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ezequiel-garzon

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About ezequiel-garzon

https://ezequiel-garzon.net

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    Comment #48018477

    Please reply instead of (or in addition to) tagging the user you're replying to.

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    Comment #47972395

    Probably they mean to convey significant digits, though I feel it's safe to assume people would read "1300" as an approximation, not pointing to the year 726. I found it odd too. E…

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    Comment #47660197

    I'm curious about this too. I thought saying "we in Holland" was equivalent to "we in England" rather than "we in the UK". Is it acceptable in the Netherlands? (Or maybe just in Ho…

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    Comment #46855727

    Sessions tend to be way shorter for me, but it's great to have.

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    Comment #46814921

    Spending caps is the biggest reason for me. Granted, some VPS don't offer this (vital!) feature, but none of the big 3 or similar services do.

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    Comment #46574146

    Optinal tags have always been allowed in HTML, for the simple if debatable reason (hence xhtml) that some humans still author documents by hand, knowingly skip md et al _and_ want …

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    Comment #46509048

    I agree, modern definitions exclude 1 since "we lose" unique factorization. It's interesting to note [1] that this viewpoint solidified only in the last century. [1] https://mathen…

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    Comment #46334178

    How was this masonry layout possible back in the 90s?

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    Comment #45231151

    Before this happened, 7-bit ASCII variants based on ISO 646 were widely used.

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    Comment #45210602

    ChatGPT's translation: Panel 1 Waiter: "Sir, I’d like to ask you to take off your cap in this restaurant." Smurf: "Take off my cap? You’re not asking me to take off my pants, are y…

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    Comment #45157492

    Off topic, but I wonder why the author is using _both_ Substack and his old website [1]. Is this a new trend? [1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/

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    Comment #45149204

    This is awesome! A mere upvote wouldn't be enough to point this out, thanks for sharing.

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    Comment #43522073

    In the case of termux, by far my favorite app, I have more than 2GB of locally installed packages. How would that work with a browser?

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    Comment #43445187

    It does if single or double quotes are used, right? Which would be necessary (or preferred to multiple backslashes) quite often.

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    Comment #42734741

    Where 500 years ago?

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    Comment #42508391

    Indeed, CSS is so massive it has long been a collection of standards. Good luck implementing all that.

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    Comment #42357357

    This is a timely coincidence for me. I started using yesterday Shortcat [1] for the Mac, and I'm very pleased. It gives you access to pretty much everything with the keyboard, not …

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