Chicken Dots | Hacker News Reader

Chicken Dots

microwaves101.com

55 pointsbasicplus211 comments

Love this kind of tweaking!

Related and in the same manner is to make PCB antennas slightly longer than what you think you need, then tune by shortening (ie cut it with a knife) mm by mm and measure. When you get the desired freq response, this length is what you'd use in the next/final revision of the hw.

But that's probably only the most low-cost designs - I think most use a pi matching network: https://coil32.net/online-calculators/pi-matching-network-ca... since it gives more flexibility and can cope with more severe impedance mismatches.

(this is on sub-/2.4 GHz, don't know how it works for much lower or higher f)

Idk. When I talked to an application engineer that used to manufacture passive CTLEs, they used a microscope, file, and VNA on each one.

I guess those are related to chicken bits, where you have some internal register in an ASIC which allows you to enable/disable a silicon feature in software before shipping.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chicken_bit

I have wondered what those dots are for, but never asked. Thanks for posting an informative article.

Interesting, this site doesn't even support TLS 1.1 and Firefox refuses to open it.

Works fine in Firefox 70.0.1.

Have you intentionally disabled TLS 1.0?

Most major browsers, including Firefox, intend to disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 early next year. It's possible that LukaD is using a developer release which is previewing this change.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/10/15/removing-old-ve...

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/modernizing-transpor...

https://webkit.org/blog/8462/deprecation-of-legacy-tls-1-0-a...

Yes, that was one path on the diagnostic flowchart that the sadly-absent answer would have progressed.

The other path is for certain users who have shut off various TLS options after encountering a “security” guide. Those users also often end up with TLS 1.3 disabled, because those security guides are rarely competent.

My firewall/proxy also refuses the connection.

This site is a very good example of how not to do it: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.microwave... You've got SSLv3, RC4 and even SSLv2.

there was something special about the dots in the eye of the chickens, something about the distribution of dots in the brown or golden part of the eye, cornea?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com