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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.


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

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


> 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.


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?"


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