"inhibition fails" reminded me of this passage from Fear and Loathing.
"Ah, devil ether. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel... total loss of all basic motor skills. Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue. The mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column."
I hope so. Regardless of who does it, generations of children in Los Angeles growing up in the corridors of the 5,10,110,210,405,605,710 freeways have asthma, likely caused from the soot of diesel trucks.
Edit, couldn't leave out the worst experience in the US, i405.
Yes when qualifying new equipment often the source of failing emissions is the power supply (or some other third party device) that has already 'passed' testing.
The db scale is logarithmic but doesn't match how our eyes sense light. So small changes in db may result in large visible light changes, or vise versa. Have you ever looked at a raw image, it doesn't look correct untill a gamma is applied, even though roughly the same information exists in both raw and gamma images. This is a similar concept.
To do do this: db > linear > gamma
This can be precomputed into a lookup table with the number of entries being the number of current steps, 8-bit 256 entries.