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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 83 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I prefer my dials in base 16, my amp goes to F.

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months 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 12 points 8 months ago

Mineis also base 16 and goes to 10. Which one is louder?

[-] anton 3 points 8 months ago

Yours is one louder

[-] Guilherme@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Programmer detected

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 74 points 8 months 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 92 points 8 months ago

Based off of my peripheral I really thought that deadzone was Saddam for a second

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago

dammit.

missed an opportunity...

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 24 points 8 months ago

so they stop at 11

you mean 10, most amps stop at 10.

[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

At the 11 o'clock position, I think they mean. That's a bit arbitrary tho

[-] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Even the 11 clock position makes no sense, most amps will go from 8 to 4.

Edit, I see what they did. In the picture they used 7 to 5 o'clock as min/max, (which is essentially the same as my 8-4). For some reason they adapted the o'clock numbers to the dial number which is not helpful.

The o'clock numbers are meant to be a static reference point with 12 always at the top most position. You don't bend the clock scale to match the knob min/max.

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 points 8 months ago

...IGN goes from 6.5 to 9.5...

[-] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 15 points 8 months ago
[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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 4:30.

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 52 points 8 months ago

Here's the original for higher quality

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 70 points 8 months ago

Relevant xkcd about these xkcd's:

image

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

I believe it's mandatory to add jpeg when linking to that comic.

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It would be better to use .PCX or .TGA

The Digital Dark Age is real. At best, we are carving out runes out in a language the future will no longer understand.

What do you have stored on your Zip drives and DAT tapes? Because not only are we carving runes but in fact we are chiselling them into sandstone.

Paper writing will last vastly longer than most digital archive formats. If the data is not actually lost, the devices to read them will be. If we somehow read the data off, it will be incomprehensible gibberish. The file formats could eventually be decoded I suppose, like hieroglyphics. Unless of course they are encrypted….

500 years from now, there will be less information about what we were doing day to day than there is for things that happened hundreds of years ago. If anything is left, it will be the “official” record. In other words, all that will be left are lies.

[-] SteveTech@programming.dev 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Title text too:

Wow, that's less than $200 per ... uh ... that's a good deal!

https://xkcd.com/670/

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago

The difference between engineering and sales engineering

[-] MissGutsy@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago
[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 8 months ago

No 11 is much less than 3,628,800

[-] GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 17 points 8 months ago

My peavey modeling amp was very proud that it went up to 13! :}

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

6227020800 is definitely higher than 11.

[-] Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Ahhh. The vypyr.. I love everything about that stupid amp series.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

For $2000? Is this comic from the 50s?

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months 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.

[-] Fox@pawb.social 12 points 8 months ago

Some Peavey amps do go to 12

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 8 months ago

So it's smart to scam people. Interesting take.

[-] basmati@lemmus.org 32 points 8 months ago

We live in a capitalist world, scamming is objectively how we base how successful and smart someone is.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

I'm gonna scam this amp to turn up to 12.

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 8 months 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.

[-] basmati@lemmus.org 6 points 8 months ago

I can agree with you but also recognize that's contrary to the entirety of modern human society except ~7 countries representing just under 1/4th the GL bal population. But even then not really. I agree with the idea, but that's not going to be the world we live in without truly ridiculous amounts of violence (which I am not advocating)

[-] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 22 points 8 months ago

It said "smart", not "morally right".

[-] Furball@sh.itjust.works 19 points 8 months ago

It’s not a “take” it’s a joke

[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 8 months 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.

[-] nyctre@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

No, the joke wouldn't have been as funny if it said "scammer" instead of "smart engineer". Plus, I think it's more a jab at engineers rather than anything. Because most would rather argue/explain the whole 10 vs 11 thing than just go "ok, sure, I can do that " and get paid.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 points 8 months ago

It's just a prank bro! /s

[-] Acters@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

Yes it is possible to look at this image with different what-ifs, and from what I see, you are only looking at the what-if where the "smart engineer" is not even acting as an engineer but rather a con artist. If we were to take the meme more literally then the what-if I have explained above is more true to the intentions of the characters in it than your narrow interpretation.

/EndRant

[-] Miaou@jlai.lu 3 points 8 months 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

[-] Acters@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Unfortunately, that would not match up with the other three panels. The smart engineer should be able to figure out how to satisfy the customer. It is up mostly to public interpretation, as most art is. That is how I see it but I won't deny someone who labels themselves as an engineer could be a con artist in disguise.

One way I see this is how we interpret the glass half full or glass half empty. There are some ways to see it and modify it a little and meaning can take a different more pronounced form. So yeah both can be valid when we isolate the panel as a completely separate meaning over the other three panels. Then we are considering if the label engineer is truth or a lie.

[-] Hismama@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Nothing beats the original delivery

Movie Clip

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yup anyone who as umlaut to an n will buy anything for "cool factor"

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This comment is like a New York Times daily game "which word is the typo?"

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[-] Sparky 7 points 8 months 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)

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