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New comment by egypturnash in "Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription"

egypturnash — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:34:28 +0000

"Word wants a subscription. Pages is a lot of app. TextEdit tops out at bold and italic."

No it doesn't? format>font has bold, italic, underline, outline, super/subscript, and more?

It used to have strikethru too, annoyingly now you have to open the fonts window and access it through a dropdown in there instead of a single hotkey. Notes still has a strikethru menu item but the ⌘k hotkey got stolen for "make hyperlink".

New comment by egypturnash in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

egypturnash — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:50:31 +0000

If "putting a random seed into a set of swappable character parts" counts as "generative art" then it sure made a ton of money when people cared about hying NFTs.

New comment by egypturnash in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

egypturnash — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:58:06 +0000

"boomer shooter": 1105 matches

"boomer shooter" + "female protagonist": 106 matches.

So a bit less than 1/10 of the games tagged with "boomer shooter". With your caveats above about being able to choose a gender, or a single brief segment where you're a lady in a game where you're mostly a dude. Is that a lot? I dunno, doesn't feel like a lot to me. Probably feels like a lot to the people who inevitably show up in the Steam discussions of any successful game that makes you be a lady for most of its length and complain about it being "woke", even one game with a female protagonist seems to be too many for them.

New comment by egypturnash in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

egypturnash — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:49:12 +0000

Control's not first-person. You are looking at Jesse's back for pretty much every moment of gameplay.

New comment by egypturnash in "The 15-minute city is a dead end"

egypturnash — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:55:44 +0000

> Transport is beginning to change: The rise of autonomous vehicles and technologies like hyperloop may make a major difference to the way we travel around cities

instant close

New comment by egypturnash in "The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun"

egypturnash — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:25:51 +0000

They’re saying that the popular conception of a “Butlerian Jihad” is a pale shadow of what Frank Herbert outlined over the course of four novels, all of which are… look, have you read any of them? Whatever virtues you care to ascribe to Dune, “succinct” is not one of them.

New comment by egypturnash in "The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go"

egypturnash — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:12:05 +0000

Unionize.

New comment by egypturnash in "Algorithmic Theming Engines"

egypturnash — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:23:27 +0000

How does someone write an article like this without ever once thinking "I should include some images that demonstrate what kind of colors this will automatically generate. Maybe even stick in an editable bit of html/css to let readers play with it themselves."

New comment by egypturnash in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

egypturnash — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:17:32 +0000

Sat it out, or were forced out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_efforts_to_restrict...

New comment by egypturnash in "Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler"

egypturnash — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:10:08 +0000

I personally am sharing stuff because I want people to read my comics, and maybe join my crowdfunding campaigns.

If I could put everyone pushing all this AI crap into a meat grinder, I would.

New comment by egypturnash in "macOS needs its grid back"

egypturnash — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:23:05 +0000

I just checked out DockDoor and I could not find anything related to multiple desktops in it at all.

New comment by egypturnash in "Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler"

egypturnash — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:13:27 +0000

People who are making stuff because they want to share it are still going to be publishing. And fighting to be noticed in an unending torrent of slop.

New comment by egypturnash in "SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims"

egypturnash — Fri, 29 May 2026 02:28:25 +0000

Good news, the current apocalyptic memory prices will mean that only apocalyptically rich people will be able to afford them at the toddler-pasting stage if they come out any time soon!

New comment by egypturnash in "C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”"

egypturnash — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:40:16 +0000

C64 BASIC is kind of a mess, there's zero support for graphics and sound. Your code rapidly becomes a giant pile of POKEs and PEEKs, and all your operations become absurdly slow because all the math routines are floating point only, so there's a ton of integer/fp conversion overhead on something as simple as "peek a memory location, AND/OR it with a few values taken from variables stored as floating point, poke it back".

Assembly becomes really attractive really quickly.

New comment by egypturnash in "Usborne 1980s Computer Books"

egypturnash — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:00:43 +0000

I never used the Usborne books because I was a US kid but I sure typed in a lot of stuff from books and magazines for my c64, often while modifying it on the fly. And dealing with accidentally skipped pages. And went on to learn assembly language.

New comment by egypturnash in "Usborne 1980s Computer Books"

egypturnash — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:20:28 +0000

[picture of Tips Kitty] Don't forget! Every time you see " ⦙ " in the listing, press the [Tab] key on your keyboard. See page 23 to learn why this is important.

And page 23 teaches you about significant whitespace, and how to configure several text editors that a kid's likely to have available to actually show it like that. Heck, I use Panic's Nova for my text editing and it does that out of the box with no configuration needed.

New comment by egypturnash in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

egypturnash — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:16:01 +0000

moll | mäl | noun informal, dated 1 (also gun moll) the female companion of a gangster or other criminal: I'd rush the money over to his moll. 2 a prostitute.

I think you probably mean "mall".

New comment by egypturnash in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

egypturnash — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:02:52 +0000

> I don't think people are upset by the CEO making lots of money as much as they are by the HBS management style of using people as a tool, or even as interchangeable "resources".

How about both? Both are pretty terrible for society IMHO. Some shithead's making 6000x of what average worker at their company because they're on top and they're treating everyone under them as interchangable tools with zero compassion. If they were limited to only making like 3x then they'd be on a much more equitable place with their underlings and might even be more likely to see them as fellow humans instead of disposable work units.

New comment by egypturnash in "The Palomar Lights"

egypturnash — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:47:42 +0000

I concluded "this is definitely AI" when I looked closely at one panel and what initially looked like a halftone pattern on a person was actually weird mottling that looked like an unpleasant flesh disease.

I hate this fucking future.

New comment by egypturnash in "The Palomar Lights"

egypturnash — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:03:46 +0000

I guess I'm doing a good job of pruning my inputs, the vast majority of the imagery I see online is from human artists whose work looks largely the same as it did before all these slop machines got popular, so I don't have as finely tuned a slop detector as you must.

(Although really "I followed a link from HN" is depressingly correlated with "the images in it are slop".)