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Cake day: June 6th, 2024

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  • So, this won’t be the most scientifically accurate description of what’s going on, and my own understanding and word usage may be imperfect, but hopefully it gives you at least some idea of what’s happening.

    With your low-pass filter you’re making your signal reject frequencies any higher than the cutoff point that you have set. All it does is eliminate those higher frequencies without modifying anything about the frequencies lower than, or at your cutoff point.

    When you begin to add resonance, what you’re doing is accentuating the frequency that your cutoff point is set to. So not only are you rejecting the frequencies higher than your cutoff point, you are making the frequency at the cutoff more prominent in your remaining signal. The frequencies below the cutoff point will remain unaltered other than at a lower resonance value you will see a bit of emphasis at frequencies immediately below the cutoff frequency as the signal is drawing those frequencies up sympathetically with the boosted resonance frequency. As you increase the resonance you are further accentuating the frequency at the cutoff point to where the signal will show more of a spike at the cutoff frequency rather than the slight rise seen at lower resonance values. This narrows the band of any sympathetic frequencies that may have been previously affected at lower resonance values. While the lower frequencies are still present and unaltered in your signal since they are below the cutoff, the prominence of the frequency at the cutoff point is being amplified so drastically in comparison that your signal is dominated by the resonated frequency.

    I hope this makes sense. I found it difficult to know if I was saying things in as clear a way as needed.



  • I’d put forward a Whitmer/Booker ticket as possibly the most politically feasible pairing that I’d dislike the least. I’m much further to the left than the Democratic party would ever consider catering a POTUS nomination toward. I see this pair as having enough political clout, name recognition, and heading in as close a direction of where I’d like things to go as I could probably expect.

    All that said, I’m expecting Harris at the top of the ticket. And that’s fine if it keeps Trump out. I just hope it works.



  • This post is kind of like when somebody who doesn’t know anything about cars starts throwing out words like carburator, transmission, and alternator because they know those are car things, but they have no idea how to use them in the context of how they are actually relevant.

    It’s hard to begin to know how to tackle correcting anything because the amount of effort it would take to unweave and reconstruct the kernels of truth is like trying to extract an egg out of a fully baked cake.

    This is probably overly harsh considering the slant of the post is absolutely in the right spirit, the analysis is just completely broken.







  • Anybody else get irked that people increasingly seem to not know the proper distinction between worse and worst? I see people frequently using the wrong one in the context of what they are trying to say. I just don’t understand because bad/worse/worst is as simple of a concept as good/better/best which people don’t tend to ever get wrong.

    Also, the custom of saying ‘bless you’ after somebody sneezes. That can go away now. It’s utterly useless. Somebody sneezed, that doesn’t deserve any special acknowledgement. If there’s a want to be polite offer them a tissue if they need it and you can accommodate.



  • Trump’s specific faults are irrelevant to the calculation insofar as they are profound, and they are legion. Anyone who doesn’t understand that he should never hold the reigns of power is damn near irredeemably ignorant/hopelessly deluded. Ideally he would keel over and land in a trash compactor.

    The 2 year age gap between the two is hardly the point. If that’s what you think those calling for Biden to step aside are focusing on you’re not understanding what the issue actually is.

    I can only speak for myself. The reason I think Biden should drop out is because I. DON’T. THINK. HE. CAN. WIN. If we need to discuss whether Biden’s downfall is fair, unfounded because of x, y, or z, the product of unscrupulous conjecture, etc., etc., ok. Ultimately it hardly matters if in the end the remaining conclusion is still that I. DON’T. THINK. HE. CAN. WIN. Biden is infinitely more desirable than Trump, but if he can’t pull off a victory it’s more important to remedy that than barrel forward into calamity because “I thought it was clear he was going to be the nominee”.

    Genuinely, I don’t know that I could take another Trump term, let alone the prospect of this looming fascism taking root. I would rather roll the dice than play a hand that I absolutely believe will lose.

    We can disagree on this. This is a complex situation, and the stakes are high. I’m not going to pretend that I can see into the future. Whatever happens I’m hoping for the best.


  • I used to work for a building materials distributor; we moved a lot of composite decking. From what I remember the manufacturer didn’t recommend leaving a cleaner on the decking, that if a cleaner was used it should be rinsed off before it has the chance to dry. I can’t speak to Pine-Sol specifically, but we would use Simple Green on any boards that needed cleaning and would wipe it down with a couple rags (one to remove the excess cleaner, and a wet rag to follow up).

    Edit: Here’s a url for the manufacturer’s product care page that we dealt with. If you know the brand of decking you have installed there ought to be a similar page on their website if there are any differences.

    https://www.timbertech.com/resources/care-cleaning/