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Re:A Brief Look at FreeBSD on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @01:22PM (#45903770)
Nicely done. Curious which VM host you used on the Mac?
the ministry for the future
This was the motivation to swap out my old, reliable Synology for a new Ugreen setup. Pretty happy so far.
Re:Ask HN: What do you spend your money on? on Monday June 02, 2025 @10:05AM (#44158999)
Offspring's Tuition, as I don't want them to have the screwed up college debt that the US provides...
Re:Ask HN: Which movies did you watch multiple times? on Sunday August 25, 2024 @04:51PM (#41351304)
I am surprised to admit that I have watched zero dark thirty at least 5-6 times. Actually not sure why. It is good, but good enough for beyond two views?
Re:Jim Simons has died on Friday May 10, 2024 @12:16PM (#40320695)
Pretty good run for an adult life-long heavy smoker.
Where I work we have a physician who doesn’t see patients. He reads procedures and supervises 8 mid-levels. It’s an assembly line. There are inservices that in effect ensure maximum level of encounter complexity to maximize billing.
Re:C++Builder 11 Community Edition on Friday September 15, 2023 @09:42AM (#37522820)
Delphi 7, that was a lovely vintage...
Re:C++Builder 11 Community Edition on Friday September 15, 2023 @08:11AM (#37521776)
Historically a great tool along with Delphi, with poor subsequent management/ownership since the very early 2000's.
read that as Canada dot gov
Re:Juan Tamariz, the godfather of close-up card magic on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:08PM (#34249954)
NY Times. I gave them money for a subscription. I'm fine with that. What I found to be just enough of a deal breaker is the ads remain as a subscriber.
Re:You Might Also Like on Monday November 07, 2022 @10:07PM (#33515468)
Back to the time of sculley.
Re:Nova 9 on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @02:18PM (#30702170)
bbedit does these pretty well along with addressing the above complaints if you want native

Why Not Smart Roads?

So smart roads? A road that provides relative location and speed of each vehicle for computational efficiency and avoidance. This seems like the most reasonable autonomous driving scheme. Enter destination. Network provides minimal path for vehicles not to smack into each other as the distance between cars is maintained for safety and efficiency. The only safety drawback I can think off is...

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Re:Apple Introduces AirTag on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @03:52PM (#26880546)
It needs a hole.
Disappointed as I came for pics.
Re:Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2) on Friday February 14, 2020 @10:40AM (#22327435)
When I upgraded my 2019 mini I thought I bricked it. It was a couple of days of heroics to get it upgraded. Kind of a blur now. With the minor annoyances, not any more shitty in aggregate than before. (current 13" macbook pro - no upgrade issues at all)
Re:Stuff I Learnt in 2019 on Thursday December 26, 2019 @08:39PM (#21888407)
It sounds like an "ain't" version of learned. I just read this from Grammarly:

"Learnt and learned are both used as the past participle and past tense of the verb to learn. Learned is the generally accepted spelling in the United States and Canada, while the rest of the English-speaking world seems to prefer learnt."

Apparently I'm an egocentric American.

Re:Stuff I Learnt in 2019 on Thursday December 26, 2019 @06:14PM (#21887695)
I hate “learnt”
Re:How Wild Was Wild Bill Hickok? on Saturday February 16, 2019 @11:47AM (#19179454)
We visited Deadwood last summer. There is a private museum I can recommend. Town seems similar to my imagination with horses replaced with Harleys. Gambling is legal. I asked my wife, ‘I wonder where are the whore houses?’
Thank you for the new cool tool.

I'm hoping you could somewhat detail your custom UI toolkit used in these apps as they are consistently fast and uniform across platforms?

Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:34AM (#17521581)
Southern Reach Trilogy. On the last book. All three very well written.
Re:Gruber on the Macbook Pro Keyboard on Friday April 27, 2018 @04:51PM (#16944199)
Curious to hear from anyone who has used these directly, not clamshelled for several months or more and have been keyboard issue free.
Re:Giving Up on the Current MacBook Pro Keyboard on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @10:34PM (#16928346)
Does the keyboard cover leave marks on the screen?
Re:Geany – Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows on Saturday March 10, 2018 @09:40AM (#16558621)
Thoughts on Gnome Builder?
Gnome, Cinnamon, Mate, i3, Xfce....? Perhaps no default?
Why not three? Five might be too long.
Re:The web sucks if you have a slow connection on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @06:36PM (#13603272)
Out in the country enough that I have 3 meg area wifi with a wife who enjoys streaming and Facebook and two boys who enjoy online gaming and streaming. Not much left for me. All you can eat at least and avoiding satellite.

Oh, we find Amazon, IMDb and Facebook are the biggest pigs on a slow connection.

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