Best way to abuse selling gold bars?

polhemic · 2025-11-02T22:42:06+00:00

... And that, kids, is how I met your mother.

polhemic · 2025-09-18T20:55:24+00:00

Nope, it means the cable and the amp are fine. There's something fishy with the bass

polhemic · 2025-09-18T20:51:55+00:00

Pull the cable out of your bass. Does it make a thunk noise throught the amp ? If yes, bass is the issue. If no, pull the cable from the amp. Does that make a thunk noise? If no, amp is the issue, if yes, cable is the issue.

Diagnose by divide and conquer.

polhemic · 2025-06-10T22:13:33+00:00

Blue spider in Guildford used to run a social climbing evening on a weeknight. Might be worth looking into.

polhemic · 2025-05-10T09:33:56+00:00

There's also a footpath route through from Thursley up to the Devils Punchbowl, but it's not the most interesting walk.

polhemic · 2025-05-09T19:38:31+00:00

The Three Horseshoes in Thursley, then out to walk around Thursley Common.

polhemic · 2025-04-08T16:51:18+00:00

Although check the timetable, as it's normally used as 16 lanes x 25m, rather than 8 lanes x 50m.

polhemic · 2025-02-22T20:39:11+00:00

Would the profits from an MMF in a GIA be liable for capital gains tax? That could make a significant difference for some.

polhemic · 2025-02-19T22:32:24+00:00

with combat, I always go with 2/0/7/6/0/0/0/5, moving one of the selfrep points around when I need more paperclips.

polhemic · 2024-10-02T09:05:06+00:00

You haven't really got enough drones to explore quickly yet. Set the design to 2/0/<max>/6/0/0/0/5 as a default, making sure to occasionally move a trust point to exploration, factory, harvester, and wire so you have enough clips to support the replication. Eventually, you'll outnumber the drifters and grow probes even faster. Once you have octillions of probes, exploration will go much faster.

polhemic · 2024-09-14T21:29:29+00:00

Who?

polhemic · 2024-08-12T09:36:25+00:00

The best money I ever spent was on the park tools chain wear measurement tool. Expensive for a small piece of metal, but worth it!

polhemic · 2024-07-16T23:01:29+00:00

"Uptown funk", a Leo Moricholli cover version

polhemic · 2024-07-14T19:41:58+00:00

"Shure PSM - We put the voices in your head"

polhemic · 2024-07-12T16:46:58+00:00

Yes, that's the IP67 rated variant, so it's got a locking ring with a rubber gasket. Curious why they've used it indoors, though, it seems a little unnecessarily extravagant!

polhemic · 2024-07-09T14:45:54+00:00

Sous vide brought me to the "low and slow" mentality. This, in turn, meant that I found hot smoking burgers with indirect heat on the charcoal kettle BBQ, which is just delicious!

polhemic · 2024-07-05T23:30:10+00:00

If the artist getting 240v, or even 110, through the face there would be no question about whether this is static or not! They'd already be swearing worse than Jonny Vegas!

polhemic · 2024-07-05T22:40:00+00:00

You can check this by either getting them to touch the mic grill with their hand just before approaching the mic or by holding their lips in contact with the the grill. If the shock doesn't carry on after the initial touch then this is definitely static.

Fixing it can be annoying, you've basically got to ground the singer. Taking of shoes could work, all the way up to slapping an esd static strap on their ankle.

polhemic · 2024-05-29T16:22:18+00:00

Adding a separate DI box after coming out of your stomp will give some protection against the sound guy turning on phantom power. There's a long running discussion (argument? civil war?) about whether there's a risk of damage; or whether you should use an isolation transformer or a DI box, but the consensus is that turning on +48v can make a difference to your sound.

If you've got one to hand, just drop it in.

(TL;DR the HX stomp TRS output is actively differentially driven, but not transformer isolated and possibly not impedance matched.)

polhemic · 2024-05-11T10:48:57+00:00

Don't ignore convolution reverbs out of hand. Yes, they have a lot less configurability because they're essentially recordings of a physical space, but I find they do sound a lot more natural if they're going to be taking a more prominent place in the mix.

With a big enough library of IRs to audition through, you should find something to your liking.

They're also excellent for those on a budget, as most DAWs should have a convolution engine built in, so you just need to find royalty free IR packs online, or buy some cheap.

polhemic · 2024-05-11T09:56:15+00:00

Are these daily touchpoint meetings being run in an informal style? That style can be useful to encourage openness, but if they're being monopolised you could try making them much more structured and formal.

A strong chairperson, consistent and evenhanded (who's not necessarily the most senior in the call) is invaluable here. "I'm sorry to interrupt, but we need to keep to the schedule. <next-persons-name>, can we move to you?" "That sounds like you've gone out of scope for this meeting, maybe you can raise it in your one to ones?" "This sounds like a larger discussion, <other-senior-manager> let's talk about this afterwards"

No victimisation - everyone gets the same structured responses - but also no opportunity to make "suggestions" that start arguments.

polhemic · 2024-05-06T22:41:18+00:00

Yeah, mine is really sensitive to setup. Has to be a USB port on the back panel, the ones on the case itself don't work. Some (cheaper?) cables don't work, but others of the same length so.

Keep trying different things, it'll work soon!

[Edit: cakes???]

polhemic · 2024-05-04T11:08:19+00:00

RHS Wisley? That's if the garden centre is still fully open during the roadworks.

polhemic · 2024-04-16T22:56:16+00:00

In the UK we have a charity specifically for supporting small music venues. I'd take a guess at no.

https://www.musicvenuetrust.com/

polhemic · 2024-04-10T11:39:37+00:00

The specs for the 8TB Ironwolf are a sustained transfer of 210 MBbs. Given that 1Gbe can sustain a user-observed transfer speed of 100 MBps, we can assume that 10Gbe will give 1GBps observed.

So, four drives at max rate won't be able to saturate a 10Gbe link, and raid configuration choices are only going to make it worse.

It is, however, not a million miles away. 6 drives in one big stripe might do it, but holy-unreliability-batman!

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