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

jonnrb — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:14:19 +0000

Lol with 2 VMs per VM you can do an infinite VM linked list where each macOS hosts a "guest" and a "next host". I'm too lazy to test this out. Any takers?

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

jonnrb — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:08:46 +0000

Yes they do. It's called "another Mac". And I'm not even being snarky here: I legitimately think someone at Apple thought this through and said "yeah if they need more than 2 VMs running at the same time, there are probably multiple users and they can each get their own Mac".

New comment by jonnrb in "Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags"

jonnrb — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:43:07 +0000

I used to run into this and I use Siri enough to control HomeKit that I give things really mundane names ("Upstairs Bathroom Vanity", "Guest Bedroom Front Shades") to ensure that we have no miscommunication between me and Siri.

If you name your Hue light "House Music" and you're confused when you ask to "turn on house music", you've played yourself. I am interested to see if such a light was in the LLM context window or there were memories recorded of past bad encounters if an LLM would predict better...

New comment by jonnrb in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

jonnrb — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:44:57 +0000

I mean yeah or they include a 5G modem because the ads are so lucrative. But then we can start discussing how to cut the red wire to disarm your spy rectangle.

New comment by jonnrb in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

jonnrb — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:41:25 +0000

Someone should start a blog where it's all clickbait titles and the articles are all once sentence with the obvious resolution to the bait.

New comment by jonnrb in "The Tesla Model Y Just Scored the Worst Reliability Rating in a Decade"

jonnrb — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:23:07 +0000

My 2021 S I bought used has been rather as expected in terms of issues... which is to say I have a similar experience to you, somewhat due to the prior owner leaving a litany of subtle issues for me to find and get serviced and also due to the S-ness. It's low volume, so I get it, but I think most of the cheapness is not safety related (except that all PS4S on 21" configurations should be fired into the sun they are such utter crap in terms of longevity and handling feel).

New comment by jonnrb in "The Tesla Model Y Just Scored the Worst Reliability Rating in a Decade"

jonnrb — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:18:08 +0000

Do regular service intervals influence this? Would Tesla improve the safety of their cars (by this metric) by giving a regular service for safety items in tandem with the safety inspection interval?

Damage done by the driver is one thing (AFAIU, Tesla Service pricing is pretty damn competitive for repairs), but warranty work like light alignment and function, premature suspension wear (big on Teslas), and brake maintenance probably don't make a difference to Tesla if they are done before the safety inspection or after in terms of cost, but is rather important in terms of reputation...

New comment by jonnrb in "The Tesla Model Y Just Scored the Worst Reliability Rating in a Decade"

jonnrb — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 03:11:50 +0000

I mean this is like comment and comment reply number three of the same pattern: "I have Tesla Model 3|Y and it's doing well" --> "sample size of 1 mreh".

Reviews tend to skew negative. Where are all the angry Tesla owners here? (Seriously. I want to hear from angry HN readers about bad 3|Y ownership experience.)

I have a Y and an S (Palladium) and the Y is solid (only service for usual EV wear items) but the S has been... a "luxury" vehicle let's say that. I'd imagine some of the issues it had in its history wouldn't pass German TUV, but I got the things I noticed fixed under warranty.

I'm really curious how the newer vehicles do. It's a bit of a running joke "the new ones will be better!" but I really do see the improvement in my 2023 Y versus the 2020 3 I had. The S falls somewhere in between in a way that makes sense given its price point and year.

New comment by jonnrb in "SourceFS: A 2h+ Android build becomes a 15m task with a virtual filesystem"

jonnrb — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:55:26 +0000

It seems like that plus some build output caching?

New comment by jonnrb in "SourceFS: A 2h+ Android build becomes a 15m task with a virtual filesystem"

jonnrb — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:53:34 +0000

WDYM this seems very familiar. At commit deadbeef I don't need to materialize the full tree to build some subcomponent of the monorepo. Did I miss something?

And as for pricing... are there really that many people working on O(billion) lines of code that can't afford $TalkToUs? I'd reckon that Linux is the biggest source of hobbyist commits and that checks out on my laptop OK (though I'll admit I don't really do much beyond ./configure && make there...)

New comment by jonnrb in "Apple unveils new Mac Studio"

jonnrb — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:56:43 +0000

Power buttons are for power users. lol

New comment by jonnrb in "Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta is now available to anyone in North America"

jonnrb — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 13:14:30 +0000

fsd is still l2 btw...

New comment by jonnrb in "_Application.Run(Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object"

jonnrb — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:42:56 +0000

Do they have one for father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate?

New comment by jonnrb in "Gnuplot is not GNU"

jonnrb — Sun, 09 May 2021 15:10:03 +0000

If GNU’s not Unix and Gnuplot is not GNU, is Gnuplot Unix?

New comment by jonnrb in "A world of free movement would be $78T richer"

jonnrb — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 00:33:32 +0000

I was more referring to the big sudden surges part in that there is in fact a lottery acting to regulate the flow of migrants. I'd even go so far as to say that under many circumstances, a green card gets you many of the important rights and benefits as any US citizen (other than voting of course).

New comment by jonnrb in "A world of free movement would be $78T richer"

jonnrb — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 00:22:58 +0000

My thoughts too, and the article sort of says this at the end.

If the worry is that future migrants might not pay their way, why not charge them more for visas, or make them pay extra taxes, or restrict their access to welfare benefits? Such levies could also be used to regulate the flow of migrants, thus avoiding big, sudden surges.

This is what the US does right now through the lottery system but it's just so restricted that no one in their right mind could call the US borders "open".

Making a Golang Vanity URL

jonnrb — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:32:34 +0000

Article URL: https://jonnrb.io/posts/2018/06/making-a-golang-vanity-url/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17247947

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New comment by jonnrb in "FBI Refuses to Say Whether It Bought iPhone Unlocking Tech 'GrayKey'"

jonnrb — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:50:21 +0000

Since the DMCA prohibits the circumvention of Access Controls, couldn't Apple litigate the heck out of the GreyKey?