Hacker News: bestham

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

bestham — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:42:02 +0000

They sold it to you, with a limit.

New comment by bestham in "Byte Interviews Chuck Peddle, Father of the MOS 6502 and Commodore PET (1982)"

bestham — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:55:50 +0000

Chuck was also a guest at The Amphour in 2015 (four years before his passing in 2019). It is a really good listen. https://theamphour.com/241-an-interview-with-chuck-peddle-ch...

New comment by bestham in "Kldload 1.0 – ZFS on root for Linux"

bestham — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:45:00 +0000

Yes, we should rename the kernel to cernel or qernel to avoid confusion. Snark aside I do not think that the letter k is too overloaded. There is room for KDE and the kernel.

New comment by bestham in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

bestham — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:25:30 +0000

Like the cube user switcher in MacOS?

New comment by bestham in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

bestham — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:04:01 +0000

“Well actually” in System 1 and later Classic macOS the puzzle and the calculator are ”Desk Accessories” that is applications that can run simultaneously as other apps, even though the operating system does not support multitasking. The rounded corners are there to distinguish them from the current running application.

New comment by bestham in "iPhone 17e"

bestham — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:50:39 +0000

I recently switched from an iPhone 16 to an Air and my experience is the opposite. I type way more accurate on the Air (even when both dictionaries are reset and have no screen protector what could make the touch less sensitive). I do not know why.

New comment by bestham in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

bestham — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:28:53 +0000

The banks did not block it. The Swedish state did not want to spend 50-100 kr per citizen to distribute the secure element. They instead opted for aligning with the one set of institutions that already had somewhat good customer knowledge and could bear the cost, the banks. The incumbent telco (Telia) also tried but their system was even worse than bank id.

New comment by bestham in "Art of Roads in Games"

bestham — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:42:45 +0000

This was also confirmed by a Valve developer recently about a bug in HL2:

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589925206309168

New comment by bestham in "Systems Thinking"

bestham — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:42:47 +0000

The definition of a complex system is the qualifier for the quote. Many systems that are designed, implemented and found working are not complex systems. They may be complicated systems. To paraphrase Dr. Richard I. Cook’s ”How Complex Systems Fail” where he claims that complex systems are inherently hazardous, operate near the edge of failure and cannot be understood by analyzing individual components. These systems are not just complicated (like a machine with fixed parts) but dynamic, constantly evolving, and prone to multiple, coincidental failures.

A system of services that interact, where many of them are depending on each other in informal ways may be a complex system. Especially if humans are also involved.

Such a system is not something you design. You just happen to find yourself in it. Like the road to hell, the road to a complex system is paved with good intentions.

New comment by bestham in "Claude Opus 4.6"

bestham — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:35:46 +0000

Touché, that is what we humans are doing to some degree as well.

New comment by bestham in "Systems Thinking"

bestham — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:49:17 +0000

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.” Gall’s Law

New comment by bestham in "SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned"

bestham — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:26:54 +0000

The service is freemium, so they had a limited account. Decided to pay for a premium account. And apparently can’t downgrade and get back what they once had.

New comment by bestham in "Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go"

bestham — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:12:10 +0000

It says in the read me that X11 is required for clipboard functionality.

New comment by bestham in "Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX"

bestham — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 05:54:01 +0000

IIRC Apple dropped sub pixel antialiasing in Mojave or Sonoma (I hate these names). It makes no sense when Macs are meant to be used with retina class displays.

New comment by bestham in "It's not always DNS"

bestham — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 06:03:10 +0000

SCSI had a reputation of being very stable and yet very finicky. Stable in the sense that not using the CPU for transfers yielded good performance and reliability. The finicky part was the quality of equipment (connectors, adapters, cables and terminators) something that led to users having to figure out the best order of connecting their devices in a chain that actually worked. “Hard drive into burner an always the scanner last.”

New comment by bestham in "MD RAID or DRBD can be broken from userspace when using O_DIRECT"

bestham — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 06:16:00 +0000

Like everything else in engineering it is a matter of trade offs. The setup you chose to run really hampers the usefulness of having a checksuming file system, since it cannot simply get the correct data from another drive. As a peer pointed out: ZFS does support adding additional drives to expand a RaidZ (with some trade offs). What you cannot do is change the raid topology at the fly.

New comment by bestham in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

bestham — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 06:11:47 +0000

Azure can only be sovereign to the USA.[1] [2]

[1]: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366629871/Microsoft-refu... [2]: https://lcrdc.co.uk/industry-news/microsoft-admits-no-guaran...

New comment by bestham in "FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go"

bestham — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:03:47 +0000

The Project Looking Glass UI != The Project Looking Glass They are talking about the UI which could have inspired Stage Manager. Apple also had the purple window button before Project Looking Glass so there is that.

New comment by bestham in "Raspberry Pi 500+"

bestham — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:22:54 +0000

No, it was not Steve that found the Symbol but Susan Kare the Macintosh graphics artist. https://www.folklore.org/Swedish_Campground.html

New comment by bestham in "Gentoo AI Policy"

bestham — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:04:55 +0000

IMO that is not your call to make, it is the reviews call to make. It is the reviewers resources you are spending to learn more quickly. You are consuming a “free” resource for personal gain because you feel that it is justified in your particular case. It would likely not scale and grind many projects to a halt at least temporarily if this was done at scale.