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New comment by bobchadwick in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

bobchadwick — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:00:58 +0000

There's a significant difference between a hostage and a prisoner of war, and in this context that distinction seems highly relevant.

New comment by bobchadwick in "Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general"

bobchadwick — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:42:28 +0000

We also re-elected Bush Jr. after he started the disastrous war in Iraq, along with doing a bunch of other terrible shit. Is it really that surprising that Trump was elected twice?

New comment by bobchadwick in "I haven't used a mouse for 14 years"

bobchadwick — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:07:04 +0000

Ooh thanks for the hot tip on Scoot! I've been using Mouseless (https://mouseless.click/) for a while and it's been a game changer, allowing me to almost never touch the trackpad. That said, I like the fact that Scoot allows for selecting elements. Gonna give it a shot!

New comment by bobchadwick in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

bobchadwick — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:39:29 +0000

This sounds like the plot to the story Johnny Cash tells in One Piece at a Time, minus the machine gun, of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZuJivIwV8o

New comment by bobchadwick in "CIA Station Hit in Drone Attack"

bobchadwick — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:54:40 +0000

You mean lasers like this? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/us-military-used-laser...

New comment by bobchadwick in "I Used Claude to File My Taxes for Free"

bobchadwick — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:52:48 +0000

I use Free File Fillable Forms to prepare my taxes. It can be a bit tricky to make sure all the correct forms are completed and the calculations are correct, so that is the exact approach I take. It's a pain in the butt to essentially do my taxes twice, but I'm willing to go through that if it means I'm not giving money to the tax prep industry.

https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

New comment by bobchadwick in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

bobchadwick — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:09:36 +0000

Yep, I've adjusted the settings, and that has definitely helped. When it comes to real world typing, it feels like I'm using a ridiculous amount of brain power to get the word out of my head and onto the keys.

New comment by bobchadwick in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

bobchadwick — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:04:09 +0000

Yeah, I can't imagine switching to a new layout without using these tools. I'm just struggling to level up in the real world.

New comment by bobchadwick in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

bobchadwick — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:59:13 +0000

I've started using this: https://mouseless.click/. It looks insane, but it's amazing and I almost never find the need to use my trackpad.

New comment by bobchadwick in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

bobchadwick — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:55:39 +0000

I'm in the same boat as OP. I've used keybr and https://monkeytype.com/, and while doing the exercises, I get pretty close to the speed and accuracy I had using a standard keyboard and qwerty, but I get much worse on both fronts when typing in the real world.

New comment by bobchadwick in "I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D"

bobchadwick — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:36:11 +0000

I just did this last week, mostly using Claude Code. I live close to a major airport and wanted to be alerted when interesting planes are flying overhead. The PWA Claude Code spit out is exactly what I was hoping for, and adding an AR overlay was really trivial.

It's amazing and in some ways frightening that I had an interesting problem, and within a couple hours I had a fully functional app that completely solved it.

New comment by bobchadwick in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

bobchadwick — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:27:12 +0000

OK, I went looking for sources and found this[1]:

In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency assumes the typical car is driven 15,000 miles (24,000 km) per year. According to the New York Times, in the 1960s and 1970s, the typical car reached its end of life around 100,000 miles (160,000 km). Due in part to manufacturing improvements, such as tighter tolerances and better anti-corrosion coatings, in 2012 the typical car was estimated to last for 200,000 miles (320,000 km) with the average car in 2024 lasting 160,545 miles according to the website Junk Car Reaper.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_longevity#Statistics

New comment by bobchadwick in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

bobchadwick — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:48:06 +0000

Modern cars aren't built as well.

Can you cite a source for this? There's no question that they're vastly more complex, but I would think that modern car manufacturing is far more exacting (and efficient) than in the past.

If you're saying that older cars are more repairable, I'm happy to agree with you, even without a source to back up that claim.

New comment by bobchadwick in "Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info"

bobchadwick — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:00:19 +0000

I'm never going to ride in the Paris-Brest-Paris, but someday I'm gonna make a Paris-Brest pastry: https://www.seriouseats.com/paris-brest-pate-a-choux-with-pr...

New comment by bobchadwick in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

bobchadwick — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:19:12 +0000

I pay for YouTube Music and I see really inconsistent behavior when asking Siri to play music. My five-year-old kid is really into an AI slop song that claims to be from the KPop Daemon Hunters 2 soundtrack, called Bloodline (can we talk about how YT Music in full of trashy rip-off songs?). He's been asking to listen to it every day this week in the car and prior to this morning, saying "listen to kpop daemon hunters bloodline" would work fine, playing it via YT Music. This morning, I tried every iteration of that request I could think of and I was never able to get it to play. Sometimes I'd get the response that I had to open YT Music to continue, and other times it would say it was playing, but it would never actually queue it up. This is a pretty regular issue I see. I'm not sure if the problem is with Siri or YT Music.

After Winter Storm, New York Uses Hot Tubs to Melt the Snow

bobchadwick — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:32:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/nyregion/new-york-hot-tubs-snow-storm.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46810706

Points: 2

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New comment by bobchadwick in "Making macOS Bearable"

bobchadwick — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:52:52 +0000

Good to know Shortcat is capable of working well on my laptop! I'll have to mess around with it. I think I have tinkered with the delay, so thanks for the tip on that. Wooshy is alright, but I think I prefer the hint-based approach to selecting a target.

New comment by bobchadwick in "Making macOS Bearable"

bobchadwick — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:39:54 +0000

I love Shortcat but it's too slow to be usable on my i5-based MacBook Pro. I have been using Wooshy instead, but I'll be checking out mouseless after seeing it mentioned here.

New comment by bobchadwick in "Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them"

bobchadwick — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:53:40 +0000

But there's no war. These are just crimes.

Virtual Vernier Caliper

bobchadwick — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:22:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stefanelli.eng.br/en/virtual-vernier-caliper-simulator-05-millimeter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996541

Points: 2

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