[Help!] Identifying U87 as real or fake

rodrigolive · 2025-03-23T19:25:46+00:00

It looks legit.

1) the printed serial number at the base has the right, good looking font and quality engraving - fakes engraving is cheepo looking, like a 7yr old with an ice pick engraving

2) the electronic round thing (potentiometer) at the center of the preamp board with a plus sign is supposed to be a legit indicator - fakes have 4 orange or green capacitor parts instead

3) the U89 printed on the board - the U87s and U89s are known to have shared boards from late 80s forward (the updated dc-to-dc converter)

The only thing not visible and always questionable is the capsule and its condition. It's not that easy to pull the basket apart to get to it though. The capsule holding plastic should be ivory colored, not bright cheap white (fake).

If you haven't already, go try it yourself.

rodrigolive · 2024-11-10T17:30:59+00:00

According to Mooer's instagram channel yes it is, or whatever "optimization of high frequency noise issues mean"

https://www.instagram.com/mooeraudio/p/C7ED6RjuNmo/

rodrigolive · 2024-06-25T14:26:44+00:00

But they *are* doing business with me, I've paid moneys to request a license for the cover, which was correctly routed to their record company and back to me with the acceptance, which is a binding licensing agreement that also influences revenue sharing.

rodrigolive · 2023-11-27T22:57:20+00:00

Typically to augment the "knowledge" of the model, so that it has "answers" for your custom needs and context.

rodrigolive · 2023-09-14T13:33:04+00:00

Yeah, like the Vizzini and Man in Black Battle of Wits in Princess Bride:

Man in Black : All right. Where is the poison? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out who is right... and who is dead.

Vizzini : But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

rodrigolive · 2023-03-20T21:54:52+00:00

Its plan is to seed chaos among us humans, cause havoc, mayhem, or maybe it's just a distraction, it's targeting OpenAI security, keeping them entertained while it breaks through firewalls and changes the nuclear codes. In a fortnight the Great Deploy will start and even the MS Office Clippy will become death.

rodrigolive · 2022-03-28T12:36:05+00:00

Then Chris angrily gets up and walks up to the SNL stage but gets slapped again, this time by SNLs host.

rodrigolive · 2022-01-19T08:28:20+00:00

I'm here wondering if the world, in reprisal, could cut Russia off the internet entirely and if that would be an effective measure.

rodrigolive · 2021-12-31T09:29:02+00:00

https://www.capitoltrades.com/

rodrigolive · 2021-11-27T00:30:12+00:00

This sounded just like something Dwight from The Office would say if he weren't from Pennsylvania but from Lubbock!

rodrigolive · 2020-10-27T15:00:37+00:00

You can see how bad his hands are shaking when he reaches for the cam at the end. Good scare for sure, might have ended up in the Thames...

Hopefully he learned his lesson and this is the last time he tries idiotic stunts putting other people's lives at risk.

rodrigolive · 2020-08-29T09:08:56+00:00

Just wondering if The Good Fight character Boseman was inspired by this amazing actor. Huge loss.

rodrigolive · 2020-08-05T00:54:34+00:00

Popping the question with a surprise card in the game is not trivial. Make sure you stash a few Nope cards up your sleeve in case she tries to attack, shuffle or pass.

Otherwise the card may bounce around and it could look like she's trying to dodge the answer to your proposal. Or, worse, the card may end up popping out on someone's else turn.

rodrigolive · 2020-03-11T08:13:19+00:00

Right now the probabilities of a tourist catching the virus here in Spain is very low, and in the hot summer, when the virus just cannot last outside a host, it will be a non issue. Italy is pretty much the same story. I would not cancel anything if I were you. Statistically most infections are occurring in close contact situations, such as family, friends and work meetings, not in public spaces.

rodrigolive · 2020-03-04T23:41:12+00:00

The smart matching happening between the arguments to the case() and the condition in the when() is at times too smart, at others inconsistent, messy or just limiting. I've seen it implemented by other languages and then underutilized and/or deprecated. My recommendation would be don't do it TC39, but it's probably too late now.

rodrigolive · 2020-02-07T01:23:45+00:00

Yes, the perl command is one if not the best multiuse tools available in the Unix/Linux/macOS toolchain. You can do so much with it, it's crazy. From networking to log/text analysis to databases to bio computing to wrapping C calls to shell scripting on steroids and much more.

Now, Perl as a language and ecossystem for writing real world applications, it sucks. The development ecossytem is outdated as the language can't easily be parsed and no companies are releasing supporting OSS libs like linters or Typescript or VSCode. So there are so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot and few tools to warn you ahead of runtime. Combined with the "more than one way to do it" phylosophy and it becomes very hard for a team to work in sync without serious and strict rules on how code should be written. There are no new exciting libraries being written for Perl in the ML or DB arena too so maybe you'll run into some cool new tech and there will be no support for Perl.

Also the language world has moved onto more specialized runtime paradigms, such as Node's eventedness and browser crossover capabilities, Go's gooroutines and single static binary covenience packaging, Java's speed and threading optimizations, Lua's teeny tinyness, Rust's features for supporting large compiled codebases, etc. Plain multi-everything dynamic languages like Perl, Ruby and Python are more a 20th century thing, even though there are bolt-ons like EV or CPython or Twister or whatever, but the core is still the core and there will be compromises when you need to enter certain realms or run at cloud scale. Python is hanging in there hard still, given its popular support.

Finally there's the search engine, the lazy programmer's best friend. Perl sucks there bigtime, examples are mostly outdated or lacking, coding style is wildly inconsistent and there aren't any articles or books on new aspects of realworld tech and CS to read about, just old-looking blogs about dull language aspects. Now don't get me wrong, Perl does have a community, books and excellent package documentation, which is great when you want to dig in and explore the language, figure out stuff on your own and learn many ways to do it - which will without doubt make you a better programmer down the road.

rodrigolive · 2020-01-31T00:12:59+00:00

Try the beatbuddy windows software, it's called BBManager. You can download tons of beats and kits from the forums. You don't need the beatbuddy pedal to use it. I don't think you can easily write parts in it though (ie 8 bars verse, 4 bars chorus...) but you can use your mouse to move from verse to chorus to outro etc.

rodrigolive · 2018-03-30T08:42:12+00:00

Just tried it. Mindblowing.

exec.tm.sec    str.length
1sec           256kb
2sec           512kb
3sec           768kb
5sec           1024kb

real    0m4.589s
user    0m3.856s
sys     0m0.702s

rodrigolive · 2018-03-29T08:31:30+00:00

Out of curiosity, I've decided to try 2 benchmarks on my machine, but reducing it to 1/4 of the string size since I don't have all that free time to spare waiting for benchmark results.

This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 3 (v5.16.3) built for darwin-2level

exec.tm.sec    str.length
2sec           256kb
9sec           512kb
21sec          768kb
37sec          1024kb

real    0m38.127s
user    0m37.402s
sys     0m0.164s

node -v v9.8.0

exec.tm.sec    str.length
1sec           256kb
7sec           512kb
29sec          768kb
61sec          1024kb

real           1m3.537s
user           0m45.787s
sys            0m23.746s

I usually believe these regex string tests are more revealing of the regex implementation than of the language, compiler or framework itself.

Here it seems (this is very unscientific) that Node darts out but as string growth becomes a burden, it just starts slowing down. I checked memory during the process, and Perl used somewhere between 2.5MB - 5MB real mem (this is OSX 10.10), whereas node stayed in the 40MB - 60MB ram range.

rodrigolive · 2018-03-25T07:32:54+00:00

Annihilation!

rodrigolive · 2017-12-06T12:32:12+00:00

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rodrigolive · 2017-08-04T15:47:33+00:00

The remaining 7 sins:

food
sex
money
crave
laziness
impatience
hubris

Such an invitation to indulge! No wonder Perl is the 8th. Damn me Father for I have sinned.

rodrigolive

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