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(doing it the other way is $3 with an eta of 11 days or $38 for 4 days, no idea why it costs half as much for it to take half as long)

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want to send a small letter from Canada to Australia?

well your options are $2.50+tax with no delivery speed guarantee or $67+tax for 7 days guaranteed delivery

how should you respond to a company who just got bought for $7.5bn asking you to do free labour their (paid) security and/or support teams should probably be doing instead when you reported an issue?

[chanting] poulet frit kentucky, poulet frit kentucky, poulet frit kentucky

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so I guess it’s no wonder Wikipedia just goes [citation needed] because these sources are …not great

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the only source which actually cites a reason and explains the history is this page which inexplicably doesn’t appear in search engines??? mattenglish.kinja.com/f-eh-q-t

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ok so it looks like this is quote-unquote “true” but the only primary source is a now-deleted page which was once a digital copy of an article from a business magazine but is now only available archived (or presumably at a library in NYC) web.archive.org/web/2006031823

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[citation needed] is my favourite canadian factoid

13.3-inch (diagonal) electroluminescent-backlit display with liquid crystal technology; 2560-by-1600 native resolution at 227 pixels per inch with support for four shades of grey

hey did any version of macOS ship Aqua and any even partly-working HiDPI support? asking for a friend

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oh wow uh… I’m pretty sure I couldn’t get a fixed background position to work last time I tried looking at this… Aqua’s *totally* plausible

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ok ok but as part of the joke when you’re scrolling it’ll play doctor jones at a speed relative to how fast you’re scrolling

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I wonder if I could recreate Aqua scrollbars…

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Rather impressively, the recreations of classic Mac OS scrollbars I made for WebKit browsers (sorry Firefox pals) in 2014 still work, and somehow don’t look *completely* broken on Retina displays! public.drac.at/classic-mac-scr

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