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New comment by mrkwse in "Raycast for Windows"

mrkwse — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:14:49 +0000

I'm not sure I see the benefit of this over PowerToys beyond system-wide indexing for file search (which I'd want in Explorer, not a separate launcher app). Let alone the premium tiers.

- AI? What's the benefit beyond agents in more domain-specific environments (or gen-purpose site) vs native to a launcher app?

- Custom window management is available with PowerToys

- Unlimited clipboard history - I'm not sure I want or need this over PowerToys retaining it for system uptime.

- (Free?) Extension library looks a step beyond what's currently available for PowerToys' Command Palette, but will Raycast gain more Windows-focused extensions faster than Command Palette does?

Competition is good, but I don't see how this adds value as a premium service beyond PowerToys

New comment by mrkwse in "The Balatro Timeline"

mrkwse — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:46:44 +0000

I'm rooting for it to have a great run at the BAFTAs (which - if maybe in part due to some British bias - feels like the gaming award of highest renown due to its proximity to the film and TV counterparts, even if _The Game Awards_ generally get more fanfare).

I think GOTY is probably a tough call against Astro Bot, but there are a lot of categories it could do well in, and even the volume of nominations it's received I think is really impressive and a great achievement for a solo effort.

Xbox Officially Acquires Activision Blizzard King

mrkwse — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:56:52 +0000

Article URL: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/10/13/xbox-activision-blizzard/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37870046

Points: 8

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New comment by mrkwse in "Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research"

mrkwse — Thu, 11 May 2023 15:14:23 +0000

I don't think it's a safe assumption that gig workers are typically choosing gig work over full-time contracted employment, but rather choosing gig work over unemployment/benefits.

New comment by mrkwse in "UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal"

mrkwse — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 12:24:42 +0000

Well it depends on how Microsoft's accountants manage the maths:

Hypothetically, if MS + Activision - UK > MS + UK - Activision (assuming it's only blocked in UK), it's plausible that Microsoft withdraws from UK to pursue its business with the merger everywhere else. The UK is a decent sized market, but it's far from the biggest.

New comment by mrkwse in "People who use Notion to plan their whole lives"

mrkwse — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 18:11:54 +0000

I'm someone who has used and paid for Notion for several years at this point.

What I would say is that it's very versatile. It has almost Atlassian Jira levels of features (and arguably of bloat), and it's possible to reasonably organise a lot of thoughts/knowledge/tasks in a wide range of ways.

I think the reason why it's so popular and oft lauded is because the range of capability allows people to really engineer workflows and processes that work for them and that without the prompts of the examples that Notion and its community provide they may not otherwise arrive at.

So for me I'd probably say that the product itself is fairly good. It's far from flawless (e.g., it uses Electron), but does a solid job of a wide range of things. The killer differentiator against its competitors, however, is the library of templates and example projects - this initially was produced by Notion itself but then the community really grew, shared its own interpretations, and _productivity content creators_ really latched onto it as a good conduit for communicating workflows, processes, and systems for working/getting tasks done.

New comment by mrkwse in "Apple Music Classical"

mrkwse — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 10:35:22 +0000

I'm really keen to dive into this however as someone knee deep in the ecosystem it's baffling that it doesn't have proper native integration with Apple TV/HomePod. You can Airplay with your phone as the source, but not with the receiving device being the source (which is typically a nicer and more reliable approach as some phone applications can interrupt the streamed audio).

New comment by mrkwse in "UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years"

mrkwse — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 21:10:45 +0000

For me the actual dark pattern in pricing is when prices remain fixed but quantity/volume really reduces. It's subtle on the aisle, but if you use online shopping it's blatant when the product you usually order is no longer available and it suggests an item that is identical in terms of the product it is and price, but has a glaring reduction in weight.

New comment by mrkwse in "Apple iPhone 14 Pro Camera test"

mrkwse — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:50:31 +0000

Seems a strange omission not to evaluate the ProRAW capture. I can understand having the rankings being in the typical/regular mode (as competitors may not have comparable modes), but surely there's value into evaluating what the enhancement offered by the top-quality mode offers?

It's a bit like evaluating the drive characteristics of a sports car but not once taking it out of comfort mode.

New comment by mrkwse in "iPhones and action discoverability"

mrkwse — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 22:25:38 +0000

I think the swiping back on new tab feature is a very well thought out piece of UX.

If a user taps a link that is set to open in a new window/tab, while the bottom/top (depending on user config) URL bar does animate to show the transition, the user may still expect to be able to navigate back to where they came from (especially in such a case where they haven't deliberately made the decision to open in a new tab).

I'd argue it would be worse UX for the back swipe to not navigate to the previous page in such circumstances than that it does but closes the tab (which is reasonably signalled by the URL bar animation).

New comment by mrkwse in "BMW introduces new heated seat subscription in UK"

mrkwse — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 08:50:02 +0000

I'd expect there is significantly more software effort in adding the ability to lock them behind a subscription than actually implementing the toggle to turn them on/adjust the intensity.

New comment by mrkwse in "GitHub Copilot for individuals available without waitlist, with free trial"

mrkwse — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:37:09 +0000

I’m not sure which keybinds you have enabled (possibly through VS Studio style?), but in PyCharm/Rider for me (IDEA keybinds) both completions and Copilot use tab to complete, which as the user you replied to has said, tends to get in the way and trip me up as often as the relevant suggestions provide something of benefit.

New comment by mrkwse in "Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier"

mrkwse — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:44:27 +0000

It will be interesting if LMG can pull off what Linus is aiming for with the massive investment in a laboratory environment. There are huge parts of the tech market where the most critical reviewing you can find is anecdotal accounts of if the reviewer liked a product or not (or the more clinical reviews are drowned out by the anecdotal noise).

New comment by mrkwse in "Dark Sky Has a New Home (2020)"

mrkwse — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 10:19:30 +0000

They already have integrated it in a pretty reasonable way. The only thing that's missing is some of the alternative views for the hourly forecast, it's possibly a feature that wasn't as widely used (or as accurate as temp/conditions/precipitation) but as someone who burns easily, I do miss having e.g. hourly UVI forecasts.

New comment by mrkwse in "OP-1 field"

mrkwse — Thu, 12 May 2022 15:01:02 +0000

Even with RMR though, he's pretty much moved away from the OP-1 videos, I can't recall the video where he explained why 100%, but I think he found it a bit creatively constraining.

New comment by mrkwse in "I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Production"

mrkwse — Thu, 05 May 2022 12:29:35 +0000

System and/or development processes

New comment by mrkwse in "Booting a Mac Studio from an external SSD, and what it doesn’t solve"

mrkwse — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 10:33:16 +0000

It's a strange shift and one I've fallen into the trap of. Discord requires kernel extensions for screen sharing and requires the reduced security toggle as a result. I've gladly used screen sharing in the past with presumably the same mechanisms, and not thought twice about it.

Yet for some reason I'm hesitant to reduce the security of my main personal machine, even if that 'reduction' results in a consistent level of security with my old 2015 x64 MacBook. The reality is that I probably need to go and determine if there are a greater volume of more prevalent kernel level exploits to figure out what the factor of risk really is - it may be that these features are exploited more regularly and to greater effect than they were in 2015.

JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus

mrkwse — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 13:27:42 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-statement-on-ukraine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30639572

Points: 141

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New comment by mrkwse in "BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion"

mrkwse — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 14:53:59 +0000

> Tor ought to still work

The Tor Browser also has a dedicated BBC site, on this URL: https://www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccij...

Браузер Tor также имеет специальный сайт Би-би-си по этому URL-адресу: https://www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccij...

Браузер Tor також має спеціальний сайт BBC за цією URL-адресою: https://www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccij...

All of the above via bbc press centre: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/articles/2022/advice-on-ac...

New comment by mrkwse in "As JetBrains we condemn the attacks taking place"

mrkwse — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 21:37:56 +0000

In terms of business risks, I believe Jetbrains are based in Czechia, so while there is risk for their founders, I'm not sure there's any business risk (whether Russian retribution or international sanctions) for JetBrains itself.