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New comment by bdcravens in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

bdcravens — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:32:38 +0000

The limit isn't really a resource issue, since you can run pretty much an "unlimited" number of non-Mac VMs. I suspect it's more of a business decision, such as preventing people from setting up shop as a low-cost Mac VPS provider.

New comment by bdcravens in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

bdcravens — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:12:57 +0000

> if you do not run your gpus

Bitcoin hasn't been viably mineable on GPUs for over ten years. It requires specialized hardware.

As such, mining is typically restricted to those with massive capital investment in a single-purpose, so you really won't see random offloading and onloading of that capacity. As long as it's marginally profitable (with capital investment being a sunk cost, this is the price where it's more than ongoing costs), those miners will keep their machines running.

New comment by bdcravens in "Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps"

bdcravens — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:35:18 +0000

It probably has more to do with the body of knowledge it draws on than the suitability. I assume it burns more tokens to stay vanilla, as more effort is involved in implementing patterns more readily available "off the shelf".

New comment by bdcravens in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

bdcravens — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:28:13 +0000

Well, I guess they didn't sell out

https://getsession.org/a-messaging-app-that-cant-sell-out

New comment by bdcravens in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"

bdcravens — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:48:33 +0000

For those who can't or find dealing with compost a challenge, there are also other options to recycle biowaste. It's a bit of pricey subscription, but we have a Mill which processes most food waste into chicken feed (you do have to mail the processed food to them for further processing).

New comment by bdcravens in "Running out of disk space in production"

bdcravens — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:39:16 +0000

I appreciate the last line

> Note: this was written fully by me, human.

New comment by bdcravens in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

bdcravens — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:32:22 +0000

For me, the amount of tedium that comes with any new project before I can get to the "good stuff" is a blocker. It's so easy to sit down with excitement, and then 3 hours later, you're still wrestling with basic dependencies, build pipelines, base CSS, etc.

New comment by bdcravens in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

bdcravens — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:42:46 +0000

Then they did the same thing to a lesser degree with "360", including the Xbox.

New comment by bdcravens in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

bdcravens — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:27:50 +0000

I do enjoy rocking multiple monitors, but even if I went to one, I'd still have to use a big monitor. My mind may be young but my almost 50 year old eyes aren't. (I actually run my 32 inch monitors in QHD mode)

New comment by bdcravens in "Untaxed Wealth of Richest 0.1% Is More Than Assets of World’s Poorest Half"

bdcravens — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:23:41 +0000

I know you had to edit the title for length, but I think it would have made more sense to lose the first part and keep the factual part of the title intact, as it's pretty hard to make grammatical sense out of it as edited

"Untaxed Wealth of Richest 0.1% Is More Than Assets of World’s Poorest Half"

New comment by bdcravens in "Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers"

bdcravens — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:03:06 +0000

Fuel surcharges are a regular thing for UPS, Fedex, and others

https://www.fedex.com/en-us/shipping/historical-fuel-surchar...

https://www.ups.com/us/en/support/shipping-support/shipping-...

New comment by bdcravens in "The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame"

bdcravens — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:07:11 +0000

I probably won't comment further, since as you said this is very off-topic (I only meant to draw out an analogy as to why discussions about AI tend to be ideologically skewed), but every statistic I've seen shows far lower crime rates among illegal immigrants versus citizens (aside from the statutory crime of being in the country illegally).

New comment by bdcravens in "Show HN: I made a "programming language" looking for feedback"

bdcravens — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:52:43 +0000

I've found that writing pseudocode in a markdown file with little to no definitions (I may put a few non-obvious notes in the CLAUDE/AGENTS files) and telling the agent what language to turn it into generally works.

New comment by bdcravens in "The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame"

bdcravens — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:46:11 +0000

The same reason some use crime committed by illegal immigrants to push action, while ignoring the fact that citizens are more likely percentage-wise to commit those same crimes. It's confirmation bias at the least, and intellectual dishonesty at the worst, but either way, they want their worldview to be validated.

New comment by bdcravens in "The 667MHz Machine"

bdcravens — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:26:31 +0000

Of course, the 266 (and others) had the same fraction, but didn't have the disadvantage of abs(mhz) being a magic number that might offend some religious types.

New comment by bdcravens in "Iran oil revenue soars as it's the only exporter out of Hormuz"

bdcravens — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:23:36 +0000

As long as you're concerned about guidelines:

> If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

New comment by bdcravens in "What came after the 486?"

bdcravens — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:35:36 +0000

I'm also 50 and just realized it.

Instagram and YouTube found liable in landmark social media addiction trial

bdcravens — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:58:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/instagram-and-youtube-found-liable-in-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial-in-california

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521666

Points: 2

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New comment by bdcravens in "Apple Just Lost Me"

bdcravens — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:06:16 +0000

What process are other companies using?

New comment by bdcravens in "Apple Just Lost Me"

bdcravens — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:05:34 +0000

> Even though my software is packaged and notarised as per their requirements, they still show my users a dialog box confirming they want to run my app, something they do not for apps installed through their walled garden. This is just friction to punish developers outside their store. I am very tired of it.

Does them quitting Apple mean they're going to stop supporting MacOS users?