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Re:Chocolate Is Getting Worse on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:42PM (#50267944)
Everything is getting worse.
Re:FreeDNS on Saturday October 24, 2026 @02:56PM (#50224023)
Johsh is a great sysadmin.
Flor de hija de puta, en otras palabras
Re:Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @04:04PM (#50186830)
Were old buildings? I really cannot understand wooden construction.
Re:Smart people don't think others are stupid on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @09:51PM (#50098149)
Why do you think that you're part of the we?
Re:Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:11PM (#49913683)
PC?
Re:Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:43PM (#49901082)
And Israhell allies, EU and USA.
Well, fuck you. Please.
Re:Magic eye tube (The first RF "debugger") on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @06:14PM (#49543323)
AGC is not compression, is a negative feedback loop that reduces gain to maintain a relatively stable output level. If you try to tune on a faint station near strong ones, the stronger carrier pumps the gain down, making tuning difficult. if you cut AGC the gain goes full up. You can cut AGC and reduce gain, but then you'll lack amplification to hear the weak stations.

If manual AGC and volume should be different controls depends on gain distribution across stages in the receiver. In superheterodyne AM receivers, most designs will need both to get best performance.

Re:Magic eye tube (The first RF "debugger") on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @06:56PM (#49529424)
Not that easy, AGC works both ways, if you disable it you need to provide a manual control to not blow your speaker or your ears or both. AGC controls the screen voltage of some tubes with a big factor of amplification. A typical remote cutoff pentode like a 6sk7 can change some 30-40 dB for stage. 70-80 dB AGC action is not rare.
"Esta poronga no sabe lo que está haciendo", aunque parezca femenino , en realidad no tiene género .
I think you never been near a natural gas heather.
Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015) on Thursday August 13, 2026 @06:40PM (#49292687)
You are confusing software with technology. Choose boring technology, not choose old software.
Re:Costco Is the Anti-Amazon on Saturday July 04, 2026 @12:26PM (#48786596)
You clearly have no family
Re:Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @06:44PM (#48666486)
No and no. Rural != suburban
Re:An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy on Sunday June 21, 2026 @07:09PM (#48623540)
Freesco router floppy disk distro in 386 with 2MB of RAM and no hard disk. You could pull the floppy for a secure read only router.
Re:Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time on Friday June 12, 2026 @04:44PM (#48509231)
Una breve historia del tiempo. J. L. Borges, cool subtitle.
That's a moral frame were you belong. In mine, swearing does not preclude someone to be the best human because her swearing.
Re:Two Motorola Transistors Became the Default NPNs on Friday April 17, 2026 @09:16PM (#47812345)
BC547? 337? I think they are Texas devices, much popular too.
Panama's canal, anyone?
Cannot believe they didn't write the frequencies. Incompetents.
Re:Miscellanea: The War in Iran on Sunday March 29, 2026 @06:12PM (#47567949)
Three: Turkyie comes next.
Re:Log File Viewer for the Terminal on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @08:32PM (#47525269)
More or less, logs are text.
Open aerial wiring can shortcircuit two phases, bringing a low impedance surge that can damage most electric and electronic equipment.
No. Large industrial oro marine diesel engines are not truck engines.
Israel bombed. US merely is merely a Buffon.
Re:Avoiding temptation beats building willpower on Monday March 09, 2026 @08:29PM (#47317703)
Yeah... I can resist everything, but temptation.
Alone in the wilderness is a great film too.

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