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KibbutzDaliaon Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked

“principal”

KibbutzDaliaon Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)

Hey @dang — why do you allow these off topic rants?

KibbutzDaliaon Surface 'Centaurus' Is Another Dual-Screen Microsoft PC with Windows Core OS

I would love it if they tried again to make a phone....

KibbutzDaliaon MoviePass Worked Out Great

The biggest problem was only “cherry pickers” bought the service. People who were already spending $10 a month or more in movie tickets. For it to work it needed to be a “breakage” play, like gym memberships.

Also theaters started getting non-movie-goers back in occasionally they may have been perceived as more valuable “conversions” and Moviephone admissions would have been discounted.

KibbutzDaliaon The Case Against Octopus Farming

I can’t speak for other faiths, but Judaism doesn’t really give or need a reason for dietary restrictions. It’s simply what the law is, and some laws can’t be understood by us on Earth.

KibbutzDaliaon Wine on Windows 10

WSL is not a VM.

KibbutzDaliaon The Hydrogen Hoax (2007)

I think using hydrogen as an energy store for excess solar and wind generated electricity may pencil put as these methods get more efficient.

KibbutzDaliaon “I would like to maintain the floppy driver”

There are floppy emulators that look electrically like a floppy but take USB or SD memory. Eventually I'll swap in one of these.

KibbutzDaliaon FBI: Delivery drivers involved in Amazon theft ring

In California, at least, Porch Pirates have the law on their side.

California Voters overwhelmingly voted to end the "three strikes" laws, and also make any theft of less than $950 a misdemeanor. See https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_P...

This means you can steal packages from FedEx and UPS or Amazon deliveries from porches to your heart's content (not USPS because they are covered by federal law) and almost certainly never have to spend more than a day or two in jail if you're caught.

The $950 limit was proposed because Californians thought it was "not fair" to be charged with a felony for stealing an iPhone.

In this particular case here, Bezos makes his money back because the article indicated that the stolen items were being sold on Amazon! He'll get paid either way.

KibbutzDaliaon “I would like to maintain the floppy driver”

They absolutely do! I write floppies fairly often for some 90s era music sequencers and drum machines.

KibbutzDaliaon “I would like to maintain the floppy driver”

Inside a 3.5" floppy hard-shell is a floppy disk that's made of the same (or very similar) floppy material that a 5.25" and 8" floppy is made of. So I think the term is OK.

KibbutzDaliaon Solving differential equations on a 6502 with Woz's floating point code

There's also "Sweet 16", Woz's "16-bit virtual machine" that's in the Apple ][ Integer basic ROMs. Another piece of pure genius code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16

KibbutzDaliaon Kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years

What a sad story. I'm glad the reporter bothered to find out this man's name.

KibbutzDaliaon Apple is regressing to their 1990s identity

Ha!

KibbutzDaliaon Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills

The woman profiled in the article would get in her car and _drive_ her recyclables to other towns that had programs for them?

KibbutzDaliaon Hit by Big Loss, Bird Seeks $300M in New Funds

Bird works very well here in Tel Aviv! I use them every day. However, I've never seem them work well in other places.

I see more electric scooters in the bicycle lanes by the boardwalk than bicycles, by a factor of 2x or 3x.

I'm not sure the Bird model will work everywhere, but in "beach towns" or college campuses, etc, it's a good model. It's probably overvalued, but the concept of a "ride share dockless scooter" isn't always bad in some places.