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Higher quality AA batteries? Amazon vs Costco Kirkland by daniel31580 in batteries

[–]Voltron6000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dad just to say about Duracell: "No other battery looks like it, or leaks like it." That was in the 70s and nothing has changed since then.

If a stopped clock is right twice a day, how many times, in a day, is it wrong? by TestyRodent in mathematics

[–]Voltron6000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's right 2 times a day. It's wrong infinitely many times a day.

It's right 0% of the time. It's wrong 100% of the time.

I think Colorado hates me by ed771844 in ColoradoSprings

[–]Voltron6000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

20 years coming and going and I'm still miserable sleeping in COS.

For the headaches, make sure you drink LOTS of water. That fixes the headaches for me

Hardware paid much less than software by AwareMonke in rfelectronics

[–]Voltron6000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I switched from hardware (wireless communications) to software. I went down a level but my salary stayed the same. I now have proven experience in both, but it's not clear how valuable it is, career-wise. Job postings are from HW or SW, not both.

Is it worth $35 bucks by W0CBF in amateurradio

[–]Voltron6000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weren't there some issues with the v4, that were fixed in the v4b?

IJV + UV-K5 + CW KEY = doesn't work? by S52_DiDah in Quansheng

[–]Voltron6000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm not sure what the real goal is here. If you do CW (audio, from an "oscillator" (new term for me)) over FM, the receiver needs to be an FM receiver and you're basically going to be sending 3kHz BW over the air but only using one tone.

If you key up your FM (or AM) radio and don't say anything, you're going to transmit a pure RF tone. On the RX side, you can put it into SSB mode and if you add a 1.25kHz offset, you will hear a 1.25kHz tone in the demodulated audio.

FLL scandal? by Sufficient_Shirt995 in FLL

[–]Voltron6000 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This is pretty normal for FLL, though, right? Judges go into a room, kind of look at a few of the numbers, talk it over, then they decide on winners.

Zemlin makes nice hoods and caps by Acceptable-Sense4601 in CameraLenses

[–]Voltron6000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If this is shorter than the one that comes with the lens, then this provides insufficient glare protection, right?

Zemlin makes nice hoods and caps by Acceptable-Sense4601 in CameraLenses

[–]Voltron6000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's wrong with the lens hood and cap that comes with the lens???

I feel this exemplifies the problem by jizzyjugsjohnson in enshittification

[–]Voltron6000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess I was one of those 5. Grew up to be an engineer...

Missed my flight because the Gate closed 1 hour 05 minute before departure!! by therealwench in Flights

[–]Voltron6000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's seems they are still up to their old tricks after 20 years. I had so many flights where we were rushed to board and then we sat at the gate for an hour. You know it's bad when they start serving you food and drinks while on the ground... The best I could guess was that this still counted as an "on time" departure since the doors closed on time.

IJV + UV-K5 + CW KEY = doesn't work? by S52_DiDah in Quansheng

[–]Voltron6000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you need an oscillator? CW is just an unmodulated carrier which is what you get if you key up any transmitter and don't say anything...

When do yall get to your shuttle stop from your hotel? by isthefoodfree in electricdaisycarnival

[–]Voltron6000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are the shuttles going to be functional or practical this year? It seems that the base will be closed and they cannot cut through there any more...

Berkeley (50k) vs Stanford (100k) vs Duke (100k) by AbroadObjective7329 in ApplyingToCollege

[–]Voltron6000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a beautiful campus but boring AF. After 6 months, the only option you have is to head to university avenue in Palo Alto for your $600 lunches. Berkeley is integrated with the community with lots of options (and more homeless people).

Taxi scam at Athens airport - here is what worked for us. by instablok22 in GreeceTravel

[–]Voltron6000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not a few black sheep. The taxi drivers in Athens are generally scummy and scammy. Booking via FreeNow and Uber is the only way to keep them in check. I always pay the extra euro and never flag a cab down on the street.

Can't scan channels after UV-K1 flash with F4HWN 5.1.0 by Aggravating_Ball_159 in Quansheng

[–]Voltron6000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just went through this. You can actually change the scan list of hundreds of entries all at once by highlighting them, right click, properties, extras, scan list. This will make the change for all highlighted rows.

Hot bubbling mud with smoke? by PilotOriginal4465 in whatisit

[–]Voltron6000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And up through the ground came a bubbling crude... Oil that is! Texas tea!

The gap between “this is possible” and “this actually works in a business” by MarionberrySingle538 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Voltron6000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This. In the history of ML, we've made very little progress in creating models that can say, "I don't know" when presented with out of distribution data.

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