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Such an adult response.

I said that impedance-matching transformers can increase the power gain of tube or transistor amps. That could have created some discussion of electronic design.

It sure didn't. It inspired a lot of lexography.

Do you design with transistors?

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There are advantages to reading books. You might discover something interesting that you'd never think to ask google about. Something that might stick and be useful far in the future.

And you might read something that clicks with what you know already, resulting in invention.

And many books are fun to read.

Without rich capitalist exploiters, we'd still be mostly illiterate, spinning and weaving our clothes by hand and going hungry regularly.

The luckiest people were born in a country with lots of (non Party member) billionaires

That usually kills people and leaves thugs in charge. The American Revolution was a rare exception.

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Presumably you meant

We were commenting on a more basic problem, which is that you didn't seem to understand the words you were using.

Impedance matching transformers can't change the power gain of anything. They can be used with an amplifier designed to drive a low impedance load to trade current swing for voltage swing to get more power into a high impedance load but they happen to consume a little power in the process - they are lossy devices.

I have, from time to time. My current mirror version of the Baxandall class D-oscillator does rely on discrete transistor pairs to provide exactly the power gain needed to keep the oscillator running at a fixed amplitude even as the load (and the losses in the transformer) varies.

Did you ever build it?

Imagine a monoblock audio amp with a pair of 833's standing up and glowing, in plain sight.

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Sure, old cave carvings are cool to for some people ;-)

Donald Duck was fun too sometimes.

I do not think so, people in the stone age that came up with better ways to do things shared things with others in their clans. If it was really good and the kings got to know about it then it was used by everybody, and for defense of their land. Later when religion was forced upon people in the dark medieval times you would get burned if your ideas conflicted with the religious dogma.

Look at what Russia did .. Sputnik, periodic system, many things not all for personal profit. When I worked in broadcasting it was,- at least in my feeling - somehow for the people.

A this time a bunch of religious fanatics seems to rule the US with a nut case leader who likes to kill people, - even his 'own' people.

If you put all those jobless together to rebuild infrastructure (start with underground cables in the cities for example) then pay them all the same, you get a better place to live in and less sleeping on the streets escaping into drugs (drug lords are into that money thing too, I am sure you know ;-) ).

Anyways, keep it clean!

I liked Aisberg's books as a kid, mostly the way he 'teached': a guy named 'know all' in conversation with a guy named 'ask all' You could identify yourself with the asking and as the asking was right (ask the right questions) and the replies were right you sort of copied the mind of the author. Electronics and radio and TV and transistors were suddenly so easy.. And then I experimented with what I could get my hands on...

With that knowledge the google AI is a nice tool. I dunno for somebody who just knows how to read.. you need some interest by nature, experiment.. Like driving a car, reading about about it or an online book does not make you a good driver or car mechanic or whatever.

But .. (full turn) people need housing, power, I was thinking that big dam and that canal was made that way. Money sucking egoist bully is its gold plated war house and killing boats committing genocide in Gaza only make him the world first nuke target.

Nature, ant heaps, one ant heap against the other.. may the best one (and system) win! Darwin

Big problem is religions, kids getting brainwashed into Adam did it with Even abused by their teachers, forcing people to pay for the leaders their 'connection to a god' The Roman empire embraced Christianity because if the Emperor was speaking the words of some superior power (god) then who is to argue? That Roman empire fell apart.

the US war house emperor has no cloths

I invented it when Cambridge Instruments needed to upgrade the electronics in the weight measuring head of the Metals Research GaAs single-crystal puller, which pulled about 95% of the single crystal GaAs made in the west at the time.

The original circuit had relied on a dual emitter transistor which had gone obsolete, and I took the chance to improve the performance.

The improved circuit is the property of Metals Research which Cambridge Instruments owned a the time, and I don't have access to it. They did retrofit it to a number of machines, but I've no idea how many.

I do have a Spice model of a slightly simplified version of the circuit on my web-site.

Why bother?

That is the myth that American businesses spend a lot of money on spreading.

It wasn't. George Washington made an obscene amount of money buying up Indian land that the UK legal system wouldn't have let him keep.

Revolutions are bad way to get regime change. Reforming the electoral system works a lot better. If you've got a multiparty coalition government, you've probably got a sensible electoral system. No English-speaking country seems to have got there yet. The Netherlands has, and it worked pretty well during the 19 years I lived there, and still seems to be doing fine, though Geert Wilders is more a bug than a feature.

The thugs have caught up now, though.

I recall that you had a custom transformer made for your circuit. Did you ever make it work?

I guess imagining things is too much stress for some people.

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

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Wilders is out There is a minority government just installed of February 23 2026:

It wasn't for that circuit. It was more than fifteen years ago, and the point of that transformer was to let my Scottish friend test the device for the distortion created by very low level hysterisis in the ferrite, which produced harmonics about 95dB below the fundamental, as he had suspected that it would, which made it useless for the very low distortion oscillator I wanted.

The linear variable differential transformer in the GaAs crystal puller's weighing circuit was much more tolerant of low level distortion. Getting the distortion better than 60DB below the fundamental was perfectly adequate, and probably an over-kill, but it all fitted onto a pretty small board.

I didn't need to imagine that. I saw a few in people's homes in Cambridge.

You believe climate change denial propaganda. You clearly haven't got a brain worth training, which was what Lewis Carol was parodying in that line.

Why allow people to vote, when more than half might vote against you?

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What happened?

It wasn't parody.

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If they can't change the government by voting against it they can get interested in other mechanisms of regime change.

Imagine that, the land of the free a dictatorship.

You're very close. I honestly hope you'll be able to turn the tide. The mid-term elections will be interesting.

Jeroen Belleman

I'm told Trump wanted to be declared an Emperor or King at the end of his term as President. His advisors pointed out to him that:

America isn't an Empire, so he can't be an Emperor. America isn't a Kingdom, so he can't be a King. America is a Country,so he doesn't need to change anything.

Who told you that?

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Tribalism is driven by a lot of things. Physical separation, newspaper separation, social media. That produces a bimodal distribution, hard left and right, country versus city.

What's encouraging is the increasing number of people who consider themselves to be politically independent, not party aligned, just common sense. A new bump in the middle.

The people of California passed a constitutional amendment that created a "jungle primary" for the Governor election. It's non-partisan. The Dems hate it because they fear that they will have

The Founders debated whether political parties should be allowed to have official presence. They chose wrong.

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