<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: zapzupnz</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zapzupnz</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:26:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=zapzupnz" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zapzupnz in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>2025 and 2026 have proven that to be vastly untrue. It was never true. If it was anything, it was rampant laziness.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:03:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239084</link><dc:creator>zapzupnz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zapzupnz in "New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not just N, it's Z.</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, five minutes for the next one is luxury in my neck of the woods where you're more likely to wait 30 minutes to find out the next one is cancelled.</p>
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<p>> That's my point. It's a lot more complicated<p>It's not so complicated that you assume you need to run out at this very moment to find the nearest elevator just to prove a point. That's moronic.<p>> There are escalators where it's too narrow to pass<p>So you see what everybody else is doing and do that. Presumably, if it's that narrow, everybody's just standing in the centre.<p>> The same goes for escalators that are so long that nobody's walking up them to accelerate their progress<p>The fact the staircase is so long is exactly why people would be walking up an escalator, to save the most time.<p>> or when nobody is around<p>Then it clearly doesn't matter.<p>> or when it's so crowded nobody's able to pass anyway<p>If everybody's on one side, it's not too crowded.<p>> it doesn't apply in places where people aren't going to be in a big hurry<p>Alright, that's fine for where you are familiar. It won't take long at all to notice that's not the case in Japan, there are enough elevators all around the place.<p>> Manners are really complicated<p>If you're completely unobservant yet somehow think you need to be on edge at all times, which seems contradictory, I'm sure it is.<p>Or if you think that they're inflexible edicts without nuance. They're manners, not morals.</p>
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<p>> I think the nearest one is a mile away, that seems really inconvenient and unnecessary<p>I think this way of thinking, being obtuse on purpose to try to win an internet argument (without a prize, no less), is the more unnecessary thing. What point does that argumentation try to prove other than that a hypothetical version of you, as opposed to most humans who live in large cities, are an inflexible idiot?<p>Most people are not 100% unaware of the context in which they are engaging. We know to apply escalator rules when we're at an escalator. We know to put things in bins when we have things to put in bins. What we don't know, we can learn through observation, reading the atmosphere, and making at least a minimal effort not to showboat our individualism and, apparently, any obtuse refusal to engage with our context.<p>(By the way, I don't <i>actually</i> think <i>you</i> are an inflexible idiot.)</p>
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<p>And some sports games, which is where it seems clear they just wanted their own Wii Sports.<p>Not so much the game itself so much as the excuse for the masses to buy a console for a game even grandpa can play.</p>
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<p>It was 100% chasing the Wii. It didn't chase all that hard, either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:18:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48814987</link><dc:creator>zapzupnz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48814987</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48814987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zapzupnz in "Show HN: Mise – A keyboard-driven Python/Qt6 browser built for fanless laptops"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They look much better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:04:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798824</link><dc:creator>zapzupnz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798824</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zapzupnz in "Show HN: Mise – A keyboard-driven Python/Qt6 browser built for fanless laptops"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why are all the screenshots showing a translucent window. If “it is designed specifically for power users who want […] zero interface clutter”, why advertise it by making it look like it needs a going over with Spray & Wipe because the background looks like unpleasant streaks? :S</p>
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<p>Your comment got downvoted for being flippant but I agree. It's an interesting discussion but it really comes off as grandstanding. Doesn't address the main thrust of the article nor the comment to which it replies.</p>
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<p>> outright admission of failure<p>Right!? Who's out there going "oh no, translucent is too translucent; opaque is too opaque; but now that I can have 72.93% glass, my life is complete"?</p>
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<p>Mac OS X 27.<p>10.27?<p>But that means there were two each of 10.11, 10.12, 10.13, 10.14, and 10.15 :-)</p>
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<p>Voilà, I think you may have fallen for their trap. That's why they've done <i>nothing</i> about this to date even though volume normalisation is a solved problem.</p>
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<p>It's on the front page now.</p>
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<p>On what basis?</p>
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<p>I have control bugs. Like, if I drag around a window using my trackpad, I can't seem to 'drop' the window; the state doesn't change and I'm stuck with a window attached to my mouse cursor.<p>I agree that I'm not sure what value I'd see, as an employer, in a "visual designer" whose CV rips off something else's visual design. Much of the design doesn't belong to you (never mind the ROMs used in the Game Boy emulator) so my alarm bells about how much you respect IP would be going off ("this guy's gonna get us sued").<p>Now, on the other hand, if this were a display of some HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills, I'd understand more, but then the title OP has given themselves seems off.</p>
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<p>> Or scrolling represents a viewpoint, such as a frame<p>Which is not natural. The manipulation of a trackpad matches the manipulation of a document, natural.<p>There's no real world concept of a 'viewport' that makes sense with documents other than our own eyes; we don't move our eyes with our hands, unnatural.</p>
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<p>It doesn't have that on Windows. When natural scrolling is enabled on Windows, it works the same as on macOS.</p>
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<p>Touching a trackpad is just an indirect way to touch the document. You're doing the exact same motion, pressing upwards on the trackpad to push the page upwards.</p>
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<p>What’s the point of being forced to open something up if only to say ‘no’ to Meta? Can’t have it both wars. It’s either open or it’s not.</p>
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