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lol I was just building the update for the Nose Ears comic archive to add comics 900 to 1000 but then I noticed there were some off-by-one errors in the comic statistics page that went unnoticed all those years. 🤯
It counted one more comic than actually existed. Should be fixed now.

Lesson learned: Always test your statistics features before deploying them. 😅

Today in #EV charging adventures, went to a nearby site with 2 stations. Both looked operational. First one (of course) I tried was completely unknown to the charging app. No such device: "Invalid Charger ID." Second one came up on the app. Except unavailable. Status "Activating." Phone support: no answer (though they did call from a unrecognized/anonymous Toronto Canada number much later).
Drove away to find another spot.
#Fail

#дизигн #FAIL #история #перевод #цитатник

Шикарное дизайнерское агентство продолжало поставлять PSD-фоны с тонкими, как волос, деталями, которые исчезали при сжатии до нашего лимита в 20 Кб (это было в 99-м). Когда я объяснил, представитель агентства сказал, что у них есть гораздо лучшие дизайнеры, которые могут это сделать, и они предоставят изображения предварительно сжатыми. Я сказал: отлично.

На следующий день я получил письмо: «Привет, я дизайнер в [агентстве], и мне сказали, что вы мастер по сжатию изображений. Пожалуйста, помогите мне уменьшить размер этих изображений до 20 Кб?» Угадайте, какие изображения.

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Mastodon 🐘Not The LBC Guy (@NotTheLBCGuy@mstdn.social)@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com posh design agency kept supplying PSD backgrounds with fiddly hair-thin details which disappeared when compressed to our 20kb limit (this was in ‘99). When I explained, the agency rep said they had much better designers who could do it and they would supply the images pre-compressed. I said great. Next day I got an email: “Hi, I’m a designer at [agency] and I’m told you’re a wiz at image compression. Please can you help me get these images below 20kb?” Guess which images.

Poll: Nearly half give #Trump an #Fail for his first 100 days

2X as many people said Trump deserves an F rather than an A for how he's handled his first 100 days in office, acc/to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.

45% said Trump deserves an F, compared to 23% who would pass him. It's understandable that partisans would have strongly polarized views, but it's notable that ½ of independents gave him an F, & only a slim majority of #Republicans would give him an A.

#Loser
npr.org/2025/04/29/nx-s1-53795

Another year of failing to grow any vegetables, and effectively starving without a supermarket. Another hour of pulling out buttercup and spreading their roots so more will sprout, pulling up bittercress and spreading its seeds shooting off like gunshots, and pulling up dandelions standing proud with empty seed heads, their hundreds of seeds long since dispersed all over the yard. I bought a tomato, but it's going to die because I'm too exhausted to plant it. I haven't even gotten close to the weed choked garden bed this year. :(

#depressed #gardening #fail #fml