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Yes, I think it's a very ambigious term. My problem with your definition is that it doesn't take into account the reality of connectivity at the time (at least in my experience of …

Indeed, I was there, I know. As a starving college student, using QModem for part of it. > that's not the same thing. I think your definition of "connect to the internet" make sens…

Oh I wasn't trying to reverse-engineer his network from that comment, just saying that this was a thing that was possible and that people did at the time. I agree it's highly unlik…

Maybe your association would be different / the terminology would make more sense if you were online in the early 90s? BUT, it was definitely possible to do what you're describing …

That's precisely what QMODEM does? What do you think it does?

Can you do anything aside from low-effort shitposting?

So you're here telling people who were actually using these APIs that we're wrong to be upset, because LLMs? Awesome, super helpful, thanks LLMs require data, as I'm sure you know.…

Before he was a food writer he worked in a number of fairly high-end restaurants in Boston (which he talks about occasionally on his Youtube channel), and then he opened his own re…

Uhh.. damning praise. I think that can be rephrased as: "It's pretty, but despite being almost the simplest thing you can imagine, it still has ridiculous, unnecessary usability pr…

Same! At first I thought it might be a Firefox problem, but it's equally broken in Chrome. Predictably it's a React site, using some widget library (MUI) that is going out of it's …

Seconded! I would highly recommend NTS. Their archive is great, dives into almost anything you can think of

I didn't downvote this post, but I don't find it hard to see why someone would: * making incredibly general hand-wavy statements implying vscode is always perfectly lag-free and em…

> VS Code in its current state has no perceptible input latency on modern hardware, easily verifiable. "easily verifiable"?!!? This is a ridiculous statement - lots of VSCode respo…

Zelle doesn't support all banks - the call to action on their home page is even "See if your bank offers Zelle". My credit union, sadly, does not. So it's not really comparable to …

Title seems very incorrect. First issue of Wired was 1993, not 1998. The URL makes it look like this is from 1998, so definitely not from the first issue.

Zero sympathy, fuck this guy

Also Firefox. I wonder which browsers work?

Not just yiddish, it's also common slang in many parts of the US to mean a very stupid or incompetent person. So yeah, terrible branding IMHO

I'm not sure how you square "If you can't keep up then don't" with what sounds (to me) a lot like "I have an idea that I want to implement, but only if I don't have to learn anythi…

I always assumed it was to avoid card swipe fees. Margins at small restaurants can be incredibly thin, so a percent or two off each transaction could make a big difference.

It's a complex topic, and I'm no expert. But based on all of the contradictory studies out there, I don't think it's quite as simple as you're making it sound. For example, a new s…

Interesting, that's the first dictionary i've ever seen that lists it - Merriam-Webster, Cambridge and Websters all claim it's not a word. (As well as google - "Did you mean: minim…

Am I the only one irked by the use of the non-word 'minimalistic', when the shorter 'minimal' or 'minimalist' is what is really meant? It seems like a serious blow to one's minimal…