I could tell you, but you’ll have to unmute me first. 😒

Anyone have any idea what is going on here. The btc transaction has been pending now for a week: f7ba32b198ba0cbc53592f02f4fd042ab706fface2097b66be347980135c470b

"I prefer money that I can touch and hold in my hands"

Ok boomer. Paper ecash. Denominated in Bitcoin.

Hacking together the cheapest possible but highest bandwidth and highest precision spectroscopic analyzer. Ultimate goal is mass production, these things usually cost an arm and a leg but this is 1000x better and cheaper.

Optically pumped laser pushed through a 50/50 split, shift one side 80MHz and put it back in the loop. Shift again 1khz and put it back in the loop. This gives us a 10THz wide spectrum with uniformly distributed peaks (at 80MHz) and creates something like an optical heterodyne.

We use a software defined radio with an optical coupler to read the resulting spectrum after passing the beam through the edge of a molecule. It's similar to how astronomers determine the chemical composition of exoplanets but we apply it to any material.

We use hydrogen cyanide for calibration, this seems to be the defacto standard.

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Sometimes the state of mobile devices really, really gets me down. We let big tech convince us all this stuff had to be different 'cause performance', but now, devices are just as powerful as laptops and yet can't install standard gnu/OSS stuff without nightmares of hoops to jump through and browsers are all closed source etc. What a setback for personal compute.. all for what? So that we can take good photos and scroll photos.. I can't even get my sister to send me a video she took of me cause iPhone vs. Android and she can't figure it out cause 'iphone is so simple just works'. FML.

Not to mention the headache of how much development effort it takes to reach an audience that uses mobile (which is everyone). Feels like an insurmountable task to create 'an app'. Because you need two apps, or >half of the world won't use what you create. PWAs may be the answer but they too have many hurdles to clear because they can't come close to native performance and heavily depend on web servers.

Anyway, thats my rant. How bout you?

There we go