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paulsen··on REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
> 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

paulsen··on Java 27
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.

paulsen··on Java 27
Why do I need Kotlin, or Python, or C when Assembly is enough?
paulsen··on Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?
> 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.

paulsen··on CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices
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.

paulsen··on Apple A19 SoC die shot
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

paulsen··on Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)
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

paulsen··on Thoughts on Asunción, Paraguay
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)

paulsen··on Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client
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"

or

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

paulsen··on Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way?
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!