Frobnitz Coil Oil
frobozz@tty0.social
<p>Erstwhile IT-type retooling for wires-and-pliers. Occasional hiker, aperiodic XC skier, aspiring sailor, sometime bassist, and confirmed menace to potted plants. Bookish. Cat person. Dislikes spectator sports except women's rugby. Artémisophile and latent goth, overfond of dark clothing and darker music. Quietly miserable, often tired and overwrought. Affinity for '70s and '80s minicomputers and a few operating systems which ran thereon. Building a Level 1 HPR Cert rocket.</p>
Posts
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Post #4338033
It is annoyingly difficult to find a straight-through HPCN50 M-M cable that&#39;s &gt;3 feet long and doesn&#39;t have to risk clearing customs.
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Post #4338032
There are a whole lot of Digidesign 001 rack units out there. There are a few of the corresponding PCI cards, needed to run certain versions of Pro Tools LE 5.something. AFAICT, there are exactly two of the original HPCN50M-M cables to connect them together available on the planet, and one of them is in France. There is a possibility that a cable meant for a Mitsubishi industrial servo drive /just might/ work as a replacement. I&#39;ll know sometime around mid-August when/if it arrives from...
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Post #4338031
Sounded like a UH-1 was circling right outside the house, but according to adsb.fi, it was out over the lake.
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Post #4338030
@mwl Welcome. I consider it my duty to inform visitors and newcomers that the best Cuban sandwiches in Seattle are at Un Bien on 15th in Ballard. You picked a noisy week. We&#39;re about to be subjected to 4 days of low altitude overflights by F-18 SuperHornets and a Growler or two.
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Post #4338029
TIL TI stopped making NE5532s, but is now selling an incompatible op-amp with very different characteristics with the NE5532 part number. Also hearing that something similar has happened to the OPA134. I think I&#39;m going all-discrete if I design any more audio stuff.
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Post #4338028
@BegoniaArizona @ai6yr Either way, not buying anything from Taylor Farms, ever again.
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Post #4338027
@samlitzinger Someone used an LLM to do their homework.
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Post #4338026
The latest Linux kernel update to my deal-with-the-outside-world box kernel panics on every boot attempt. This particular box is currently running OpenSuSE, which was a mistake in so many ways. Definitely not what it used to be. I blame LLMs. I&#39;ll probably switch this machine to MX, too. Works well enough on my improvised RIP and my expendable laptop.
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Post #4338025
@brouhaha @ariadne HOAs: the vanguard of American fascism.
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Post #4338024
I have yet to encounter a web-based collaboration tool that&#39;s less annoying than flat text files on a Unix box with group write permissions and an understanding that thou shalt use RCS with adequate comments, or thine cubicle shall host the giant pink carnival teddy bear of shame until thou catchest the next version control scofflaw, and deliverest the teddy bear unto them.