Chip Douglas @Diptchip@qoto.org
just doing the thing. I like camping, shooting, driving... Stuff like that.
Joined Nov 2020
A chart I modified to include 50 BMG and what the GAU-8 shoots. (On the A-10 Thunderbolt)
It's 139,275 FPE (not counting energy produced by detonation of its explosive warhead)
10 x that of 50 BMG
The GAU-8 can spit out 60 of these bad boys in under a second.
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@PunishedD @eTerrorist
Been eating out of the same pb jar stored at room temp for about 6 months now... Is oil seperation dangerous? Lol
What happened to not IDing yourself online and not trusting strangers on the internet? The line is getting blurred between what is false information and what is just something someone disagrees with. Any censorship is bad and just as pointless as the war on drugs. But we dug this hole ourselves. We as humans tend to feel secure in our ways when following the ways of others. We want others to define society. We want others to keep an eye on those that don't fit in, so we don't have to. It's great and all, until you find that you're one of them.
Scary. They say they won't let it do a real person's face.... Think its only a matter of time before ML is making video like this. Imagine a movie created at the push of a button. This is gunna wreak havok on the entertainment industry. More time with eyeballs on screens. Thought TV was bad enough. You'll never see the same thing twice with the endless amount of content created with this technology.
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"be creative, computers can't be creative it's the one way to be sure you'll always be relevant"
> Thread of DALL-E AI generated images and their prompts https://twitter.com/BecomingCritter/status/1511808277490896903
welp that's it *packs up bag, packs up everyone's bags*
Wonder if it even makes a difference. Pretty sure the YT app is whitelisted on android. If you're rooted, simply search for "whitelist" from your root directory. If you aint rooted, you're just borrowing someone else's phone.
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There has been a lot of discussion lately, much of it just plain incorrect, about the relationship between resonance and antenna efficiency. Many incorrectly claim that resonance has nothing to do with antenna efficiency at all, similarly others incorrectly claim that resonance is a direct indication of efficiency. Neither of these statements is true. The reality is that resonance does have a significant impact on how efficient your antenna is, but the relationship is highly non-linear and depends on many characteristics.
Below I have attached a chart hat plots out the total radiation resistance (R_r) vs the measured input resistance (R_in) of a dipole. Efficiency is just R_r/R_in. In other words an efficient antenna will have 100% of its resistance as radiation resistance, and R_in is **always** larger than R_r (since it is essentially ohmic resistance plus radiation resistance). When these two numbers differ significantly an antenna is inefficient. The source for the chart below is here and it gives much of the math if you want a deeper dive:
https://nptel.ac.in/content/storage2/courses/108101092/Week-2-Dipole%20Antenna.pdf
What is important to note here is that at anti-resonance we see a **huge** R_in value and a small R_r value, this means an anti-resonant antenna will have very high losses. Keep in mind the graph is very hard to read for the values <0.5 in length because the resolution isnt high. But there is significant divergence there as well. Notice at ~5/8ths wavelength antenna would exhibit very significant internal ohmic losses due to heat.
#hamradio #rf #radio #ee #electronics #electricalrngineering @Electronics
@TooTankhaMooN
Surprised cops even bother with stingrays anymore. Last I checked the feds had doors into the cell net backends, and that they were sharing data with local LE agencies.
@Duine
Pretty sure that my gf would have lost her state job if she didn't get it. She just had her third jab, willingly and wants to get it for her kids. Not getting it for my kids anytime soon.
@lucifargundam I know the feeling. Which ROM?
@TooTankhaMooN
Fun times. The neutral bar should be grounded in your main.
Chip Douglas
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Big Tech is targeting you, and you're next!
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=A8lHsIf6aA8
@Secftblgirl Is it really, though? I know you know that if the media is talking about it, it's for financial/political gain.
@valleyforge There was a time in which we only had each other to keep ourselves entertained. It wasn't that long ago...
They only had speakers at first. We put them in the center of the room so that everyone could hear. They shared entertainment from all over the world and told us who to vote for and what to spend money on. Sometimes, the other people in the room would interrupt and distract us, so we made speakers that could be worn on our heads.They didn't want us distracted and we didn't want to be interrupted.
Then they had screens...
We put them against the wall so that everyone could see. They shared entertainment from all over the world and told us who to vote for and what to spend our money on. Sometimes, the other people in the room would interrupt or distract us, so we made screens that we could hold in our hands...
We had always been the ones watching and listening before, but now the screens are watching and listening so that They know the art and entertainment that we crave the most. They didn't want us distracted and we didn't want our intertainment interrupted, so screens were made that could be worn on our heads...
just doing the thing. I like camping, shooting, driving... Stuff like that.
Joined Nov 2020
