Hacker News: apetrovic

New comment by apetrovic in "Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13"

apetrovic — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:24:40 +0000

I don't want to compare anyone to Michelangelo, but the opening sentence of the aticle is more than flawed. My daughter got some painting classes in that age, and I saw work of some gifted kids. A bit better than "directionless doodles, chaotic comics, and a few unsteady-at-best school projects".

New comment by apetrovic in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

apetrovic — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:46:44 +0000

You don't need to go that deep into the article. Just - emacs. Of course I know what it is, I had to google the name to find it's EditorMACroS

New comment by apetrovic in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

apetrovic — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:19:46 +0000

I had a buzzing problem with AirPods Pro 1. Apple replaced it (both headphones) after year and a half of use, for free.

New comment by apetrovic in "Framework Laptop 16"

apetrovic — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 21:16:14 +0000

I'm probably missing some context, but on my Mac I'm using three fingers drag and I can lift fingers and (quickly) reposition them without breaking the drag.

New comment by apetrovic in "Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move"

apetrovic — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 08:47:40 +0000

What are "competitive options"? It's a genuine question. Before Synology, I had some DIY server in a Fractal Design case, and noise and, to be honest, bulk were a problem. Also, maintenance of the server wasn't funny.

I switched to Synology about six years ago (918+). The box is small, quiet, and easy to put in the rack together with the network gear. I started with 4TB drives, gradually switched to 8TB over time (drive by drive). I don't use much of their apps (mostly download station, backup, and their version of Docker to run Syncthing, plus Tailscale). But the box acts like an appliance - I basically don't need to maintain it at all; it just works.

I don't like all this stuff with vendor lock-in, so when the time comes for replacing the box, what are alternatives on par with the experience and quality I currently have with Synology?

New comment by apetrovic in "New Mac Mini with M4"

apetrovic — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:19:23 +0000

Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/108345

New comment by apetrovic in "AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux"

apetrovic — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 08:25:19 +0000

I bought Kindle Paperwhite with ads. Get tired of ads. Tried to pay Amazon to remove ads, for some reason it didn't work (I'm not from USA).

Contacted customer support, explained what's the problem, the person on the other side said "wait a minute, sir" and removed ads from my Kindle without asking me to pay for it.

That was a good experience with Amazon.

New comment by apetrovic in "Apple's 80% charging limit for iPhone: How much did it help after a year?"

apetrovic — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:07:01 +0000

80% optimised charging, 100% battery life. iPhone 15 Pro, manufactred - September 2023, first use - November 2023.

New comment by apetrovic in "OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show"

apetrovic — Thu, 23 May 2024 08:39:03 +0000

So if I have a company that sells, say, manure, I can search and hire a voice actress that sounds exactly like Scarlett to promote me in radio ads? And write a tweet that vaguely implies that it's really her?

New comment by apetrovic in "Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac"

apetrovic — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:54:51 +0000

I understand that making a good app is hard, and don't want to undermine your effort, but $150 for a todo app... ouch.

New comment by apetrovic in "Bython: Python with braces. Because Python is awesome, but whitespace is awful"

apetrovic — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:35:06 +0000

Huh? Rust, Go, Swift and probably many more languages does the same.

New comment by apetrovic in "QMK and Keyboards"

apetrovic — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:52:30 +0000

> Third RANT please STOP making cherry, OSA etc profiles. Very old IBM keyboards have solved the height issue with a simple parabolic support, there is NO DAMN REASON to make flat support and different height keycaps making limited room to move them on the keyboard.

Some of us like to experiment with various profiles (my favorites are MT3 and Cherry and I rotate them every couple months on my keyboards). You can try XDA and DSA profiles, they're qute flat.

New comment by apetrovic in "Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case?"

apetrovic — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:41:57 +0000

You can type names with only upper case letters and be gramatically correct.

New comment by apetrovic in "Passwords Are Fine"

apetrovic — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 12:00:54 +0000

> I guess the point I'm trying to make here is that the problem with passwords is password hygiene, not with the method itself.

I guess the point I'm trying to make here is that the problem with obesity is just amount of food consumed, not the food itself.

New comment by apetrovic in "Framework Laptop 16"

apetrovic — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:15:13 +0000

Because it's easier to touch empty space and adjust fingers. Back when I worked on Thinkpad, I really hated these keys, whenever I accidentally pressed them. I don't say you're wrong, just it's a matter of taste.

It's the same with mechanical keyboards - I can't use these compact 75% keyboards where arrows/Pg Up/Pg Down/Home/End are flush with other keys; but a bit "exploded" layout, with just a bit of space between arrows and the right column keys is perfectly ok with me

What I really hate is that combination of full size/half size arrows on modern laptops, put there just because some designer hate empty space.

New comment by apetrovic in "Block loses 20% of value as Hindenburg Research alleges fraud"

apetrovic — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:57:23 +0000

[citation needed]

New comment by apetrovic in "The Janet Language"

apetrovic — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 07:28:39 +0000

Yoir sample of "normal people" is vastly different than mine.

New comment by apetrovic in "Vim: ZZ and zz: Do you know the difference?"

apetrovic — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 10:42:53 +0000

Most editors have zz functionality. Ctrl+L for VSCode, JetBrains tools, and SublimeText, for example.

New comment by apetrovic in "How Apple names things"

apetrovic — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 10:29:41 +0000

At this point, whenever anything Apple-related comes to HN front page, I can bring up a bingo card with pre-canned responses and cover at least 80% of conversation.

Same with go fanboyism/hate.

New comment by apetrovic in "Ask HN: What colorscheme are you using in your code editor?"

apetrovic — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 16:35:00 +0000

You can preview it in VSCode. Open command pallete, type "Color Theme", click on top on "Browse additional color themes", and type "catppuccin" in the box. Arrows up/down to preview, Enter to install it.