git clone https://github.com/git/git.git

There is a certain rhythm in this command line.

https://patreon.com/TheSignalPath

To be honest, I think RF circuits are basically magic. What with all the filters that look like triangles, and “attenuators”, and Wilkinson dividers that look just like circles on the PCB, and stuff that is not even connected but still affects the signal.

But anyway, I like hearing it explained even though just about all of it goes straight, and miles high, over my head.

Not to mention “wave guides”, rigid co-ax, and 110 GHz LeCroy scopes (cheap at 0.000009 $/Hz) that, as far as I can tell, transform the input signal like an FFT (from time domain to frequency domain) because clearly no one has yet built a processor that could possibly keep up with it, process it, then reconstitute the input as a wave form and then claim to do FFT on it.

His cat, Pooch (?), alone is worth the money, though. I’m sure there must be some video where (s)he (?) ruins some expensive board by stepping on it, and I’m determined to find it.

One dollar per video. Here we go!

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Sir Arthur C. Clarke

*giggle*

*giggle*

New Zealand is having a wine forgery scandal. Winemakers are very keen on consumers perceiving their labels as accurate.

Most important statement that should never appear on an accurate NZ wine label?

“Made from squeezed hobbits.”

(Bad Taste Award for today: ✅)

“The president of the Dutch poultry producers’ union, Hennie de Haan, […]”

Wow. 🐓.

👇 👍 “… the fearsome Angela Merkel …” 🙂

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/03/will-you-bugger-off-to-play-golf-and-other-questions-more-pertinent-than-pregnancy

“There are few of the world’s problems which cannot be solved with high explosive.”

As we know, most of these few can be solved with heat-shrink tubing. This raises two questions, however:

1. Are there any of the world’s problems that can be solved with either high explosive or heat-shrink tubing?

2. Are there any that can only be solved with both high explosive and heat-shrink tubing?

“‘This Forester guy writes a darned good book, and I can certainly identify with his hero. Besides,’ she giggled, ‘I like his initials!'”

I’ll have a double broadside on the Fourth Wall, if you please, Mr. Cardones!

Seasonic Prime 80+ Titanium. I gather that cap is from a reputable manufacturer? Always assuming it’s genuine, of course.

Natürlich ist VDSL-Vectoring eine üble Wettbewerbsverzerrung, weil die Telekom damit die Politik und die BNetzA unter den Druck der Massen setzen kann, die schnell schnelleres Internet wollen und sich nicht darum scheren, daß sie ohne Vectoring statt heute 50 Mb/s für 40 € vielleicht in drei Jahren ein Gigabit für dreizehnfünfundneunzig bekommen könnten, wenn der Markt funktionierte. Stattdessen werden jetzt die Mitbewerber aus den KVz’n vertrieben.

Spatz, Taube; Hemd, Rock. Aber mir halt im Moment auch.