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🎛️ Kenwood VR-407 — PHONO + Subwoofer Cheat Sheet

Goal:
Clean, non-harsh vinyl playback with subwoofer active

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Primary Setup (one-time)

1. Select Input

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XP-Pen Artist 15.6 Pro V2 on macOS (M3) — My Own Working Setup

This documents a stable, reproducible configuration for running an XP-Pen Artist 15.6 Pro V2 (MD160FH) with a closed-lid MacBook Pro M3, using a dual-USB-C docking station.
Everything below reflects a known-good, working state.

Perhaps this will help some unfortunate soul such as future me.

Host

• MacBook Pro 14-inch Nov 2023 (Apple M3 Max)
• Laptop closed (clamshell mode)

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am mxwest on github.
• I am mxwest (https://keybase.io/mxwest) on keybase.
• I have a public key ASBHsxXdlXABwjt5xW-aK9aHpMushuJjUJoPQj0FIeG6tgo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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variable regions_as_objects {
  type = list(object({
    zone   = string
    region = string
  }))
  default = [
    {
      zone   = "us-east1-c"
      region = "us-east1"

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By no means a complete list, but rather ones I think we should focus in on short term.

Antipattern 2: Humans Staring at Screens

If you have to wait for a human to detect an error, you've already lost

Any practice for which the detection of a problem condition relies on a human noticing that a particular series of data

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def method_with_positional_args(a, b, c, d):
    def print_me(arg):
        print("Got {}".format(arg))
    print_me(a)
    print_me(b)
    print_me(c)
    print_me(d)

def method_with_kwargs(first=None, second=None, third=None, fourth=None):
    def print_me(arg):