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> A toxicology report two weeks after his death found that Mr Nelson had died from a fatal combination of alcohol, Xanax and kratom, likely to have caused central nervous system depression that led to asphyxiation.


Japanese hand planes shave with a pull motion instead of push.


Documentary about the Portuguese Timex factory that assembled the ZX Spectrum computer in the 80's. English subtitles available.


I'm a graphic designer and avoid it like the plague. Because the bottom extends to the descender instead of the baseline, it always looks misaligned.

https://i.imgur.com/FiFKomt.png


Interesting perspective. I had never paid attention to that detail. Even knowing that, I personally don’t see it as a problem.


MailMate did that for me.

https://freron.com/


I stopped using Adobe a couple of years ago, replaced it with the Affinity suite. Publisher still lacks a lot of InDesign features but it gets the job done.

For photography I'm using FastRawViewer for culling and Photomator for editing.


> Unless you want, e.g., a destructive crop

Isn't this achieved by enabling the "Delete cropped pixels" option?

From Pixelmator help:

> Select "Delete cropped pixels" to permanently delete the cropped areas of an image or deselect it to crop the image nondestructively and hide the cropped areas of an image instead.

https://www.pixelmator.com/support/guide/pixelmator-pro/1010...


Bloody hell, completely missed that option. Yes, that does what I need! Thanks!


> - There's no longer a live ticker on the home page showing the latest track/album purchases around the world.

Still there for me.


Hmm, checked in a browser with no cookie restrictions and indeed it is. All JS is enabled either way but I only allow first-party domain cookies (ticker used to be fine like this but at least I know it's just a cookie thing now).


> but at least I know it's just a cookie thing now

Nope, I also have cross-site cookies blocked and no issues with the ticker


> I wonder if this is also the origin of so many egg heavy deserts in Portugal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventual_sweets

Egg whites were used to make communion wafers and starch habits so they had a lot of yolks going around.


Kind of like how liquid N2 is dirt cheap because people pay a lot for all the other liquified fractionations but air is mostly nitrogen, or veal is in supply because dairy cows have both male and female offspring?

(Have you heard the new rules about dating the novice nuns? They'll allow it on a casual basis — but you're not supposed to get into the habit)


Egg whites were used to starch habits and for various other tasks, but communion wafers are pressed bread, and don't have any egg in them at all. I could not find any confirmation of your statement in a reputable source, and I have never heard of such a practice. The Catholic Church has long maintained that the host should be made of wheat flour (in the past sometimes with a small addition of another flour) and water only. Egg whites were used to clarify wine for the Eucharist, which might be the source of that likely fable.


Bandcamp is widely used all over the world. My band made 6 times more money from Bandcamp than from all the streaming sites combined. People from all over Europe, USA, Canada and Australia bought our music.


Europe, US, Canada and Australia is your whole world? Local metal guys I know is on Spotify and not on Bandcamp. I wonder what you think of that. I’m in Asia btw, largest continent of the world.


> Europe, US, Canada and Australia is your whole world?

Of course not.

> I’m in Asia btw, largest continent of the world.

Those were only a few examples from the top of my head. We also had sales in S. Korea and Japan.


>Bandcamp is widely used in all over the world.

Not really.


My opinion is based on the stats Bandcamp provides me. Care to elaborate on why you proclaim otherwise?


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066807

curious how do ppl discover your band on bandcamp?


Through Bandcamp itself, social media, music blogs...


does bandcamp give you this info?


Yes. The free version gives you basic stats, the pro version gives you detailed stats.


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