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Well, if you need to fit the lab in laptop case sure, also great as a learning tool for a classroom (which I think was original idea behind it?) but in most cases you'd be far better off with say Rigol 1054Z + whatever cheapest logic analyzer/generator you can get off aliexpress.

I have AD2 and it had some unique niches it is good at (14 bits makes it somewhat capable at doing some analysis on audio devices), but I by far prefer to use my cheap-ish scope for near-anything else. Just amount of memory alone is big advantage, higher input range (AD only have like...2 or 3 IIRC, rest is faked by wasting bits on ADC), proper probe sockets without needing adapter, ability to just press buttons and knobs to do what you need without getting back to the computer and going thru menus etc.

Then again, ability to script measurement is also pretty nifty. Can be done on many scopes but by far more effort than on AD

I own AD2 and it is great little tool at the price (which was around $280-300 at the time IIRC), but this slowly creeped up to price of say Rigol 1054Z with far less acquire capability.

Your intuition is spot on, carbon fiber is much better at tensile loads than compressive loads.

Tensile load capacity is pretty much the resin that keeps the fibers from moving.

The most I could find about the design

> The entire pressure vessel is comprised of two titanium hemispheres, two matching titanium interface rings, and the 142 cm (56") internal diameter, 2.4-m (100") long carbon fiber wound cylinder – the largest such device ever built for use in a manned submersible.

suggest that yeah, they relied entirely on its compressive strength of it

Common misconception, don't need to be intelligent or sophisticated to be one, social skills and utter ruthlessness seem to be way more indicative.

Billionaires get to the money by the art of charisma and bullshitting so it is entirely possible they got bullshitted all the way to the bottom on that too

Well, he now will be remembered, just for inevitable Darwin award

> Why do we need to keep changing who we are?

If who you are is smelly and unwashed...

That doesn't need to be "make everyone act the same" as much as "cut on behaviour that creep/annoy 80% of the populace

Frozen food absolutely, as you can have something that's still pretty nutricious but very fast to prepare.

Fast food ? I'd argue drawbacks heavily overshadow benefits of saving few minutes

If you are not there to value other people and just want to be valued without giving anything back in relation, well...

I'd only argue that it should be called "emotional support robot" and not "friend"

As if journalists before did a good job on delivering "the truth"...

It's just complaining that big media no longer have monopoly on generating wave of bullshit

The same game they play with their main customers, make sure they will have more and more problems leaving.

And the IBMization of Red Hat continues

Why on earth would someone go thru the effort to sell it at cost thought ?

Also you underestimate economies of scale behringer can employ, I'd be surprised if you could get close to their price.

You can look at various DIY stuff and you will probably notice that getting stuff DIY isn't all that much cheaper

I'll throw you an example:

Maths, which Behringer cloned, costs ~$300 fully assembled

Befaco Rampage, which is pretty much equivalent to Maths, costs $185 in DIY kit.

Behringer Abacus is $100

They are basically selling them at price or below what DIY kit would sell, and not that far off "cost of components"

> Instead they are reasonably pricing out-of-patent hardware designs which the original manufacturers are apparently vastly overcharging for decades after they have recouped their R&D costs.

That's fine but they do stuff like this:

https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0E2V

https://www.arturia.com/products/keystep/overview

Where it is just a copied thing near 1:1 of product currently being sold, changed just enough to not be sued for making exact copy

And not just big companies but smaller modular ones like this:

https://synthanatomy.com/2023/05/behringer-abacus-a-ripoff-o...

Tho to be fair original maths is based on some old Buchla modules.

I have nothing against resurrecting stuff out of production or produced so long patent expired (they had their chance) but near-copy of current stuff is a bit much.

If you can't monetize your product within extremely generous patent lifetime giving it more time won't change much.

Patents already do more to stifle innovation than to help them.

> Behringer actively harms my future ability to obtain new technologies because they kill those who produce them and produce nothing original or innovative

Okay, what company they actually killed by making a clone ? I haven't heard of single one.

I do agree that cloning products currently in production (best recent example being behringer swing) is below belt, but there is NOTHING wrong in resurrecting hardware current manufacturer stopped making, only people "losing" on it are people trying to sell used ones for ungodly amount of money

Sure I am annoyed that in many cases they rip it 1:1 without improvement, and that they rip some products actively in production.

But in greater scheme of things it's some products authors already paid NRE few tens or hundreds times over vs musician having access to gear they couldn't dream of owning few years ago.

And I have absolutely no problems with cloning products already out of production.

> You may say, well, that’s capitalism, but no, dear reader, it’s shady and involves no new R&D work, no innovation, and since their business model is loss-leading everyone else out of business, it’s parasitic and will result in stifled innovation in music hardware.

Oh you sweet summer child if you only knew how often the designs are copied with slight change in that space... hell, whole guitar pedal market is incest over incest for last 60+ years

> They went so far as to buy the chip company CoolAudio to build clones of the Curtis CEM3340 oscillator chip featured in all these 80’s polysynths.

...so the chip is still produced and people can use it vs possibly going out of business. How is that bad ?

Compared to how original looked that's fucking improvement, original have indecipherable panel if you don't already know how it works.

But yeah, I wish that they at least tried to improve upon original instead of blatant copy

Well my G500s is working fine for last 10.

Also that controller is getting like 1/50th of use it would get under normal gamer so that's insanely weird detail to focus on.

I'd also imagine dropping ballast would need a controller in the first place.

You'd need to carry 4km of cable with you

> Everyone involved knew what they were getting into.

I'm sure everyone involved was expert on industrial design and were clued into what exact costs were cut /s

It is a good stick tho

>There is no foundamental difference between theranos diagnosis and tesla autopilot.

But we're talking about submarine that already dived, not something that never had a chance of working in the first place

It's nothing compared to amount of power to the engines, you don't need kilowatts to "just" hold a ballast

Or shove like 3 spares into a box somewhere on the vessel. $30 is not some bottom end falls-apart-if-you-look-at-it-wrong quality either

What's more perplexing is using a wireless one

> Giving users the ability to have a choice in the direction of "enterprise linux" is the entire reason CentOS Stream exists.

Pretty sure it's just for free beta testing

There is definitely a value if you don't have a bunch of Linux nerds on board or desire to be the one that tracks why some random bug happens.

For just ease of management and customization can't beat vanilla Debian

Debian is relatively problem-free compared to RHEL; and update-in-place also works.

Sooo much less fuckery, packages are just there and don't require installing/buying some random addon just to have DRBD+pacemaker cluster (that RHEL for some reason put into separate repo and subscription).

For one, encoding and decoding text is slower than binary calls to a function with solid parameters that don't need to be converted.

It's far too easy to pretend reality is not complex and that "elegant" solution somehow will fit everything

Right but making adpater like that is like 10 minutes of manual routing max

There is some irony in talking about simple components and ease of assembly with standard tools then mentioning JS and it's utter abomination of an ecosystem where you need a bunch of tools to put together the simplest of sites (if you insist doing it in modern JS way)

JS IKEA would ship you 6 trucks of dependencies before you could hang a shelf