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The only thing I have ever known about Rick Wakeman is the first line of this song ...

Any week is as good as any other. It's a bit of a slow burn as you get used to Harry's idiosyncrasies and usual bugaboos (crypto, ai, elon, nuclear power, catholic church abuse, the army corps of engineers, etc.)

I have continuously not posted this on the incorrect belief that I already had. The single best podcast there is is Le Show by Harry Shearer. https://harryshearer.com/le-show/

Fernando Valenzuela https://www.thenation.com/article/society/fernando-valenzuela-baseball-dodgers-obit/

Happy birthday!

definitely lisp ...

Happy birthday

Limp Bizkit’s fraud lawsuit rattles music industry: ‘These accusations are massive’ Band alleges that Universal Music Group owes it more than $200m after concealing royalties https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/13/limp-bizkit-universal-music-group-lawsuit

It's possible that the lens is sharper in the center and softer at the edges. If you are using a smaller projection with the smaller sensor you could be seeing only the sharper part.

Yet Another iPhone, Dear God: What do you mean, you don’t need four studio-quality microphones? “What a remarkable day of announcements,” CEO Tim Cook said in conclusion, but I struggle to believe that he meant it. This was, let us be honest, merely a day of announcements.

I wanna be top-rated: Ramones’ 20 greatest songs – ranked! Commence arguing.

I love that the new added feature is the removal of the old feature. At least it's open source ... def IMG_PROC(self): pass

Baseball trailblazer Billy Bean, who dedicated life to inclusion, dies at 60 https://www.mlb.com/news/billy-bean-passes-away-at-age-60

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Do you really need 1600V? The more you push a transformer to do extreme stuff, the worse it will do at the stuff that actually matters. I'd wager that relaxing that spec to something more reasonable would make for a much better sounding design.

Neat. Can you share the datasheet? You can do this from existing Lundahls. For instance, with something like the LL1620 there are quad primaries. So you can use two of them as primaries, and the other two as e-stat outputs (you'd have to check with Lundahl whether the voltage differential from primary to primary is an issue). Then the 8x secondaries give all sorts of ways to combine them for driving speakers and phones of different loads. Similarly, with something like the LL2766 and a push-pull circuit, you can use the OPT as a choke and cap couple the plates for e-stat use, then use the secondaries however for speakers/phones. I've found those solutions to be more novelty than useful (the gain is never quite right for everything, and a fix is no better than a second amp), so I am curious how the specifically designed option will perform.