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Jack
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Sky enthusiast, robots, Linux, turbine engines, networks, PeeringDB
Finally springish
May 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Running fiber
March 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Pretty they are not*, but milled boards sure are nice when you go from design to solder in an hour.

*this poor guy is rougher than usual cuz the double-sided tape with which I affixed him migrated over time
March 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Transformers are transformers, regardless of frequency
March 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Forgot to tent the vias!

GVA-123+ 8ghz 16db amps
March 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
March 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Name that trig function
March 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Oh you like waves? Name every wave.
February 23, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Def the smallest transformers I’ve used yet (275MS/s 14-bit DACs into 4CT:1 50 ohm 0.5-300mhz xfrmrs for I/Q gen)
February 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Oops. It makes quite a sound when you break a 3/4 cutter off in a part at rapid
February 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
First part came out remarkably shiny ✨ ✨ ✨

(Half of a) WR42 e-plane horn, 18-26.5 GHz
February 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Noticed I was perhaps overly caffeinated during this zoom interview when I used the phrase “went hog-mode with the decorators”
February 13, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Guess the device
February 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Comments field goes incredibly hard (barker sequences of n>13)

oeis.org/A091704
A091704 - OEIS
oeis.org
February 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Reposted by Jack
Among the complexity curse that is destroying software in recent years, surely "cmake" has a nice spot in this whole mess.
February 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
WR42 clamshell exponential horns in e and h planes
February 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM

The convolution of two vectors, u and v, represents the area of overlap under the points as v slides across u. Algebraically, convolution is the same operation as multiplying polynomials whose coefficients are the elements of u and v.


Supremely fucked up
February 8, 2025 at 4:46 AM
February 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Cavitation… the thing that domesticated wolves?
Cavitation? The thing that allows us to know about Neanderthal art?

* still working on this one
January 29, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Cavitation? The thing that allows us to know about Neanderthal art?

* still working on this one
January 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
January 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Type of shit that made Ghengis khan
January 21, 2025 at 1:33 AM
January 9, 2025 at 4:48 AM
January 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
January 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM