Recent content by nerdstrike

I weigh ~70kg and can produce about 150 watts of power for a reasonable while, what will they pay for me? Admittedly I lack firm control of the mids.

Superb series (to episode 8). Grade A for creating a real sense of inscrutable plotting from all corners. Played Shogun: Total War about 20 years ago, seems legit!

Well isn't that interesting. Lousy way to grab a track though. Like finding something in her middle of a tape.

With a subwoofer, I'd take the R5 (and I did!). It's a very tidy little tower next to the TV, and a managed woofer does a lot to mitigate the shortcomings of the R5's small bass drivers. In exchange you get better directionality and nicer packaging. To be clear I'm favouring furniture and...

I co-wrote an A-level synthetic chemistry playground/problem generator in Pascal (oh no!). Terminal-grade graphics and a very immature codebase, but it was certainly interesting to write. I think the code is lost on some degraded floppy disk somewhere :/ could have made about 30 pence in ad...

Two audiophiles walk into a bar. A band is playing live to a happy audience. The two seem restless and move about, then leave without so much as a drink. "They sounded crap!" said one. "I know!" said the other. "Every band should have four bass players." Bonus points to anyone who can come up...

If you look into how the skyactive engine tech works, or indeed the pre-ignition designs used in current F1 cars (I think!), there's already substantial work on very high AFR combustion for efficiency. My understanding of the continuous detonation thing is that it's fine for the combustion...

Ah, good old photonic induction. What a lunatic, with enough knowledge to avoid death. Very enjoyable and sometimes very interesting videos

Gosh, that does seem like a good price. I was expecting 600-800 gbp/eur/usd.

Well... The main problem I see is that you can see the absorbent materials you would normally pack the cabinet with, hence it doesn't have any. They've also had to try quite hard to make the wiring look good. The aesthetic isn't bad... But you'd better hire a cleaner regularly or he an absolute...

It's small-fry, but I find that having wasted £120 on a dragonfly red, I contemplate a "proper" headphone dac+amp despite low impedance headphones and nowhere to plug in an additional wall-wart.

"Too expensive to fix the software" was stated at some point early on. That right there is wrong in several ways. Makes me think of SLS, and the 737 Max 8...

I agree from the point of view of predicting gravitational waves and such, but a well trained musician can indeed predict what music might sound like without playing it first (subject to their interpretation). Then again, the three body problem and ubiquitous reliance on ideal gas law, the...

Fertile ground for such, definitely. See also "have you tried turning it off and on again?".

Don't knock it if it works! Computers are complex piles of software and hardware 80 layers deep. Nobody truly knows the whole system, so we make guesses based on experience.