@rk @brooke wait, is that...not what it is?

@vaurora @brianbilston with a relevant poem: https://mastodon.online/@brianbilston/117211862792354239

@koos I mean, some mics sure...ever held an SM58 in your hand though? There's a reason for it having a reputation as a dual-purpose microphone/hammer.

@venya @GeoffWozniak Neat -- yeah, the one time I tried a Dingwall years ago I was surprised at how natural it felt to play; I was expecting it to need more adaptation on my part but it felt pretty much like playing a normal bass.

@venya @GeoffWozniak My bass still has the strings it came with on it...and this is making me realize that's now 20 years old! (They're nylon tapewounds on a fretless semihollow, so zing isn't really the goal.)

Also, I've been out of the loop on bass gear for so long, I didn't realize Ibanez was making fan-frets now -- my dim recollection was that that was a Dingwall patent, but I guess it's been long enough that maybe that expired...

@mxshift We had a solar panel contractor who (a) was very difficult to schedule an appointment with, and then after finally getting the work done, also (b) I think may never have actually sent us an invoice at all? When I received an email from them not long afterward informing us that they were ceasing operations it was...not hugely surprising, I guess.

@arj I initially read this as that it had physically taken a dive off of a large (possibly moving) transit vehicle...probably similar odds of salvageability either way though. :/

@mattblaze @scottmiller42 @ai6yr Though also, "works" (as it pertains to software) is...both a pretty seriously low bar, and widely over-valued -- not in the sense of its necessity, but in people taking it as far more of a signal of quality than it actually is.

@benjojo @kasperd I wouldn't dispute the latter, but how is it not also compression? Seems like it must inevitably reduce the number of bits needed to encode it, much less entropy both intra-frame and inter-frame.

@th Ol' W.B. decided not to include the "tail of a rat" part though.

@th Looks like it could have been a source of inspiration for Yeats:

A shape with [feline] body and the head of a man
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun

@rk @dysfun If you're bored sometime, look up the errata list for any major processor (Intel, AMD, ARM...). They are...lengthy. And often have fun summary subject lines like, say, "Processor Might Deadlock Or Lose Data".