Hacker News: AgentEpsilon

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

AgentEpsilon — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:04:34 +0000

Teams does both - normally it’s Enter to submit and Shift+Enter for a new line, but when you open the formatting tools it switches. They at least do have a message indicating which key combo inputs a new line, but it still gets me on occasion.

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "Unity acquires Weta Digital"

AgentEpsilon — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 22:15:40 +0000

Page might be struggling a bit, if you can't get it to load here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20211109221017/https://blog.unit...

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "A New Bootable USB Solution"

AgentEpsilon — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 03:15:07 +0000

This is a bit off topic, but I'd love to hear more detail as to your home network setup. I've seen netboot.xyz before but I have no real knowledge as to how such a setup would work.

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "Wine 6.0"

AgentEpsilon — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:33:01 +0000

I agree, I don't think it would be productive for the Wine team to support Metal. I do wonder how feasible it would be for MoltenVK [0] to be supported instead.

[0]: https://moltengl.com/moltenvk/

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "Wine 6.0"

AgentEpsilon — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:26:25 +0000

Fantastic work by the Wine team! Congrats on the release.

Still very disappointed that macOS has not been supported since Catalina (10.15) dropped 32-bit support - from my understanding, the 32-bit architecture is deeply integrated into Wine and removing it would be a significant effort. Understandably the focus has always been on Linux, but I would still appreciate at least an update from the team on potential macOS support in the future.

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro"

AgentEpsilon — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:22:59 +0000

This seems like the most likely answer. Disappointing how different the color is if that is the case.

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro"

AgentEpsilon — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:22:16 +0000

Check the renders. The sim slot is on the left side.

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro"

AgentEpsilon — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:18:16 +0000

I feel like I'm going insane. On every single model revealed today, there is a differently-colored patch on the right side of the phone, below the power button. What is it?

It's not the SIM card slot - that's on the left side. It's not a new TouchID sensor - the website doesn't even mention it at all. And yet it exists in every single render.

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "Rust 2021: GUI"

AgentEpsilon — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:19:47 +0000

Existing browser engines (Chromium, WebKit, Gecko) definitely have a lot of cruft in them for compatibility purposes. An engine designed to be much lighter weight and modern would be a great fit for embedding into applications.

As opposed to writing a new engine from scratch (Servo), I wonder how feasible it would be to fork one of these existing engines and modularize its contents? The ability to start from (close to) zero and then pick and choose which features you want in your engine would be pretty attractive to lots of developers. The application that never expects to play any sort of media or access any peripherals could exclude the respective components from the build entirely.

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "The Oculus Quest 2"

AgentEpsilon — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:43:57 +0000

Not a huge issue since it's the AMP version of the article hosted on the Verge, not Google, but in case anyone wants the desktop site: https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/14/21435891/oculus-quest-2-l...

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "Schizophrenia Manifests as a GitHub Repo"

AgentEpsilon — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:43:28 +0000

Wow. I'm honestly not sure what to make of this.

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "The Last Apple Keynote (Hopefully)"

AgentEpsilon — Wed, 11 Sep 2019 16:31:27 +0000

The Apple keynotes were created to present, and build hype around, something new. Some new product, or feature, or service, that would supposedly change the way an Apple user would interact with the world.

Of the announcements from this most recent keynote, what was new? The third camera on the iPhone? The update of the main series iPads to use the "Pro" look? A new screen in the Watch? A couple games and a tv show?

These keynotes stopped being relevant when Apple stopped producing anything keynote-worthy. They're just routine at this point.

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "Google Phishing Quiz"

AgentEpsilon — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:53:01 +0000

Actually, it looks like navigating to the link you're talking about https://google.com/amp/tinyurl.com/y7u8ewlr, or any link beginning with https://google.com/amp/, will first bring you to a redirect confirmation, not immediately redirect you.

(The shortlink above is actually safe - it redirects to https://jigsaw.google.com/)

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "Boxy – An Inbox-inspired macOS Gmail client"

AgentEpsilon — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 13:03:55 +0000

I've been wondering what I will use once Inbox finally shuts down, and through the multiple discussions I've seen on HN I've never seen anybody even mention Boxy. This honestly looks like exactly what I've been looking for.

Boxy – An Inbox-inspired macOS Gmail client

AgentEpsilon — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 13:02:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.boxyapp.co/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18065962

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "Show HN: Who's Hiring RSS Feed"

AgentEpsilon — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 01:30:54 +0000

Looks great! Personally I'd love an option to filter the RSS feed - I'm looking for an internship and if I could get a feed of only the listings containing the word "intern" that'd be great. Maybe a keyword passed as a query string in the url?

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (2012)"

AgentEpsilon — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:22:51 +0000

No it isn't.

I can forgive the extremely contrived decks, but using a card to completely change the behavior of the majority of your cards doesn't mean the game itself is Turing complete. If anything, this is just showing how you can utilize Magic game mechanics to create a Turing Machine.

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "Haxe – Opensource Cross-Platform Toolkit"

AgentEpsilon — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 04:47:10 +0000

Haxe is basically several different things.

A language: It's language was originally designed to be a successor to ActionScript 3, as Haxe was originally designed to replace Flash.

A cross-compiler: The most interesting part in my opinion. Basically you can write Haxe code and target many, many different platforms. Mostly how this works is by transpiling, or translating the code into valid code in other languages.

A cross-platform standard library: This just means that it includes its standard library whenever it cross-compiles.

Ways to access native capabilities: Depending on your desired compilation target, you can use specific functionality only available on that target.

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "Mac OS High Sierra automatically checks EFI firmware each week"

AgentEpsilon — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 00:05:03 +0000

Personally, I use rEFInd to manage my MBP's OS installs. I know that it installs itself to the EFI partition, but would that cause this service to identify an insecure/corrupted/whatever EFI?

New comment by AgentEpsilon in "A Tour of Acme (2012) [video]"

AgentEpsilon — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:34:30 +0000

Interesting! I wanted to try this out, but it looks like the download (http://swtch.com/plan9port/plan9port.tgz) is down.