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New comment by baumgarn in "Bill Atkinson has died"

baumgarn — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 18:29:01 +0000

I fondly remember creating simple narrative stories and games with HyperCard at 6 years old on my dad's Macintosh SE. It was my first contact with programming and a fundamental seed to using the computer as a creative tool. It has shaped my life in a substantial way. RIP Bill - HN bar should be blacked out.

New comment by baumgarn in "What if Germany had invested in nuclear power?"

baumgarn — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 11:27:19 +0000

The argument agains nuclear is not irrational. The true cost of nuclear is not sufficiently priced in. Example from recent history here in Germany the nuclear interim storage mine Asse is leaking and the garbage has to be recovered. Cost estimated to be 3.7 billion tax payer money. There is no solution for safe nuclear garbage storage in sight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine

New comment by baumgarn in "GPT-4o"

baumgarn — Mon, 13 May 2024 20:26:19 +0000

it should be possible to imitate any voice you want like your actual parents soon enough

New comment by baumgarn in "Ask HN: Are Cloudflare hosted pages currently slow when requested from iOS?"

baumgarn — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:49:53 +0000

Somebody posted a fix on the Cloudflare forum, disabling HTTP3 makes the sites load fast again, worked for me https://community.cloudflare.com/t/severe-problems-with-supe...

New comment by baumgarn in "Ask HN: Are Cloudflare hosted pages currently slow when requested from iOS?"

baumgarn — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:04:31 +0000

I have this issue with all my sites on Cloudflare since about three weeks, it seems to be limited to the Germany region. Most of the time all my sites load extremely slow and are unusable. I don't know what to do here, really frustrating.

New comment by baumgarn in "The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos"

baumgarn — Mon, 29 May 2023 11:56:12 +0000

The YouTube algorithm actually values videos higher that people watch for a longer time, so there is an incentive for the creation of this kind of content

New comment by baumgarn in "Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design (2018)"

baumgarn — Tue, 02 May 2023 09:34:46 +0000

This is not really what brutalism is about. Brutalism in architecture is often very playful and indeed more like a poetry and celebration of the raw materials and structure, not at all about the pure functionality absence of any aesthetic as formulated in that text. Brutalist buildings often neglect functionality in favour of architectural idiosyncracies. Like for example Trellick Tower: the elevators are in a separate tower outside the building and only serve every third floor. Brutalism celebrates raw form over function, and mostly people really don't enjoy living in these buildings.

New comment by baumgarn in "Tell HN: HP printers force you into agreement"

baumgarn — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 22:22:31 +0000

I've had absolutely excellent experience with my Brother black and white laser printer, cost 100 €, with casual printing I only had to replace the toner cartridge once in about 5 years for 25 €

New comment by baumgarn in "Ask HN: What do you do to jump start your brain in the morning?"

baumgarn — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 11:16:15 +0000

Cold shower. A pot of green tea.

New comment by baumgarn in "Magic Mouse 2 – A Terrible Design (2017)"

baumgarn — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 12:58:43 +0000

Honestly, the battery status is within reach of just a single mouse click in the Mac OS menu bar, I check it maybe once a week. I think there is even a warning when it reaches very low levels. In the rare case I forget to charge and run out, it is enough to charge it for like 15 minutes to keep working for the day.

New comment by baumgarn in "Magic Mouse 2 – A Terrible Design (2017)"

baumgarn — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:42:54 +0000

I have mouse battery anxiety and regulary check how much charge is left.

New comment by baumgarn in "Magic Mouse 2 – A Terrible Design (2017)"

baumgarn — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 00:15:09 +0000

A charge lasts me about a month of all day use, so this is still a non issue for me. Let's see how long until the battery becomes weaker. Enjoyed working with the mouse for a year so far.

New comment by baumgarn in "Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone"

baumgarn — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:28:53 +0000

A few times in dreams I found solutions to problems I have been working on during the day.

New comment by baumgarn in "Show HN: Symmetrical Drawing Tool for Doodling"

baumgarn — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 07:39:42 +0000

This is nice! It would be much more captivating if the canvas was full window size.

New comment by baumgarn in "Zoomquilt 2 (2007)"

baumgarn — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:08:02 +0000

Would be curious to hear more about what you did. Would you share it with me? Always thought about trying something with VR and the Zoomquilts.

New comment by baumgarn in "Zoomquilt 2 (2007)"

baumgarn — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 18:55:22 +0000

Thanks mate! You can see the full thing for free here http://arkadia.xyz, It's just the Live Wallpaper version to purchase and support the artists;)

New comment by baumgarn in "Zoomquilt 2 (2007)"

baumgarn — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 15:07:54 +0000

Great to hear! Glad you enjoy.

New comment by baumgarn in "Zoomquilt 2 (2007)"

baumgarn — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:31:04 +0000

Lol good to know. Original author here. I very occasionally get strange emails from people with mental health problems who are overly fascinated by it, as well as Google Play reviews accusing it to be "evil and demonic". I later created http://arkadia.xyz/ for a much more wholesome experience. The stuff in the first Zoomquilts is just fantasies of all the illustrators who participated back then, I assume there really was no evil intention :-D

New comment by baumgarn in "Zoomquilt 2 (2007)"

baumgarn — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:15:12 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out! Great suggestion, I will try it out.

New comment by baumgarn in "Zoomquilt 2 (2007)"

baumgarn — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:57:32 +0000

Thanks for posting this, haven't seen it before! Original author of the Zoomquilt here. Also noticeable is the Eames' movie Powers of Ten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 and a similar movie Cosmic Zoom, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgfwCrKe_Fk. They are both from 1968 and both based on a childrens book about the relative size of things in the universe, to my knowledge the first implementations of an infinite zoom effect.