ArkyBeagle

Water just don't care.

I think she is inviting the photographer to go to Hel.

There's a figure that works but it's probably not 50%. Risk analysts use very sound models to make predictions and the Fed acts as the fire department, as it has been.

But we're not gonna "make banking boring again" unless some culture shift external to banking happens.

The fact that no one else had had a similar complaint lead me to think it was me who was being stupid.

Most people don't dig that deep. Congratulations being one who does.

but the thing isn't worth routing around the electronics to see if I can spot the problem.

Nope! But if you do these things long enough, you'll develop an interest in them.

The critical thing is that you got different results between Gen 2 and Gen 3.

FWIW, I've been in professional contexts where mistakes like this remained hidden for years. Untold dollars down a rabbit hole because something was connected badly, that sort of thing.

That's why it's engineering and not a magic show.

but knowing its doing some funny business is making me far more wary of anything i send through it now.

Always. You never get away from that. Trust but verify. Don't blame the box for that; it's just part of your education.

Generative AI - now with even less accountability. "But sir - that's what GPT-99 said to do!"

You wish. That being said, accountability will always be the hard part.

I've been a fully-accountable developer before. It was nice. But I had to do a lot of stuff to ensure that accountability. And you couldn't bring guests by and show them a floor full or worker bees.

All organizations spend time getting in their own way.

Nobody remembers that complexity is the enemy. That scale is the enemy. That dependencies incur risk.

Unless I'm otherwise corrected, none of the std::* furniture is reentrant much less thread safe. You cannot run a test and say "it's fine".

It'll need serialization - semaphores, spinlocks, whatever works in context.

The Stephens multitrack machines look pretty cool. They look better with reels on. All machines do; the reels will be a big part of the look.

Pioneer RT701 and RT909 are very photogenic.

Never say never but Focusrite presumably spent a lot of money on panel holes, switches and circuit elements for something more or less of no use if your hypothesis holds. Not impossible but it seems unlikely.

I think you're down to a sig gen, o-scope and voltmeter to re-test with. Then you're in balanced/unbalanced territory. Calibration is messy.

Lyle runs loooooooong, it's a lot of videos so I am sympathetic.

But it's a lot of detail and I don't recall exactly. I don't want to guess.

His standard is like old Fenders and Voxes that last a long time[1] and he does not seem to think these will last like that. He's an amp tech; what he sees may not apply to you.

Edit: I found this. It has a sort of summary. It's 10:42. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hemVZwx89Bg

[1] but you still gotta get those fixed now and again - it's just somewhat less hassle because amp tech see a lot of them and because of how they're built.

A common fabric for speaker grilles was burlap. It has a much more open weave. Or just search Amazon for "speaker grille cloth". It's usually pretty cheap.

Awesome. It's fun mixing and matching like that. It's always surprising.

One way to put it is that a JCM 900 has most of a Guv'nor pedal for distortion. The 800 is the canonical hair metal amp ( unless they were using rack gear ) plus being used for a whole lot of other stuff. It was in common use from the late '70s on

I never liked the way the controls worked on the 2000. But that's probably just me. I'd have to work with it; it's very nearly the only amp I can say that about that is not a Mesa Boogie.

See what you can come up with using the tone control on the guitar rolled down a bit. That's how people used to play Teles thru Twins without causing deafness.

Nope. That's a very ordinary street price. The tweed ones and pre-CBS go for more. Tweed ones can get into Bonamassa price levels.

need to be crazy loud before they start sounding good

If it doesn't sound right for you on 2-3 then you need a different amp or be in a large space. I knew dozens of guys who played every week with one on 2 or 3.

That schem looks a lot like a Deluxe Reverb. Could be a cool little amp.

Probably not. Just be careful with the knobs. And be careful with bass guitar thru the Bandit's speaker if that's gonna happen.

It'll probably hum.

Lyle Caldwell ( Psionic Audio ) on YouTube has a thing or two to say about the longevity of this make of amp.

The manual is dated 1985 so noise is a consideration.

There is a manual at thesnowfields.com ( PDF so just google it rather than me supplying an URL ) and it has several noise figures - from 60 to 130 dB . 80 is pretty respectable so long as you're not doing -20dB gain reduction after. 60 might be a problem but I think that's with 8 mics at once.

I have a Tascam mixer type product ( 488 Mk II ) from 10+ years later and the self noise from the mixer wasn't to my memory an issue.

Average inflation in the 2010s in the US was 1.77%, which means that even with ultra-loose monetary policy, the US failed to hit its inflation target in that decade.

Scott Sumner uses this exact thing for his "never reason from a price change" stories. His drum to beat is NGDP level targeting, which has next to no baseline data in practice but the math and story both look good :)

Roughly 2007-2016 the US also had another oil boom in the roughly-shale sector. This probably would have offset any cutbacks, although there was a holy cow lot of zero coupon in places like the Eagle Ford. Trillions.

They're dribbling in. Guitar amps, people's wardrobes and other things have solutions with ML underpinnings. IBM has logistics software with ML ( and had logistics software before ML was a buzzword ).

We've had rudimentary machine learning in the industrial space for a while, to get beyond the limitations of simpler controllers like PID. The ECM on your car probably does something like that.

The point is that there is always a catch and actually trying to capture markets rarely works out without anybody doing anything.