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@foone so, antennas need to radiate photons. An antenna is "just" an arrangement of components that turns a changing electrical stimulus into enough of an electric/magnetic field flux that it emits photons.

Anything can radiate photons. Yes, people have hooked up bed springs and lightbulbs to HF radios to emit shortwave frequencies.

It's a question of what's in phase, what's out of phase, and how much is radiated versus reflected back down the antenna versus converted into heat.

(ctd)

maybe it's just more/less coiled? in which case... why?

I know it's folly to try to understand RF, which is all obscure magic, but one part I thought I understood was that frequency and antenna size were correlated, right?

but I got a pile of 433mhz transmitters and receivers, which have different sized antennas.

Isn't transmitting and receiving symmetric? wouldn't you need the same size antennas?

OH: pro tip, other people are bad at telepathy

SHOCKING: Local YouTuber Makes Big Announcement, Writes 10,500 Words To Explain Why

here it is: an exhaustive discussion of what i've been up to this year, the art i've made, the things i've endured, the hope i've lost and gained, and what it all means for the future of my video work.

it's been a shit year, but i'm not dead yet.

https://www.patreon.com/ltas/posts/shocking-local-166161680

if OS/2 got a version called OS/2 Warp, why didn't the PS/2 get a version called PS/2 Weft?

ohh, 迷う [まよう] is both “to lose one's way; to get lost” and “to linger (of a departed soul); to be restless in one's grave; to be unable to rest in peace”…

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Math is hard.

#gamedev #railways #trains

I've owned this old, beat-up Callaway Big Bertha golf club for months. Only today did I get around to doing what I actually meant to do with it when I bought it.

Only about 7 days until Clacton is given the chance to make the funniest thing in politics anywhere happen. (Well, this USA American thinks it'd be funny.)

Farage losing to a bin (excuse me, "the establishment") would be the funniest outcome ever. Funnier even than that time Scotland's winds tested if Trump's comb-over was a toupee.

(I know Binface likely won't win, but really Farage lost 3 weeks ago.)

Man in my 50s here. Have started telling the important people in my life that I love them every time I see them. The embaressment, especially with the men, might shave a year or two off my life but I'm not stopping now. If I drop dead tomorrow they'll at least know how I felt.

In a job interview I was asked what I'd like to be remembered for. I responded that I had no desire to be remembered. My main takeaway from a BA and MA in history is that people in history books are villains or victims and I didn't want to be either. Didn't get the job.

#WindowFriday #Fensterfreitag

I just recalled the interesting tidbit that the idea of writing "(he/him)" and "(she/her)" was invented many thousands of years ago by the Sumerians, who often used written symbols you weren't meant to pronounce out loud to help you visually parse the structure of cuneiform, and this included he/she markers for personal names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinative