Hacker News: chedabob

New comment by chedabob in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

chedabob — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:21:29 +0000

> Both expected to be caught by chopsticks. Will be a first for Starship.

SpaceX's flight profile says both are splashdowns?

New comment by chedabob in "HP ZGX Fury Is Now Orderable: GB300 Superchip, 748GB Unified Memory"

chedabob — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:36:36 +0000

Dell's equivalent starts at £180k.

New comment by chedabob in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

chedabob — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:43:41 +0000

I use the water lock which is a bit annoying when I need to actually swipe on the screen.

New comment by chedabob in "Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds"

chedabob — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:53:39 +0000

Hongju PB86-A1

New comment by chedabob in "Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed"

chedabob — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:08:32 +0000

And 900k litres of fish sauce.

New comment by chedabob in "Less Coffee, Better Sleep"

chedabob — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:58:25 +0000

E-reader. Went for the latest Kindle Paperwhite as it can adjust the colour temperature as well.

New comment by chedabob in "Less Coffee, Better Sleep"

chedabob — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:21:19 +0000

I always aim to stop doing anything with high cognitive load at least half an hour before getting ready for bed.

Not necessarily no screen time, but coding stops, and the remaining time is spent gaming or watching TV, or I go to bed early and read.

New comment by chedabob in "Nano Banana 2 removed from Google Earth"

chedabob — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:05:40 +0000

A Product Manager in some AI-adjacent department needs a promotion.

New comment by chedabob in "Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport"

chedabob — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:56:25 +0000

I agree with you, but given that a lot of car theft is now done by exploiting the keyless entry system, it feels like there'd be easier targets.

New comment by chedabob in "HMD Touch 4G"

chedabob — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:44:31 +0000

They couldn't find a stock photo for the selfie cam instead of using AI slop?

New comment by chedabob in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

chedabob — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:28:28 +0000

8GB RAM and no active cooling would be miserable.

Mac Mini is the best bang for buck at the moment. I have an M1 Air as well, but if I'm away from my desk and doing anything that would push the SOC hard, I remote into my Mini.

New comment by chedabob in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

chedabob — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:29:37 +0000

Do you think the billions spent disappear into space? It pays the salaries of everyone involved so they can eat.

New comment by chedabob in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

chedabob — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:47:38 +0000

Love it when it forgets the Mac apps exist, and launches Maps or Calendar in phone mirroring. I use mirroring a fair bit, but never for anything where I have the Mac app installed.

New comment by chedabob in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

chedabob — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:56:30 +0000

Ye some of the weirdest issues I've fixed have been PSU related.

I had a PC come to me that would boot fine, but if you opened the CD drive it'd shut off instantly.

New comment by chedabob in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"

chedabob — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:29:10 +0000

Ye, kick off into some higher-level language instead of being at the mercy of your CI provider's plugins.

I use Fastlane extensively on mobile, as it reduces boilerplate and gives enough structure that the inherent risk of depending on a 3rd-party is worth it. If all else fails, it's just Ruby, so can break out of it.

New comment by chedabob in "Self Sanitizing Door Handle"

chedabob — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:16:01 +0000

> Why is it push to enter, pull to exit at all?

So that in an emergency your escape route can't be blocked. Also having doors swing out into corridors is bad practice as you're more likely to open it into someone walking past.

New comment by chedabob in "Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing"

chedabob — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:00:38 +0000

And those stupid stylised "fonts" that create problems for screenreaders by using obscure Unicode characters.

New comment by chedabob in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

chedabob — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:48:58 +0000

I thought that as we're seeing issues with LON, but their Manchester POP is also down and that didn't have any maintenance this morning.

New comment by chedabob in "Apple M5 chip"

chedabob — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:29:31 +0000

My guess would be those are going into the rumoured OLED models coming out next year.

New comment by chedabob in "Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones"

chedabob — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:06:45 +0000

You can't put one app on top of another, so that mitigates at least the 1st stage of this kind of attack.