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I have arbitrarily decided that today is a drinking day.

The ChatGPT wine problem. I had not heard it before, more of a philosophy. {Also "AI does not exist, but it will ruin everything anyway" - Angela Collier}

God 1982 seems so far away now. And wouldn't it be great to have no foreknowledge of the future? Wife's ideal theoretical hall pass was early Michael Hutchence and I can absolutely respect that.

Emperor Tomato Ketchup would be an apt choice.

No POTUS speech for mikey.... Fab Four Suture by Stereolab (2006) https://album.link/ndbpgsjnbw9xr Example:

For the appendectomy there was no eating after dinner the day before, a few things like milk were allowed up to six hours before and then clear liquids ceased when leaving for hospital (which was about 2.5 hours from surgery). And Rob this whole process was different than I expected, but a co-workers in-law went through the same steps a couple of months prior.

Apple unveils new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever, featuring M4 Max and new M3 Ultra. M3 Ultra maxed out: Apple M3 Ultra chip with 32-core CPU, 80‑core GPU, 32-core Neural Engine 512GB unified memory* 16TB SSD storage $14099 before tax.

You know what you're getting with this one.

GTAV: Enhanced unlocked today. It's free to owners of plain old GTAV on Steam and the R* store (apparently EGS users get the shaft, but seeing as how GTAV was free on the EGS, I can see why.) The visual upgrade is pretty, but not earth shattering. Frame rates are slightly better on the same hardware. That is a rare one for R*. I'll post screenshots later if I think of it.

I'm late, sorry. HBD dude.

Thanks for the post and lots to unpack here. The issue with using lower bias is less potential on the diaphragm and it has to be compensated to a degree with the drive voltages. That really doesn't work so it opens up a can of worms with regards to peaks and spikes making it onto the drivers, causing damage. It's all about balance. For me, 1uf caps are also way too big for what is supposed to be a high impedance circuit. I'd then put a large value resistor between them and a much smaller cap before the ballast to limit energy transfer. The choice of a Villard voltage doubler puzzles me as it is a terrible circuit with no real redeeming factors while it would cost next to nothing (even less) to use a far better circuit. I'd be less worried about switching noise in the diodes etc. over what it is a bad circuit. Smaller caps with cheaper diodes would work much better. The bias is also summed so any benefits from channel seperation are along gone. One the Stax SB units they took took one AC line from each of the channels to grab the highest potential as the impedance of the transformer would minimize any channel cross talk. Thanks for the offer but I don't need anymore stuff. I like the price and some of the ideas here but I'd switch to a better bias supply, maybe even a voltage tripler, with smaller caps and say a 200V limit on the input.

The common contemporary treatment seems to be if not caught and removed before rupture, eliminate the infection and leaked fluid through drain and antibiotics, then a bit of a race with waiting up to 6-8 weeks for the majority of inflammation to decrease, including rupture point self-healing, then removing laparoscopically, before the slowly climbing rates of possible obstruction reoccurrence. In our case had to go back on antibiotics for a week between. I’ll just say, we’re only twelve hours after the latter step, but it was outpatient, Esmé had solid food last night, sleeping soundly now, and we’re just on alternating regular doses of Motrin and Tylenol. Such a huge difference from the multiple hospitals, days without eating, week long stay, crazy January experience.

Hello! I'm the guy who designed this thing. It has a max 240V bias because I assumed it would be safer, would provide compatibility with older Stax models, and shouldn't have any downsides aside from reduced sensitivity. There are separate 1uF caps on each channel because each channel has it's own biasing circuit. This was done to eliminate channel imbalance. The port is a pro-bias socket because I realized that most people won't be using this to drive normal bias headphones, as none are currently manufactured, and I could reduce the complexity of the plug significantly by putting the bracing bolt in the center of it. I have included a picture of the PCB board for your entertainment. The bias circuits are simple villard voltage doublers with a zeners to stop it from going too high. Whatever the positive voltage swing is the bias will be roughly double that. I can probably convert them to roughly 580V by simply replacing the zeners with higher voltage MOVs. If you would like to test it yourself I would be more than happy to send one too you. I am also happy to answer any questions you have, and I am very open to criticism.

Marinara, mozzarella, sweet Italian sausage, fennel and onion with a sprinkle of parmesan.

^^ Suggestion, make a thread. It'll be appropriate that way. I've always enjoyed your contributions, Knucks, regardless of medium/media/format.

I've been reflecting a lot on talent and luck recently, for a variety of reasons. The former because I've observed that the world is full of people who believe that their own incredible luck means they are far more talented than they actually are (every tech bro not named "John Carmack" ever.) The latter because I've been a photographer for 20 years at this point and I swear I was better in 2008 than I am now. Similarly, I've been a DJ for over 30 years and I'm ...fine at it, but I haven't played out in a dozen years and I haven't done my radio show in over two (sad face.) What I observed was that no matter how much effort I put into my shows (which was a lot, from having decades of esoteric musical knowledge to to spending 2-3x as long as the actual broadcast figuring out how the selected tracks should go together) what people always commented on was the long and winding rant I did at the end. My one true talent is putting words together, either in text form with careful editing (I'm dyslexic and often accidentally a word or a letter or add add an extra one) or off the dome on a microphone. I've been working on improving that at which I'm already good. So far my outlet has been reddit comments (seriously) as well as a couple long form pieces (one of which got removed from reddit because fuck me right?) I've gone after controversial subjects not because of the attention they bring but because that's what relevant. One big one is how we ended up with Donald Jumpin' Jehosephat Trump back in the White House with Elongated Muskrat (off his tits on ketamine) in tow. Another is is the relations between gay and trans people in the US. You know, light fare. I might post a couple examples here if I can figure out what thread is appropriate.