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Found this in my notes from a while back. Shows how to calculate the values for a balun to match a transmission line to an antenna.

@math

Are there any chinese or japanese cheeses? I know asians arent too big on cheese which has me wondering what cheeses they do have and if i can get my hands on some...

LOL this dude thinks more than 1 in 100 people are dieing of the vaccine... LOLOL yea ok.

Sir Richard :verified: 🇺🇸🍿  
I would say 99.9xxx survival rate. Can you say that about the vaccines?

@freemo I believe Cosby is in the wrong, but the reason he was freed is actually more nuanced, and was caused by a prosecutorial error and a lack of judicial oversight years ago.

The DA, during Cosby's initial testimony, offered him criminal immunity in exchange for a "forced" testimony during the simultaneous civil proceeding (i.e. he wouldn't be charged criminally but was forced to testify in the lawsuit that was going on at the time).

This deal was made by the prosecutor as he wasn't confident in the burden of proof being held up in criminal court but thought he could get justice for the plaintiff in civil proceedings instead (in criminal cases, the burden of proof is "beyond a reasonable doubt", whereas in civil cases, it's "the preponderance of evidence"). Ultimately this deal led to a settlement of (I think) $3.4 million dollars for the victim during the initial cases, but in exchange for criminal immunity. While not perfect, it's certainly better than nothing for the plaintiff if a jury decided there wasn't enough evidence to convict, which was especially likely if he didn't testify by exercising his 5th amendment rights.

The new case that was opened leveraged transcripts of his initial confession, which he as promised by the initial DA would never be used to prosecute him. Thus, they violated his 5th amendment right against self-incrimination to obtain the evidence, and he was let go. This was all determined completely irrespective of whether or not he was actually guilty, but due to this error the Supreme Court determined his rights were violated so badly that he couldn't be tried again (in a 5-4 or 6-3 decision). The dissent was only caused by the decision of upholding double Jeopardy in this case, not whether his rights were violated.

While I think he should have been put away, this was ultimately a compromise by the initial DA, and a further mistake by current prosecutors to leverage evidence that was "fruit from the poisonous tree".

P.S. IDC about weed, people should be able to do what they want as long as they don't hurt other people.

@freemo @tek @rysiek @mkljczk @xorowl @jimpjorps For comparison, average mastodon.social traffic is 200 req/s. I don't think it matters what we call it though. In my view it's a denial-of-service when it impacts performance due to unintended use, though maybe you could expand that to intended use as well. While the individual endpoints are intended to be used, it is the frequency with which they are retrieved that is unintended.

@bespectacled239 The huge character limit was one of the reasons I went for this instance as well. I was used to at least 2k characters and anything smaller felt like a huge step down in QoL.

This is my (third) Mastodon account I've created. I made this one so I could write longer posts. My main account is @vital876@mastodon.social.

qoto.org's theme looks awesome. I feel like I'm on a spaceship of some kind. The character limit is 65,532? That's crazy high!

@strawberryfieldsforever I made the account! Oh my goodness. That character limit is nice to see! 🎉💃

Schrodingers insurrectionist... both needing nuclear bombs to overthrow the government, and yet somehow bringing us to the brink of destruction by a little old lady.

@freemo
Those insane people have a confirmation bias. If you say they are correct, their confirmation certitude will strenghtened, if you say they are false, they will refuse to agree that they are wrong, and often argue that those are tactics to silent them or abuse them etc...
You can't argue with a 12 years old on the net, same goes for whack job conspiracy theorist which lack the critical thinking to admit other thesis or posibilities other than their own, just like a 12 years old.

Uh oh, the wack job conspiracy theorists are at it again... hint facts are called "disinformation" and scientists are now called "operatives" apparently... Can't make this stuff up.

@freemo @djsumdog @se7en those are primarily the events that get entered-anaphalaxis.

you're actually one of the most disgusting and slimy shills on fedi right now, congratulations. i think you're actually some kind of disinfo operative but i haven't figured out exactly what- whether you do this just for the sheer joy of being a piece of shit or there's something more going on

My latest pen is a wet-noodle (extremely flexible) 100+ year old fountain pen. She writes beautifully and is a Waterman's 42 1/2 (the creator of the fountain pen). Moreover she is a safety pen, meaning the nib retracts into the barrel before you put the cap on. There arent too many of these floating around after over 100 years!

@calligraphy @writing

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