Software engineer, retired. Loves trains. Anti-fascist. Atheist. Feminist. Disillusioned by the open source “community”.
Videos on https://www.youtube.com/@TangoMikeLima
My toots are licensed as CC BY-ND https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ . Magic words: searchable.
If you want to follow me you must have some sane information in your description and toots that show you are real. Apparent bots will be blocked right away.
Suomenkieliset tööttini usein luokkaa shitpost.
@lvxferre @procrastitron As it happens, “Ptolemaois” is how the name is written in at least German, Swedish and Finnish, so speakers of those languages (Swedish and Finnish myself) likely pronounce it most correctly?
Never really understood why English insists of weirdly dropping the final bits of Greek and Latin names (“Plutarch” vs “Plutarkhos”, “Justinian” vs “Justinianus” etc)
@PugJesus Fun, except that Alexei is not a German name. Not very likely that a Stasi official (or neighbour volunteering on surveillance duty) would have been called Alexei. Alex on the other hand is a German name.
That just sounds like a misconception that the German Democratic Republic would have been administered by “the Soviets”. Sure, the USSR had lots of influence (“Von der Sowjetunion lernen heißt siegen lernen” etc), but the Stasi was staffed by East Germans.
Yes, I am fun at parties.
@[email protected] Inverted cone, hmm. If I understand correctly, it is not the very visible ring that is the essential thing here (even if that is the impression one gets as a layman), but actually the radial horizontal wires to the ring, and those going from the ring down to the root.
For low frequencies like shortwave (compared to modern GHz stuff), solid disc and cone surfaces can be approximated by radial wires? Which of course is much easier to build and won’t be destroyed by wind. Fascinating.
@lvxferre No need to be sorry, lovely and very readable write-up. Quality content!