Paul VanKoughnett (Retired, Pensionär)

I dreamt I overheard police officers talking about “milking human subjects”. It was clearly cop slang but I couldn’t tell if it meant bureaucratic processing of detainees, driving around looking for people to harass, or something else. Then had a 2nd dream about trying to decode the phrase. Curious…

How bout Orville Sash?

Today is the 1-year anniversary of my second album!

Release show vid feat. @pvk.bsky.social, cutely shot by his mom, at Hole in the Wall in Austin, TX.

Listen to So Lows on any streamies! I like hifi Tidal the best. 😘

tidal.com/album/416031...

Post a banger that's not in English
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JEQ...

there's a passage in HOW MUSIC WORKS where david byrne details one of his lyric writing processes and it's mostly making random noises until he likes them, and then he finds the words closest to them and i really try to keep that in mind when i'm writing music!!!

music is sound art. it is textural, rhythmic, melodic, a game of tension and release, a conversation between expectation of the listener and the song itself, and reduce it to lyrics only displays the same lack of artistic palette as someone who can only appreciate “realistic” visual art

my opinion on the Bad Bunny halftime show, and non-English music in general, is that i think a need to “be able to understand the lyrics” displays an embarrassing shallowness of the speaker to appreciate the voice as an instrument & to appreciate music as something other than a lyric delivery system

just one more...

In science class once they made us rinse a cheese puff and it looked identical to Styrofoam. “See? This is what you hogs eat.” But they couldn’t quench our fire…

Weird. No clue.

Digital pedals use more. For a basic analog pedal like a DS1 or something I think you’d expect like 4-10 mA.

And it’s the current that splits btw (like a river splitting into rivulets), the voltage is 9V for all pedals on the same supply. So like the manual for the RV6 says it uses 95 mA of current. Your power supply probably has some writing on it saying how much current it can deliver.

I have no idea, that’s a good question. Maybe you had it inserted in such a way that it was still sending the signal but not engaging the “cable is inserted” detector (which uses a mechanical feature of the input jack). Was it doing the reverb stuff? Or just working bypassed?

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you've read your last free article, joker...

Do we know where the yellow filter on ChatGPT image generations comes from? I’m kinda sympathetic to it being an intentional watermarking measure because it seems trivial to correct in a post-processing step

Incredible movie with an incredible soundtrack. The "Beautiful Treasures" theme first shows up in the early scene at the textile mill, but slow and in the background. So when they finally actually sing the song, it's like a release of an unnoticed tension.

A little awkward because that term describes both the object and an endomorphism of that object, but pretty good, I think! And I love how "Frobenius" has apotheosized into counting as literal, haha

Any suggestions for renaming Witt vectors?

From X: Renaud Foucart @RenaudFoucart Few people now this but the Epstein library can be used to bypass academic journal paywalls. You search for a paper and if someone sent it to Epstein the pdf is there.

New sci-hub just dropped.

I love Mother
I love her way
I love her gospel
Precepts to obey

It’s like all those episodes of House where it turns out that the patient was fine and Dr. House was just being overly dramatic.

Got this far in before realizing that the replacement battery I was using was also dead. This concludes your latest installment of Pedals Hospital.

Finally, the connection at pins 6 and 7 makes it so that, when nothing is plugged into input A, the signal from input B is sent to its Tip conductor (so it goes to both input stages), and vice versa. Whew!

If nothing is plugged in, then pin 3 is connected to pin 2 (which is ground), grounding the detection circuit and gobbling up its 3.3V power. Plugging something instead disconnects pin 3, floats the input to the detection circuit, and allows the 3.3V to provide a current to IN-A/B-DET.

Those thin gray boxes to the left of the arrows are, I think, indicating a MECHANICAL but not ELECTRICAL connection. So plugging something in breaks the connection with the arrows, as we saw before, except you're now breaking the connection on a separate circuit.

- The signals in the Tips (jack pin 4) go to two identical input stages via W100/W102.
- W101/W103 are going to those digital "input detection" circuits. How is that working? This confused me for a while...

- W107/W104 are those thick black lines going to 0V of the wall-wart/battery. They're connected together here and to the Rings of the input jacks via pin 8.
- The Sleeve of input B is grounded via W105. Weirdly, the Sleeve of input A seems unconnected. I guess it's grounded by the metal chassis...

(as the astute reader will notice, this explains why it's possible for a half-plugged-in cable to be a meaningfully different state than either unplugged or fully plugged in -- at least if the design is bad or if something has gone wrong!)

Here's my interpretation of this, actually.
- The jacks are stereo jacks with 3 conductors, Tip-Ring-Sleeve. You'd plug in mono guitar cables with just Tip and Sleeve, where Sleeve is ground and Tip is the signal. The cable Sleeve connects to both Sleeve and Ring on the jack.