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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

most of the people buying these are buying a costume, not a work vehicle, if my neighbors are any indication

it's a status symbol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I'm not going to get excited about any "deceleration"; this is still an increase. And due to "base effects",^1^ we're comparing against high values. Until it's steeply negative it's nothing to get excited about.

^1^ year over year measures compare now versus a year ago. if a year ago was unusually high, you'd expect this comparison to revert to the mean over time as the window shifts forward; it could have more to do with what you're comparing to (a year ago) than what's happening today

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

My Nova Scotia home was built by the government in 1990! This entire street was. There's also a little cul-de-sac of co-op rentals. Doesn't that sound like a great idea today?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it might have its place, but that place might be part of calligraphy in an art class.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the sobeys in my area has some decent in-house bread. i can't get a decent loaf of third-party bread off the shelves anymore - it's all wonderbread etc. was really loving dave's killer bread but it's been seemingly replaced by extremely mediocre bread with similar marketing, as if i'm buying the packaging.

not a lot of respect for consumers on display

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yikes. Can you imagine a more soul-crushing job than making marketing posters for the most boring soup possible?

I imagine it goes something like this:

Jim, we've got some ad space. Malls across the world. You're going to use that as a canvas to sell tomato soup. People love tomato soup. Sells itself, by itself. Don't show a grilled cheese near it - we don't sell those and lets face it, tomato soup is not the arm candy in that pairing. Oh, and have fun with it! We're a family. Please have it done by Sunday.

 

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Luckily, I had some repair tools (specifically a hot air rework station), enough experience to make me cocky, and a general disregard for the risk of destroying the thing.

It's as good as new now! Details in the attached link, I hope it helps someone else; I was flying blind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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Solid handling of asynchronous interactions with overloaded servers i.e.: a user API action queue with clear indication of API return response status, ability to retry if necessary.

I'm pretty jazzed for it; my current app experience is not great. I don't blame the developer, I understand the difficulty, but it's pretty clunky.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Computer, establish a security code for access to all functions previously transferred to bridge.

1734-6732-1476 Charlie 3278-9777-643 Tango 732 Victor 731 1788-8732-47 6789-7643-76.

Lock.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, eventually, but we should stop terraforming earth first

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Chickadees dee-dee Engines demand attention Today I am quiet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, there's really no reason to spread this except to piss people off.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I stick with vim for years out of that sort of badge of honor. Now I use vscode and nobody is taking it from me.

You can do almost anything in vim or emacs, but I can do it faster in vscode. It's a really fantastic tool and it's completely free.

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Haloomi Salad (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I made an arugula salad with a bell pepper, some cherry tomatoes, sunflower seeds, mushrooms, and ~~grilled~~ pan fried haloomi. Honey mustard dressing using fancy raspberry honey.

It was a nice light dinner!

 

I'm grabbing every favourite piece of clothing I have around the house and mending it with a needle and thread

I'm not very good at it, but it's not terribly hard to close up broken seams good enough for some use. It sure as heck beats buying a new pair of jeans for $70 just because I somehow destroy the crotch every year

I'm finding this to be really satisfying and relatively easy to do. Certainly I can develop better stitching technique and use better tools and material, but it's easy enough to be good enough, or so it seems to me now

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