Hacker News: thoughtsimple

New comment by thoughtsimple in "Desmond Morris has died"

thoughtsimple — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:43:17 +0000

Changed my life. Even if his theories were wrong, it was eye opening

New comment by thoughtsimple in "M4 Mac mini's efficiency"

thoughtsimple — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:06:54 +0000

NAND card is replaceable in a proprietary socket. So you don’t have to worry. It probably is not upgradable but you can definitely replace it.

New comment by thoughtsimple in "The Erie Canal: The man-made waterway that transformed the US"

thoughtsimple — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:12:31 +0000

Yup, grew up in East Syracuse about 2 miles from the Erie Canal. Rode my bike many hundreds of miles east and west as a kid.

New comment by thoughtsimple in "TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel"

thoughtsimple — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:12:40 +0000

You can turn off wrist detection so it stays unlocked.

New comment by thoughtsimple in "Apple Ramps Up R&D Intensity to Pre-iPhone Levels"

thoughtsimple — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 22:06:58 +0000

>If the Apple II was the 70s and the Macintosh was the 80s and NeXTSTEP was the 90s and the iPhone was the 2000s, name the thing of this caliber they did in the 2010s.

Arguably, the iPod was 2000s and the iPhone was 2010s. The iPhone really didn't get started until the iPhone 3GS in middle-2009 so it started slowly but really defined the 2010s for Apple.

New comment by thoughtsimple in "Comparing the 1970's Cray-1 supercomputer against the Raspberry Pi"

thoughtsimple — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:07:04 +0000

That was on a 700 MHz Raspberry Pi 1. On an 1800 MHz Raspberry Pi 400 NEON SIMD the difference was another order of magnitude.

[QUOTE] Comparison - The three 700 MHz Pi 1 main measurements (Loops, Linpack and Whetstone) were 55, 42 and 94 MFLOPS, with the four gains over Cray 1 being 8.8 times for MHz and 4.6, 1.6, 15.7 times for MFLOPS.

The 2020 1800 MHz Pi 400 provided 819, 1147 and 498 MFLOPS, with MHz speed gains of 23 times and 69, 42 and 83 times for MFLOPS. With more advanced SIMD options, the 64 bit compilation produced Cray 1 MFLOPS gains of 78.8, 49.5 and 95.5 times.[/QUOTE]

New comment by thoughtsimple in "How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs"

thoughtsimple — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:14:53 +0000

You can download LiViable from the article author's download page https://eclecticlight.co/virtualisation-on-apple-silicon/

You can run in full-screen mode by doing the normal macOS click on the green stoplight button at the top of the window. The current versions of Apple's virtualization libraries para-virtualize the GPU which runs nearly at full native speed.

It sounds like you want a type 1 VM. Unfortunately none exist for macOS that I'm aware of.

New comment by thoughtsimple in "How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs"

thoughtsimple — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:12:01 +0000

Won’t work anyway. You can’t virtualize an Intel macOS on an Apple silicon VM. Unless you were just looking to transfer your data files. If so you can share a directory that is the external TM disk. (Not sure if you can do that with Parallels but the article author’s Viable works fine.)

New comment by thoughtsimple in "iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices"

thoughtsimple — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:54:04 +0000

It also seems to be on by default on iOS 17.1. It doesn't seem to on by default in MacOS Sonoma (14.1).

New comment by thoughtsimple in "The Timer in WatchOS 10"

thoughtsimple — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 23:34:25 +0000

Scroll up. Still there. We all need to get used to many more scroll pages.

New comment by thoughtsimple in "The Timer in WatchOS 10"

thoughtsimple — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 23:32:15 +0000

Never mentions Siri at all. Weird. Newest watches it’s all on device. Maybe he doesn’t know that?

New comment by thoughtsimple in "iPhone 15 USB-C port is 100% standard; MFi certification rumors wrong"

thoughtsimple — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:37:47 +0000

It was always a stupid rumor. Can you imagine if Apple required a different USB-C cable for your new iPhone rather than what already works with iPads and MacBooks? They would never do that.

New comment by thoughtsimple in "Every software project is a startup that will probably fail"

thoughtsimple — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 23:33:56 +0000

Most of the software I’ve written has gone into hardware products. Currently working on an embedded Linux system and writing a UI in ReactJS. We are late but only by a couple of months and I have every expectation that the software will be completed. The product has pre-sold about $1M already.

If you want to be working on shipping products, work on embedded stuff.

I’ve done customer facing business software too. Still mostly successful but that is where I’ve seen a few failures. One project I did was writing automated functional/integration tests didn’t see release but I take no blame for that one. The tests worked. The product didn’t.

New comment by thoughtsimple in "StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet"

thoughtsimple — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:26:52 +0000

Notebook check says equivalent to a Core i5-8250U. That is not good in 2023.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Processor-N200-CPU-Bench...

New comment by thoughtsimple in "StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet"

thoughtsimple — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 01:11:26 +0000

Yeah but a 1 GHz N200 yeesh. Everything else looks great.

New comment by thoughtsimple in "Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed"

thoughtsimple — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:35:40 +0000

You can turn it off in macOS 13 as well.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213449

System Settings->iCloud Settings (your name)->Password & Security->Automatic Verification.

New comment by thoughtsimple in "Don’t store cash in Venmo and PayPal, US regulator warns"

thoughtsimple — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 20:50:59 +0000

"These apps are also not immune to the same type of panic-based bank run that closed down Silicon Valley Bank and others recently, the agency added."

I'm thinking that worrying about Apple going the way of SVB isn't much of a risk.

Elon Musk-Backed Carbon Capture Technology Could Save the World

thoughtsimple — Sun, 28 May 2023 11:02:52 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/predict/elon-musk-backed-carbon-capture-technology-really-could-save-the-world-277bf3bddf2a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102980

Points: 2

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New comment by thoughtsimple in "Apple to occupy 90% of TSMC 3nm capacity in 2023"

thoughtsimple — Mon, 15 May 2023 14:21:37 +0000

Only on Intel Macs which are going away soon (only 2019 Mac Pro is remaining outside of refurbished.)

Apple Silicon doesn't currently have any provision for external graphics cards.

New comment by thoughtsimple in "Fullscreen apps above the MacBook notch"

thoughtsimple — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 23:44:45 +0000

I’ve been doing ReactJS development with both the M1 and now the M2 MacBook Air for a year now. My app’s transpiler production build takes about 5 seconds and any development incremental is essentially instantaneous.

I can’t imagine most developers work even stressing an M2 unless you are compiling chrome or something.

Best thing as a contractor I don’t even bother to bring a power adapter. I work for 8 hours and leave with 20%-40% remaining every day.