I was also in scouts from cubs through Eagle and I still think it fits the definition of (kinda) paramilitary lol.

We clearly just have different definitions of that word and therefore I’m just going to have to agree to disagree with you.

Army lets you come in at a higher rank if you have your Eagle rank.

https://recruiting.army.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2141843/some-new-soldiers-can-now-qualify-for-higher-rank-more-pay/

I dunno man sounds a little militaryish to me…

Also were you ever in the scouts?

They have ranks that resemble military ranks (1st class, 2nd class ~ 1st lieutenant, 2nd lieutenant) etc and have a hierarchical leadership structure.

adjective Of, relating to, or being a group of civilians organized in a military fashion, especially to operate in place of or assist regular army troops.

Literally the first Google result lol

Also said (kinda) paramilitary so settle down there guy lol

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Paramilitary because of the rank and leadership structure. I’m not saying they’re doing combat training lmao

When I said paramilitary I was really just talking about the ranks and leadership structure.

Why the fuck would you get rid of boy scouts it’s literally a patriotic paramilitary (kinda) organization with a checkered past on sexual abuse that should be a Republican wet dream lol

A little notebook I carry around with me

I work in RF and have to mess around with SMA cables all the time. As a result I carry a 5/16 wrench on my lanyard.

Pretty sure she was just hot dude

And here’s a mountain goats song that I think captures the feeling really well!

https://youtu.be/eetIgGXH6DA?feature=shared

I would call it an ordeal

Some antennas have active components (not just preamps) that require some kind of DC voltage to work properly. Pretty common in dedicated GPS antennas. They also have bias ts covering pretty much any band you can think of. Well into the GHz range.

Interesting ideas! I encourage you to make a prototype and see how it goes!

A couple open ended questions:

-What does the frequency response of a traditional pickup look like? Is it flat or does it ripple/drop off significantly? Is that corrected somewhere else in the audio chain before it reaches your ears?

-Human hearing only stretches to about 20KHz. If your pickups capture everything up to that frequency then you’re really not missing anything. I don’t know much about pickups but in my line of work 20KHz is a very small bandwidth, so I would guess it’s not difficult to build one that has a nice flat response over that whole band.

-Human hearing perceives different frequencies at different amplitudes. If your goal is to produce ‘perfect’ sound (i.e. undistorted reproduction of the vibration of the strings) perhaps it would make more sense to correct for that?

-Your idea of changing the orientation of the magnetic field that interacts with the field of the strings of the guitar is interesting. I’m guessing the majority of the signal picked up by traditional pickups is from the component of the string’s magnetic field that’s aligned with the axis of the pickup. However I would imagine regular strumming produces more vibration perpendicular to that axis than parallel to it. I could see your idea more effectively capturing that energy and producing a larger signal. That would probably give you better signal to noise ratio and effectively give you better sound quality. Whether it’s a perceptible change or not is a different story.

True but Daggerfall was definitely made with fast travel in mind as the main way to get around.

Honestly if they had just put a little more thought into the loot progression and made a couple systems more interesting it would have been a much better game.

The randomized empty open world planets wasn’t great but they also did that in Daggerfall so I don’t think it was totally unprecedented and still had some value if there was a better incentive to explore (in my opinion better and more interesting loot would have kept me exploring).

What pissed me off the most was the fact that when you built the armillary it literally showed up on the OUTSIDE of your spaceship and you couldn’t build it indoors in your settlements. What the fuck? You literally killed people for some of those artifacts. Why would you keep them outside for fucks sake?

Marginally happier for a few weeks and then absolutely nothing