Thad E Ginathom

"I'd like to try whatever it is you're having."

@Jinxy245: you have to mine it out of my brain cells!

I thought you were being figurative

I'm useless with figures!

Thanks.

I think one should say it from time to time.

static ssize_t write_null(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
return count;
}

I've always wanted to learn C, but it is probably never going to happen. Will have to settle for hobby level Python and shell scripts.

@Kernel Kurtz : this is both simple but also very useful. I've written some complex c programs with it. But it is one of the easiest to learn that I've found:
https://quincy.codecutter.org/

Purely self-congratulatory status post!

It seems that I wrote this about Amir, a couple of years ago. I'm proud of it!

LOL.

I guess Amir really is yanking our chains

Pulling his own bell ropes. He doesn't care: He is one of those people who thinks that if he says the same thing often enough, people will believe it.

Unfortunately, he's right.

Enjoy the brand new world!

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Joni, I love you!

I don't recall thinking much about that line fifty years ago. Music that keeps on giving!

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Papa said "Son, you'll never get far. I'll tell you the reason, if you want to know 'Cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go"

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Nicky my child he stands there with the wind in his hair
Wondering whether the water the wind of the where
I fear that someday he might ask me if mine is the blame
And I've got no reply save to tell him it's all just a game...

Whether the non-photographic public know about depth of field or not, it does it's thing, and it does make the sharply-focused subject stand out. It works!

@Thad E Ginathom, talking image equivalents, to me treble peak-iness would be highlight roll-off, the shape of higher values as they approach the clipping point. Diffraction stars are a common artifact inherent to a capture instrument that differ between manufacturers, so I'd say microphone pickup pattern is your aperture and the timbre of the mic is like your number of blades/onion rings/flares/whathaveyou

Super analysis, @roshambo123 !

This conversation is in severe danger of becoming sensible :D !lol!

:)

Yes, thanks: nothing to panic about except the bill.

It is back home, and now under test. But they found that they had to replace both the graphics card and the ram. Being a very decent company, they have said, test it first, then we'll bill you.

It's not a fancy graphics card, quiet low-end as they go, and only 32Gb ram, but still, it adds up to a significant amount. Or will, judging by the build-time component costs.

Bottom line: I'm just happy to have it back. I hate doing internet for multiple hours and days on mobile devices.

I got a better update today. The ram/video-card are not final: I have the PC to test-use for a few days, to establish that it isn't an MB issue. *Then* we will discuss the replacement parts.

Push. Click! Yay!

Funny thing is is that it worked at all. Or that one channel wasn't dead. And I'd listened to some speech and it seemed ok. But music was awful: distorted.

Panic over.

Your experience is like mine recently with Pi2AES. I updated it, pressed play and.....no sound. Figured it out after mucking around for some hours but was pulling my hair out the whole time.

Very often, with computers, hifi, etc etc, the answer is simple.
And people say, why didn't you try that first! Well, I didn't. I tried it last.

But hey, basics like *all connections* /should/ come first.

Maybe it took half an hour. True, it could have taken one minute, but that was the way it went.

Just glad I could get music again :)

Which all goes to prove that the world is round.

Or something.

Everyone caught up now? All got your 2024?

If not, I guess you'll have to do some crazy stuff with the international date line. Or go without.

Hope you are on high enough ground to avoid floating away. Take care.

All dry now, thanks. And yes, we kept the water out.

We are on low ground. In fact our house is lower than the road (it wasn't when it was built) and we even have to pump out our grey water. We have a powerful 2hp pump, backed by a generator (we had no mains for 2 days) that does cope with that rain

but I wasn't sure of that, as I don't think I did rain-rate*area for such extreme rain.

I was most worried about compound walls taking the weight of 2ft-plus of water outside. They did.

Phew.

@Koth Ganesh had a collection of cables. When I bought the headphones off him, I didn't like the custom one fitted so he searched the stock cable for me. But he has moved on the turntables and speakers, and got rid of all his headphone stuff

Yes, self-amalgamating tape is *very* neat. No house should be without a roll :)

Oh, and /fancy/ cable not required, as you might guess. Even if it works I probably couldn't hear it. Had to glue a hearing aid back together last night!

@joch, thanks for that advice. I've never used shrink tube, although I have several jobs waiting for to get around to trying it.

I would not want something hard where it would rub against my face.

It is really just a John demo song. They just flushed it out with full production. Sure, Paul and Ringo and even George were involved, but in the end it was just a little song John recorded on cassette one day.

No doubt true. And yes, it's a bit of history. It could have had a corner in some collection.

What makes it notable is the technology with which they isolated his voice from piano, and that this wasn't possible the last time they tried in 1995.

@Azimuth in a sense, it’s “just a John demo song,” but John wrote it with Paul in mind. When Yoko gave the band the four unfinished songs in 1994, they were on cassette tapes with the words “for Paul” written on them in John’s handwriting. John wrote the songs with his old songwriting partner in mind, even after they had broken up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB-Rf1i0PXM

It doesn't have the right combination, but them's the "words"

Dang…it’s looping in my head now

I didn't pickup on the meaning. Interesting!

I've only tried them in demo settings but they're a known reference for production and that could be useful in and of itself. Horrible imaging for gaming, but I somehow doubt that'll be much of a problem for you haha.

Working in TV, the 7506 is the standard headphone for our editors and content creators, we probably have hundreds of them, as is true of other facilities I have seen. As ASR will tell you, it is pretty much Harman curve, so for SBAF folks it isn't a pleasure headphone. It isolates well, has a predictable response, and decent build for price. They're basically Avantones for headphones. Even Amir didn't enjoy them

Well, that doesn't sound good! I thought there might have been a reason why I'd never heard of them on the hifi scene.

Isolation might be useful one day... I'll put the on the shelf for now.

Currently using an a6500 and only some of my lenses are Full-frame. More GAS ahead I suppose!

No way can I even begin to google this. Heard and passed by when scrolling the Instagram Mind Drain. It was too late by the time I thought "What *was* that?"

This is all I have: it was like someone singing "warawarawarawara" down a chromatic scale.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wara+wara+wara+wara+song

Nice try, and thank you, but no. Did I mention that the song I'm looking for is *strange*?

And maybe more microtonal than chromatic.

Stones? I expected to see something like sand: they were more like boulders!

I recall @purin writing his experience, sometime back. "Like pissing glass," I think he said.

I'm very much hoping that this remains *not my personal experience*

Have a family member currently undergoing lithotripsy, not a fun experience. Yeah, makes you watch your diet a bit more.

"The Kidney Stones" sounds like a good name for a 90's grunge band. Not that I have any idea what 90's grunge sounds like, or want to.