Hacker News: gwbennett

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

gwbennett — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:30:00 +0000

Bravo Zulu, Integrity crew, NASA, and USA!

New comment by gwbennett in "My Astrophotography in the Movie Project Hail Mary"

gwbennett — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:28:10 +0000

Great, great work! Congratulations and Bravo Zulu! Looking forward to seeing the movie this weekend.

New comment by gwbennett in "In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All"

gwbennett — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:26:09 +0000

Nothing is for free!

New comment by gwbennett in "Radios, how do they work? (2024)"

gwbennett — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:41:38 +0000

Great advice!

New comment by gwbennett in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

gwbennett — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:22:14 +0000

100%

New comment by gwbennett in "CocoaPods trunk read-only plan"

gwbennett — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:47:28 +0000

100% agree!

New comment by gwbennett in "SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight"

gwbennett — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:07:54 +0000

I watched every minute of it. It was awesome. Bravo Zulu SpaceX.

New comment by gwbennett in "Ask HN: What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?"

gwbennett — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 18:25:53 +0000

For both iOS and Android app: - Xcode - SwiftUI - Supabase - Claude CLI - Skip.tools (converts SwiftUI to native Katlin code)

Been developing mobile apps for over 15 years. This is by far the best stack for developing mobile apps. Speed, total control, native UI's. Love it.

New comment by gwbennett in "Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme"

gwbennett — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:45:17 +0000

It was harder to see during COVID.

New comment by gwbennett in "Working on databases from prison"

gwbennett — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:09:19 +0000

Bravo Zulu!!!

New comment by gwbennett in "Brian Wilson has died"

gwbennett — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:19:33 +0000

Pet Sounds! A fantastic album and group! So many great songs on all their albums.

Grew up listening to them.

New comment by gwbennett in "Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden"

gwbennett — Tue, 20 May 2025 00:03:37 +0000

So sad! Love you Scott!

New comment by gwbennett in "Show HN:Enhance Xcode Error Support with Run Script ChatGPT Integration"

gwbennett — Fri, 02 May 2025 17:15:50 +0000

Awesome. Thanks for showing this.

New comment by gwbennett in "Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)"

gwbennett — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:45:16 +0000

Capt Tom Fargo was better. As you learn from that YouTube video, he went on to run 7th Fleet as an Admiral. The stuff we did while he was CO was important in the Cold War for the security of the US.

New comment by gwbennett in "Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)"

gwbennett — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:42:27 +0000

yes, I read the book before I got to the boat when I was at nuclear reactor prototype training in Idaho. Read it on the long bus rides back and forth to the site. Yes, it was good and pretty operationally accurate. All the sub lingo etc, is accurate. Some of the actors on the bridge of the Dallas were active duty sub sailors at the time.

New comment by gwbennett in "Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)"

gwbennett — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:44:10 +0000

Great read on how ILM made the shots. As a crew member on the USS Salt Lake City (SSN-716), we took many of the cast and crew out to sea for 24 hours before they made the movie to get a feel for what sub-life was like before they made the movie. All the cast and crew were great, and I think it made the movie better.

Actor Scott Glenn, who plays the Captain of Dallas, modeled his character after our Captain, Tom Fargo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rjO_VrESNo

It is a great movie!

New comment by gwbennett in "Ask HN: Can you recommend a PCB designer?"

gwbennett — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 04:05:56 +0000

I've used Embedded Engineering Solutions, www.eesaz.com, for several projects here in AZ. They've done quality work at a fair price.

New comment by gwbennett in "Show HN: Skip – Build native iOS and Android apps from a single Swift codebase"

gwbennett — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 18:09:11 +0000

I've been an iOS dev professionally since 2009! I just found Skip via Dave Verwer's newsletter today. Finally, finally! This is precisely what Apple should have built years ago!!!

I have just started a new iOS app and didn't want to do the Android app in React Native, Flutter, etc! Write in SwiftUI once! Nice, Nice!

Thank you!

New comment by gwbennett in "The U.S. Navy's $100M checkbox (2019)"

gwbennett — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:52:39 +0000

It's good to see all the Navy nukes comments on this article. MM1/SS, one tour on an SSN, and one on an SSBN!

New comment by gwbennett in "The U.S. Navy's $100M checkbox (2019)"

gwbennett — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:36:48 +0000

Having spent 10 years as a Navy Nuclear Propulsion Operator on two different submarines operating the reactor plant, I can tell you I am not surprised by incidents like these. In order of importance: 1) Lack of sleep (it wasn't unusual to operate on no sleep over a 36-48 hour period) 2) Poor or insufficient training. Just because you are "trained or qualified" doesn't mean you know how to operate. 3) Poor or missing procedures (let's call it UI/UX for today's lingo). Many procedures were vague, and drawings were hard to understand. The Navy has a feedback system for this, but it often takes months/years to resolve.

Having said all that, the issues pointed out in the comments and the article, including my comments, have existed for decades in the Navy. At some point, it comes down to the command's leadership and superiors to ensure these issues don't happen. A poorly designed checkbox is the last thing that caused this issue.