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distinct

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Edmonton Resident. Photographer. Enthusiastic Amateur Cook. He. Him.

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BasicAppleGuy, to random
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Smart Keyboard Folio

https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/smart-keyboard-folio

distinct,
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@BasicAppleGuy same feelings here. became a hugely useful kitchen device with one of those attached.

mcc, to random
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I order some Products from the United States.

The cost is $88 CAD.

There's a fixed international shipping cost of $48 CAD. Frustrating, but that is what the shipper has, so okay.

A couple days later, I get an email from UPS asking to pay the import duty fee. The import fee is $51 CAD.

That is more than half the cost of the product itself. I'm overall paying more for shipping+import fees than for the product.

When I moved here I assumed I could buy stuff from USA cheap because of NAFTA :(

distinct,
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@mcc I once paid 1.50 CAD for a used book that accrued 50 CAD in tariffs, taxes, and brokerage fees.

In theory you can show up in person and do the brokerage yourself but here it boils down to "you can drive out of town to the CBSA office at the Edmonton Intl Airport strictly on business days between 1 and 2 pm" or something.

mcc, (edited ) to random
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Tidal has updated me to its "FLAC" quality level without charging me any additional money.

This makes me happy because (1) it is very good quality and (2) it's cool they're giving it at the low pay tier.

I am also VERY CONFUSED about whether the label "FLAC" actually means "FLAC" or "some other high-quality compression algorithm we think is good", because they've been misleading about this before!

(Editing this post bc ppl keep boosting it despite it being corrected downthread.)

distinct,
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@mcc this feels like how almost any vaguely retro 2D video game graphics are described as '8-bit' these days.

distinct,
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@mcc oh totally.

AlSweigart, to random
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    distinct,
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    @AlSweigart reminds me of the Clown discourse. People familiar with the history of clowning have mentioned that a combination of bad clowning and changing the conception of it from something for adults into something for kids really deeply damaged the reputation of that performance art.

    senanthic, to random
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    I didn't realize how important the numpad was until it fucking broke. gonna be a long day

    distinct,
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    @senanthic Numpads are indispensable for me; one of the primary reasons I don't like working on an undocked laptop.

    senanthic, to random
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    I always make sure to spell my coworkers' names correctly because I think it's an important, if tiny, part of respect at the workplace, which is why I'm going to FORMALLY change my name to a Wingding so no one ever misspells it again, since having it in my email address and signature are not enough checksum for it

    distinct,
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    @senanthic I have a thick folder of screenshots of internal email replies from other parts of the company where people call me 'Brandon'.

    Near the end of this year I'm gonna put it in a slideshow to a sad song and play it as a gag during my team's weekly standup.

    distinct,
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    @senanthic the frontrunner musical choice so far for the slideshow is "I Will Remember You" by Sarah McLachlan.

    senanthic, to random
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    anyone know how to get rid of eyelid twitching? I've been having one since late January and I would like to not.

    distinct,
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    @senanthic I've been there; only cleared up a few months after I was done dealing with the bulk of my dad's estate.

    vga256, to minidisc
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    seriously, webminidisc.com is a masterpiece of engineering and UI design.

    i dragged an album from my music library onto the page, and it automatically converted it to ATRAC format, uploaded it, and wrote it to my md player connected via usb.

    distinct,
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    @vga256 you're giving me major MD nostalgia.

    gruber, to random
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    Launching apps via voice is often quicker than navigating to the app on the home view (especially because you can’t arrange apps on the home view). But:

    “Siri, open PEE-calc” = launches Peacock

    “Siri, open puh-CALC” = launches PCalc

    distinct,
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    @gruber it feels like something PlayStation solved about 10 years ago when they let developers define the phonetic pronunciation of their game to launch via voice command as a piece of metadata.

    vga256, (edited ) to edmonton
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    some local lore

    this rather infamous hotel recently went up for sale after closing as a bar/hotel in 2017, and unsuccessfully relaunching as a bbq restaurant.

    i have exactly two memories of this place:

    1. Saturday nights were "Gerbil Race" nights. I wish I had a photo to prove it - but for over a decade in the 90s and early 2000s you could build a gerbil racing team and race your rodent against other teams, and bet on the winners, chocobo-style. performance-enhancing mimett greens not allowed.

    2. (CW: barf) I lived in an apartment one-half block away from "The Transit" in the late 2000s. i learned to keep a wide berth from it, because there were always sketchy people loitering around the entrance. one time I was forced to walk along its south-facing sidewalk, and while I looked up, a man slid open a third-storey window, and vomited a massive pile of instant noodles onto the sidewalk, 25 feet below and about ten feet in front of me. i never walked past that side of the building ever again.

    please: let some kind, filthy rich soul buy this place and bring back our beloved gerbil races so i might finally breed my gold rodent and learn knights of the round 🙏

    distinct,
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    @vga256 damn, if all sports gambling events had Nobuo Uematsu music I might get into it.

    AlSweigart, to random
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    @AlSweigart as a kid born in '83 I could have been slotted in as a tail end Gen Xer but due to my interests and environment I became an "Oregon Trail Millennial"

    senanthic, to random
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    just once I would like to answer someone "I have pet snakes" and not have someone reply "that's so creepy" like did you hear the part where they were my pets? as in, companion animals. as in, I love my fucking snakes, so maybe fucking don't. if you were paying attention you already know I'm a freak, so why are the snakes surprising you?

    distinct,
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    @senanthic basic manners should dictate "oh that's interesting" as the least response.

    AlSweigart, to random
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    distinct,
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    @AlSweigart interesting! I know macos has had a similar feature for a while (but I tend to avoid trackpads whenever possible)

    distinct, to random
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    I have decided that I think depictions of teen texting, IMs, DMs, etc in television and film should just be grammatically correct full sentences with no attempt at doing shortcut vernacular.

    You can argue if this is realistic/outdated but why don’t we just treat it as one of those magical conceits of telefilm?…like everybody always being being staged in a perfect pose for the camera frame rather than realistically huddled around each other with their backs outward.

    distinct, to random
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    This is such a great essay by one of the many authors plagiarized by content creator James Somerton.

    https://aftermath.site/please-stop-asking-me-to-sue-james-somerton

    sarajw, to Fonts
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    Oook. Feeling a little dumb - ordered the beautiful Ship's Whistle font from @simplebits aaand... I have no idea how to access the swooshy italic alternative characters. In CSS? Or even in MS Word? Halp!

    distinct,
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    @sarajw

    font-feature-settings: 'ss01';

    maybe?

    distinct,
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    @sarajw great question! I saw that's what they used on their sample in web inspector when I switched to the alternate italics glyphs.

    this might be useful: https://opentype.js.org/font-inspector.html

    ned, to random
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    In Canada, approximately 100 out of every 100,000 prisoners die. 3/4 of that is from suicide, 1/4 from homicide (rounded figures, as the breakdown is very precise).
    Meanwhile, in the 120 year history of Residential Schools, it is estimated that about 1 in 50 children have died (at least 3200 children). That is the conservative estimate from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Other experts believe it's up to 6,000 students, which would double that number to nearly 1 in 25 children.

    distinct,
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    @fuat2mb @ned to be fair this is probably not dissimilar to pointing out that almost no famous rockers died of natural causes in the 1960s.

    (not that suicide or homicide deaths are acceptable.)

    mcc, to random
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    Me: I can't switch from Chrome to Firefox because the downloads are in a little button in the upper right and I want the bar at the bottom.

    Chrome: Removes the bottom bar

    Chrome: Removes the about:flags flag to re-enable the bottom bar

    Me: 🤔

    distinct,
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    @mcc (extremely god opening a window after closing a door voice)

    Pentapod, to gamedev
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    Once again the line between parody and not parody is ... not actually there at all? 😂​

    https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/ea-employees-nervously-update-resumes-after-company-reports-strong-quarter/

    distinct,
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    @Pentapod the stuff I’ve heard…😔

    sarajw, to random
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    So yesterday I tried my hand at web components and while I think I get the benefit in some circumstances, I'm not sure it's what I want for my personal sites.

    I might even go back to an iframe based website hahahah super old school!

    distinct,
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    @sarajw as long as you stay away from the <blink>/<marquee> tags and table hacks for layouts... ;)

    sarajw, to random
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    I'm being brave and trying to build a web component.

    I know starting small is probably a better idea, but I want to try and make a website header & nav into a web component so it can be called in easily to several different pages. That's the holy grail for me!

    But... it seems the easiest way to do this would be to use this.innerHTML inside connectedCallback() and that's dodgy, right? Or not?

    distinct,
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    @sarajw I was wondering that myself as an ignorant dabbler.

    googling around as an idiot, are you worried about normal innerHTML being dodgy for not being contained within the component?

    I saw something suggesting this.shadowRoot.innerHTML defined within connectedCallback() maybe you were on the right track?

    mcc, to random
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    For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:

    https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151

    The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.

    To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7

    distinct,
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    @mcc I was just watching a video about KOUDELKA--made by the game dev studio he founded after leaving Square. Seems like a fascinating guy.

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