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I immediately thought of the old crystal radios and a short search brought up this comparison. While old radios used a natural mineral (galena) to detect radio waves, modern Rydberg radio receivers use a synthetic photonic crystal (often made of silicon or glass) to guide and enhance the radio signal for improved performance.

That's not the function of the crystal though, it is not optical but 100% electrical and serves to demodulate the signal, not to receive it.

Thanks for that, I was partially aware of that, just made me think of crystal radios and how magical they are.

They are magical! A radio powered by the transmitter, it's an incredible thing, really. The trick is that the diode is a very low forward drop one, typically Germanium, which has only 0.2V forward drop. But for more magic, you can also use a razor blade or a little bit of lead and then seek for naturally occurring diodes on the surface of the material. These can be even more sensitive than the Germanium ones.


This disease is in my family, honestly not sure I would want to know if I will get it.

My ISP and my bank decided they needed my biometrics to have an account, same sort of thing

This is a classic trap for LLM's See it every day in my code assistants I do find that writing unit tets is a good fir for LLM's at the moment


I offered to host a friends business email on my DO instance. Works 99% of the time but every now and then emails just disappear only to find out that MS and Apple block DO IP addresses, sometimes. Silently. There is a war on small email providers it seems.


The biggest war on small providers is waged by other small providers. They can be ancient and outdated or simply extremely picky. Which makes everything Google or others require a piece of cake, which it actually kinda is.


I developed a billing system for my own work and is getting some interest.

https://peterretief.org


Links me to a login page. Would be cool to see some screen shots or a landing page.


there is a demo user demo demo123 keep in mind it is running on my linux box at home :)


Looks really useful to document complex applications, I will give it a try.


I ask AI to generate diagrams in LaTeX, works well for me.


Wow that brings back memories!


I always thought the sentence was too extreme, he broke some laws he should do some time. Not life without parole.


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