Hacker News: r14c

New comment by r14c in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

r14c — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:13:42 +0000

Yeah some hardware combinations are just broken. IF ur lucky everything will just work, if not you can likely fix it with enough skill. That's better than nothing, but understandably frustrating if you accidentally pick a bad combination of devices.

Unfortunately the install process is always going to be at least a little bit technical. I wish it wasn't, but idk how you'd do that without making the os like an emmu chip that you can swap out, instead of a thing you write on your drive.

New comment by r14c in "Haiku"

r14c — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:05:51 +0000

Sometimes a project is largely whimsy and I don't think that's a bad thing. People don't "seriously" use 9front either, it kinda exists because there's a group of people who just want to make a unique thing.

I do somewhat agree on the beta label issue, but I would just put up a ymmv warning label and call it a day.

New comment by r14c in "Starship V3"

r14c — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:42:46 +0000

From what I understand about the Texas facility, SpaceX has also not honored their agreements regarding protected wildlife zones in the area. Damage from explosions is understandable, but they apparently not taken sufficient precautions to protect the surrounding area from their regular operations.

New comment by r14c in "The Burning Man MOOP Map"

r14c — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:46:01 +0000

Western culture is hierarchical, hierarchy isn't inherently Western. Lots of cultures do it.

New comment by r14c in "The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis"

r14c — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:35:44 +0000

Oh I see. I guess that's one way of looking at it. I tend to favor appropriation because it simplifies the accounting. You don't need equal outcomes exactly, you just ensure that everyone has their basic needs met and the ability to improve themselves. Historical context matters, but the issue tends to boil down social instability due to repeated displacement (redlining, gentrification). Allow people get rooted into a place and they'll build whatever they need to flourish.

New comment by r14c in "The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis"

r14c — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:19:55 +0000

Yeah I guess we're talking about different things. Thanks for clarifying.

New comment by r14c in "The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis"

r14c — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:51:14 +0000

I think we're talking about different things then.

Nobody is asking for equal result. Equity means sharing the rewards of productivity, instead of allowing a group of people who do nothing get rich off of other people's hard work. That's fair.

Doing good work should be rewarded!

New comment by r14c in "The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis"

r14c — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:40:43 +0000

Ranked choice voting allows for instant run off elections. Should have a similar effect without requiring a full redo of the election.

New comment by r14c in "The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis"

r14c — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:37:46 +0000

Could you expand on that? My concept of fairness is pretty congruent with equity.

New comment by r14c in "It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs"

r14c — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:42:33 +0000

For context, states within 100mi of Salt Lake City are:

- Wyoming

- Idaho

100mi doesn't get you into the population center of either state. the western US is BIG, really you're talking like 1k miles to get anywhere that's meaningfully different from utah. Depending on where you live in utah, that might not get you out of the state either.

New comment by r14c in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

r14c — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:24:50 +0000

everyone is different, even if I'm biking/walking everywhere and working outside, I still need to work myself to exhaustion if I want to get any sleep. I currently train muay thai, but even when I was young and doing yard work for a living I still trained with my friends and played sports. heck, growing up my life was american football training during the day and after school, regular football a couple of times a week with friends, running around for fun, and then doing heavy yard work at home and at neighbor's houses on weekends.

Not that your's isn't valid, some people (like me) have a big surplus of energy that needs to go somewhere and sometimes the best available outlet is lifting weights.

New comment by r14c in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

r14c — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:51:16 +0000

Do the stats back up your anecdote? iirc Tesla autopilot has some bad failure cases

New comment by r14c in "GitHub is having issues now"

r14c — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:52:51 +0000

Yeah idk why they're so intent on doing this migration it seems silly and wasteful and bad for their image.

New comment by r14c in "California's Billionaire Tax Has the Signatures to Make the Ballot"

r14c — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:51:51 +0000

That's the idea!

Like I said, there are representation issues because money is speech which gives the rich extra say in policy. So it's not exactly that simple, because of the anti-democratic pro-rich bias in our legislative system, but we'll get there.

New comment by r14c in "California's Billionaire Tax Has the Signatures to Make the Ballot"

r14c — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:01:51 +0000

You misunderstand, I don't hate rich people, I want them to be accountable to a democratic system of governance aka paying their owed tax.

New comment by r14c in "California's Billionaire Tax Has the Signatures to Make the Ballot"

r14c — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:11:45 +0000

It's not about the special treatment, its about being equal under the law.

New comment by r14c in "California's Billionaire Tax Has the Signatures to Make the Ballot"

r14c — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:35:39 +0000

Tax loopholes which result in a lower effective tax rate. Lesser accountability for crimes. Ability to break any law which is penalized only with fines.

Do you really not know what rich people can get away with in the US?

New comment by r14c in "California's Billionaire Tax Has the Signatures to Make the Ballot"

r14c — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:13:00 +0000

Really paying taxes is fine, we have representation issues to fix, but we all gotta pay our fair share.

imo the problem is the special treatment of rich people and the way it encourages middle income people to act like temporarily embarrassed oligarchs instead of citizens of a republic.

New comment by r14c in "China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus"

r14c — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:11:27 +0000

Then the word you're looking for is likely Han, Chinese is only a nationality, not an ethnicity.

New comment by r14c in "GitHub is having issues now"

r14c — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:02:58 +0000

They're moving to Azure and had to fix up Azure first to be stable enough for GH to even consider moving.

I'm guessing its a combo of Azure still not being stable enough and a byproduct of trying to move an entire company's operations from a physical DC into a cloud while its running.