Hacker News: restes

New comment by restes in "Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework"

restes — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 01:07:25 +0000

The iOS Simulator consists of (some of) the userspace components of iOS compiled to run on macOS. This would be a full iPhone image running as-is via virtualization.

New comment by restes in "MacBook Neo"

restes — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:34:44 +0000

>People are having beachballs on machines with 32GB and more.

Well, sure, because the beachball means the main thread is hung, and that can happen for many reasons unrelated to memory pressure.

New comment by restes in "DoGE "cut muscle, not fat"; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts"

restes — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:10:44 +0000

I don’t understand. Are you claiming the actual results of Musk’s work here were good?

New comment by restes in "Bring code from other platforms into the browser"

restes — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:33:16 +0000

I assume they meant that the site is terrible in Firefox, not that Firefox is terrible.

New comment by restes in "Leaked Google pay data shows how much employees report making"

restes — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:18:14 +0000

Fair, but also where != what

New comment by restes in "Apple Pay Later: What Are the Crazy Ones Up To?"

restes — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 16:23:47 +0000

> You essentially can make money buying something.

Well, only if you can earn more over 12 months than the asset you bought depreciated. I think a better way to look at it is that you can earn a small discount.

New comment by restes in "BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product"

restes — Thu, 11 May 2023 16:20:58 +0000

>formerly TextEdit IIRC

TextWrangler. TextEdit is the editor built in to macOS.

New comment by restes in "Supreme Court allows Reddit mods to anonymously defend Section 230"

restes — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 05:09:13 +0000

Since the mods’ handles are known, isn’t this pseudonymous rather than anonymous?

New comment by restes in "A $3B Silk Road seizure will erase Ross Ulbricht’s debt"

restes — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 16:11:25 +0000

This and the parent's argument are just whataboutism.

New comment by restes in "Chris Lattner left Swift core team"

restes — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 02:22:37 +0000

Compilers are free to assume x is non-null at the time it’s dereferenced, so isn’t it true by definition? Do you have an example that doesn’t rely on undefined behavior?

New comment by restes in "Chris Lattner left Swift core team"

restes — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 01:12:51 +0000

The GP was referring to C++

>I would almost never write C++ …

Edit: nevermind, I missed the point! GP is saying he wouldn’t write C++ if C supported these features.

New comment by restes in "Chris Lattner left Swift core team"

restes — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:25:44 +0000

>why can't I specify, and have the compiler yell at me if I don't properly handle, "this pointer may never be null"

You can do so easily. A reference is a pointer that is never null.

New comment by restes in "Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs"

restes — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 16:37:03 +0000

>California allows “rolling stops”

No, they certainly do not. I live in California and I've gotten a ticket for doing this.

New comment by restes in "S.F. Mayor Breed declares state of emergency in the Tenderloin"

restes — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 02:02:41 +0000

> legislator

legislature

New comment by restes in "Id Software Is Trying to Stop a Man Who Wants to Name His Band 'Doomscroll'"

restes — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 14:58:11 +0000

Why is Id’s behavior bad (edit: need excusing, that is)? What’s wrong with enforcing your trademark?