apocalyptic0n3 (u/apocalyptic0n3)

apocalyptic0n3 commented on Android and Wear OS are getting a redesign blog.google/products/andr... · Posted by u/whatever3

ivm · 4 months ago

I like circular face on my Garmin Venu. Almost all their watches are round and circle'ish UI flow is used a lot in their OS.

apocalyptic0n3 · 4 months ago

Yeah, I agree. I have a Pixel Watch 3 and generally like the circular form factor. I wish they did more with it at times, but I feel like that's kinda what I'm seeing from the previews in the OP blog post

apocalyptic0n3 commented on Firefox tab groups are here blog.mozilla.org/en/firef... · Posted by u/TangerineDream

Kim_Bruning · 4 months ago

Already using Tree Style Tabs. It's the one critical plugin I need. I still don't understand how anyone works without it.

apocalyptic0n3 · 4 months ago

Personally, it's easy for me. If I get above 10 tabs, I just close them all. I don't see any value in having more than that and they just become a distraction for me. Tree style, sidebar tabs, tab groups, etc. are just overkill for me.

apocalyptic0n3 commented on Shortest-possible walking tour to 81,998 bars in South Korea math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/kor... · Posted by u/geeknews

skrebbel · 4 months ago

The parking minimum is for taxis?

apocalyptic0n3 · 4 months ago

It's pretty common for people drive to the bar, get drunk, taxi/Uber/Lyft/DD home, and then return the following day to get their vehicle. I don't think it makes sense personally, but I also don't drink at all so I'm not a great judge here.

apocalyptic0n3 commented on Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator · Posted by u/dang

Cthulhu_ · 5 months ago

I thought we were all bots?

apocalyptic0n3 · 5 months ago

Both can be true.

apocalyptic0n3 commented on Restructuring Announcement automattic.com/2025/04/02... · Posted by u/markx2

lenerdenator · 5 months ago

wait, did he put his name in the company name?

if so, that's what we in the narcissist-identifying business call a "tell".

apocalyptic0n3 · 5 months ago

Yes. He also calls the employees Automatticians. So they're all just Matt.

apocalyptic0n3 commented on Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator · Posted by u/dang

palmotea · 5 months ago

> He has been doing HN moderation work for years already and knows the site and its practices inside-out, so the only new thing you'll see is mod comments from Tom showing up in the threads the way mine do.

I wonder if there are any other secret moderators.

apocalyptic0n3 · 5 months ago

We're all secret moderators except you.

apocalyptic0n3 commented on Windows 11 Insider Preview Build blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/taubek

accrual · 6 months ago

Same here. I remember playing with Beta versions of Windows Vista on my parents home PC. Ended up wrecking the system because I wasn't technical enough to fix it when it broke... but was still an important milestone in my journey today.

At the time, XP was 6-7 years old, and the screenshots of a shiny new Windows OS made me so itchy to try it out. Vista looked magical compared to XP just before release, it was the dawn of the frutiger aero aesthetic too. Very optimistic vibes back then.

apocalyptic0n3 · 6 months ago

Yeah, I was the same way with my iPod. I was contributing to iPod Wizard and one of the QA testers for iPod Linux, iPod Wiki, and Rockbox. I would install unstable firmwares on my iPod a few times a week and spend a few hours testing. I bricked my iPod more times than I could count. I had two iPod hard drives that I would swap between and I had a way of wiping the drive once it was out of the casing. To this day, I have no idea how my iPod 4G survived as long as it did.

apocalyptic0n3 commented on Windows 11 Insider Preview Build blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/taubek

Ukv · 6 months ago

In addition to testing in advance that your own (hard|firm|soft)ware will work, some people will just want to get new features early and are willing to deal with the potential extra bugginess.

apocalyptic0n3 · 6 months ago

Yeah, this used to be me. I don't do it anymore but I used to spend a great deal of time playing with beta versions of Android, Windows, Firefox, and various iPod and Mac customization applications. I just enjoyed playing with the new features, figuring out how to break them, reporting those issues, and then helping get them fixed (even if I wasn't contributing code at the time). I don't have the time anymore, but it was one of my favorite activities when I was younger.

apocalyptic0n3 commented on Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard graz.io/articles/bayleaf-... · Posted by u/sgraz

danielvaughn · 6 months ago

Personal opinion, but I really don’t get low-profile keyboards. I always need a foam cushion for my palms, which means that a normal profile always feels best for me. Low feels too low with a cushion, and yet still feels too high without one.

apocalyptic0n3 · 6 months ago

I've tried numerous keyboards and the conclusion I've come to is that there's low profile and then there's low profile. The bulk of the low profiles I've tried (NuPhy, Keychron K8, the mechanical Logitech, a few others) are definitely low profile compared to the Logitech Pro X TKL I use for my gaming PC. However, they're still tall. Most of the gains are from a shorter switch and keycap, but the body is still quite high.

If you compare it to the Apple Magic Keyboard I'm typing on now – and that seems like a definite inspiration for the Bayleaf – it's a stark contrast. The K3, for example, is more than twice as tall (10.9mm vs 22mm backrow). The Magic Keyboard feels fine to type on without any sort of wrist support and I never feel any strain. But on the K3, even with a support (tried both their wooden support and a similarly sized foam one), I would feel strain after an hour or two.

Most low-profiles are really just a middle ground between the two sides. And, at least in my experience, you get the downsides of both without any of the positives of either.

apocalyptic0n3 commented on Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver? · Posted by u/gillytech

smitelli · 6 months ago

Microsoft Word's "Save as Web Page" or GTFO.

apocalyptic0n3 · 6 months ago

I think you mean saving a PSD in Photoshop, opening it in ImageReady, slicing it, and then optimizing the slices for web.