PeanutNore

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by PeanutNore 9y ago
“Burdening future generations with our brain banks is just comically arrogant. Aren’t we leaving them with enough problems?” Hendricks told me this week after reviewing Nectome’s website. “I hope future people are appalled that in the 21st
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by PeanutNore 9y ago
I've been designing PCBs for guitar amps and pedals for the last year or so and I highly recommend OSHPark for fabricating PCBs. It's not the cheapest, but the quality is great and it's still quite affordable. Mainly, though,
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by PeanutNore 9y ago
It's 'pressure' here as well, 'presure' would just be a misspelling.
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by PeanutNore 9y ago
I still keep a CRT around for my C64 - a little 13" Sony Trinitron. It might see more use once I get around to replacing the electrolytic caps in my SNES and getting it working again.
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by PeanutNore 9y ago
I had my EA account stolen last year, and getting it back was really straightforward and pretty frictionless. You just need to pick up the phone and call them (or you can also put your phone number in a form and they will call you, so there
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by PeanutNore 9y ago
Black pudding is a central component of the "full English breakfast" that seems to be readily available all over London. Someone's gotta be eating it, and probably not just tourists like me. There's a huge class componen
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by PeanutNore 9y ago
>I went through every shared article and clicked "hide post" and "hide all posts from site". I did try this at one point, but it ended up like whac-a-mole. My wife is still really active on Facebook, so I still hear a
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by PeanutNore 9y ago
I think I noticed the same change in my feed as well, but it's part of a lot of small changes over the past few years that have in general reduced the enjoyment I got from FB to the point where I deleted the apps from my phones and qui
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by PeanutNore 9y ago
As a former active user on Facebook, this sort of change may succeed in bringing people like me back to the site. The minimal effort required in hitting that "share" button means that every page that organically reached my friends
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by PeanutNore 9y ago
I've been giving Ubuntu MATE a try for a couple weeks, and with the "Redmond" panel style it's pretty much frictionless for me.
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by PeanutNore 9y ago
To say nothing of the regional accents in England where "th" is often pronounced the same as "f".
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by PeanutNore 9y ago
Here (Pittsburgh) the vowel in "down" or "town" is a monophthong instead of a diphthong like it is pretty much everywhere else. I wonder if part of the reason for the diversity of regional accents in English is because p
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by PeanutNore 9y ago
Depending on where you live and your level of income, the most realistic way to think of buying a home may be as simply a more cost effective way of putting a roof over your head than renting would be. It's certainly the case for me.
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by PeanutNore 9y ago
I completely misunderstood the headline going in, expecting something to do with the "current times voltage" sort of power and wondering what sort of gruesome experiment electrocuting brains was going on.
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by PeanutNore 9y ago
I've been using Ableton Live for about a week after getting a free copy with the USB interface I bought (Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, highly recommend) and I had to turn to YouTube to figure out how to actually sequence MIDI drums in it. I
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by PeanutNore 10y ago
I don't mind automated checkouts that much because I worked as a cashier as a teenager and based on that experience I'm able to check myself out pretty quickly. When there's a line for all of the checkouts including the autom
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by PeanutNore 10y ago
They usually specify a warm-up time on the datasheet. For most 12A_7 preamp tubes it's 11 seconds
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by PeanutNore 10y ago
I'm using the MCP6002 to drive the ADC of an ATTiny85 for a guitar pedal that replicates Game Boy sounds. It's got both rail to rail input and output and it all works happily on 3.3v.
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by PeanutNore 10y ago
It's definitely a straightforward and cost-effective circuit to build. The real cost (and test) is in the DSP programming. There's a reason a Fractal Axe-FX or Kemper Profiler is so expensive, and it's not the bill of materia
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by PeanutNore 10y ago
"Girth"
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by PeanutNore 10y ago
It's definitely true that there just aren't nearly as many depletion mode parts as there are enhancement mode. I've never tried getting them from anywhere other than Mouser. For my purposes I stick with LND150s and DN25XX &#x
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by PeanutNore 10y ago
This works well with electrolytic caps because modern ones are so much smaller for the same voltage and capacitance rating than older ones were. You can also hollow out old carbon comp resistors and put metal film resistors inside them. As
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by PeanutNore 10y ago
Mouser does have a column for gate charge that you can sort by.
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by PeanutNore 10y ago
There are definitely still new through-hole parts, but the selection is limited. It seems like maybe 20% of new transistors get a TO-92 or TO-220 version.
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by PeanutNore 10y ago
runoffgroove.com has a lot of interesting guitar effects circuits. There's also the DIYPedals subreddit
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by PeanutNore 10y ago
I never include a standby switch if I build a tube head from scratch, but when I build out of a "donor amp"* that has one I keep it, because it's at least useful as a mute switch. *Using a cheap tube amp from CL as the basis
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by PeanutNore 10y ago
There definitely are people who want that buzzsaw sound. The Boss HM-2 pedal "chainsaw" sound is also having a moment right now. I'm not really into either, but I do like really saturated high gain sounds with a lot of compre
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by PeanutNore 10y ago
There's a difference between overloading components and overdriving them. If you overdrive an amplifier (the circuit element, not the finished product) all you are doing is presenting it with an input signal with a greater amplitude th
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by PeanutNore 10y ago
When I buy 100 BS170 MOSFETs, I also buy 100 9.1v Zener diodes for this precise reason. Gate protection diodes are essential for peace of mind when using MOSFETs.
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by PeanutNore 10y ago
Yeah, I see them used for that purpose and for VHF / UHF applications. A lot of precision op-amps also have JFET inputs. In guitar effects land JFETs are popular because as a class-a amplifier in common source configuration they bias t

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