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New comment by paulsen in "REA Reverse – Engineer Anything"

paulsen — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:06:52 +0000

> From what I can see, Adobe prominently and clearly displays from the first public checkout page the differences between 'monthly' and 'annual' options?

It does now, because the FTC sued in 2024 and Adobe then corrected this, while settling in March 2026

New comment by paulsen in "Java 27"

paulsen — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:09:27 +0000

Well, ask yourself this, why use a hammer to drive a nail when a rock can do about the same?

Same reasoning here, Java is "enough" in of a lot of areas that make it desirable for a lot of things, it is fast enough, stable enough, has lots of libraries and apis for a lot of things you may want to do, and the jvm makes it reasonably portable, among other things.

New comment by paulsen in "Java 27"

paulsen — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:00:03 +0000

Why do I need Kotlin, or Python, or C when Assembly is enough?

New comment by paulsen in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

paulsen — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:14:39 +0000

> My guess is that their leagues are fairly developed industries, like you would expect in the first world.

Pretty much, like in Europe, if you have any interest/talent in football, you enroll in your local club as a kid and go on from there, in Argentina you have a multitude of leagues until you reach Primera Division, so you have from 5 to 6 levels of competition in between organized directly by the Argentine Football Association, founded in 1891, also ran the first tournament in that same year, which makes it the oldest associated football league other than the British FA cup (1871).

Below that you have the regional/provincial leagues, the least populated province, Tierra del Fuego, has 2; Buenos Aires province has 70+ by itself.

New comment by paulsen in "CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices"

paulsen — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:30:14 +0000

I wouldn't say your devices are owned, but you should expect being monitored and your communications being recorded.

You could make an argument about the security of the modem of your devices, as that was often a target due to it not being particularly secure and it having wide access to your device, but I believe that started changing some years ago when this started being a more widely reported issue.

New comment by paulsen in "Apple A19 SoC die shot"

paulsen — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:19:37 +0000

Next to the paragraph of text is this:

"High Resolution Floorplan images available here"

With some contact info below that

It is moved to the end of the page on mobile it seems

No, AVX 512 is power efficient [video]

paulsen — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:58:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6ElaygqY74

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174569

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by paulsen in "Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)"

paulsen — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 03:21:35 +0000

Transfers from a bank to another and between banks and/or digital wallets (like MercadoPago) are free and almost 99% of time instant in Argentina

The transfer system is like that due to government regulation

New comment by paulsen in "Thoughts on Asunción, Paraguay"

paulsen — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:06:47 +0000

I wonder, do people from Paraguay "get" the accent from the different provinces? I mean it is pretty easy for us Argentines to differentiate a porteño from a cordobes and even someone from the northern provinces (specially if they use slang) with a short conversation

Granted, whenever I had any sort of conversation with someone from Paraguay I had trouble to differentiate their language from someone from the Argentine northeast unless they started using some Guarani words (and that is still not that useful given it is also spoken in the Corrientes province)

New comment by paulsen in "Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client"

paulsen — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 15:39:11 +0000

The problem is that I have to pay for another thing just to watch the thing I was already paying for.

Piracy almost always is caused by a lack of convenience, namely:

"I get the service, have a (sometimes very) limited selection of stuff, and have to pay for it, and if I want that other thing I have to pay for another entirely different service"

"I get anything I want with a little hassle, but for free"

New comment by paulsen in "Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way?"

paulsen — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 04:56:01 +0000

I think the Reapers may have arrived 167 years too early.

Come on giant space Cthulhus, we haven't even discovered the Prothean Ruins in Mars yet!