spartas

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Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
> Also, nothing is worse than the folks who didn’t pay up ahead of time who bug one, ‘may we switch seats so we can sit together?’

Some of us parents ask that question for your benefit, not ours. Do you want to sit next to my three-year-old?

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
One thing that a lot of people are missing is that the iPhone 15 Pro is using the "A17 Pro" SoC. It'll be interesting to see if the base iPhone 16 will also have the Pro SoC or if they'll be using a non-Pro version.

Will the non-Pro version also be 3nm? Will it support USB3?

Comment · 4 years ago
Panda <https://bear.app/panda/> is Bear, but with their new features and markup engine.

Scary obligatory warning: Panda is alpha software (and probably not something that you should trust with your notes). The table support in Panda is nice though.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
I still remember WikipediaFS from almost two decades ago when FUSE-based filesystems were popular (and that project allowed editing Wikipedia too).
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Yup. Just watch what happens when the tools reach end-of-life. No more security patches and they will stop working, like all of those early smart TV apps that have been unsupported for years.

You could buy a third-party manufacturer's tools because they're cheaper, but when they can't keep the lights on and they shut off the authentication servers, well you're SOL

Comment · 5 years ago
If that is based on calendar month, and not rolling 30-day period, then quit at the beginning of the month
Comment · 5 years ago
IAC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAC_(company)

Your second question is valid though

Comment · 6 years ago
The publication is still paid a bit for the article when money in the fund is distributed to "all publications participating in the payment system". This presents an opportunity for low-effort publications to crank out oodles of articles in the hopes of getting people to either pay for articles or get paid out by the fund.

Why would I, as a reader, choose to participate in your Kafkaesque payment system when the prevailing solution is to contact my card issuer and dispute the transaction? Certainly that takes a lot less time than having to phone the NY Times (because they do not allow you to cancel a subscription through the website).

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
If this project takes off, I see a lot of people mis-typing gitdick instead. Probably should either look at changing the name or at least also registering gitdick.com pre-emptively
Comment · 6 years ago

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