Hacker News: jjtheblunt

New comment by jjtheblunt in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

jjtheblunt — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:06:29 +0000

what issues are you referencing?

New comment by jjtheblunt in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

jjtheblunt — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:48:05 +0000

i run linux on both in arch and fedora versions with zero problems, by using the hypervisor framework of macos and wsl2 (wrapper for hyperv). do you need a more direct than hypervisor access to some hardware?

New comment by jjtheblunt in "macOS Container Machines"

jjtheblunt — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:58:34 +0000

> ... highly integrated Linux environment that works seamlessly on your Mac. ...

Which kernel is running, and is it hosted in hypervisor.framework, as is done with UTM (when not using the qemu mode)?

New comment by jjtheblunt in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

jjtheblunt — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:13:04 +0000

that's not circular though

New comment by jjtheblunt in "U.S. Military Turned GPS into a Global "Numbers Station""

jjtheblunt — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:53:18 +0000

true!

New comment by jjtheblunt in "U.S. Military Turned GPS into a Global "Numbers Station""

jjtheblunt — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:13:13 +0000

Would point to point laser seem like it's RF and not readily snooped without detection?

New comment by jjtheblunt in "The desperation of NYTimes"

jjtheblunt — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:51:26 +0000

it's disgusting these scammers just get to keep on scamming with no consequences

New comment by jjtheblunt in "The desperation of NYTimes"

jjtheblunt — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:30:29 +0000

> Happily, this practice is illegal in California.

that's totally irrelevant: Conde Nast for Wired is a shameless offender, for example. took me hours to cancel some autorenewing subscription i never subscribed for, perhaps enabled years ago through some dark pattern in iOS, but i genuinely don't know, and am not easily tricked.

New comment by jjtheblunt in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"

jjtheblunt — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:40:44 +0000

that looks like reinvesting profits from innovation in hopes of more innovation

New comment by jjtheblunt in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"

jjtheblunt — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:23:38 +0000

> American lost engineering culture everywhere except software

microprocessor design : Apple Silicon and lately Intel Panther Lake and later?

New comment by jjtheblunt in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

jjtheblunt — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:04:06 +0000

agreed with your general point that I'm having to look across multiple different news sources, each _not_ specialized in financial/economic news, to attempt to reconstruct viewpoints not propagandized by whomever.

in my case I look across countries for their news versions, which seems useful. and, yes, "seems" is vague but that's at least an attempt.

New comment by jjtheblunt in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

jjtheblunt — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:58:59 +0000

never tried so I don't know. it's easy for you to fire it up and try though

New comment by jjtheblunt in "You Don't Love Systemd Timers Enough"

jjtheblunt — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:33:44 +0000

(typo, i think). cheese was moved?

New comment by jjtheblunt in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

jjtheblunt — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:24:48 +0000

I do this nonstop using the UTM app in Apple Silicon virtualization, not QEMU, mode. I've done this from M2, M2 Max, and M5 machines, it basically wraps the hypervisor.framework (or the current name) and i had used Asahi on an M1 before that.

With UTM wrapping hypervisor.framework, i have a complete fullscreen desktop running Linux (i use fedora earlier but Arch the last several months) with full graphics as if it were on a dedicated host.

Because it's running in an Apple Silicon hypervisor, i have macos tahoe running concurrently on separate desktops: no dual booting unlike when i was using Asahi.

I haven't looked to see if i can access graphics hardware directly or if it's hidden behind a virtio layer in UTM's wrapping of the hypervisor.framewirk.

New comment by jjtheblunt in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

jjtheblunt — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:31:21 +0000

Deutsche Welle and usually Reuters, sometimes AP News. To your point, it _is_ somewhat random

New comment by jjtheblunt in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

jjtheblunt — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:07:17 +0000

i'm glad reading your comment, because i nearly always get that feeling with FT articles, and very often with Economist patronizing subset of articles.

New comment by jjtheblunt in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

jjtheblunt — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:18:21 +0000

they definitely do for electronics, for example. i've worked in such (Qualcomm, Motorola, Apple) in inner sanctum engineering roles.

New comment by jjtheblunt in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

jjtheblunt — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:00:12 +0000

> What researcher in their right mind would move their research and their future to the USA to join this clown rodeo?

what about private companies making profits luring researchers?

New comment by jjtheblunt in "Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T"

jjtheblunt — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:30:19 +0000

yeah but syntactically "car park" gets used like a noun phrase, not verb phrase, which was (to your point really) what had me think "huh?" momentarily.

New comment by jjtheblunt in "Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T"

jjtheblunt — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:52:15 +0000

to your point, when my Aussie friends first mentioned a "car park" to my north american born self, i wondered _momentarily_ what that was, then realized it's sort of a fun name for what i would call a parking lot.