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Crunchified
·8 dagen geleden·discuss
I will not give up my Jiffy Pop when camping!
Crunchified
·8 dagen geleden·discuss
Is the very thin paper used in constructing corrugated cardboard that strong compared to aluminum foil? I don't have the answer to that, but it does tell us that very thin, relatively weak materials can be used to construct much stronger things, and we shouldn't casually compare the underlying materials with the finished product.
Crunchified
·23 dagen geleden·discuss
I always had a muLinux disk handy in my computer toolbox. Most of its shell commands came from a simple script ingeniously written by the distro's author. It's been around since the mid-90s, I'd guess.

https://micheleandreoli.org/public/Software/mulinux/mu/html/...
Crunchified
·27 dagen geleden·discuss
Tumwater. What you get when you put the wrong tablet in your denture bath.
Crunchified
·vorige maand·discuss
...or the scutters on Red Dwarf.
Crunchified
·vorige maand·discuss
No Apple services listed? Where's iCloud?
Crunchified
·vorige maand·discuss
Just so you know, the original Ford Maverick started out at just under $2,000 in 1970.
Crunchified
·vorige maand·discuss
I would wager that the land was lower than the sea back then.
Crunchified
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
The article is chiefly about a radio circuit you can "build", plus some controller software that happens to run on an Android phone. Meanwhile the headline is 100% focused on describing something that your phone can be made to do (which you have admitted that it can't).

The two don't add up, and your apologetic analysis doesn't convince me otherwise. It's still clickbait. An Android cell phone has radio guts, and that headline is just gutless.
Crunchified
·2 maanden geleden·discuss
This doesn't turn your phone into a ham transceiver at all. It turns your phone into a transceiver controller. Given that a cell phone is a transceiver, this headline is rather disappointing clickbait.
Crunchified
·vorig jaar·discuss
It's a little (or maybe a lot) different, given the added dimension of clashing (international) cultures and the resulting management perceptions. In some ways, it's the opposite side of the spectrum from those European countries that established their business operations in the USA in the '80s and '90s with far greater benefits and relaxed working schedules than the typical US corporate policies of the era. SAP comes to mind as an example.
Crunchified
·vorig jaar·discuss
The pepper grinders at the gift shoppe at Seattle's Space Needle are terrible. Someone like this designer needs to make a GOOD Space Needle pepper grinder with a good (Peugeot) mechanism!

(I recall a sombrero-roofed observation tower at the I-95 South of the Border rest stop/tourist trap in South Carolina called the Spice Needle)
Crunchified
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
I did exactly that as well. I wanted to figure out what a synthesizer does/is, so I bought a MicroBrute and had a great deal of fun with it.

So much fun, in fact, that I bought a MatrixBrute not terribly long afterward. Now _that's_ a monosynth to last me a lifetime!
Crunchified
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Yeah, OK, it did say that. But the reasoning behind this rather complex scenario (i.e., the process) is left up to us to figure out. "The thing came in here, sucked out all the juice, and then left a while later leaving just the crust behind, like an old chewed out tennis ball."
Crunchified
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
"Stojkovic and his colleague, De-Chang Dai of National Dong Hwa University and Case Western Reserve University, also suggest looking for PBH evidence in celestial bodies with surprisingly low masses. They posit that if a PBH shot through a body such as a planet, moon, or asteroid with a liquid core, it might get trapped inside and vacuum up its center, hollowing it out until an external impact dislodged it."

Please explain how this phenomenon would lessen a celestial body's mass?
Crunchified
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Diverging slightly from the topic, Palm (the Palm Pilot company) at one point had a market cap higher than all US airlines combined.
Crunchified
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
A big externality is time-savings, and can be calculated.
Crunchified
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
I am simply grateful that I don't live in the United States of Vespucciland.
Crunchified
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
It is NOT the insurance company's job to replace a worn-out roof. That is YOUR responsibility! If a roof on your home is not up to the proven (albeit occasional) stresses of your local environment (including snowfall, winds, volcanic ash, etc.), whether due to quality, design, or wear, I see no reason why the insurer should not modify its indemnity. I will grant you that a decent insurer would allow you to petition for a review based on any verifiable additional information that you, as owner and insured, might be able to present.
Crunchified
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Take that carbon mic element and tap it repeatedly on a hard surface to loosen up the granules of carbon that need to be able to move round in there when you speak into it. You may find that it improves the fidelity noticeably.