@tk I saw the same curve on a dual band vertical I foolishly mounted within several wavelengths of aluminum siding. The sawtooth you see looks like the interference pattern from RF reflected back into the dipole, and the phase changes with wavelength
One thing I’m looking at is the railing parallel to the dipole at about 70cm below, which looks like a giant yagi reflector element. Maybe you can test this by temporarily changing the orientation of your dipole. Maybe you can make the railing part of the antenna with a gamma match? Just throwing stuff out there
@clacke Truth. We could all just be using Newton’s notation of the calculus if Leibniz hadn’t made an integral with the 18th century Cool S. You wanna be precise? Use a programming language
@mdhughes@dougmerritt@screwtape@me@sacha@cwebber Snow Crash is sine qua non, but it earned its place for me alone by showing exactly what was wrong with Ready Player One: the heroes were an eccentric billionaire, a consumer, and DRM
@prahou@screwtape@interlisp The key section of Lies, Inc. is when a character is shot with a dart delivered militarized hallucinogen. This is a hell of a way to make me want to get trapped in Interlisp, vibes check out
The book also prepared me to be able to read and enjoy Gravity’s Rainbow
@freakazoid@screwtape@hayley Thinking about the number of junior Python programmers who “declare” variables like each one is coming out of their paychecks, I have to agree
🎵in a sky full of people, only some want to fly, isn't that crazy
@screwtape@hayley as An aside, when “The Bipolar Lisp Programmer” speaks of C being like making a mosaic from hot glue and lentils, the image in my mind is the fresco of Justinian I in Ravenna
@screwtape@hayley This thread has put “cachet invalidation” in my mind and it ain’t leaving
This line of reasoning rhymes with a visual “sociopath test” I saw many years ago which presented at least one old-woman/rabbit two-faces/vase optical illusions and purported that sociopaths are able to see both because they are not bound to a single interpretation of reality
If C and its classics are in Latin, then Lisp and its classics are in Chinese: a radically different mode of expressing ideas in spoken and written words. To a mind trained only on Virgil and Cicero, so to speak, iteration and recursion are worlds apart, but to one who has read The Water Margin and Journey to the West (really the Little Schemer) they are simply aminor differences in phrasing
Which is a long winded way of agreeing that to understand Lisp you have to be at least moderately insane (haha yes)
Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon(Brigadier Sicko)“I’ve done… questionable things.”Suburban crank monitoring the airwaves from the High Castle.Deep space janitor. Miniboss / Agile bagman. Adjudicator. Python daily driver and hater. Secret Perl Sicko. Standard ML dilettante.“First we shape our tools, then our tools shape us” —Marshall McLuhanhe / him / sir