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A proper power quality meter with transient analysis is going to be many, many thousands of dollars. I'm not sure what y'all are really looking to measure but if you want millisecond-resolution a hand-held clamp on you bought at the Home Depot isn't going to get you there.

In fairness this is because the iPad runs on a battery and has a super-low thermal dissipation capability, not because of the chip or software architecture. The same is true of phones, generally.

AI uses massively parallel matrix math and benefits from thousands to millions of parallel cores. Threadripper is nice on the desktop because it has a lot of PCI lanes to push data between GPUs and memory / storage, but high end desktop is a bit player. Similarly when in an AI context the CPU...

If I buy a T-bill my money is locked away for a month or more, or I'm dealing with trying to sell the bill on the secondary market. Fidelity's cash management is a fancy version of a checking account. These aren't equivalent products.

Tax-wise CDs are the same as a savings account. Money market funds are taxed based on their underlying investments so if your MM fund is T-bills, it's taxed as T-bills, if it's state securities it's usually state tax free, etc. I keep some cash in a short-term T-bill ladder. It gets a...

I clicked hoping this was about actual puppies.

If you think there isn't snake oil in musical instruments, start a discussion with musicians about tone woods. Camera sensor noise for a given shot is dominated by sensor tech and pixel pitch. You can mitigate sensor noise by scaling down, which for a given sensor tech and pixel pitch is...

FYI you can usually use a regular white/whitish light bulb (or LED) and give it a thin coat of whatever color nail polish you want.

Amazon AI summaries are inevitably "Reviewers were generally pleased with the product, which is why the listing hasn't been deleted and recreated, but opinions were mixed on <every possible objective factor>"

We used to catch lobster pots all the time, it's actually really irritating because they get tangled and make lots of noise and you may have to send a diver out to cut them off. Supposedly if the lobstermen can prove the Navy destroyed their pots, they can get reimbursed, for far more money...

To get the music to stop for announcements and then come back on, you're looking for a ducking device.

It's well designed, clearly not his first rodeo

I saw him during his electronica phase when he was touring with Nine Inch Nails. Not what I would call the peak of his career. IIRC the set and costumes would have been better off in a swamp.

My folks have a three legged doe that likes to frequent their back yard. Every year without fail she shows up with a new fawn. Our working theory is she can't get away from the buck.

Does this look like a man who would steer you wrong

The OP video dances around some things I do think are deeply affecting music: - The bottom has absolutely fallen out of the music industry as a whole. Music spending including live music (and god help you if you factor out Taylor Swift) is just way way down. People gripe that streamers don't...

I had a Soncoz DAC that apparently needed a beefier power supply than I gave it. It chattered its relays and died in short order. That had a huge impact in sound quality, by not outputting any sound. Beyond that I am also skeptical

The human brain and visual cortex perform white balance adjustment because we evolved from creatures that needed to spot predators in different light and shade. Now it serves to endlessly entertain people trying to determine the color of a striped dress. It's not worth reinventing the allegory...

Part of the advantage of class D is that you can use a much smaller (usually switch-mode) power supply. However, as frequency drops and gets closer to DC, you end up becoming power supply limited. That is greatly exaggerated when applying test tones (like Amir's testing). A simple...