Hacker News: theklr

New comment by theklr in "Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro"

theklr — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 15:40:44 +0000

At the rate of his quality, hope google does right and just buys his app out instead.

New comment by theklr in "Jon Stewart Returns to 'The Daily Show'"

theklr — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 03:23:52 +0000

Probably went cause of the freedom. He practically got a blank check from them and got to do almost whatever he felt like. Unfortunately Apple and the others are too big where they can’t be political and since they depend on certain governments “freedoms” it gets dicey as we head into an era of neo-brinksmanship.

New comment by theklr in "How Did Polyamory Become So Popular?"

theklr — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 17:56:57 +0000

This is my ancedata as well. It’s usually used as a proxy to prevent divorce. Those who are actually poly it’s a lot of over communication and a lot of syncing of calendars.

New comment by theklr in "Granting pardon for the offense of simple possession of or use of marijuana"

theklr — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:45:00 +0000

Rumor is it’s a done deal and they’re just weaponizing it for the election. I despise this is where we’ve come in political theater.

New comment by theklr in "Beeper vs. Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation"

theklr — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 17:33:34 +0000

This feels like the crux of the beeper battle. I can’t wait for the Aaron Sorkin adoption on a Netflix miniseries.

New comment by theklr in "The UX of delivering parcels"

theklr — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 14:53:02 +0000

I just wish they follow Amazon and allow me to choose a day(s). Tired of planning for a day only for it to be rescheduled

New comment by theklr in "To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use"

theklr — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 03:09:03 +0000

Sadly they never fixed the supporting issues, low wages, inability of affordable housing at pace to keep up with growth. It’s like they just thought giving an aspirin was going to cure the flu.

New comment by theklr in "Beeper Mini is back"

theklr — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:13:50 +0000

Why do android users want something they have everything else ahead? I don’t want interoperability. If I did I’d use the other messaging apps that are far beyond apple’s. The only value I see is stubbornness with older family as many see iPhones as a simpler device

New comment by theklr in "Beeper Mini is back"

theklr — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:08:37 +0000

Only question is what’s the endgame? It’s not like they’re going to gain meaningful followers from this. This happens every 3-5 years with something Apple does and all that happens is Apple hardens even more, the little guy gets some press for a month and then disappears into the ethers

New comment by theklr in "Dutch e-bike maker VanMoof goes bankrupt, leaving riders stranded"

theklr — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 16:46:23 +0000

With this news, does anyone know if there’s any of these new cycle tech startups that are working together to make some kind of FOSS tech to mitigate having vaporware if the company goes bell up? Glad Cowboy stepped in, but this feels like one of a couple.

New comment by theklr in "Microsoft is trying too hard with Edge"

theklr — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:34:09 +0000

As a macOS user was a fan of the initial version. Then Microsoft went into its Microsoft ways. Office toolbar, but you can hide it. Then more bing overrides on the new tab but you could adjust that. Finally came the bing icon. While I get I’m using a “free” tool, I wish there was more variation (particularly for work) in just getting a barebones browser. I was rooting for them as they implemented a couple of features that got them similar to Firefox DevTools, but them adding more and more bloat default, I moved to arc. Really wish safari would beef its dev tools by removing the App Store requirement, but alas. Seems devs don’t want to touch Firefox at the level to update their extensions comparable to chromium browsers.

New comment by theklr in "Apple Vision Pro may have VR Apple TV+ content at launch"

theklr — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 08:09:39 +0000

Cause every VR team has attempted before them with marginal success. 3D in 2D formats has never been appealing for mass consumption. The goal is to get people comfortable with the idea of this first.

New comment by theklr in "First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good"

theklr — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 10:34:44 +0000

It has a virtual keyboard so it’s a replacement.

New comment by theklr in "First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good"

theklr — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 10:33:47 +0000

For now. I actually see them moving to this if it takes off both for battery life and computing. Them even labeling it as a spatial computer, shows there positioning this to be their future.

New comment by theklr in "First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good"

theklr — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 10:28:12 +0000

I think I’m noticing what people do all the time with Apple launches, not listen to the marketing. They told you exactly where they’re positioning this. Spatial computing. Not quite tvOS not quite iPadOS. If they’re lucky this is the watch all over again. If they’re truly lucky, this the new iPlatform. I’m just excited they’ve now confirmed this will be a market for at least another decade. I am bummed to see though that it is a queued release and not a global preorder.

New comment by theklr in "Rising Share of U.S. Adults Are Living Without a Spouse or Partner"

theklr — Fri, 05 May 2023 19:30:19 +0000

It’s time to stop penalizing us then. Fix the damn tax code

New comment by theklr in "White-collar crime costs society 20x as much as street crime"

theklr — Tue, 02 May 2023 09:59:03 +0000

Because too many of them get in power to avoid the time for those crimes.

New comment by theklr in "'Indiana Jones 5' will feature a de-aged Harrison Ford for the first 25 minutes"

theklr — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 02:21:08 +0000

I know James Earl Jones last year before fully retired worked in doing a lot of vocal donation for tools like this for probably exactly what you’re stating

New comment by theklr in "Ask HN: Would a tech recession vindicate calls for tech unionization?"

theklr — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 19:06:29 +0000

(American biased) I think too many in these conversations fail to show good unions (sports and entertainment) and harp on the bloated ones (teachers UAW). Ideally the union should just be a floor, what protections we’re provided, benefits for when corporate feels trimming happy to soften these blows, and to reduce inherent biases within the industry. While I’d love for one to develop in this time, it’s still too many thinking they’ll be the successor versus the next to be expendable.

New comment by theklr in "I failed three job applications, here's what I learned"

theklr — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 12:55:33 +0000

That’s more with the chosen platform, Substack, than with the author