Hacker News: chungus_khan

New comment by chungus_khan in "OpenBSD 7.8"

chungus_khan — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:08:31 +0000

Really I think it got that rep mostly from people trying to run DOS games or shoddy ports from DOS to early Windows that still relied on a bunch of DOS stuff.

New comment by chungus_khan in "Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched"

chungus_khan — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:20:50 +0000

TEPCO dropped the ball pretty massively too, although IMO it should be the government's responsibility to assume that power operators are going to and not allow them to.

New comment by chungus_khan in "M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU"

chungus_khan — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:34:39 +0000

Nearly 10 years ago a 2.6 TFLOP (FP32) GTX 660ti cost about $300 and had a TDP of 150w.

New comment by chungus_khan in "The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its own stealth bomber"

chungus_khan — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:18:43 +0000

A huge amount of industry all over the place ends up like this. The engineers produce the theoretical form of the design, and the tooling up process refines it into a practicable-at-scale reality.

New comment by chungus_khan in "Are Xiaomi browsers spyware? Yes, they are (2020)"

chungus_khan — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 20:41:09 +0000

The lesser of two evils is still collecting literally as much data as it can on you. And helping the Saudis with it too:

https://theintercept.com/2014/07/25/nsas-new-partner-spying-...

US Intelligence has too long a history of its own largely consequence-free abuses too. Someone else having a surveillance state doesn't make the one at home any better.

New comment by chungus_khan in "rpi-open-firmware: open-source VPU side bootloader for Raspberry Pi"

chungus_khan — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:38:03 +0000

I can't speak specifically to the raspberry pi, but generally SOCs like it uses do work like that. Most customers are concerned with the chip's high-level capabilities and actively don't want to touch the lower-level stuff, as it's irrelevant to what they're making.

New comment by chungus_khan in "M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short periods of time"

chungus_khan — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:30:39 +0000

It's especially funny because the M1 Mac SSDs seem to perform at around the same level as current competition from what I've seen.

New comment by chungus_khan in "M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short periods of time"

chungus_khan — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:04:46 +0000

It is bizarre to me how many problems I've literally never seen before in my life some people on this site can come up with to defend Apple's decisions, especially things like this on a website which purports to be Hacker News.

New comment by chungus_khan in "Brave Browser leaks your Tor / Onion service requests through DNS"

chungus_khan — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 18:15:32 +0000

The cautious configuration and total separation of the Tor browser is the whole reason it was created in the first place. There are an uncountable number of reasons why having it in a normal everyday browser is probably a bad idea.

It sort of aligns with my views on a lot of other Brave projects: neat, and with good intentions, but not necessarily such a good idea when examined in detail.

New comment by chungus_khan in "Machines Already Took Our Jobs"

chungus_khan — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 16:52:41 +0000

And people with utopian perceptions of the present tend to have policies that ignore underlying problems until they boil over into revolutions.

Fixating on how great the present is accomplishes nothing and appeals to almost nobody.

A typical feudal serf probably lived better than a hunter-gatherer, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't want to be free, and telling them that things are better is just avoiding the question.

Any analysis which fixates on things being uniformly better or uniformly worse will paint an incoherent and unhelpful picture. A realistic look at things involves looking critically at present and past policy in a nuanced manner, even in areas where things may be better.

New comment by chungus_khan in "Machines Already Took Our Jobs"

chungus_khan — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:17:57 +0000

Even if the conclusion is that life today is better than in the past, so what? Congratulations. Their lives were different than their predecessors too. Is the whole point to self-congratulate, or should we recognize and address today's problems?

New comment by chungus_khan in "IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run"

chungus_khan — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 21:09:33 +0000

> It isn’t progress to have massive grid outages because windmills froze

How did Texans manage to screw up windmills? The ones across the lake from me work perfectly fine all winter long, despite much colder winters.

I'm guessing they cheaped out on basic preparedness measures for this sort of thing, and clearly across the whole grid, not just renewables.

New comment by chungus_khan in "Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint"

chungus_khan — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 21:02:34 +0000

> Obviously you must not be aware that Android is not the leading platform in terms of app sales.

Both are still in the range of tens of billions of dollars. If one is worthwhile the other is too. Android is also by far the leader in number of actual users, which is what matters most to companies like Facebook.

The sideloading process is harder than just installing an app. Most users do not know how to do it and have no interest in doing it.

Google does not allow third party app stores to be distributed via their app store, and I assume Apple would do the same.

New comment by chungus_khan in "Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint"

chungus_khan — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:42:52 +0000

These are not coherent reasons why it would be different, they are assertions that you think it would be. None of them even speak to any difference between the platforms.

Just saying that it will be isn't a reason. None of this has happened. Every attempt at doing this has failed horribly. Most users are not technically capable enough to even go about installing an alternative store.

Why, given that this has not happened in the case of the leading mobile platform, and in fact all attempts to even mildly break with the play store have been resounding failures, would iOS be any different?

New comment by chungus_khan in "Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint"

chungus_khan — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:11:30 +0000

I don't think most people would. I think most sideloading would be by users making things that fall outside of what Apple allows on their store, like on Android. I see no coherent reason at all why things would be any different on iOS, and nobody has presented one here beyond just asserting the premise that it would be different, and I don't think "Epic believes it is" is a convincing argument.

New comment by chungus_khan in "Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint"

chungus_khan — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:34:39 +0000

As I said, they tried and failed because nobody downloaded it. I'm not sure why you're suddenly bringing Epic's motives into a comment chain about the desirability of sideloading though? Epic is obviously looking to skirt store fees and doesn't actually prefer to run their own store, but that has nothing to do with anything above in the chain.

New comment by chungus_khan in "Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint"

chungus_khan — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 17:08:44 +0000

Then why hasn't it happened? Android has always had sideloading and this is not the case. Just asserting it to be false isn't convincing.

New comment by chungus_khan in "Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint"

chungus_khan — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:45:20 +0000

The contents of the Play Store have nothing to do with Android's ability to sideload.

New comment by chungus_khan in "Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint"

chungus_khan — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:41:02 +0000

Then keep using the curated store? It only hurts if Apple's store can't compete with alternative ones. There's no such problem on Android because developers and users are fine with the Play Store.

Epic even tried doing a sideloaded Fortnite for Android and people didn't download it, so they came back.

New comment by chungus_khan in "Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint"

chungus_khan — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:37:06 +0000

Why hasn't it on Android then?