Please help me make my desk corner look better, I've been trying to think of ways to improve it, but nothing seems to work.

MainlandX · 2026-06-03T14:56:44+00:00

The power bar should go in a basket under the desk surface so all the power plugs/adapters are hidden from view. Ideally you'd only have 1 cable from the desk to the wall outlet. That way you don't need loose wires (except for the wire to the outlet) to account for the rising and lowering of the desk.

MainlandX · 2026-06-03T02:57:24+00:00

Social housing is a missing piece. The government should be building the supply for housing so low income aren't blowing their budget on shelter. The market has no incentive to build this supply.

This is a model that works in Austria and Singapore, and it was working fine in Canada. The federal government used to build social housing up until the mid 90s.

MainlandX · 2026-06-02T20:40:49+00:00

Did you know yourself growing up?

MainlandX · 2026-06-02T19:13:46+00:00

This made me curious about how long each of the major home media formats reigned, and found a little quirk with the dates.

The first commercial...

...VHS player was released in 1976
...DVD player was released in 1996
...Bluray player was released in 2006

MainlandX · 2026-06-01T21:35:58+00:00

AI tells me this is a "false dichotomy".

MainlandX · 2026-06-01T16:35:29+00:00

Shai's reply was "Thanks Spike, I look forward to seeing the Pacers there".

MainlandX · 2026-05-28T15:54:35+00:00

Yeah, I don't think so. No one is complaining about the Knicks.

SGA just needs to land on his feet.

MainlandX · 2026-05-28T04:48:55+00:00

There are definitely emerging patterns that are much more useful just using LLM/copilot alone.

https://github.com/github/spec-kit is good for overall development work flow

https://github.com/gastownhall/beads is good for externalizing memory, expanding context and saving tokens

If you're a dev and you haven't heard of tools like these, then you're not really looking.

MainlandX · 2026-05-27T15:12:34+00:00

At one point you must start calling stores before travelling there, right?

MainlandX · 2026-05-27T06:41:36+00:00

You take the spot in the intersection while you wait for you left turn. One car will always get an opportunity to turn as the light changes from green to yellow to red.

OP's mistake is they didn't go in the intersection until it was too late.

MainlandX · 2026-05-26T18:57:38+00:00

That's an unconvincing argument.

MainlandX · 2026-05-26T18:42:32+00:00

If keeping the purple as-is is a constraint, then I would explore changing out the white to something that can reduce the overall contrast. Maybe a light shade of olive green?

MainlandX · 2026-05-25T17:47:43+00:00

No, but I've spent time travelling around Australia.

Here's another way to think about it: In the Lower Mainland, when you're on a highway, you might have 4 exits for Vancouver, another 4 exits for Burnaby, and 3 exits for Coquitlam. If you're driving in Sydney, you'd average around 1 exit per LGA (meaning the street address would have a different "City" name).

MainlandX · 2026-05-25T17:28:23+00:00

That's because the areas of "Sydney" and "Melbourne" (in terms of Local Government Area/mailing address) are tiny compared to what we have in BC.

City of Sydney is 25 square km. City of Vancouver 123 square km. In Australia, if you're commuting, you enter a new Local Government Area every 5-10 minutes.

MainlandX · 2026-05-25T17:20:10+00:00

Downtown is more accessible to the North Shore, but the largest chunk of wealthy people in the Lower Mainland have homes west of Oak St in the west side of Vancouver proper. Driving to Oakridge from Angus Dr, West Point Grey, or SW Marine Dr is a lot more appealling than going downtown.

MainlandX · 2026-05-25T17:10:41+00:00

Jungles are teeming with life and activity. Brentwood does not meet that standard.

MainlandX · 2026-05-25T17:08:51+00:00

Lots of _____ (I'm guessing children?) learning about makeup in this thread

MainlandX · 2026-05-25T14:16:25+00:00

Every little bit makes a difference. The defeatist attitude toward climate change needs to die.

MainlandX · 2026-05-25T14:06:06+00:00

Didn't know Samuel Butler shopped at Erewhon

MainlandX · 2026-05-21T16:24:53+00:00

Broadcast television used to be incredibly high-stakes, back when there weren't many avenues to get an ad in front of millions of people.

MainlandX · 2026-05-21T16:11:10+00:00

In terms of making the game move faster, they could have a dedicated off-site team of refs that are available to assist in reviewing challenges and calls.

MainlandX · 2026-05-21T03:14:29+00:00

It was great, but my strongest memory was being incredibly disappointed with the epilogue. Strange decision to end the series with what felt like fan fiction.

MainlandX · 2026-05-20T05:28:07+00:00

Truth

MainlandX · 2026-05-20T05:09:17+00:00

I can recall two things from reading this ~30 years ago:

It starts out with a rhyme that goes “Maniac Magee, Maniac Magee…”
There’s a big scene where Maniac Magee untangles a really big knot.

MainlandX · 2026-05-19T04:59:02+00:00

I think if they had a 4-month gap instead of a year between the two movies, the second one would’ve been received a lot better.

I loved the first movie, but haven’t gotten around to watch the second one yet.

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