noise)

And this is the way i tried to do that - it worked and is still working. Thanks!

Happy birthday!

If you posted a Photo of you, I can use it to get AI to replace AI you with what AI thinks you should look like, if you like. AI.

Lol, until I read the text I was like who is that guy with my minis! Is thet you or what AI thinks I look like? Haha

Such a great episode.

Happy Birthday!

Happy AI Birthday, Jason!

Cheers and Happy Birthday -

Thanks all, it's great to be back.

Jack is just getting into the Simpsons and we just watched the Mr. Plow episode, so I got to tell him about your Linda Ronstadt story.