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Crunchified··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
There's lots and lots of them. Have you ridden an escalator® lately?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...

Crunchified··on A new study of a bot running a store finds it is friendly but not very smart
"Misprint Moon Mug $35"

They'll sell plenty of those now.

Crunchified··on Atomic Clocks
To fully understand time even as simply as a sequence of events is excruciatingly difficult, and we are still working out the details of our understanding. I think Einstein was on the right track with his quote, and trying to get beyond that would have simply been an obstacle in his path of knowledge.
Crunchified··on Atomic Clocks
If I had an atomic clock, it'd probably be blinking 12:00.
Crunchified··on Why some people mow a lawn better than others
You mean a flymo. It's more hovercraft than drone, and much older technology. Works reasonably well on non-lumpy lawns - my neighbor had one in the 1980s.

www.flymo.com

Crunchified··on DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status
It stored energy. It's not stored electricity.
Crunchified··on 200 Milliseconds
I'm finding more and more web sites that won't load at all until I request them a second time.
Crunchified··on DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status
"vast stores of electricity"?
Crunchified··on Holocloth
Clue: Corner of the cloth says "HONDA [something] DOMINATOR" and refers to the NX650 Dominator dual-sport motorcycle manufactured from 1988 to 2003. Single cylinder 640cc engine.
Crunchified··on Should you wash your solar panels?
And hopefully these independent contractors are insured. It may well be insurance requirements that limit the use of ladders.
Crunchified··on GNU Hurd gets 9pfs, OpenNTPD, dynamic /dev/ entries, and more
Any different from Linux?
Crunchified··on Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
I figured with an app name like "bitch at", the government was simply getting tired of hearing peoples' gripes. I was saddened to see I was way off.
Crunchified··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
Blockchain is no good?
Crunchified··on Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
Install it in your bathroom, use it like a restroom hand dryer.
Crunchified··on Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
In capitalism, any intentional non-maximization of profits is philanthropy. Nothing wrong with that.
Crunchified··on Aluminum foil (2021)
I will not give up my Jiffy Pop when camping!
Crunchified··on Aluminum foil (2021)
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··on An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy
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··on Kirkland Roundabouts
Tumwater. What you get when you put the wrong tablet in your denture bath.
Crunchified··on Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
...or the scutters on Red Dwarf.
Crunchified··on The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once
No Apple services listed? Where's iCloud?
Crunchified··on MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production
Just so you know, the original Ford Maverick started out at just under $2,000 in 1970.
Crunchified··on I found a seashell in the middle of the desert
I would wager that the land was lower than the sea back then.
Crunchified··on Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone
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··on Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone
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··on My Two and a Half Years at TikTok E-Commerce in the US: Hope to Disillusion
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··on The Peppermills of Jens Quistgaard
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··on Learning Synths
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··on Tiny Black Holes Could Have Left Tunnels Inside Earth's Rocks
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··on Tiny Black Holes Could Have Left Tunnels Inside Earth's Rocks
"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?

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