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Re: hidden device finder
The camera lens detector is quite ingenious, though it only works for locally monitored cameras. You look through the hole in the device and slowly scan the room for camera lenses while listening for...
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Win 11 notifications
Now and then, Windows 11 pops up a notification telling me that I have no new notifications, and that I have disabled notifications.
 
ternet’
Many great and wonderful started things there. Communications history in so many ways came from there, among others. Anyone else interested? No idea about what/who/how/when to do something. <>
 
Electronic design
JL wrote an interesting post in the depths of the "better microelectronics from coal" thread that I thought was worth pulling out on its own. On 2024-01-21 10:12, John Larkin wrote:> "...what IS...
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Re: United Nations Politics have failed. (Immigration leading to World War 3)
World War 3 doesn't seem to have broken out yet. Skybuck seems to be suffering from delusions or hallucinations. He seems to look after his own brain as incompetently as he looks after the...
 
The Quest for Speed - Book Recommendation
Gentlemen, I'm trying to source a book specifically on this subject. Almost from the day the EM sine wave was discovered, ingenious people have been striving to convey ever increasing dv/dt signals...
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Re: the enigmatic zipper
On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:14:59 -0800 (PST), RichD
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Re: Progess on marking spam.
I've now got back to the 24th October 2023, marking all the spam on the way. That involved marking some stuff that I'm pretty sure that I'd marked on previous passes, so it may need to be repeated...
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Digikey data sheets
It feels like the Digikey data sheets are now often links off-site, and those links are now often broken or plain wrong or otherwise useless. Plus, most of the parts are unavailable or insanely...
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Scientists make non-toxic quantum dots for shortwave infrared image sensors
More bs? Nature Photonics - Silver telluride quantum dots are employed in shortwave-infrared photodetectors and in monolithically integrated imagers that are free from toxic heavy metals and fully...
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Unusual use of lithography - big glass meta lens
At least big compared to the size that high resolution lithography is usually done over. They have made a very impressive sheet glass metalens surface etched onto one side using classic chip making...
 
Re: Dirt Powered Fuel Cell
On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:54:13 -0800 (PST), Dean wrote: How many nanojoules are there in infinite energy?
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Vegas sphere - no educational applications?
It seems odd that the Las Vegas sphere hasn't dipped into the programming that's accumulated for planetariums. A lot of the original planetariums have fallen into disrepair - education not being a big...
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Re: frozen Teslas
Not crazy,just inconvenient. The article talks about having to tow a too-cold Tesla to a garage, which is also the sort of thing that can happen to a gasoline-powered car if somebody forget about the...
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Re:frozen Teslas
Nimh are better at low temps, I wonder if the Prius has issues. Cheers