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Comment They're already available through this simple hack (Score 2) 25

Long-form tweets are already available through this simple hack:
1) Type a post in a notepad app up to 1,000 characters
2) Screencap the note & paste it into a tweet as an image
3) copy/paste the actual text as the ALT-text for the image
4) add up to 240 characters in tweet body ...
6) PROFIT!

Comment Why remove the human-readable date? (Score 2) 224

There are a LOT of milk choices, I already have to decide between Cow, Oat, Soy, Coconut, Cashew, Flax, Hemp, and Blends/Pea Protein - also unsweetened, original, chocolate, and vanilla for the plant-based options - and skim, 1%, 2%, whole, and A2 for Cow.. If I need to then scan multiple cartons with my phone (and USE MY DATA) to finalize my decision I'd be pretty annoyed.

If you have to individualize the Qcode, the cost to continue to include a human-readable date is trivial so why not both? But if you do remove the human-readable date, at least have a scanner right by the fridge so I don't have to use my own phone and data.

I do like the idea of automatic price reductions for milk nearer expiration, we go through four cartons a week here, so milk with four days to go would usually be fine.

Comment WindowsME worst OF THOSE LISTED (Score 1) 184

Having used versions of Windows going back to 2.0, I have to say 2.0 and 3.0 were far worse than WindowsME.

And even the relatively stable 3.1/3.11 releases should have been made TCP/IP friendly far earlier in their life cycle.

Also, grouping Windows 10 and 11 together is not a good idea for this poll. Having used it for a few weeks now, I'd say Windows 11 is a bigger departure from Windows 10 than Windows 10 was from 7.

Comment Re:Dimensional stability (Score 1) 91

If this can be used for a replacement for steel and aluminum in even a fraction of their current applications, it could be very significant in fighting climate change.

Aluminum and Steel production are significant carbon producers. (iron & steel production contributes 11% of the human-produced CO2, aluminum about 2%)

But wood captures and sequesters carbon.

So it's a win-win.

If we don't switch to wooden knives, we might have to instead give up eating steaks altogether.

Comment Re:BULLSHIT ALERT! (Score 5, Informative) 80

So I guess you didn't even read the clip of the article Slashdot posted???

"In lab tests, researchers found their catalyst yielded not only hydrogen peroxide, but a variety of highly reactive compounds called reactive oxygen species, or ROS. It turned out that these novel compounds were responsible for the majority of the new disinfectant's impressive antibacterial and antiviral abilities..."

Comment One egregious example (Score 1, Insightful) 119

Glad this is finally getting addressed at the National level. I remember hearing about this story five years when Jimmy Johns was preventing former sandwich makers from taking jobs at Subway.
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/22/jimmy-johns-drops-non-compete-clauses-following-settlement.html

No hourly and/or temp employee should be bound by a Non-Compete clause. They serve a purpose when an employee is actually creating IP, but those employees must be compensated adequately for their contributions.

Comment This wasn't directed AT Parler (Score 5, Informative) 377

The complaint against what DDoS-Guard was submitted in November, long before Parler fled there. DDoS-Guard had purchased a large block of IP addresses that were for use by Belize-based companies. DDoS-Guard has no other presence in Belize, and is therefore not qualified, so LACNIC is making them forfeit the block of IP addresses. They could have avoided this by simply opening an Internet cafe, but they have NOTHING there.

It makes sense that the provider Parler fled to was a shady operation, so I wouldn't call it ENTIRELY a coincidence. But it is pretty much a coincidence.

 

Comment I'm guessing this is some sort of PHONE? (Score 1) 98

Nowhere in the write-up do you mention that you are talking about a phone. I'm guessing it probably is because the category is Android, but maybe if people aren't familiar wit OnePlus it would help to use the word just once?

Or are beyond calling them phones and just going with "device" now? Because you don't even call it a device, either.

Submission + - Congress needs to address international postage rates for USPS to survive (ft.com) 1

sziring writes: Have you ever purchased something off ebay with free shipping direct from China via USPS? How does the USPS actually make money off that? Turns out they might not. From the article in the Financial Times, "Today manufacturers in countries as small as Cambodia and as large as China pay less to send small parcels from their countries to New York than US manufacturers do to ship packages from Los Angeles to the Big Apple. This puts American manufacturers and workers at a significant competitive disadvantage and forces the US Postal Service to subsidize a system that weakens America’s manufacturing base."

Submission + - Governors on East and West coasts form pacts to decide when to reopen economies (cnn.com)

gollum123 writes: States on the country's East and West coasts are forming their own regional pacts to work together on how to reopen from the stay-at-home orders each has issued to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. The first such group to be announced came Monday on the East Coast. Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said his state, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Rhode Island each plan to name a public health and economic official to a regional working group. The chief of staff of the governor of each state also will be a part of the group, which will begin work immediately to design a reopening plan. Later on Monday, the West Coast states of California, Washington and Oregon also announced they are joining forces in a plan to begin incremental release of stay-at-home orders. When announcing the three-state coordination of the western governors during his midday briefing on Monday, Newsom quoted an old proverb: "If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together."

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