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New comment by gazook89 in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

gazook89 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:23:51 +0000

I used Shadow PC for a long time. Never any issues over several years. Lots of reasons in preferred it over GeForce. I can expound on that later if needed

New comment by gazook89 in "Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language"

gazook89 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:01:51 +0000

Is it possible to fake a world curvature so that using a fog isn’t as necessary, as far items sink below the horizon?

New comment by gazook89 in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

gazook89 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:21:03 +0000

It won’t ALWAYS be nice little rollers. And it depends on diet. Right now with 1 year old it’s a lot of smears but with a good shake they peel off and into the toilet, sometimes helped with the spray wand.

We also use a cheap synthetic fleece cloth liner, too. We just got a couple yards of it from fabric store and cut it into strips. The poop mostly hits that, and since it’s synthetic it slides off well.

New comment by gazook89 in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

gazook89 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:14:37 +0000

My experience with two kids is that solids are easier. With good diet, the poop has a good chance of just being a “roll off” and into the toilet. Get a spray wand/ hand held bidet attachment for toilet to help rinse it off before it goes in wash.

New comment by gazook89 in "Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife"

gazook89 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:52:54 +0000

Consider just doing dropping the global leader board. Who benefits from it? For most, it’s a passing curiosity. But for some, it’ll be an obsession which ends up endangering them, animals/plants, and others. These kinds of contents can encourage someone who may not tromp through a delicate bog normally to decide to step off the boardwalk and recklessly go get that picture for the app points. And for 99% of the world, it’s just an additional screen with no chance of being relevant.

Replace it with a leaderboard amongst phone contacts/friended users

New comment by gazook89 in "Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife"

gazook89 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:51:25 +0000

New comment by gazook89 in "Kitchen optimizations"

gazook89 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:03:28 +0000

I so desperately want this, I think about it about 5 times a week and probably mention it to my wife as often. But in my old small house I doubt I could ever get one set up. Much better than a touch less one.

New comment by gazook89 in "'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40"

gazook89 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:33:10 +0000

Zach Weinersmith’s Beawolf graphic novel is basically an ode to Calvin. He has a new book coming out soon, too.

New comment by gazook89 in "Canva’s affinity strategy: Normies over power users"

gazook89 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 03:35:04 +0000

My understanding is that you need an account and Internet for the download and license activation, but then works offline (they specifically say “for extended periods”) in the FAQ. That is pretty much the same as v2 right?

New comment by gazook89 in "Ground stop at JFK due to staffing"

gazook89 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:19:43 +0000

The administration has posited that they don’t have to do backpay for many positions. Currently, there is no reason anyone could expect norms to hold.

New comment by gazook89 in "Affinity Studio now free"

gazook89 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:47:48 +0000

Their FAQ says that the account and online access are needed for the download and license activation, but after that it can be run offline.

New comment by gazook89 in "Affinity Studio now free"

gazook89 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:07:05 +0000

Perhaps they know that a large buyout will help their employees for various reasons, and they set aside their ego to take care of them.

A company that hasn’t sold out is Adobe— are we in love with Adobe?

New comment by gazook89 in "Affinity Studio now free"

gazook89 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:04:20 +0000

Gathered from the FAQ, you only pay if you want Canva AI features. Yes, you create a Canva account, which is free, so that you can get your license. With old affinity, you also needed an account to receive the license.

In the new UI the ai features are tucked into an additional “studio” like how layout, raster, and vector are individual studios. You can choose which studios have a visible toggle, so you can hide the Canva AI toggle if you don’t want to see it.

Perhaps it gets worse over time. But right now, they’ve just made it free.

New comment by gazook89 in "US probes Waymo robotaxis over school bus safety"

gazook89 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:29:21 +0000

Also, humans will intentionally act counter to regulations just to be contrarian or send a message. Look at “rolling coal”, or people who race through speed meters to see if they can get a big number. Or recently near me they replaced a lane to many a dedicated bus lane, which is now a “drive fast to pass every rule follower” lane.

New comment by gazook89 in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"

gazook89 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:30:30 +0000

I’d rather electric car companies building bikes than cyber trucks, though they are in the same vanity category.

New comment by gazook89 in "Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently"

gazook89 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:15:12 +0000

I have an Urban Arrow since the beginning of last February and live in Minneapolis. I’ve used it about 5 days a week for getting my pre-k kid and newborn to the places we need to be, since we bought it. Each day it’s between 6 and 26 miles. That upper end comes from busy days, probably once or twice a month I get above 20 miles in a single day. Definitely not doing that on the coldest days. Studded tires really help.

One unexpected benefit is that the muddy/wet boots don’t muss up the bike like they would if I was loading them into a car. Just drips out the bottom grate.

Lots of other small benefits but not so related to winter.

New comment by gazook89 in "Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently"

gazook89 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:04:35 +0000

At least here in my city in the US Midwest, I hear mostly bakfiets to refer to bikes with a front box, to distinguish from cargo bikes which have the rear rack that supports one or two kids on the back.

New comment by gazook89 in "macOS Tahoe"

gazook89 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:52:56 +0000

macOS/ios can also share clipboards for awhile now.

For KDE Connect, does the phone have to be an Android or ?

New comment by gazook89 in "Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone""

gazook89 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:09:14 +0000

+1 to urban arrow. Schlep my infant and pre-k kid in it every day of the year and the older kid loves it, is more engaged with the community (she has mentally mapped it and we commonly stop to talk to neighbors in a way we can’t in car), and I can actually fit more kids in it than the car. The car requires a car seat for each kid, which won’t fit across the back seat— the bike takes in an infant seat, and space for two kids on the bench.

New comment by gazook89 in "Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese"

gazook89 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 23:59:55 +0000

I think there is something wrong with the total time for round stat. It only told me 0 minutes 0 seconds. The other time related stats were fine