perardi

19 ms·

211.
by perardi 4y ago
The classic thing you’re not supposed to feed dogs: chocolate. Which is definitely true. But what I didn’t realize is humans are the outliers in terms of chocolate. Theobromine is toxic to a wide range of mammals, and humans just happen t
212.
by perardi 4y ago
It is possible , with a whole lot of caveats, that fancy grain-free dog foods may cause health issues. https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/nutrition/fda-grain-free-d... Again, caveats a mile long. No RCT, no system
213.
by perardi 4y ago
Hey, American citizen, PR status. I have heard horror stories from friends who have migrated to the US—a doctor acquaintance from Mexico comes to mind. The Canadian system seems…deterministic? If 10 people feed the same paperwork and money
214.
by perardi 4y ago
[pushes up glasses] The Sun is nowhere near massive enough to become supernova. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#After_core_hydrogen_exhaus... It will become a red giant, and then eventually end up a white dwarf.
215.
by perardi 4y ago
so at least one of them is wrong This is a semantic nitpick, but I don’t think it’s useful to think of these theories as “wrong”. They are both models that make predictions about physical phenomena that, when tested, are extremely accur
216.
by perardi 4y ago
I have a somewhat irrational skepticism towards cryptocurrencies, as growing up, my dad always warned me of the scams he grew up with, when people were (seemingly) convinced fiat currency was a conspiracy by “the bankers” to enslave the c
217.
by perardi 4y ago
…well, even if you don’t consider naturally occurring phenomena like fire to be a human innovation, I’d argue things like “the written word” or “mathematical notation” or “formal logic” are perhaps a bit more important, and one might even s
218.
by perardi 4y ago
And the thing is: this is better than it used to be. At least every single phone call doesn’t interrupt at the absolute highest level of priority and take over your screen entirely. Up until…iOS 14?…you didn’t really have a choice to not
219.
by perardi 4y ago
Looks like I finally moved my dad from an iPod touch to an iPhone SE at the right time. (He was convinced, for whatever reason, he couldn’t figure out how to use an iPhone…despite he uses an iPod touch, and an iPad, and quite fluently. And
220.
by perardi 4y ago
Hopefully they can provide the cheap, clean fuel we need to power CPUs and GPUs powerful enough to enable smooth scrolling on this website. Because that scrolling is so bad I’m almost impressed.
221.
by perardi 4y ago
Yeah, I had forgotten that when I was looking through the version history. I remembered most of those features, but when I saw Flash, I had to sit and slowly blink for a minute. (A lot of those “interactive” features are exposed in Adobe In
222.
by perardi 4y ago
As for libraries, it seems PDFKit is the dominant one. https://github.com/foliojs/pdfkit As to why it’s so inaccessible…because Adobe created this monstrosity to do just about everything. Text, fonts, vector graphics
223.
by perardi 4y ago
The reaction of stock and bond markets is something approaching 100% more important than Bitcoin in changing government policy.
224.
by perardi 4y ago
I am a huge advocate for walking, and I walk a lot, but there is a certain biased assumption of safety. I live in Chicago. I live in a…oh…let’s say a gentrifying area of Chicago. I can imagine it would be intimidating to walk around some of
225.
by perardi 4y ago
A dog is also great for motivating you to get outside during bad weather. Well. I suppose not all dogs. But get yourself some retriever mutt monster, and strap on those snow boots. https://imgur.com/a/E8bPE5h
226.
by perardi 4y ago
As I said upthread, love this design, but I sure did see that, and sure did get mildly triggered. It would be more cohesive to have it in a monospace font to match the rest of the website. And probably not on an arc, as that's going to
227.
by perardi 4y ago
I don't know how consciously you did so, but this high contrast, all-caps monospaced typeface aesthetic ends up being fairly similar to a lot of design trends I see in the EDM shows and events I go to. Which, purposeful or not…good job
228.
by perardi 4y ago
I had an iPhone XR from work. It flopped…but it was a good phone, and it was not necessarily an obviously bad idea, in my opinion. People like big phones. The idea of a big iPhone that has contemporary guts but lacks some of the really wild
229.
by perardi 4y ago
The sheer ubiquity of AirPods in ears I see at the gym would sure suggest that people know they are a hardware company, and have in fact bought new hardware products introduced post-Jobs.
230.
by perardi 4y ago
And the new MacBook Pros seem to indicate they’re steering out of that “thin and sleek above all else” whirlpool.
231.
by perardi 4y ago
You mean this one? https://secureservercdn.net/166.62.114.250/tje.5a9.myftpuplo... It’s actually better if you view the full-resolution version—looks far less like a prison. Poor choice of on-camera flash, and poor cho
232.
by perardi 4y ago
I remember headlines calling the iPad a big iPod touch when it came out. …which is maybe kinda true? I have no idea if they want to make it a “Pro” device, despite the Pro moniker, because you still have such weird multitasking UI paradigms
233.
by perardi 4y ago
I do enjoy the idea of a novel that grossly exaggerates the US stereotypes of Canada. Although some Canadian facts are so weird that they are nearly impossible to believe until you research them. Like the extremely well-appointed throne r
234.
by perardi 4y ago
I practically live in Lake Michigan in Chicago, because of my dog, and learning to embrace the cold means you get the beauty of seeing this huge, open expanse of water with nobody else around, because they are sane and are avoiding the cold
235.
by perardi 4y ago
This is…a little weird…but car companies have all sorts of goofy branding exercises, like fashion collaborations with Louis Vuitton and…uh…steak knives. https://shop.porsche.com/us/en/steak-knife-p15-set-4-pieces-.
236.
by perardi 4y ago
I can’t tell if it’s just simple nostalgia, but I feel it too. I got my first Mac when I was in 4th grade in 1994. (A Performa 630CD, which is so slow that I assume my AirPods have an order of magnitude more computational power.) By god I
237.
by perardi 4y ago
They also require somewhat obscure rare-earth elements, which are not getting cheaper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphor You'd also have to scale strontium mining and refining back up.
238.
by perardi 4y ago
This is a wild collapse…but probably still not as big of a flop as Quibi. Or at least, they seemed to have burned through slightly less money, and may be able to renegotiate some of the contracts to get the talent onto the main CNN service.
239.
by perardi 4y ago
I suspect they mean “what if someone attacks the nuclear plants in southern Ontario”. Which, I don’t exactly know Canada-US defense agreements, but given we share assets like NORAD—I assume an attack on southern Ontario would be tantamount
240.
by perardi 4y ago
Mainstream outlets will often cite time constraints as an excuse for why they’re failing to tackle crucial stories. But is it possible that maybe their silence is by design? After all, in 2021, they apparently had ample time to report on t

More ›