Crunchified

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by Crunchified 2y ago
Diverging slightly from the topic, Palm (the Palm Pilot company) at one point had a market cap higher than all US airlines combined.
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by Crunchified 2y ago
A big externality is time-savings, and can be calculated.
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by Crunchified 2y ago
I am simply grateful that I don't live in the United States of Vespucciland.
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by Crunchified 2y ago
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, volcani
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by Crunchified 3y ago
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.
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by Crunchified 3y ago
But how will Amazon sell all those Echo products without Alexa?
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by Crunchified 3y ago
It's what most people in leadership roles think leadership is (or should be). And they are SO wrong.
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by Crunchified 3y ago
These guys aren't using their cell phones to keep warm, I'm quite sure. It's true that Lithium Ion Polymer batteries, so very popular in portable rechargeable devices (and prone to the occasional thermal runaway) usually don
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by Crunchified 3y ago
Lithiums don't work in cold temperatures? That's a new one on me. Many lithium battery formulations work in colder conditions than other common formulations. I don't read the NYT so didn't read the article, but were the
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by Crunchified 3y ago
Proper cash is a source of freedom. It doesn't even have serial numbers. It has weight and defined properties, but they took all that away from us quite a while ago. Until recently, the paper with numbers and faces on it still serve
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by Crunchified 3y ago
Cash is just one of those freedoms things big government hates. Through money-laundering laws, gov gets to stick its nose into ALL of our lives to treat us all as the potential criminals they know we are. The latest thing their ever-tight
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by Crunchified 3y ago
How about Puget Sound (Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia...), where there are ferries all over. Several routes have "foot ferries" (no cars) offering rides with added speed to get the commuters to home or work across several miles of semi-
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by Crunchified 3y ago
Dark website patterns are the internet's embodiment of the sleazy salesperson. You want the product, the sales guy wants to upsell you and increase his profit margin (corresponding to sales commission). Nobody likes to be sold at like
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by Crunchified 3y ago
IF the fees are just "fluff" that adds pure profit to the goods or services rendered, then these new fees regulations will have the government's desired effect. But if the fees are needed to cover costs and expenses, they WI
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by Crunchified 3y ago
I know, now. I used search on this site for "Amazon" but results were obviously not complete enough to be helpful. Any advice on how not to duplicate, short of paging through the submissions to the nth degree? I checked the guid
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Amazon lays off hundreds in Alexa division(seattletimes.com)
6 points by Crunchified 3y ago|10 comments
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by Crunchified 3y ago
Amazon is cutting “several hundred” jobs in its Alexa division to focus more on generative AI, the company announced Friday. (Seattle Times)
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by Crunchified 3y ago
How about banning unions for any government employees? These employees should be held accountable only to the public and its elected representatives.
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by Crunchified 3y ago
Good article, but I wonder why the photo of Thomson Correctional Center appears to show it to be an Illinois Department of Corrections prison rather than a federal prison?
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by Crunchified 3y ago
I just don't see anything fundamentally unique about an encrypted communications stream that would require it to be used on the ham bands for 'furthering the radio arts.' Any stream being developed or tested for use over the
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by Crunchified 3y ago
Sure you can. This still does not ensure that the communications embedded within the encrypted portion of the data does not violate amateur rules. Encryption of communications effectively removes the ability of hams (and government regul
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by Crunchified 3y ago
At my college radio station, every applicable record had intro time cues written on a label on the record jacket. You would know that there was, say, seven seconds you could talk over before the song began in earnest. "Hitting the p
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by Crunchified 3y ago
...or perhaps, Robin Williams syndrome?
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by Crunchified 3y ago
I am not familiar with this kind of security device, but doesn't it stand that to take home a certain desired object you'd simply bring along an object of similar weight and exchange it?
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by Crunchified 3y ago
I recall the DAK ads from my teenage cheap subscription to Stereo Review magazine. Bought a few things from him, like a cordless stereo headset. For that one I had to string an (included) thin insulated wire around my room - like an invisi
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by Crunchified 3y ago
Exactly. After all, who do the police go to in order to obtain a search warrant? A judge, of course! To the police (and bailiffs, too, I would think), the judiciary is the source of all their powers.
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by Crunchified 3y ago
Perhaps an overview of FCC amateur radio licensing in the U.S. is in order: The (entry level) Technician license gives ALL amateur privileges above 30 MHz - that's the bottom of the VHF region and up. So that's all VHF, UHF, and
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by Crunchified 3y ago
ARRL members do indeed receive <callsign>@arrl.net email forwarding as a benefit, should they choose to use it.
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by Crunchified 3y ago
Every photographer that earns his/her salt knows that the secret to a good shot does NOT lie in the camera alone . I do have to say that Apple's constant improvements in iPhone camera technology is to be applauded - they make for
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by Crunchified 3y ago
I’m not ignorant of why this happened, although a bit bitter nonetheless. I can only hope that the FCC can respond by becoming more of an enforcer and more mindful that we hams (about a million of us, iirc) are now paying for their service

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