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The Tippy Type makes typing with long nails less tedious
- amelius 2y agoMaybe use snap-on/snap-off nails instead? (I checked, they exist).
- smegsicle 2y ago"please remove weave to use faceid"
- dotancohen 2y agoSnap-on sells a good hammer, but I've never seen their nails.
- nuancebydefault 2y agoTyping with long nails is like walking whilst wearing pumps. Practice makes perfect.
- pbhjpbhj 2y agoWhat do you mean by "pumps". Where I'm from in the UK it means very basic trainers (USA: sneakers), like plimsolls. Something like a Converse Allstar, say. I've got to assume from the context you mean 'high-heeled shoes'?
- giraffe_lady 2y agoMust be a regional or class dialect thing? You've never heard the Amy Winehouse song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVaqQe3V498 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVaqQe3V498
- nuancebydefault 2y agoWhere I live indeed naaldhakken are called pumps as well. I hence, maybe uncorrectly, assumed it is an English word... Flemish/Dutch is so full of English words. We use words like sneakers, shorts, wonderbra, jeans, hoodie,... often there is no Dutch alternative even.
- _nalply 2y agoThis gave me an idea: what about changing keyboard layouts? Have a silicon cover for the Swiss-German keyboard layout. Of course the form of the keys needs to be different because I don't have long nails. And I am not sure about the tactile feel.
- pimlottc 2y agoWould just going back to a standard mechanical keyboard get you most of the same benefits?
- nerdponx 2y agoProbably, especially with the taller spherical-dished SA keycaps.
- minkles 2y agoI just angrily chew my nails off and get back to what I was doing.
- Physkal 2y agodeleted
- dylan604 2y agoCareful, that's awfully close to a misogynistic stereotype. You wouldn't happen to be wearing a red hat would you?
- Physkal 2y agoCould you explain please. I'm really trying to be better.
- shepherdjerred 2y agoIt does definitely read a bit strange, but you seem genuine which makes up for that.
- dylan604 2y agoYour original comment sounded a lot like 1950/60s thinking of an all female secretarial pool like in Mad Men where a secretary was the glass ceiling for women. It also sounded like a line spoken by one of the men in Mad Men. It's also the specific ideal for a particular political movement known for wearing their red hats that think this is what would make the country great again.
- wredue 2y agoHey dude. Good on you for trying. Sexism is often extremely deeply rooted. So much so that sexist people don’t even recognize without someone else pointing it out. It takes YEARs of self reflection and even then, you’re still going to catch that worse part of oneself breaking through. Some people vastly over compensate and that’s really no fun either.
- Stratoscope 2y agoCareful with your stereotypes. I'm not wearing a Red Hat, but I am running one. Which reminds me of a prank I pulled a few years ago. I was working at a startup that had been acquired by a BigCo. (Alas, I joined after the acquisition.) One of the founders decided to put his newfound wealth to a good purpose: fighting white supremacy. This was during the pandemic, so we had a going-away party on Zoom and shared little video tributes to him. When it was my turn, I told him, "I want you to know exactly how I feel about your new project. I didn't have time to order an embroidered hat, so I mocked it up with my printer and an old baseball cap. It's a MAKA hat." I deliberately slurred the pronunciation so it almost sounded like that other acronym. I held up the hat with my finger covering the spot where "Great" would be, and put it on my head. And then I moved my hand away for the reveal. The word was "Kind": Make America Kind Again. Everyone loved it!
- user3939382 2y agoI used to teach typing to young latinas from the Bronx. I would have bought 20 of these.
- dotancohen 2y agoWere the young latinas from the Bronx typing on MacBooks? ))
- m463 2y agoI can't help but think edward scissor switch keyboard hands.
- pimlottc 2y agoLow-profile keyboards are pretty ubiquitous on all laptops these days, and even many desktop keyboards as well.
- dotancohen 2y agoThe fine article mentions that the product is Mac only for now. Though they do have plans for other laptops soon.
- pimlottc 2y agoAh, missed that detail, thanks.
- wkat4242 2y agoDo women actually like long nails? I already cut mine when they're even less than a millimetre :) it annoys me so much. And I often cut my own skin by mistake when they're too long. If I were a girl I wouldn't wear them I'm sure.
- phendrenad2 2y agoThis is my new favorite quintessential HN comment.
- phyzome 2y agoThe article covers this.
- smeej 2y agoI'm female and do the same thing you do. I'm sure this product works just as well for anyone who does like having long nails, whatever their reasons and regardless of sex, but it sounds like you and I simply aren't the target customer.
- wkat4242 2y agoTrue it isn't necessarily about gender (of course not every woman wears them) though I haven't seen anyone who identifies as male wear them (though I suspect it might happen in the Gothic community). Hence the way I stated the question. Sorry I didn't mean to offend. I asked my female identifying friends and most of them said that they don't like to wear them but they think they look good so they do it anyway :) And one said she loves them because she can sharpen them so she can scratch people (she's a dominatrix :). So yeah, reasons can vary.
- dotancohen 2y ago[flagged]
- cafard 2y agoI guess that you could ask a woman, maybe one with long nails.
- dylan604 2y ago"For example, the arrow keys are small and awkward, and there’s no cover for the function keys aside from the Esc key." Sounds like it was made for MBP with a second gen Touch Bar after they brought back the Esc key
- drewcoo 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shridhar_Chillal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shridhar_Chillal Long nails have more serious problems.
- bjourne 2y agoBack when I played classical guitar this product would have been a life saver. You must not type fast with long nails or they will break. Then you can't play well until they grow back (may take a week or more). Even if they don't break you'll probably ruin their curvature. The correct way to type is to hit the keys at an almost 90 degree angle and that is very, very bad for long nails. Fake nails are sturdier, but I play better with natural nails.
- Animats 2y agoThe Verge: "We and our 847 partners store and access personal data..." Is that a new record? Anyone know a site that's in 4 digits yet?
- dotancohen 2y agoIt's one partner for every 1/10 mm of nail.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoIt sounds familiar; I'm guessing there's a standard set of 847 partners. If you look into the cookie settings, they claim that 517 partners need access to the "strictly necessary cookies". I suspect that their idea of "strictly necessary cookies" might not actually hold up in court.
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- ordu 2y agoIt is always fascinates me how far people could go in a pursuit of their definition of a beauty. I'm not surprised at all when someone builds a keyboard from scratch because they do not like the arrangement of the keys: whether they are right or wrong, they see the problem and they try out a solution to it. But when people just create problems for themselves out of a thin air and insist on keeping these problems as pets, I just cannot fathom what goes in their heads. People are wonderful beings with an infinite individual variety, one cannot claim to truly understand it.
- andrewflnr 2y ago> I just cannot fathom what goes in their heads. Broadly, yes. But in this case, she explained the decision tree pretty clearly.
- bruce511 2y agoLook as a guy, who could care less about societal standards of beauty (mine or anyone elses) I feel under qualified to comment on the beauty choices of others. But I can say I felt the decision tree explanation in the article was unconvincing. Reviewers need long nails because photos? Because to some demographic long nails "look better". (Personally I think long nails look bad, but that's maybe just me.) I felt like the author like long nails. They're clearly invested in long nails. That should be enough to like or dislike the product. They should have to justify their desire for long nails. (Justifing it suggests they know it has disadvantages.) I concur that conforming to beauty standards in a world that both presents them as standards, then designs away from those standards consumes more energy than I have to expend.
- jabagawee 2y agoI read the author's statement that they were "not out here wearing long nails for fun" to mean that they were not the one liking or invested in long nails. I may be reading too deeply between the lines, but I believe that reading the critical comments left by the "Internet Nail Police" may be more energy-consuming than the alternative of conforming to beauty standards. I felt a tone of sarcasm from the offense taken at "god forbid, there’s a smudge of dirt under [their] natural nail," which I took to mean that these comments are nitpicky and extremely likely to occur. Though it may be easy to brush off some amount of social scorn, being a public figure on the Internet comes with a volume of it that I've heard many influencers and content creators describe as difficult to cope with no matter how strong I assumed them to be.
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- ggm 2y agoThe original asr33 was somewhat like this. I think the key profiles of an IBM selectric or the equivalent Olivetti would have been tolerably forgiving of frenched nails. (I break mine off short but I've destroyed the keycaps of the home keys and space bar on every keyboard i own. Rowing is better in short nails you need to be hands together enough in the return to catch you cut your hand on a long thumbnail)
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> Typing is one of the most annoying things about having long nails. I frequently have long nails because I don't like clipping them. I once had a girl complain to me that she couldn't get her nails to grow as long, if she tried, as I grew mine through neglect. Typing barely registers. The only difference is that you get more clicking sounds than otherwise. The most annoying thing, by far, is that you need to approach a phone touchscreen with the side of your finger instead of the tip. The second most annoying thing is that sometimes something goes wrong and a part of the environment will encounter and tear or break your nail.
- Log_out_ 2y agoBut the whole idea of long nails is to make you visibly unable to do manual labour .same as stilettos or long hair beeing a handicap in battle. why work around a signal that you will refuse work ? For those caught in between : https://www.tiktok.com/@glamnetic/video/6946266618020318469?lang=en https://www.tiktok.com/@glamnetic/video/6946266618020318469?...
- lmaoguy 2y ago[flagged]
- tocs3 2y agoI have watched a couple people type with long nails and been somewhat amazed at their proficiency. This looks like a good idea. Has any one out there tried one?
- jjeaff 2y agoI assume that they were angling their fingers in a way to still press with the pads of their fingers? At first I imagined using the tips of their nails, but it seems like it would be difficult to learn using the tips since the length and angle of the nails would frequently change.