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

tempest_ — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:37:30 +0000

We are lucky in that we can choose our machines (within reason, and no real support if things get broken) and run an arch flavour.

I use thinkpad x1 carbons and have nearly 0 issues. The hardware is not quite as nice as a macbook but it does the job and is nice enough.

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

tempest_ — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:45:50 +0000

Yeah, they were that, and for the last 20 years they have been the iphone company.

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

tempest_ — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:56:42 +0000

That is fair but in my experience most devs are targeting linux servers not BSD(or any other flavour) which is helped by OSX. If OSX was linux derived it would suit them just as well.

edit: I suppose I should also note the vast majority of people developing on mac books (in my experience anyway) are actually targeting chrome.

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

tempest_ — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:53:01 +0000

I am aware.

However having used Xcode at some point 10 years ago my belief is that the app ecosystem exists in spite of that and that people would never choose this given the choice.

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

tempest_ — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:34:04 +0000

Has apple been a serious development platform in the last 20 years?

I know a lot of devs like apple hardware because it is premium but OSX has always been "almost linux" controlled by a company that cares more about itunes then it does the people using their hardware to develop.

New comment by tempest_ in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

tempest_ — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:29:24 +0000

If you get enough of them they can start to look like cattle.

Still, they are all the same breed.

New comment by tempest_ in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

tempest_ — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:44:18 +0000

There is a large subset of devs who have worked their entire career on abstracted hardware which is fine I guess, just different domains.

The size of your L1/L2/L3 cache or the number of TLB misses doesn't matter too much if your python web service is just waiting for packets.

New comment by tempest_ in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

tempest_ — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:02:01 +0000

> fault tolerant distributed systems

I mean there were mainframes which could be described as that. IBM just fixed it in hardware instead of software so its not like it was an unknown field.

New comment by tempest_ in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

tempest_ — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:16:23 +0000

I build on the exact hardware I intend to deploy my software to and ship it to another machine with the same specs as the one it was built on.

I am willing to hear arguments for other approaches.

New comment by tempest_ in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

tempest_ — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:03:24 +0000

Because might makes right and any entity with the power to legally put up a fight is in on the game (or wants to be)

New comment by tempest_ in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

tempest_ — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:11:01 +0000

It isnt that weird. Just look at the gemini-cli repo. Its a gong show. The issue is that LLMs can be wrong sometimes sure but more that all the existing SDL were never meant to iterate this quickly.

If the system (code base in this case) is changing rapidly it increases the probability that any given change will interact poorly with any other given change. No single person in those code bases can have a working understanding of them because they change so quickly. Thus when someone LGTM the PR was the LLM generated they likely do not have a great understanding of the impact it is going to have.

New comment by tempest_ in "12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

tempest_ — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:54:03 +0000

Google is not incentivized to show you good results. You don't pay them, advertisers do and that is who they are working for.

Their job is provide you just enough "results" that you don't or cant go any where else.

No more, no less.

New comment by tempest_ in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

tempest_ — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:28:14 +0000

Why would you assume that to be?

They might charge you less, but they don't have to and wont if the market allows it

New comment by tempest_ in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

tempest_ — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:43:17 +0000

Cell was PS3 and the Will used a Power cpu.

IBM had a hand in both however

New comment by tempest_ in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

tempest_ — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:11:00 +0000

The Pi isnt a loss leader for user acquisition nor do they get to enjoy Apples economy of scale. Apple can take a small loss on this and it will still be worth it if they retain the users in their ecosystem.

New comment by tempest_ in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

tempest_ — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:35:03 +0000

JavaScript in the late 90s was doing a hell of a lot less than it is today.

New comment by tempest_ in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

tempest_ — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:37:37 +0000

DDR4 is also crazy expensive right now so this just depends on you having some around from a previous build

New comment by tempest_ in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

tempest_ — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:36:13 +0000

Those will dry up soon enough. Corporate laptop refreshes will be drawn out as they try and cost save on the increased price.

You also better hope the aliexpress dont figure out a way to get the RAM out of those things because they will start harvesting it for sure if there is money to made.

New comment by tempest_ in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

tempest_ — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:34:13 +0000

It isnt lost but it also isnt a common skill set in programmers any more.

Most programmers are JS web devs writing client side code or server side CRUD.

I would guess < 10% of programmers writing code today get perf / valgrind out on the regular. I know I dont.

New comment by tempest_ in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

tempest_ — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:31:05 +0000

We just had a vendor tell us none of the HDDs we were looking for were available unless we also committed to a full NAS offering.