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  1. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Maybe in the spring, have the snow melt and reveal things like shovels, mittens, rotted Halloween pumpkins….. THEN, flowers. Probably getting a little ahead of the cart here though.

    Maybe in the spring, have the snow melt and reveal things like shovels, mittens, rotted Halloween pumpkins….. THEN, flowers.

    Probably getting a little ahead of the cart here though.

    2 votes

  2. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I think the snowman should get buried over time, rather than rising to the top. But really, I just liked it. Good work

    I think the snowman should get buried over time, rather than rising to the top. But really, I just liked it. Good work

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Have you ever designed/created a spaceship for fiction, RPGs, etc? How did you do it? in ~creative

  4. Comment on The woman on a mission to photograph every species of hummingbird in the world in ~hobbies

  5. Comment on US President Donald Trump rolls back tariffs on dozens of food products in ~society

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    Currently, yes. I'd say beef is the exception to the list, anyway, though. But yeah, we don't produce enough because the market was getting outsourced to those other countries, bringing the prices...

    Currently, yes. I'd say beef is the exception to the list, anyway, though. But yeah, we don't produce enough because the market was getting outsourced to those other countries, bringing the prices down to where US producers couldn't keep up. They culled their herds as a response to lean times. Then the tariffs went into place suddenly which restricts supply, but US producers can't just suddenly ramp up production on livestock immediately-- it takes time to raise large quantities of calves.

    It's probably one of the industries where it'd actually be good to have some tariffs if you prefer more local food production (not to mention higher meat costs/less consumption). Of course, economic sense doesn't factor into this administration.

    HEre is the full list, by the way: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/annex.pdf

    7 votes

  6. Comment on US President Donald Trump rolls back tariffs on dozens of food products in ~society

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    From the list you gave, and from the description i've read elsewhere, it's mostly stuff not really producible in the US. So that might tip you off in terms of the impact for you-- if you are...

    From the list you gave, and from the description i've read elsewhere, it's mostly stuff not really producible in the US. So that might tip you off in terms of the impact for you-- if you are buying stuff that generally is only producible outside the country, you'll be in luck.

    However, we'll see if producers/wholesalers/retailers actually drop the prices, or just pocket the difference for as long as they can.

    4 votes

  7. Comment on Do you recommend any website to host a free sub-forum in Portuguese? Not Reddit. in ~tech

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    Miraheze is a wiki host. You can do forum-like things with it,like really roughly. Think “Talk” pages. I’ve used Zulip but not for a couple years. Part of me wants to say that it might have gone...

    Miraheze is a wiki host. You can do forum-like things with it,like really roughly. Think “Talk” pages.

    I’ve used Zulip but not for a couple years. Part of me wants to say that it might have gone under or is no longer free or maintained? We just had issues getting any sort of migration to it (we were trying to move off Facebook Groups).

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Amtrak steadily continues upgrading Wisconsin stations for level boarding - improving access and travel time in ~transport

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    I think sometimes it’s a bit of an Apple to oranges comparison between US and other countries even talking about transit times— STP to Virginia is a long long way. Obviously high speed trains and...

    I think sometimes it’s a bit of an Apple to oranges comparison between US and other countries even talking about transit times— STP to Virginia is a long long way. Obviously high speed trains and network would make it faster and more bearable, but a plane is always going to be faster at that distance (I’m sure a theoretical train could do it faster but just never in this timeline). Travel times in Germany are great, because the greatest distance for an intra-Germany train is equivalent to STP to Columbus OH.

    Unrelated, but I did CT to STP back in college and not only did I just have a coach seat, I actually spent 98% of the trip in the observation car, awake and chatting with other passengers. That’s not going to work for families, but it was a good time back then.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Any chance we can get a shorthand for the <details> tag? in ~tildes

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    It's not really revelant to the original topic, but since we are talking about flavors of markdown.... An open source project i contribute to is a markdown + css editor that provides a live...

    It's not really revelant to the original topic, but since we are talking about flavors of markdown....

    An open source project i contribute to is a markdown + css editor that provides a live preview of an html document, geared towards TTRPG homebrew content-- called Homebrewery / github. We've done a lot with extending markdown ourselves (oh yay, another non-standard variant!). So with ours it's easy to create div and span tags, add style attributes along with pretty much any other attribute etc. There is syntax for variables and other stuff, too.

    Here is a link that covers the div tags.

    But it's always tricky to come up with new syntax that still feels markdown-like, meaning it's readable as just plain text as well. Lots and lots of discussion about that.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Any chance we can get a shorthand for the <details> tag? in ~tildes

  11. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Does this stuff have to be secret from your partner until you die? Otherwise, as xk3 suggests, just print it out and put it somewhere in the house. A document safe is good enough, unless you are...

    Does this stuff have to be secret from your partner until you die? Otherwise, as xk3 suggests, just print it out and put it somewhere in the house. A document safe is good enough, unless you are jason bourne or something. Or set up a Proton Mail account or something and email it to them. Or find a decent bank that has a safe deposit box.

    The bigger issue than death is what happens in the long lead-up to your death, where you slow slide into dementia/alzheimers yet you and everyone you resists confronting that truth until it's too late, and you completely forget about your big setup, and they need that information now, yet you are not dead. And how do you separate the stuff that is important at one pre-death event from the stuff that is only important post-death?

    Seems like it's just easier to talk to your partner about this stuff now. Or at least most of it. Keep one or two things for the grave.

    4 votes

  12. Comment on US Federal Aviation Administration reducing air traffic by 10% across forty ‘high-volume’ markets during government shutdown in ~transport

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    isn't 2-3 hours early been the standard since like...forever? Or is that just my family? Growing up it was always 2 hours minimum, but nowadays my parents get there about 4 hours early. I just did...

    isn't 2-3 hours early been the standard since like...forever? Or is that just my family? Growing up it was always 2 hours minimum, but nowadays my parents get there about 4 hours early. I just did a trip last week with my kids and we did 3 hours early, and packed a lunch of PB&Js and other snacks from home to tide us over until snacks on the plane.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on What I think of whenever I see the news reports about US President Donald Trump destroying the East Wing in ~society

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    I think if the Tan Suit, which I believe the Daily Show has a similar video on.

    I think if the Tan Suit, which I believe the Daily Show has a similar video on.

    5 votes

  14. Comment on Donald Trump AI advisor David Sacks says ‘no federal bailout for AI’ after OpenAI CFO’s suggestion of US federal government backstop in ~tech

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    Nothing anyone says matters unless it’s Trump, because they’ll never ever contradict him. And regarding Trump, it just depends on his cut.

    Nothing anyone says matters unless it’s Trump, because they’ll never ever contradict him. And regarding Trump, it just depends on his cut.

    12 votes

  15. Comment on US Federal Aviation Administration reducing air traffic by 10% across forty ‘high-volume’ markets during government shutdown in ~transport

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    I would rather it shutdown— I’m not sure why it’d be good to privatize ATC and gut a unionized federal workforce that has to work in unison across the entire country. If each airport is paying...

    I would rather it shutdown— I’m not sure why it’d be good to privatize ATC and gut a unionized federal workforce that has to work in unison across the entire country. If each airport is paying their ATC privately it’ll be a piecemeal thing.

    11 votes

  16. Comment on US Federal Aviation Administration reducing air traffic by 10% across forty ‘high-volume’ markets during government shutdown in ~transport

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    I’m fine with net even workload for ATC. If they are at a reduced coverage, they should pare down the workload. This isn’t a position on why coverage is low, just that it makes sense that they...

    I’m fine with net even workload for ATC. If they are at a reduced coverage, they should pare down the workload. This isn’t a position on why coverage is low, just that it makes sense that they shouldn’t be over worked (more than they traditionally have been).

    And as other commenter noted, you can’t just cut economy seats here. Regarding smaller regional flights: my assumption is that regional flyers are likely more rural residents and business which lines up traditionally with conservative voters.

    5 votes

  17. Comment on US Federal Aviation Administration reducing air traffic by 10% across forty ‘high-volume’ markets during government shutdown in ~transport

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    Without giving it much thought, this is generally a shrug for me. Obviously sucks for people with planned flights, unexpected change always gets people stuck in the rain, but overall….fewer planes...

    Without giving it much thought, this is generally a shrug for me. Obviously sucks for people with planned flights, unexpected change always gets people stuck in the rain, but overall….fewer planes in the sky? Maybe net good?

    Less to manage for air traffic control.

    Less pollution (at all levels of travel— the flight, the travel at the destination, etc).

    Cuts across higher economic classes unlike everything else this administration does to the poor. Similarly, hits larger businesses sending their employees on trips.

    Maybe encourages people to try staycations over the holidays.

    In long term, is an argument for more train travel.

    I say let it ride.

    9 votes

  18. Comment on Affinity V3 is here with a new freemium model in ~design

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    I haven’t tried this but here is where I read it… First from this Tedium post (which was linked from HackerNews): https://tedium.co/2025/10/30/canva-affinity-free-loss-leader-strategy/ Which then...

    I haven’t tried this but here is where I read it…

    First from this Tedium post (which was linked from HackerNews): https://tedium.co/2025/10/30/canva-affinity-free-loss-leader-strategy/

    Which then links this guide: https://affinity.liz.pet/

    Hope it helps

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Iceland's volcanoes might have an unexpected new purpose – an architect duo want to harness molten lava to shape the construction of houses and cities of the future in ~design

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    How very Dwarf Fortress of them.

    How very Dwarf Fortress of them.

    4 votes

  20. Comment on Affinity V3 is here with a new freemium model in ~design

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    I’ve seen people running the new Affinity in WINE with no issues at all. On Linux platforms.

    I’ve seen people running the new Affinity in WINE with no issues at all. On Linux platforms.