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New comment by nextstepguy in "macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)"

nextstepguy — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:11:28 +0000

I switched to Windows/WSL because of this!!

New comment by nextstepguy in "He Built Apple's 1980s iPad Concept [video]"

nextstepguy — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:19:56 +0000

It's awesome job but what ruined the whole thing is to placard a sticker on the front bezel instead of 3d-printing and painting a rainbow Apple logo on the bezel

New comment by nextstepguy in "The joy of reading books you don't understand"

nextstepguy — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 04:54:31 +0000

The bible king james version translation.

New comment by nextstepguy in "The joy of reading books you don't understand"

nextstepguy — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 01:02:51 +0000

I started reading the original edition of Don Quijote in Spanish with two years of high school Spanish under my belt. Ten years later, I finally finished the first book.

New comment by nextstepguy in "Egypt is building a $1B mega-museum – will it bring Egyptology home?"

nextstepguy — Mon, 27 May 2024 22:48:57 +0000

Egypt's tourism revenues hit a record high of $13.6 billion in FY2022/2023. Spending less than 10% to increase the purpose of choosing this country as a destination sounds reasonable, but as long as the P&L balances, I don't see why not.

New comment by nextstepguy in "Furby source code (1998)"

nextstepguy — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 10:59:45 +0000

https://forums.arcade-museum.com/threads/anybody-ever-hear-o...

New comment by nextstepguy in "What If a Needle Hits Jupiter at the Speed of Light?"

nextstepguy — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 19:11:31 +0000

Very mentally exhausting presentation with all that background music, audio effects, screen flashes, and this awful narrator's voice quality.

New comment by nextstepguy in "The Continuity of Splines [video]"

nextstepguy — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 11:57:38 +0000

Please drop the background music. It takes the attention away.

New comment by nextstepguy in "The McMurdo Wastewater Treatment Plant"

nextstepguy — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 03:28:25 +0000

Perfect closed-loop application of crypto coins.

New comment by nextstepguy in "We need a replacement for TCP in the datacenter [pdf]"

nextstepguy — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 10:26:06 +0000

Multicast storms happened regularly back in 2004

New comment by nextstepguy in "Whatever Happened to Those Self-Service Passport Kiosks at Airports?"

nextstepguy — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 06:23:37 +0000

Right, and we didn't go bomb China when that happened.

New comment by nextstepguy in "C++20, How Hard Could It Be"

nextstepguy — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 12:02:43 +0000

Not true. I picked up a git repo 18 months old. I tried to set up my rust dev stack to match the version in cargo. Then hit a lot of issues with dependencies due to abandoned repos used for the crates. I gave up and moved on.

New comment by nextstepguy in "YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012)"

nextstepguy — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:13:04 +0000

bitcoin

New comment by nextstepguy in "Why I quit using SwiftUI"

nextstepguy — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 05:13:15 +0000

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Roadmap

New comment by nextstepguy in "Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds"

nextstepguy — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 15:19:08 +0000

I like the nest therm except for the most intricate choices (typing passwords) but it still beats the touchscreen from the competition.

New comment by nextstepguy in "Byte Magazine: LISP (1979)"

nextstepguy — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 22:54:06 +0000

The first Scratch applet was a LISP runtime implemented in Java.

New comment by nextstepguy in "MIT invents $4 solar desalination device"

nextstepguy — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 07:56:30 +0000

Four posts with NIT in the title as we speak. I never noticed.

New comment by nextstepguy in "How I regained concentration and focus"

nextstepguy — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 20:40:48 +0000

I never archive my passwords on social sites and the idea to reset every time is a real burden. This helps too.

New comment by nextstepguy in "Ask HN: How to disable right-click blocking in the browser"

nextstepguy — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 13:42:35 +0000

Absolute Enable Right Click & Copy Chrome extension.

New comment by nextstepguy in "A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its human opponent"

nextstepguy — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 02:11:33 +0000

"We have nothing to do with the robot."

Except for putting it in a location to be used by children. Lame excuse.