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smart engineering
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gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
marcos@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I believe it’s mandatory to add jpeg when linking to that comic.
SteveTech@programming.dev 6 hours ago
Title text too: Wow, that’s less than $200 per … uh … that’s a good deal!
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just for the record… it has to do with practicality.
the notches are spaced similar to a clock, but with the deadzone most potentiometers have, it doesn’t go a full 360 around, so they stop at 11. This makes for an intuitive scale with familiar spacing on the notches- even if it is entirely arbitrary.
Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Based off of my peripheral I really thought that deadzone was Saddam for a second
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 day ago
dammit.
missed an opportunity…
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 day ago
so they stop at 11
you mean 10, most amps stop at 10.
xenoclast@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
At the 11 o’clock position, I think they mean. That’s a bit arbitrary tho
keepthepace@slrpnk.net 21 hours ago
That’s not the history of that thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
synapse1278@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
This is not at all the case.
Most potentiometers have a full rotation or 270°, sometimes up to 300°. By convention the mid-travel is at 12 o’clock. That would make the 0 around 7:30 and the 10 around 3:30.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I feel like the last one is a marketer, not a smart engineer.
Zip2@feddit.uk 22 hours ago
Capitalist engineer.
Nurgus@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Sales executive. Paid more than engineers, is substantially dumber.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The difference between engineering and sales engineering
MissGutsy@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
11 is one louder than 10!
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
No 11 is much less than 3,628,800
GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
My peavey modeling amp was very proud that it went up to 13! :}
Dicska@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
6227020800 is definitely higher than 11.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
For $2000? Is this comic from the 50s?
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The smart engineer then buys a stock amp for $1000, 3D prints a dial that goes to 12, installs it, delivers it to Spïnäl Täp (I can never remember where the umlaut goes), and pockets his well-earned profit.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
So it’s smart to scam people. Interesting take.
basmati@lemmus.org 1 day ago
We live in a capitalist world, scamming is objectively how we base how successful and smart someone is.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Celebrating selfishness and deception is just that, no matter how warped the perception of a theoretical majority of people might be. Perpetuating such nonsense will only cause more harm in the future. It’s not a sign of good behaviour or even mental health to be well adapted to a broken system.
So yeah, not “smart”. Disgusting.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It said “smart”, not “morally right”.
Furball@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s not a “take” it’s a joke
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
sigh even jokes communicate stuff; they’re especially powerful in normalizing things.
I’m aware people hate it when someone criticizes jokes. However when bad stuff gets normalized it’s necessary to point that out.
Acters@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You’re a moron to think this is about scamming someone. The smart engineer realized he can offer a louder option but didn’t want to disturb the preset settings the customer is used to. If anything, not only is the engineer smart but empathetic towards how troublesome learning a new tool is like. Let me tell you it is not a problem that the volume is not standardized. Instead, it is nice to know that the customer can choose options he is familiar with AND now has a setting to go louder. Of course the much smarter way is to make the dial more analog input than a digital input. However, the digital dial will not move as easily when bumped. Trade-offs were made. For aesthetics and function. Yes I know some music nerds who like the dial more than a touch button.
Now don’t get me started with how they can sell it however they want. If it is louder than the product it is comparing against and the buyer likes it then it is not a scam, it was a fair trade.
/EndRant
Miaou@jlai.lu 22 hours ago
Isn’t the joke that the smart engineer will change the labels on the knob since they don’t have any unit? That’s the scammy aspect. I don’t think OC finds the idea of selling a better amp immoral
Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Eh my amps scale is from 0 to 32 bit intiger limit. (it’s just as loud as the ones that go from 0 to 11)
Fox@pawb.social 1 day ago
Some Peavey amps do go to 12
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yup anyone who as umlaut to an will buy anything for “cool factor”
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
This comment is like a New York Times daily game “which word is the typo?”
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AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 1 day ago
40 years ago someone made a joke
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I pref my dials in base 16, my amp goes to 9F.
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Wonder what that’d look like to a layman. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9… Awesome? Beastly? Crushing? Deafening? Ear-shattering? Fuck that’s loud?
Nurgus@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Mineis also base 16 and goes to 10. Which one is louder?
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Yours is one louder