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It is covered in Chip War, by Chris Miller. The book also details the loss of leadership by Nikon and Canon.

Perhaps it could be restructured to separate out the howto from the explanation to serve the reader’s intended use at the time as described here: https://diataxis.fr

The Da (Big) / Xiao (Small) prefixes are direct translations of family honorifics that in the simple case directly indicate the relative age of one family member to another. The mo…

I have found the lowest energy way to shovel snow is to stand with a bit of a bow stance and push the shovel front to back as if you were paddling a boat, pushing down on the end o…

They're still available in newer forms[1]. Its manufacturer, GlobalScale, is more an ODM for plug computers and provides reference devices. There are also other smaller full packag…

I am curious to know what the business case looked like to get "climate" added as a feature to the product roadmap in a for-profit company.

There are a few of things to be aware of when deploying your own instance in jitsi-meet/config.js: Firefox simulcast is still experimental (edit: and disabled by default), so Firef…

There's a large multi-tower project in Toronto that includes a heating and cooling system built by Enwave that incorporates a very large cistern / well, building on their prior suc…

Besides the physical activities, the number of interested parties that become involved when touching so many things drives up the bureaucracy with each party bringing their own eng…

Regarding the piercing beeps - I popped open the case on mine and put a piece of tape over the piezo buzzer speaker, which brought the volume down to just the right level.

A long time ago now, a friend worked on a partial translation of "Where Women Have No Doctor" into Farsi with a grant from Hesperian -- and one of the dilemmas they had was whether…

What has become fairly large in our school community is a group gift / group donation coordinated through the invitation services like Echoage. The kids could care less about all t…

I put it uncooked into the blender and use it as a flour replacement. Works well as a 1:1 replacement. You need to reduce fluids about 20%. It makes great pancakes -- it does stick…

I definitely prefer their product placements over traditional ads. Some of them are very jarring though, and you can feel the actors' pain reciting the lines -- like the KFC in sea…

Indeed, I ran a large-ish asterisk user group for years in Toronto and know a number of people at Digium and Sangoma, and there was always a bit of animosity between them. Glad to …

Sangoma's doing a good job of consolidating the SMB Telephony market. They bought Schmooze Com Inc.[1] (owners of FreePBX, the largest Asterisk based Linux distro), Dialogic's hard…

I believe they were using FreeSWITCH when they first built it out.

The state you tend to store is in the application side, so it still backs onto things like SQL databases in the end. You'd put another service in front of your Asterisk instances l…

I recall that Saturn went down a similar path ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNrfqHaEeYg ), where they manufactured a lot of the components in house. I wonder how they managed t…

Maybe think of it less as a one-time transfer from one singular place to another, and more a redistribution of a workload whose larger outcome is consciousness. After a migration p…

Which headrest do you use? I'm only aware of aftermarket add-ons

Do you still sit at a desk with a keyboard and mouse, or have you set it up differently to keep your shoulders from rolling forward out of the Burmese posture?

Well, at least Sidewalk Labs is putting some money behind it. Mentioned in the linked article, and also in The Toronto Star: Doctoroff said his company will spend $50 million on a …