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Lacking symmetry, it's extremely hard to understand how the antenna actually works (i.e. why those six bends, as opposed to any other random six bends).
by rcxdude 1y ago
Lacking symmetry, it's extremely hard to understand how the antenna actually works (i.e. why those six bends, as opposed to any other random six bends).
- jmogly 1y agoI love the idea of faith based technology, where it just works but nobody is capable of comprehending why or how.
- dialup_sounds 1y agoPraise the Omnissiah!
- isolli 1y agoThis is also quite common in medicine...
- probably_wrong 1y agoI've had bugs go away when I added `print("working fine until here")` to the preceding line. So if someone told me "this line is needed but I don't know why", I wouldn't even blink.
- kbelder 1y agoMy coworker took down our site briefly by removing an html comment that said "don't remove this comment".
- MITSardine 1y agoLoad bearing print statement! I've had a few of those, I think they're usually a symptom of stack corruption.
- rcxdude 1y agoOr a concurrency/timing issue, where the delay of the I/O changes things just enough to make them work on your setup.
- yencabulator 1y agoBack in the day the QA department would veto a release candidate of our firewall product due to performance degradation if a network cable in the testing equipment was bent too much during validation runs. Rearrange the cable and next test run would pass. Timing matters.
- RedShift1 1y agoMy best guess is that the edges are oriented such that at the tested frequencies they cause constructive interference inside the antenna therefore boosting the signal. The orientation is weird because that's probably the best way to make it work in all directions, if the edges were in a flat plane, the constructive interference would only work in a single direction.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoI mean sure, but how do you figure out what directions and angles to bend it in? I don't know much about signals and radio and stuff, but it feels to me like this could only be achieved through trial and error until the ideal was found, which is what evolutionary arguments are designed for.