Not sure to be honest. I only did the quality control. My partner did the work. 😁

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Paging Andy!

You’d like what I did with my current setup. It’s digital all the way, through a DSP, to the DAC. Then 15cm of analog cables connecting the DAC to the amp. All of which happens away from any other signal or power wires.

Asking the tough questions.

Аз карам стомана Soma Double Cross Disc, тайванска, 2.07кг за 56см. Без 3D printed parts 😂. Беше към $500. Колнагото е 1.85кг. не е майтап да свалиш 200гр от рамка с вече тънки тръби, но мисълта ми е че за допустими пари има сравнимо леки стоманени рамки. Въпреки това, аз не бих карал стомана ако не мъкнех багаж. За каране без багаж алуминия е по лек, изключително здрав и не се впечатлява от вода. За тежък багаж, нитовете в които се завиват болтове в рамката не са толкова здрави колкото заварени гайки на стоманена рамка. За много неща са ОК разбира се.

Do it. They said the next one will be in March.

Housing construction isn’t funded by existing housing investment. It’s generally funded by debt. Private or public, just like any other capital intensive endeavor. And debt isn’t created by lending people’s savings but by creating new money. By public or private lenders. (Private lenders create money too.) The only thing that is really needed ahead of time is labor, equipment and materials available. Financial capital is created on demand to mobilize those real resources.

Will do! If you like astronomy and you’re able to, drag your body in next time! 🥹

We have a bet with a couple of friends who pass through Bloor around Jane regularly. They think traffic is gonna significantly improve when the lanes are removed. I think they’ll be badly surprised.

Marxists believe Socialism is what Capitalism is necessarily leading to because decentralized markets form centralized monopolist syndicates with complex internal planning

Jesus fucking Christ, I was just talking to a friend about how big corporations with hundreds of thousands of employees resemble centrally planned economies, and how consolidations creates them all around us and the only thing stopping them from becoming fewer is the attempts of some governments that haven’t been regulatory-captured yet to stop it. But regulatory-capture increases with wealth accumulation so if you keep running the system, it tends to total central planning. I haven’t read Marx and neither has he.

On a separate but related point - what stops the system from being somewhat disrupted by labor in a way that redistributes huge amounts of the accumulated wealth, restoring the regulatory regime in favor of labor and restarting the cycle from that point, then repeat. In other words, what’s stopping it from doing a depression-FDR-redistribution every 100 years? I can absolutely see the inevitable end without labor intervention but to my current brain it seems possible to maintain it with. Is this wrong in some obvious way?

Your PC is an unused server.

Also the last democratic presidency has sucked a lot less corporate than previously.

This is one of those situations when you just nod and take the endorsement.

Well it’s not the government doing this it’s private insurance companies. You’re free to shop around or start your own insurance company. This makes me feel much better about gatekeeping healthcare. 🦅🇺🇸

The repair:

It’s not exactly trivial if you have to change the connector of the replacement battery, but it’s not difficult either. AAA batteries would be way simpler and safer for most people.

An army surplus ammo can with its gasket removed.

Yeah, if the cells are standard, available and easy to replace and safe if abandoned, it’s not a huge deal replacing them every few years.

Especially now that NiMH rechargeables are so affordable and power dense.

100%. At least Timemore made this scale trivial to open and the cell is not difficult to replace.

TBH, this is a risk for all “value” devices that don’t have to pass NA/EU electrical certification. No cert means the cell can be whatever part was cheap and alright enough. Longer term reliability without specific testing isn’t obvious. Every now and then I fall into the rabbit hole of trying to remember all the different devices with potentially questionable cells. The occasion today is likely to trigger another sweep.