Hacker News: rkunde

New comment by rkunde in "How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2"

rkunde — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:49:34 +0000

I wonder if they fixed the vehicle definition file as well, or just the parser. The latter would be an incomplete fix.

New comment by rkunde in "A glitch in an online survey replaced the word 'yes' with 'forks'"

rkunde — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:10:44 +0000

For years, Chrome would offer to “translate from Danish” if the contents of the page are just “403 Forbidden”.

New comment by rkunde in "We're Waiting for the End of the Sentence"

rkunde — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:29:05 +0000

I enjoy the mental imagine of this live translation widget making every Japanese person sound like Luis from Ant-Man.

New comment by rkunde in "ESP32 WiFi Superstitions"

rkunde — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 17:11:13 +0000

This isn’t my area of expertise but I’m surprised there’s no mention of errata. Is that just not a factor at this point because the firmware is assumed to be mature enough?

New comment by rkunde in "Apple is open sourcing Swift Build"

rkunde — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 17:29:57 +0000

This is great, if for no other reason that it will give people the ability to debug build issues on their own and get access to fixes without having to wait for the next Xcode release.

New comment by rkunde in "Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium"

rkunde — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:26:55 +0000

What are the chances of battery tech advancing beyond lithium before extraction of these deposit can even begin at scale?

New comment by rkunde in "A decade-old Steam bug"

rkunde — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 06:36:11 +0000

Great write up, but it left me with a few questions:

* Is levelloadloop only executed when the game launches, not when joining a server and loading the map? * If the issues is that the loop is shut down before the steam auth process is started, why would the maintenance-related slowness matter?

New comment by rkunde in "Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs"

rkunde — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:45:35 +0000

Oh, I only remembered seeing them inside the mobileprovision file. I’ll take another look, thanks.

New comment by rkunde in "Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs"

rkunde — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:14:46 +0000

I don’t think you can unless you have a jailbroken device. If I remember correctly, entitlements are store in the AppStore receipt file.

New comment by rkunde in "Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs"

rkunde — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:25:23 +0000

That’s for sending and receiving local network traffic, eg. talking to devices on the same subnet, and discovery of Chromecast and similar targets.

Edit: AirPlay does not require this permission.

New comment by rkunde in "Solving the 100GB Game Download"

rkunde — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:49:57 +0000

I did notice that download sizes for the PS5 version of a game are smaller compared to the PS4 version. Maybe that’s why!

New comment by rkunde in "Solving the 100GB Game Download"

rkunde — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 00:36:44 +0000

Related, have any major games using Binomial’s texture compression come out yet?

New comment by rkunde in "Supreme Court sides with Slack, putting direct listings in jeopardy"

rkunde — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 00:03:24 +0000

Unless something on the regulatory side changes, nothing will happen to direct listings. People want to own stocks that they believe will go up. That’s the long and short of it. Retail investors don’t read IPO prospectuses. Institutional investors will be more hesitant, naturally, but they have the resources and expertise to asses the risks, and any public company still has to comply with disclosure requirements, IPO or no. There was similar handwringing about companies selling non-voting shares on the stock market. Turns out most people don’t buy stock to vote it, and most people don’t vote even if they can.

New comment by rkunde in "Trimming spaces from strings faster with SVE on an Amazon Graviton 3 processor"

rkunde — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:33:59 +0000

I was confused too but the author uses “trim” to mean “remove anywhere in the string”, rather than just from the beginning and end.

New comment by rkunde in "ARM64 Linux Workstation"

rkunde — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 23:06:42 +0000

> In some cases, it is too fast. When I installed K3s, all of the containers in the kube-system namespace kept entering the dreaded CrashLoopBackOff state [..] After some investigation, I found out that the Mac Studio was just too fast for the Kubernetes resource timing

I’d like to understand what the issue here is. Sounds counterintuitive to me.

New comment by rkunde in "We reduced our iOS app launch time by 60%"

rkunde — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 17:42:47 +0000

If you have an iPhone and a Mac, you can use Apple Configurator to download the App Store .ipa. You can unpack that like a zip file and look at the dynamic frameworks it contains.

New comment by rkunde in "Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructuring"

rkunde — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 22:29:31 +0000

It’s should be possible to volunteer.

New comment by rkunde in "Swift concurrency – things they don’t tell you"

rkunde — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 02:29:57 +0000

The article mentions thread explosion quite a bit. If that’s a concern, you should take a look at target dispatch queues. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/dispatch/dispatcho...

New comment by rkunde in "Stripe down for 4 hours (and counting) for all those with Stripe Tax enabled"

rkunde — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:30:18 +0000

No, neither for merchants nor for developers.

New comment by rkunde in "Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached"

rkunde — Mon, 30 May 2022 18:08:52 +0000

Do you know how DFDB compares, architecturally and performance-wise, to Pelikan and its different engines?