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ezequiel-garzon··on Saturn reclaims 'moon king' title from Jupiter with 62 newfound satellites
Thanks, that's awesome! Adding the original tweet: https://twitter.com/ralphium/status/1160242266902061056
ezequiel-garzon··on Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices
I'm quite sure lobbying played a role with these changes, but the first source is not official.
ezequiel-garzon··on The grotesque side of Leonardo da Vinci
I know it’s bending the rules a bit, but a mere upvote doesn’t do your great service justice. Thank you, I love learning about xkcd gems. I guess I should go through them all!
ezequiel-garzon··on Watchmaking: Machining a 0.6 mm Screw [video]
All of a sudden those expensive timepieces feel underpriced.
ezequiel-garzon··on Japanese explained to programmers
what do get up/on/down/over have to do with each other?

Thank you! It is heartening to hear this from a native speaker. Phrasal verbs are… a pain. “Burning up” pretty much is “burning down”? Oh, the list is long.

ezequiel-garzon··on I started taking English classes at the age of 46
Consider reaching a point where you only improve half of what you improved the day before, say first p for some increment p in English proficiency (hence p/2 the next day, p/4 the next…). By definition, you’ll keep improving for the rest of your life, but will never improve 2p counting from that fateful day, à la Zeno. That’s an example, not a model, which I don’t have.

And certainly you have a point, devoting time and money may clearly help vigorously push the upward trend for longer, but I was just talking about my experience, those relatively effortless early moments. In any event, no matter how much you apply, I think it’s hard to argue that it’s quite rare to find foreigners that moved to a country as adults and sound truly native, and I don’t believe it’s due to half-hearted dedication.

ezequiel-garzon··on I started taking English classes at the age of 46
Plateauing is compatible with maintaining an upward trend.
ezequiel-garzon··on I started taking English classes at the age of 46
I'd like to offer a counterpoint: quite likely you'll reach a ceiling unless you move as a kid or, better yet, as a toddler or baby! I spent ten years in the US, and was very lucky to have a wonderful native uncle who cared a lot and, sometimes tenderly and other times quite bluntly, corrected me constantly, but naturally this became less frequent.

I was 17 years old when I arrived in the US, and after half a year there I could almost sense getting better by the day, it was an extremely exciting experience. My very naive illusion, however, was that this progress would stay linear until I caught up with the natives, but it unsurprisingly plateaued, in particular when it came to my accent and pronunciation. But again, that first half year felt amazing!

ezequiel-garzon··on Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850
What recent drama, if you don’t mind?
ezequiel-garzon··on ‘Why am I talking to 10 guys?’ The rise and fall of dating apps
Being an SNL bit, this clearly is an exaggeration… but I feel it’s referring to the same principle: https://youtu.be/PxuUkYiaUc8
ezequiel-garzon··on <i>: The Idiomatic Text element
You are correct: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics....
ezequiel-garzon··on Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister
She has resigned as leader of her party, not yet as prime minister. She will do so once her successor has been chosen, supposedly in a week.
ezequiel-garzon··on iPhones and action discoverability
It took me way too long to accidentally find out that the stock calculator app becomes a (limited) scientific calculator in landscape mode.
ezequiel-garzon··on Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time
It is highlighted in the reference I gave (which I found in a NY Times article). Look for “view report” after “The median rent in Manhattan reached the $4,000 threshold for the first time as lease signings continue to rise.”
ezequiel-garzon··on Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time
It is, I was expecting it to be less, can’t tell you how much.
ezequiel-garzon··on Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time
I thought the median had to be significantly lower with those ultra luxurious rentals distorting the average, but I was wrong. The median is $4000 as of a few months ago: https://www.elliman.com/corporate-resources/market-reports
ezequiel-garzon··on StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser
Good point... I guess I’d still be a bit uneasy about it.
ezequiel-garzon··on StopTheMadness – Take back your web browser
From the Apple App Store regarding Safari settings:

This extension can read and alter webpages you visit and see your browsing history on all websites.

This includes sensitive information from webpages, including passwords, phone numbers, and credit cards.

The whole idea sounds great, even reasonably priced but... having to trust another company on all that seems too risky. They should offer a standalone browser instead of a Safari extension, so that the user can easily skip it when dealing with sensitive data.

ezequiel-garzon··on How to profile your PHP applications with Xdebug
Could you provide a link to Enlive? I can’t find anything relevant. Thanks!
ezequiel-garzon··on The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal
MDN, for example for web developers, not a primary source.

I’m used to visiting the HTML standard, I think it’s quite friendly considering how much it has grown… CSS2 was still doable for me, but I find the current mesh of CSS standards completely impenetrable at this point. And with JavaScript plus the DOM… yeah, I’ll take MDN as almost primary, an authoritative encyclopedia for web development.

ezequiel-garzon··on New(ish) command line tools
Young man, let me be blunt with “replacements for standard tools” and call out this stream fad:

sed (ed) - 1979 (1971)

ezequiel-garzon··on Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died
Indeed, that tends to change again in your 1000030’s.
ezequiel-garzon··on Simple.css – A classless CSS framework
Some more over here: https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy
ezequiel-garzon··on I made my first web0 website today. It's so cool it just works
The viewport meta tag is also a post web0, almost web2 forced addition. I say forced in the sense that it’s required for proper rendering in mobile even for CSS-free sites.
ezequiel-garzon··on The USS William D. Porter: The Unluckiest Ship in WWII
Does anybody know why reader mode on Safari shows only two divs towards the end of the article? For all the cool features the iPhone brings, I wish they focused more on getting this right.
ezequiel-garzon··on Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder
How did you figure this out? I was expecting to see something under the whois records. Thanks.
ezequiel-garzon··on Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
“I've enjoyed developing in the language professionally for many years.”

And I’ve enjoyed your wonderful post, thank you. HN can be truly amazing. I know, I know, upvotes are for that… ‘Tis the season, or something.

ezequiel-garzon··on Reinkstone R1, the Ultimate True Color DES E-Paper Tablet
Where exactly? I can't find any of those strings on reinkstone.com.
ezequiel-garzon··on Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]
I don't like the trend either. My understanding is that camera lenses are just thicker than the phones. The phones could in turn be thicker and provide more battery life (to some extent Apple did that with the iPhone 13), but I guess "the market" just wants thin devices... and powerful cameras.
ezequiel-garzon··on Forgetting My First Language
I think that neglects how much children can help their parents learn the host country’s language. There are several variables involved, as the parents doing well economically will also help their children in a different way.
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