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Comment · 3 days ago

An "ad-free" subscription to The Guardian is $18 per month ($15 starter, students $10 a year).

They aren't funded exclusively by subscribers because that would exclude a source of revenue that enables cheaper subscriptions. But you can have no ads for a reasonable premium.

https://support.theguardian.com/us/contribute

Comment · 1 month ago

The original quote is usually attributed to Pascal (in French in 1657..)

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/

Comment · 1 month ago

Terrorists exist. Covid happened.

Comment · 1 month ago

Somehow, it always makes me smile that the Glenfinnan Viaduct (as seen in Harry Potter) is concrete. I'm not sure quite why.

Comment · 2 months ago

This is a nice, recent article on the Wolsztyn service, if you don't read Polish:

https://railwayworld.net/2026/03/21/daily-steam-services-res...

This is unrelated, but will put a smile on your face if you like steam and real world narrow gauge:

https://railwayworld.net/2026/08/09/a-remarkable-revival-of-...

Comment · 2 months ago

This is an issue, but one Europe is acutely aware of and working on. WERO is one strand of that.

https://www.reneweuropegroup.eu/news/2026-06-23/independence...

https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/eu-payments-sovereignty...

https://stripe.com/en-fr/resources/more/wero-how-europes-uni...

Comment · 2 months ago

Ah.. SWIFT is an international cooperative, originated in Europe and based in Brussels..

Comment · 5 months ago

"Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle"

Comment · 6 months ago

https://www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archives/archive-042020....

Comment · 7 months ago

Nice analogy *

I guess the current wave is going to give us Sofware Development Epicycles (SDEC?)

* All analogies are "wrong", some analogies are useful

Comment · 8 months ago

> it will be the users sculpting formal systems like playdoh.

People are pushing back against this phrase, but on some level it seems perfect, it should be visualized and promoted!

Comment · 8 months ago

The trees are canonical though.

    I think that I shall never see
    A billboard lovely as a tree
    Indeed, unless the billboards fall
    I’ll never see a tree at all.

      Song of the Open Road   -  Ogden Nash

Comment · 8 months ago

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

Comment · 8 months ago

The conventional wisdom is ~70% of serious security bugs are memory safety issues.

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-12/CSAC_TAC_Re...

Comment · 9 months ago

> I suppose because they resemble the abstractions that make complex language possible

As in models: All analogies are "wrong", some analogies are useful.