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Reminds me of old cellphone plans where you could send up to 30 texts a month for free.

Not only is the g terrible, but the lower case a has these thin lines where the circular part meets the vertical bar, that are at odds with the way other letters look.

Get a Greaseweazle and that floppy drive will work on any modern computer (macOS, Windows, Linux). I've been backing up floppies from a disorganized retro PC collection I bought, and almost all of them still work.

The US keeps talking about leaving.

> Apple and Google hate the open web so they make it excessively difficult to "install" PWAs

On iOS, is it not just a matter of tapping the "send" button and tapping [+] Add to Home Screen?

> The story goes tariffs only hurt yourself

That's how the story goes with someplace like China. If you impose tariffs on imports you have no cost-effective alternative for, yes, the tariffs will only hurt the importer, because buying habits will not change. (I suppose Chinese cars are a big exception here)

But in this case, the math is probably different because none of these tariffs affect products the US must realistically buy from Canada (e.g. oil and potash). So Canadian exporters will feel some pain and American importers will feel some pain.

What should Canada do in this case if the two can't come to a trade agreement? Continue to import from the US at the same rate as before?

I don't really know how the discount is built into the price, but it's a result of the fact that only about 10% of the oil Canada produces can make it to a port to be sold to non-US buyers.

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

The US sets the price it pays for Canadian oil, a discount from the market price.

I don't know about timber, but the US maple syrup industry is healthy, just unable to keep up with demand. I think that's a consequence of geography and the time investment required to get mature trees, not Canada undercutting.

De Havilland is another Canadian aircraft manufacturer, and is expanding massively right now. But I suppose they serve a different, simpler market than Bombardier.

I skimmed through and made this list. I may have missed a few:

Fish, crustaceans, molluscs, aquatic invertebrates, fish meal, milk and cream, whey, cheese and curd, honey, molasses, malt extract, perfume, makeup, flooring, ashesive tape/film, plastic packaging, tableware, wood, paper products, carpet, turf, clothing, iron and iron alloys, wire, railway track, pipes, prefabricated structures including bridges, towers, and doors, reservoirs/tanks, gas containers, cloth, chain, nails, screws, needles, springs, stoves/ranges, radiators, cutlery, cookware, aluminum produts, hand tools, knives, metal fittings, pumps, air conditioning machines, refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, cranes, forklifts, escalators, elevators, farm machinery, washing machines, power tools, saws, moulds, vacuum cleanerrs, ultrasonic vapourizers, electric heaters, electric water heaters, grills, ovens, roasters, telephones (including smartphones), computer monitors, printed circuit boards, televisions, electric equipment, locomotives, heavy construction machinery, tramway vehicles, cars and transport vehicles, trucks, trailers, seats/chairs, furniture, lighting, video game consoles, pinball machines, billiard tables, bowling equipment, gym equipment, fishing rods.

What I don't see here is meat, vegetables, legumes, grains, shoes, glassware, alcohol, stationery (other than paper), chemicals, fertilizer, oil/gas, most metals and minerals, tobacco. Again I'm probably missing a ton.

DKA is what killed the legendary Dan Kaminsky.

It's an archaic word.

Be...twixt?

Yes, we are building a massive LNG export facility in BC. But moving oil to the coasts, or even around within the country, is much more painful.

China freed the Michaels once Meng Wanzhou was released, which confirms it was all theatre.

We were punished for following the terms of our extradition treaty with the US. We even treated her super well, letting her stay under house arrest in her fancy Vancouver mansion. We did literally everything we could given the circumstances.

Not to detract from your point, but there were software-programmable computers in the 50s. Check out Usagi Electric's videos about the Bendix G-15, where he loads software from punched tape.

> About 30% (of that 25% above) is oil & gas etc. That's easilly sellable on the global market.

No, it's not. The bulk of Canada's oil sells at a discount (the WCS price), because most of it can only be bought by the US.

In order to change this, Canada would need to dramatically ramp up pipeline capacity to its coasts, and Canadian domestic politics stand in the way of that more than anything else.

We tried increasing immigration recently. Most of it went to Ontario and BC, who are incapable of building housing quickly or cheaply enough to accommodate even a modest increase in demand.

Did you forget about Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor? About China's complete dishonesty during trade negotiations, lying about the quality of or pork and canola oil and then pretending that never happened?

You can have a space in an email address. On a project I was working on at a company I was at in 2003, I had to fix our support for that a number of times because that's what one of our customers had.

> It is basically a suffering and compliance competition to get into college. I think this is a big part of why young women now outnumber young men 2:1 in college enrollment

How does one follow from the other? Young men are less willing than young women to put up with this?

I was still using my XT clone (with Hercules graphics) in 1990, mostly for WordPerfect and to play SimCity. I also remember getting simcga from a friend in 1991 and using that to play some 80s CGA games. Finally upgraded to a 386SX in 1992.

I had one of those Apple speakers (HomePod Mini) and the only other thing I ever did with it was speaker phone calls. It was really good that that.

I ended up selling it for $50 or something.

Major W for Australia.

What did the prepared mustard ever do to you?

You're far, far more likely to get fatty liver disease from products sold by companies like Diageo and Bacardi.

I can tell from some of the pixels, and from seeing quite a few 'shops in my time.

I visited Colonia del Sacramento on a day trip from Buenos Aires, and I remember these beautiful tiles all over the old town.

I'd love to hear about the game ROM. This post is just focusing on a new, slight variant of the packaging, as if the game is a collectible like a stamp or coin.

I was expecting to read about a new variant of the game ROM itself. But, this just sounds like a new, slight variant of the packaging.

It almost feels more like stamp or coin collecting, than video game collecting as I understand it.

Electric utilities are certainly building out infrastructure. It's needlessly costly and slow in a lot of places, but it's happening.