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Yet the schematic carried poetry in its economy. Lines converged into small junctions like tributaries joining a river, and components were nicknamed with the kind of irreverence only engineers share: RQ1, "The Quiet One," or D33, scratched out and replaced with "D33B — less noisy." Those little human touches humanized an otherwise austere diagram. You could almost hear the banter from the lab: "We’ll call it stable when it stops being dramatic."