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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • I know right? What circular reasoning this is. The government is concerned about keeping our secrets safe, so they ask for the former president to return them and must force the issue when he doesn’t, but to keep the secrets safe the judge wants them to divulge the secrets?

    I do not see the relevance of the actual contents. It could have been a government encryption device or a cell phone or something.

    As an alternative couldn’t they redact the crucial parts? Ex. “Submarine x, with a periscope depth of xxx is to be deployed in a xxx configuration to secure the xxx area.” Pretty easy to see the reason for the secrecy without giving the details. Although there are probably situations where this wouldn’t work.


  • To be honest, we learn about the basic antenna designs, and there are many, and then usually new designs come from altering some idea to fit a new need, until there is nothing of the original idea left. LOL. Usually, we’re asked to size reduce but it’s just not physically possible to do what is often asked of us. There is a running joke in the industry that customers always want an infinitely small antenna with infinite gain. Usually we start with something like a monopole design and change the physical parameters until we can no longer meet the spec. Hopefully the antennas fitsb in the required space. At least that how did it. Necessity is the parent of invention, after all.


  • Never used that myself. There are many programs we use depending on what property you are looking to calculate. I’d say the main tool is HFSS. I personally used CST mostly because when I was learning all of the licenses were usually in use and CST was always available since it was not as well known. But seriously, I’d estimate there are literally dozens of programs plus programs that each of us writes, usually in Matlab.