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Tsang Tsou-Choi

bondarchuk — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:51:16 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsang_Tsou-choi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207195

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New comment by bondarchuk in "Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)"

bondarchuk — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:27:05 +0000

>another analogous musing -- why did we start with main+tail rotor helicopters?

In fact we started with autogyros.

Also the Fw 61 ("the first successful, practical, and fully controllable helicopter" though I don't know the history in detail) has two equal-size counter-rotating rotors similar to a quadcopter.

New comment by bondarchuk in "Pushes to arch AUR are suspendended right now."

bondarchuk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:22:13 +0000

Ah but you switched now from "I don't think people do this" to "people shouldn't do this". You're right about the latter but wrong about the former.

New comment by bondarchuk in "OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"

bondarchuk — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:09:58 +0000

Do you even need to hack a lab? Can't you just send an arbitrary sequence to some company and they'll do it for you?

New comment by bondarchuk in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

bondarchuk — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:17:50 +0000

It's funny that if the LLMs had all given the same result each time (it sounds like) you would have considered it more valid, even though it might just be giving a single wrong answer more consistently.

New comment by bondarchuk in "Caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee lower stress, depression and impulsivity"

bondarchuk — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:00:19 +0000

>Participants first abstained from coffee for two weeks before being reintroduced to either caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee in a blinded trial.

So it could easily just be cessation of withdrawal symptoms.

New comment by bondarchuk in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

bondarchuk — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:21:11 +0000

>That whole time, judicial warrants had always been legally and practically adequate for obtaining and reviewing evidence that was physically accessible.

Certainly not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence

New comment by bondarchuk in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

bondarchuk — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:29:40 +0000

It's not that complicated. Minister wants to remove citizens privacy. Protester invades privacy of minister in response. On the one hand I agree that gps-tracking is not exactly the same as analyzing people's messages, on the other hand one can often infer whereabouts through messaging services indirectly or even directly such as when people share their gps location with one another (a feature that e.g. whatsapp has).

Anyway, apparently this Peter Hummelgaard has said:

"I indisputably believe that surveillance creates an increased sense of security ... and given that the prerequisite for freedom is security, yes, I believe that more surveillance equates to more freedom"

so I think you will find it easier to understand these kinds of protest actions if you consider them in the context of privacy vs. surveillance more broadly conceived.

(source for quote https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/115314954743042414 -> https://www.dr.dk/lyd/special-radio/prompt/prompt-2025/egois...)

New comment by bondarchuk in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

bondarchuk — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:16:56 +0000

He has to use a different method because obviously he does not have a backdoor into the prime minister's phone. The fact that "obviously wrong" invasive methods have to be used (now) to imitate something that the prime minister want to apply to every citizen (except himself and his buddies) in the future can be seen as part of the point.

New comment by bondarchuk in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

bondarchuk — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:46:14 +0000

Think about why do governments want to ban encryption? Because they want to know everything about you all the time. Collecting information on someone such as their location is of the same order.

New comment by bondarchuk in "Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel"

bondarchuk — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:19:18 +0000

Yeah it looks more like photocollage creatively photoshopped. Perspective is very weird in picture 3 too, very cubist.

New comment by bondarchuk in "McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? (2016)"

bondarchuk — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:01:58 +0000

Postmodernism is a bit more "anything goes as long as it's good". Once you move beyond really basic rule-based criticisms like "it's not symmetric" or "there are competing masses" then you can ask "but is it good?" i.e. does it work as a house for the persons it was built for in the context that it was built in? (To be fair from what I recall many entries in the blog actually do that to an extent, only using an air of neoclassical snobbery as a framework (for example that really funny bit about the pre-bathroom space where you can snort coke in the 80s is like this IMO))

New comment by bondarchuk in "McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? (2016)"

bondarchuk — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:49:00 +0000

>Disclaimer: These same principles do not always apply to Modernist or even canonically Postmodern architecture. These principles are for the classical or traditional architecture most residential homes are modeled after.

Seems like an obvious way out of this conundrum is reclassifying these so-called mcmansions as postmodern. Description instead of prescription.

New comment by bondarchuk in "Midjourney Medical"

bondarchuk — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:11:19 +0000

I know you are right but it just sounds so dumb. In theory it should be possible to do a scan and then realize most things you find are likely not a problem and don't worry about them.

New comment by bondarchuk in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

bondarchuk — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:15:30 +0000

Well yes, because video is a different medium.

New comment by bondarchuk in "Dopamine Fracking"

bondarchuk — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:47:46 +0000

Fundamentally it seems like kindergartens showing youtube videos to kids should not be accepted by society.

New comment by bondarchuk in "Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies"

bondarchuk — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:50:38 +0000

Likewise, appreciate it.

New comment by bondarchuk in "Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies"

bondarchuk — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:58:25 +0000

So basically you're saying businesses have a right to sell peoples' attention. Of course for every seller there's a buyer but I do kinda see that how this framing would make a difference, ethically, for some.

New comment by bondarchuk in "Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies"

bondarchuk — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:17:24 +0000

I don't know man. I just think somehow we'll manage. For example if a group of friends all feel a desperate need to find out about new products they could start a non-profit organization that will search out the new products and directories detective style. And public business directories exist in most places because they are required by law.

The deeper point is that pro-advertising people always frame it like advertising is something people want and that benefits them, but this is just a fig-leaf for the underlying ideology that businesses have the fundamental right to buy peoples' attention for money. The directories idea is mostly just a way to call this bluff, essentially saying "if people wanted to be advertised to they'd go out of their way to get it". Then the underlying ideology comes out.

New comment by bondarchuk in "Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies"

bondarchuk — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:58:34 +0000

>People who want to ban ads will usually give the alternative of a reviewed directory of products and services for each category.

I don't know about this. The idea that it should be centrally reviewed and managed is somewhat of a strawman as far as I'm concerned. Once you outlaw third-party advertising you would naturally expect such directories to spring up (much like specialized business publications that are actually full of high-value ads that genuinely serve a purpose for people in the business) but they could operate just like normal businesses with in the capitalist system and would have to compete for quality and customers.