no no, it makes sense. alpha male, so not ready for release and bugs are to be expected
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Amateur Radio@lemmy.radio•Intuitive explanation for conductor diameter v. electrical length?
1·5 days agoopenhamprep explanation is wrong
When you consider a segment of wire, it has some inductance and capacitance in that small segment, and the wider it is, the lower inductance and higher capacitance are. In other words, both X_L and X_C go down as diameter increases. Electric field lines within antenna are mostly perpendicular to wire everywhere except on ends, where they spread in all directions, which means that there’s some residual capacitance there that needs to be charged each cycle. This is called end effect and the wider wire is, the more of it you get. In fact, the same aspect ratio (length/diameter) gets you the same end effect ratio each time, and it’s usually in range of 0.98-0.95. If there’s insulation, then insulation has lower velocity of propagation as it has higher permittivity than air, and it is in place with highest electric field intensity, and this can also shorten necessary wire length a couple %. The more insulation there is, the more shortened antenna becomes. have a calculator: https://www.translatorscafe.com/unit-converter/en-US/calculator/dipole-antenna/
But wait, there’s more. We can think of antenna as a lossy RLC resonator (sort of), where R is Rrad which for halfwave dipole would be 72 ohms, + loss resistance which is smaller, and neither are changing fast with frequency. What is changing faster is X_L and X_C, and the wider wire is, the smaller both of them are (X_L = -X_C at resonance), and this means that you can go further off frequency and still have acceptable SWR, i.e. antenna made with wider wire has more bandwidth, or if we look at it as resonator, lower Q. For HF this means using masts or wire cages instead of single wire, but for VHF this gets more practical
Resistive part of antenna impedance near resonance depends on physical antenna length, and if antenna is shortened, then how it was done, but for the range we’re here it won’t change much. But also it will depend on height above ground, type of soil, antenna geometry and many other things. 72 ohm is in freespace only
you can consider antenna wire as a transmission line, but it will need to include ground as the other side of transmission line, and then impedance is dependent on wire diameter to height over ground ratio. it’s not very useful except when considering very large and currently uncommon types of antennas (beverage antenna and rhombic antenna, both of which are traveling wave antennas)
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•AI bots “Timmy,” “Ren,” and “Jackie” are flooding social media with slop: They ask for permission to create accounts … and provide a thank you for running MastodonEnglish
5·5 days agohumans start breathing only when 3 years old, don’t you know?
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch
2·10 days agoBy coincidence, per Zitron, this is also in the ballpark ratio by which chatbots used to be subsidized
and also it’s not the entire problem, just a segment of it (no idea how big it is)
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•OpenAI stole research out from under mathematicians' noses and now suddenly all the STEM bros are very hot and bothered
6·11 days ago“sharing” also explicitly includes any chatbot interaction, i wonder what consequences this will have
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•slowing scrapers and confusing bots at an image level!
2·26 days agoas it is now, edges aligning with grid would be a clue. this doesn’t happen when image looks like static
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•slowing scrapers and confusing bots at an image level!
4·26 days agosomehow i think that there should be a way to match edges of these blocks and unscramble the image this way. note that the more of unscrambled image you have the easier it should get. however, if you took every block and dispersed its pixels (xor something) into all new blocks, that would be much harder
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can I do something with this?
2·28 days agortl-sdr uses the same chip as dvb-t tuners, but the everything else part is completely different
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Europe@feddit.org•Poland begins recognising same-sex marriagesEnglish
1·28 days agomate i’m not getting you up to speed with polish politics, sounds like you stopped in PiS-LPR-Samoobrona coalition era, these concerns don’t exist for 20 years
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Europe@feddit.org•Poland begins recognising same-sex marriagesEnglish
1·28 days agoyeah i figured, i don’t know if you have figured that things have changed in the last 20 years or so
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Europe@feddit.org•Poland begins recognising same-sex marriagesEnglish
2·28 days agocloser to 20%, and about as many as opposed EU accesion in the first place. PiS barks a lot but doesn’t want to actually quit because this would eviscerate their support base that does depend on EU funding, like farmers but not only them
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Europe@feddit.org•Poland begins recognising same-sex marriagesEnglish
1·28 days agowhat the fuck are you talking about, nobody wants to leave eu, comparing 90s to now it’s like day and night
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Europe@feddit.org•Poland begins recognising same-sex marriagesEnglish
3·28 days agoi come from a bit flatter place and yeah farming used to be something done by about everyone as a side job, but while most of land around village, population 500, was also owned by about everyone, now 3/4 of it is owned by maybe 4 families who are actual, professional farmers who do actual, industrial farming. (this really kicked off when farmers could get loans for new machinery, and with EU money influx) other than another handful of people who work within village, and retirees, everyone else commutes to and works in bigger towns around, and some moved abroad entirely. this is how it looked in 00s, and from there it can go in two directions: when there’s not enough people around, all of these tiny shops in villages close and people eventually move out, or some people open other small businesses where they live and situation stabilizes sort of. but also independent from that, some people who get specialized degrees don’t come back but instead stay in cities where they got it, because there are no jobs they’re qualified for there. there are villages where places like hairdressers or various kinds of workshops open up and people stay and live there and there are villages where there are no births in entire year, because everyone under 30 moved out
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Europe@feddit.org•Poland begins recognising same-sex marriagesEnglish
4·28 days agothey were already on that page, but in additon to being dipshits they’re also spineless. they’re choosing EU money over their religious nonsense most of the time
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Europe@feddit.org•Poland begins recognising same-sex marriagesEnglish
1·28 days agoIt’s awesome if you’re a tourist. hardly a local phenomenon, farming and forestry got professionalized, less people can get jobs in these sectors, people move out, there’s not enough traffic to sustain other businesses and you get dying villages filled with stubborn retirees
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Europe@feddit.org•Poland begins recognising same-sex marriagesEnglish
7·28 days agoSure can. Plenty of local governments receive EU funding, but it will take time
The European Commission blocked €150 million funds for LGBTQ-free zones, and also blocked a 42 billion Euro payment from the COVID-19 recovery fund, due to Poland not obeying EU law.[168] In January 2023, the Polish town of Świdnik abolished their LGBT-free zone in response to fearing that they would stop receiving EU subsidies.[169] In February 2023, the European Commission ended its legal action against the LGBT-free zones.[170] In May 2023, the European Commission said that the LGBT-free zones would stop receiving EU funding if they continue their policies.[171]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT-free_zone#Reaction_from_the_European_Union
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Europe@feddit.org•Poland begins recognising same-sex marriagesEnglish
2·28 days agoit’s one of these places where nobody wants to live including locals. the ones that do also live from tourism (and forestry/farming)





who is “we”? as of now, there’s still oil being extracted and fertilizer being produced, just a bit less of it. if you live in a western country you don’t have to worry too much about it, except higher prices of food and everything that gets transported. if you’re a subsistence farmer in a place like bangladesh then you’re to some degree fucked