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There used to be one at the World Trade Center. Before 9/11.

Many calendar apps use roundrects for items which helps for multi-day appointments/events because you can tell which is the start/left edge of the item and which is the end/right edge of the item.

I'm not sure what's displayed if the app shows the middle portion of an event that extends for more than one week - maybe a rectangle, if the rounded corners signify the beginning/ending of an event.


Nor any visible control to quickly take you to "Today".

People who use calendars for work-related purposes typically want work-week focused views.

None of this is new. Which speaks to the people developing/designing this. (Or maybe they have incorporated this but the handful of screenshots aren't exposing them).

They aren't dogfooding this - or if they are - they aren't the power users - people whose typical day have more appointments scheduled than free time.

They need to seek out the power users so their design doesn't preclude use-cases (or at least make them very awkward).

Here's a freebie - for monthly view - the day that is highlighted should get a detailed day view as a sidebar.


> They aren't dogfooding this

The year is 2026 and ThunderBird still insists what a single SMTP outbound server for all your accounts is totes fine. Sure, if you insist it would configure a separate one, but all SMTP configuration is under a separate "Ougoing Server (SMTP)" option and not under the account.

> They need to seek out the power users

They are in a fine and cozy place "giving value" and "providing the alternative to a corporate capture". They are not interested.


> Nor any visible control to quickly take you to "Today".

Nor any way to view the week, starting with Today.


I got the 49 years from his reply to the original tweet, https://x.com/ChuckGrassley/status/2086183580594491507

  It’s a sad day at Grassley household…. For my 34 years and 15 yrs before that at my mother in law’s home Beth has worked dependably….

Yes, I understood that, tried to fact check his claim, and could not :)

You'd still need a Wordstar-like app and a VisiCalc-like app (pref. Lotus 123-like).

VGA adapter means you have to wait until 1987 to run this, otherwise you'd deal with CGA's non-square pixels. EGA support would only be possible in Oct 1984.


The IBM 1501 PGC (640x480x256) was available in 1983.

But was exceedingly rare, in the pre 640x480 VGA era the common video interfaces on 8088, 8086, 80186, 80286 were MDA, Hercules, CGA, or later on, EGA.

the defendant hired a private lawyer, Peter Planetta, who resigned from the Nova Scotia Barrister's Society a few months after the defendant was sentenced.

sources: https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/halifax/appeal-court-qu... and https://nsbs.org/general-notices/council-approves-resignatio...


from https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/halifax/appeal-court-qu... :

  Klayme’s trial counsel was Peter Planetta, who no longer practises law. 
A quick search shows that his trial lawyer/counsel resigned from the bar several months after the defendant was sentenced in the first trial.

see https://nsbs.org/general-notices/council-approves-resignatio...

[edit] Since his old lawyer wasn't practicing anymore, Klayme got a new lawyer who discovered the missing underscore.


These train workers in northern Ontario had an intense view of a wildfire up close. I would have freaked out. They're acting like there's a cute animal on tracks.

see https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/train-cab-wildfir...

[edit] other video links in case the first link isn't viewable outside Canada.

see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwc16INKNq0 or https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qAerRqQQHAM


This video is so insane. They're in a combustion engine. I can not fathom why they survived let alone managed to drive out of this. Trains are not build for fire resistance.


"ah, we're encased in flames here, eh?"


FTA:

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on  Sunday that laboratory experts re-reviewed sample results  in the Taylor Farms  cyclospora investigation and concluded the finding  should be considered  a  false  positive.

  As of Sunday, there were no  confirmed positive sample results for cyclospora, the FDA  added.


I guess Taylor Farms’ check cleared


Sadly, this Soviet attitude of complete cynicism and disbelief of any and all official sources due to corruption and incompetence is going to become more widespread and mainstream.

The USA is speed running a destruction of trust in public institutions, supported by two thirds of the electorate and a majority of large American tech firms.

Somehow, inexplicably, people seem to think this will all go back to normal when Trump leaves office.


Tell me more about trust into the current administration.

Reflect on how trusted and fact-based are they.

To me (who was growing under the Soviet puppet government), it's pretty much the same, up to and including secret prisons, the killings and kidnapping for wrongthink.

There's a chance we will go back to normal - the way New Yorkers respond to Mamdani gives me hope.


The problem is that going back to "normal" would require either Republican voters (en masse) to accept what a terrible mistake they've made, or for the Democratic establishment to stop being the "good cop" stasis option still controlled by corpos. And neither one seems likely.

We'd have a chance with ranked pairs voting, which would naturally allow competing options to gradually gain support rather than the current two party duopoly. But getting that to be implemented would also require one of the above.


This has so little to do with Trump. Trump is a symptom of the disease, not the cause. Forces (not least of which is the state itself) have been at work in america chipping away at public institutional trust for at least 60-70 years.

This is what happens when the easiest way to achieve power is by spreading FUD and not really caring about the actual task of governing.

We're just speed running it now.


Trump is the result in that breakdown of trust, not the cause. We have the best Congress money can buy, and the bureaucracy spends its time, and our money, playing kingmaker. Why would anyone trust public institutions?


> We have the best Congress money can buy

That is not true? It is not the best, the money were used to make it dysfunctional. The congressional dysfunction is not due to bureaucracy. Conservative actors who want the government to fail, so they intentionally changed the rules so that it cant fix the issues.

Of course, congress can not do much in a two party system where one party is ideologically dedicated to obstruction and destruction. But, the right place to complain about that are conservatives, not the abstract government.


That phrase isn't meant to be taken literally. It's an old way to say Congress is very corrupt.

And no, conservative "actors" do not want the government to fail. Which party was it, again, who wants ICE to stop doing its job?


You mean the job of terrorizimg the communities? ICE is law breaking unaccountable violent group. Yes, it is ok to want them to stop. It is proper role of government to protect rights of people and to stop roque agencies.

And yes, conservatives do want the government to fail. They are actively working on it.

Third, I did not said congress is "corrupt". As of now, the most corrupt are president, those around him and supreme court. Republicans in congress are acting in bad faith.


So you want the government to fail at the things you want it to fail at, yet you're trying to project that onto conservatives?

Good lord. You actually think the president and SCOTUS are more corrupt than Congress? Amazing.


>So you want the government to fail at the things you want it to fail at, yet you're trying to project that onto conservatives?

There's an important distinction between wanting the government to fail, and wanting the government to cease violating civil liberties en masse.

There is a false dichotomy being manufactured/astroturfed by Republicans that the only choice is between the current Star-spangled Gestapo and unrestricted, mass illegal immigration.

In actual fact there is a broad spectrum of approaches between those two.


ICE is doing no such thing. They're trying to do their job. Law enforcement, you know, what the state is supposed to be doing?

There's no Star-spangled Gestapo. That's just fever dreams on your part. And the reason we're here is because the Democrats facilitated and even encouraged mass illegal immigration.

And there are a lot of hapless pawns of large corporations rioting against ICE. Probably the same people who wonder why pay hasn't kept up with inflation.


>Trump is the result in that breakdown of trust, not the cause.

I agree, and my comment should not be construed to imply otherwise. It's Americans themselves that are the problem, which is why the decay of America will long outlive Trump.


yes he does have a purpose.


They notified about contamination first, FDA was late to the party. They did not needed to clear check or do anything if they wanted to hide issues.


Reaction from Kerr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeE4S_d1tl0

Reaction from three other runners in that race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z-MM1ArK88

More info on Kerr's typical training week from https://www.dailymail.com/sport/othersports/article-15987481... :

  Monday
  - Ten mile easy run
  - 15 minutes of form drills, sprints over small hurdles
  - Rotate between sauna and cold tub 

  Tuesday
  - Three-mile warm up, nine to ten miles continuous run at tempo pace, three miles cool down
  - Four x 120m strides
  - Session in the gym, lifting weights for up to 90 minutes

  Wednesday
  - Easy run lasting seven to eight miles 
  - Rotate between sauna and cold tub

  Thursday
  - Ten to 11 miles at a moderate intensity
  - Plyometrics and dynamic exercises

  Friday
  - Workout on the track
  - Race-specific 1500m/mile sessions
  - Session in the gym, lifting weights for up to 90 minutes

  Saturday
  - Rest. Spends time walking dog with his wife Larimar 

  Sunday
  - Long run of around 16 miles including some faster tempo pick-ups 
Probably in the 60-80 miles per week range.


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