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New comment by jbmchuck in "Thinking will become a hobby"

jbmchuck — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:40:33 +0000

Semi-related; I had an acquaintance who would dreamily declare 'Art is the True Life'; I always disagreed, 'Life is the True Art'. A huge amount of art is basically documenting those among us who are really out there living. I'd rather be on the side of the experiencer than the documenter.

New comment by jbmchuck in "The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)"

jbmchuck — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:27:01 +0000

How does this comment relate to the article?

New comment by jbmchuck in "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"

jbmchuck — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:23:53 +0000

Here you go:

https://forklog.com/en/former-coinbase-employee-accused-of-c...

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/corgi-the-buzzy-y-combinat...

New comment by jbmchuck in "Discovery Loop"

jbmchuck — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:22:47 +0000

Sure - and knowing what is not possible with current tech is a nice datapoint to have.

New comment by jbmchuck in "An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener"

jbmchuck — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:11:58 +0000

It's definitely pretty whiz bang but I'm curious how it would hold up to the dirt and grime of a backpacking trip. I'm also not convinced it is any better or lighter than poles (which can be pretty light with the right materials...)

U.S. pedestrians are dead due to SUV/truck hood and pillar designs

jbmchuck — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:02:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2026/06/22/nyt-investigation-thousands-of-u-s-pedestrians-are-dead-due-to-suv-truck-hood-and-pillar-designs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677830

Points: 28

# Comments: 2

New comment by jbmchuck in "RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method"

jbmchuck — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:22:00 +0000

I'm guessing the op is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string

New comment by jbmchuck in "Waymo Premier"

jbmchuck — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:03:05 +0000

It seems to me a lot of people just really don't like to be associated with public transit or anything associated with anything remotely underclass.

It's a class marker to be driven around in an autonomous 6000lbs tank rather than move your legs a bit.

New comment by jbmchuck in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

jbmchuck — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:41:28 +0000

Enough that a 5% annual return is enough for me to get by. I'm certainly not done working - I want to get that to 3% or so - but it does make it a bit demotivating some days when I look outside and imagine the other things I could be doing with my time.

New comment by jbmchuck in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

jbmchuck — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:43:50 +0000

I have the same feelings as the original poster as I get further into middle age and have a good retirement nest egg - for me there are things more valuable - free time and the things I want to do with it but can't get paid to do - than making more income than I really need.

New comment by jbmchuck in "A scoping review of bicycling interventions’ impacts on well-being"

jbmchuck — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:25:48 +0000

Absolutely. The US' urban density problems, housing cost crisis - they all go back to car-based society.

New comment by jbmchuck in "Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens"

jbmchuck — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:32:55 +0000

Reminds me of this onion bit: https://theonion.com/scientists-politely-remind-world-that-c...

New comment by jbmchuck in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

jbmchuck — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:37:30 +0000

Agreed - once the ad-based profit model took off that no longer became possible.

New comment by jbmchuck in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

jbmchuck — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:01:56 +0000

'Thought leader' has always been a code word for 'bullshit artist'.

New comment by jbmchuck in "Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System"

jbmchuck — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:58:49 +0000

Honest question - what's your use case for needing GPS indoors? I generally know where I am when I'm indoors :)

New comment by jbmchuck in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

jbmchuck — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:10:02 +0000

Regarding your first point - how about George Santos? I suspect Santos was more well known than any of the crypto-scammers, was clearly guilty, was derided by both ends if the political spectrum - yet Trump commuted him.

New comment by jbmchuck in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

jbmchuck — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:26:53 +0000

He's also said we'd have humans on Mars in 2022...

New comment by jbmchuck in "U.S. Army confirms Tesla Cybertruck can't be imported in Europe"

jbmchuck — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:35:48 +0000

> But again, here in the US we are an order of magnitude less likely to be hit by a car.

Huh - do you have a source for that stat?

New comment by jbmchuck in "Docker Hub is down (again)"

jbmchuck — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:58:55 +0000

My guess/experience - because there are probably layers of management and executives who have an uptime # in their OKRs or whatever is fashionable these days.

The decision to post anything about outages comes from the executive chain in many orgs lest they miss out on bonus compensation for the year.

This is the same reason services like docker and aws will very rarely call an outage an 'outage' - it's always 'service degradation', even when dockerhub is completely useless as it is right now.

New comment by jbmchuck in "Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)"

jbmchuck — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:29:38 +0000

Should be easily doable with a semgrep rule, e.g.:

    ~> cat semgrep.yaml
    rules:
      - id: no-pattern-matching
        pattern: |
          match ...:
        message: |
          I'm not a fan of the pattern matching in Python
        severity: ERROR
        languages:
          - python

...

    ~> cat test.py
    #!/usr/bin/env python3

    foo = 1
    match foo:
      case 1:
        print("one")

...

    ~> semgrep --config semgrep.yaml test.py   


     no-pattern-matching
          I'm not a fan of the pattern matching in Python
                                                         
            4┆ match foo:
            5┆   case 1:
            6┆     print("one")

(exits non-0)