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I also had problems with MathML verbosity, and the culprit is the markup for the individual character classes (mi, mn, mo, ms.) I wrote a little filter that pulls apart character s…

40-some years ago in L.A. some guys discovered that a Burger King drive-up kiosk was tied to the restaurant with an RF link. It was a simple matter to determine the frequency and m…

I'm surprised to see no references to space applications. Back when I was using Kermit on CP/M I had an acquaintance who hacked Kermit for satellite coms at TRW in El Segundo. Long…

Really? Was Perl 5 deprecated with prejudice across ecosystems, forcing projects to work with a janky, still-evolving replacement well ahead of production-grade stability? Because …

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Null Island is where you will find Bias Beach, the "/dev/null" of magnetic tape recording. As in, "where is the guide vocal?" "I sent it to Bias Beach to make room for the cowbell.…

FM radio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broadcasting > left and right, but with opposite phase The classic mid-side mic technique uses two capsules. The first (middle) is a card…

> (Is it new?) Nope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children

"When you turn 12 you will have to get your belly button re-tied."

Gated reverb on snare drum. Looking at you, Hugh Padgham.

See also DED: Darkness Emitting Diode.

The Evolution and Special Features of Bell System Telephone Equipment Buildings: https://archive.org/details/bstj58-2-427

Please re-read the historical record, key-words: "Stove pipe." The institutional read (NEI) was no WMD. International inspectors said no WMD. Cheney wanted another answer and got w…

Sure, a whole record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Judges_Ruth C.f. any other record with good dynamic range and interesting stuff below 80Hz.

I love a good used book store. Two years ago I found this: Storm, Herbert F, Magnetic Amplifiers, Wiley, 1955. LOC# 55-6432 Covers applications and theory, contains All The Math.

We had colleagues, photocopiers and telephones. A good lab had a large library and many shelf-feet of schematics. Search was difficult, sure, but copy pasta was just as fundamental…

It was actually an effort to retrain people to put the tab into the can so it eventually got thrown away... Which was then a choking hazard. C.f., https://www.passenpowell.com/pote…

There is a book, "Challenger: A Major Malfunction: A True Story of Politics, Greed, and the Wrong Stuff". There is also Feynman's report. Recommended reading!

Yes, for decades I have practiced and preached this. Even more motivating: take a job that requires a deliverable in your language of choice. Swim or be eaten by sharks!

DCP developer here. DCP track files are MXF. SMPTE ST 377:2004 (MXF) predates SMPTE ST 429-3:2007 (DCP Sound and Picture.) ST 377 is a normative reference of ST 429-3. There is no …