Now I wonder if you can work him like Alexa?
Hey, @Pilgrimsmaster, show me pictures of pancakes!
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There has to be at least one bit of the wire crossing over the loops in any coil (or in the case of a PCB, a via). But I would think if that crossing occurs at a spot where the implant doesnât flex too much - or at all - it should be fine.
Looking at the Vimpay flexie, I can see two crossings, but theyâre across the short length of the implant and very near the chip. It doesnât seem like much flexing should be happening at that spot then.
Still, I guess thatâs a possibility. wouldnât a tiny sliver of Teflon tape under each of the crossings solve the problem - if that is the problem?
Itâs a bit more strange than that⊠check these photos; XLED implantable field detector - #30 by Jesse
It is basically an expanding spiral coil, but along the sides the wire is overlapping itself almost vertically⊠at least itâs very hard to keep it from folding or sliding over itself on those sides when you are trying to carefully extract it from the melted plastic and then re-encapsulate it. Hereâs an extraction from IAR for example;
yes you could technically manipulate the fragile and finicky copper wire to basically create protections against this⊠but ultimately the labor involved in conversion is already pretty high⊠Iâd rather the PCB antenna solution so I can just mishandle the copper wire during extraction, then toss it away.
We are already working on a âmegaâ style disc antenna for 70pF icard and purewrist chips⊠and there is a narrow vimpay pcb antenna in the works as well. It wouldnât take much at this point to make a mega style antenna for vimpay chips too.
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Ah right. I wasnât looking at that picture. Yeah the coil is quite a mess in that one.
Speaking of which, any ETA on this? Or is it Soonâą? 
Partly posting to see if you muted me. The second tuning revision of those should arrive early next week and if they test well theyâll be doing directly to Amalâs workshop so it could be Soonâąer than you think
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Guys,
I have COVID. Itâs great news: I have a normal disease that a normal immune system with a normal vaccination schedule can deal with easily in a matter of days. And I have an equally unimpressive certificate for 5 days out of work to go with it.
I get normal fucking scripts now. Yeah bitches! Life is great!
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Yeah, I had it twice myself. Pretty confident in my immunity now.
To counter that, my sister called from the UK yesterday. My mum has just been hospitalized, my sister, and the ambulance folk thought that she had had another stroke because of how she was found. She was unconscious and breathing strangely.
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Does she have rona?
Hope she gets well soon.
Yes, she has a âbad caseâ probably not helped by her age⊠I really do want to retry this decade. 
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What happened to 2020 being two nat 20s? Whoâs the fuckin DM here playing some OP bs lol
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I noticed your âclockâ stopped counting downâŠ
Thatâs because Iâm not interested in sharing this happy personal event publicly here anymore. Or anything else really.
I regularly make the mistake of finding this house nice, and trying to contribute to the decoration, until Iâm reminded that the frame and the beams are rotten to the core with the Discord woodlice who have nothing better to do than teach other people how to talk proper.
Incidentally, see how nice I am Schlonger? I didnât say retard. I said woodlouse. Is that PC enough for you? A woodlouse doesnât insult the disabled community. Thatâs how nice I am.
And to top it off, logging off of here, I see another woodlouse who keeps replying to me like if nothing had ever happened. What part of âI have nothing but contempt for youâ donât you understand?
Fuck the whole bally lot of you Discord creeps. The people I want to keep as friends, I already keep in touch in DM. Contributing anything in public here is just a sorry exercize in constant disappointment.
Some of us can engage in polite discourse with people we donât like when we share common interests and goals. We just purposelessly donât bring up the things that we know trigger them (as long as theyâre not hurting others). Itâs part of the whole big tent mentality youâre forced to adopt when most people are fighting to maintain a status quo that doesnât work for you.
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I wouldnât engage in any discussion with you even if we were joined at the hip. I intensely despise you as a human being. You have nothing to offer that Iâm interested in.
That goes both ways little man: Iâm of a generation that doesnât see anything wrong with saying âretardedâ, Why donât YOU cut me some slack? Tolerance goes both ways. You woke lot are ultra-intolerant. The sooner you realize that the better.
Being tolerant of intolerance ultimately eliminates tolerance
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Without entering the debate on either side. The verb retard has been used since the 13th century, and didnât get used to describe mental handicaps in print until 1909. It wasnât until the 1950âs that it started to be used as an offensive term.
As the past tense of the verb retard it can be defined as
delay or hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment.
If that is the meaning intended then âvaccine retardedâ simply means âsomeone who is held back in terms of getting a vaccineâ, and is a purely descriptive and non-pejorative term.
English is a complex language and even native speakers are frequently tripped up on some of the nuances. So, without knowing for certain the actual specific intent of someone it is hard to say for sure.
As a relevant aside I was reading about someone who offended a friend of a friend because they suggested they all âtake an Uberâ but they were using the term as a generic form of ârideshare serviceâ. When the Lyft turned up the friend was offended as âthey had been lied toâ. If they had said âget a Lyftâ they might have misinterpreted it as âget a liftâ and been equally offended.
Some of the terms used in the US are much more offensive elsewhere (and presumably vice versa) so are we supposed to know every potentially offensive term and avoid using them all?
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Let me make one thing clear: rest assured than when I said âretarded anti-vaxxerâ, I fully intended it as an insult, implying that anti-vaxxers are mentally challenged.
Yes itâs offensive. That was the whole point.
I fully recognize that Iâm incredibly offensive to todayâs generation, the same way my grandmother was super-shocking to me when she was talking about niggers, kykes or chinks. But I knew better than constantly nagging her about it. She was a relic from the past. So am I. Give me a fucking break.
I donât jump any of the Discord dwellers when they insist on using they or them to talk about a man or a woman who didnât even ask any special treatment, despite the weirdness of it all and the atrocious bending of the English language. Yet when I slip - and I donât even do it on purpose more often than not - oh boy! am I reminded that I should get with the times or what.
Thatâs where the Discord folks are intolerant. They have their own set of values and they impose them by force on everybody else. And you know what? The irony is, the more they do it, the more backlash and the more hatred they get from people like me who would otherwise be fairly receptive to the narrative. Well played you retardsâŠ
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Ah and yes of course, letâs click the outrage button when we donât agree with the message, shall we?
PatheticâŠ