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macOS 13 Ventura introduced[1] support of running amd64 binaries with Rosetta inside of arm64 Linux VMs when using Apple Virtualization framework.

Latest Docker Desktop and Lima VM can take advantage on the new feature. It makes running amd64 containers significantly faster.

Here is a very short manual how to setup Docker with Lima VM and Rosetta https://gist.github.com/akrylysov/7c1ea3bac409da2758e525f2f8...

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...
> education

I argue it can be automated. I have learned more from ML MOOCs than from my Romanian college.
> edit: the ad says up to 24/32GB of ram, but seems like 8gb/16gb models are the only ones available for pre-order at the moment.

I see both 24GB and 32GB configurations on the Apple Store configurator. Not sure what you're looking at.
>32gb of ram
They do give some numbers vs M1s, but most people actually considering buying this will be coming from the Intel ones (no-one replaces their laptop every year) so it makes sense to labour those in the marketing material.
So it works great except half the hardware doesn't work and it's entirely unsupported by Apple, to whom you paid a significant premium for the hardware?
Like the 30-pin connector's longevity? The lightning connector's? Physical Esc keys?
I am an artist and these kind of articles and numerous similar videos on YouTube: 'How to draw faces... How to draw a cat... How to draw a horse...' annoy the hell out of me. As if 'learning to draw' consisted of following some formulaic recipe, without even having the object in question in front of you, or even having seen it.

The number one skill in learning to draw is learning to see properly. The vast majority of non-artistic people look at things without ever really seeing them. A classic example can be found on Gianluca Gimini's Velocipedia project:

https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/

Here's a another example:

https://www.boredpanda.com/famous-brand-logos-drawn-from-mem...

Mechanically filling a page with shapes or following some idiotic 'how to draw a...' tutorial on YouTube will only teach you how to fill a page with shapes or make a bad copy of someone else's bad drawing. Learning to really look at things and attempting to put down what you see [as opposed to what you thought the item looked like before you actually studied it] is a far far more useful exercise.

I take your point that this article might provide some useful exercises for loosening up your doodling technique, to people who find it awkward to manipulate a pen or pencil freely. But calling it 'learning to draw' is as hyperbolic as calling some warm-up stretches 'learning to run a marathon'.
I've posted several times in the past about how I've been a part of no less than three separate unions (forced into as a condition of employment).

My pay was peanuts; the union took way too much of it and when I actually needed the unions they didn't do shit for me.

Outside of federal employment, unions in the US are hopelessly broken and frequently do more harm than good.
Yet they weren't alone in the world. They were next to China and other friendlies.
Yeah, I'm sure it does depend on where you are.

For the nearly eight years that my wife and I lived in Brussels, Belgium, we lived in an old house (rented) that was built around 1910, and so we didn't have even double glazing, although we did have French Doors, and we had custom-made screens that had to be manually placed into the windows and then pinned in place with a nail instead of always attached to the outside. So, I don't have much knowledge of what current European building standards are in this space.

I do prefer the German-style double-opening windows that I saw in the house my sister-in-law was renting near Spangdalem AFB, along with the Rolladen that they had installed. But again, that was a rental in an older home.

I have been watching Laura Kampf and her "Haus Lise Lotte" project on YouTube, but again that's a 120 year old house, and they haven't gotten to replacing the windows yet.

Any suggestions for an English language channel where I could learn more about current European building standards, maybe something like Matt Risinger's "Build Show" for US building standards that I've been watching on YouTube?
Do the M* support external displays with are fresh rate greater than 60Hz?
Whatever happened to the Mac Pro line?
If it's running an SSD, at least the swap speed won't be as crippling. Assuming it uses any.
Oof - once you bump the base model to 16GB RAM and 1TB of storage it doubles the price

Apparently Mini RAM hasn't been user upgradable since the 2014 model

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205041#2020
All of that was already on the M1 versions of the same laptops though wasn’t it?
One does not simply believe in Dark Energy (2012)
Can you define "sweet spot" in this case?

Usually I see that term used when the thing being considered is a pricey upgrade, and you need to strike a compromise between price and performance.

In this case, we're talking about an extra 8GB of memory, which would add perhaps $10 in cost to the bill of materials for the machine (or maybe less in sufficient volume). Given that Apple is also overcharging by at least 3x current standard retail price for SSD upgrades, my guess is that there's some room to bump up the wholesale cost a bit.

Not doing so is, IMHO, insulting to users, and given the non-upgradable nature of these machines, bad for the environment, counter to all of Apple's talk about being environmentally friendly.
>preconceived notion that you want to make the most of your life isn’t something that you should necessarily be open to being talked out of.

Fair enough when it's just a vague, general sentiment like "making the most of your life." What is probably worth being open minded about is how you define the objective function that maximizes that potential. It might be a little odd if I defined "making the most out of my life" in the same way I did when I was six (or even 16) years old.
Why would the other code be manually unwrapping and then doing an As test instead of using errors.As? That's extremely Hyram's Law behavior. :-) I agree though that if you have an error log reporting system it should be updated to understand the new multierrors. OTOH, if it's not, it will just see the multierrors as a single node and work fine otherwise.
This is so strange to me because aside from the way that the book describes tension between the sexes, there are no other subjects that would turn off a normal modern audience.

The way the stoicism of Lan was just trashed in the tv show means I wont be watching season 2 or 3 or any of them!
> Do you think secure boot stops cryptolockers? By what means?

You took my sentence out of its specific context (GP was arguing that they hadn't had any malware in 20 years), and put it in another, where quite obviously my argument is painted much weaker.
I think this is a good example of the kind of pervasive nihilism the OP is describing. Climate change is bad, and "climate refugees" describes a real phenomenon that's likely to happen, but the idea of a global apocalypse where most people have no long-term future is beyond even the worst case projections in the literature. Why are people so attracted to this untrue idea?
The single best inspiration for me to become a 'hacker' of sorts was BYTE.

Back in the DOS5/Win3.11 days there was an article about modifying command.com & io.sys so that you could customize the files that were used to load the system.

config.sys & autoexec.bat became (on my system) ipl.sys & ipl.bat (Inital Program Load)

It made the system immune to any virus* [except TSRs] (keeping a dummy config.sys & autoexec.bat let me see programs that tried to modify those files, and generally scored a TONNE of cool points in my mind. It also taught me about "security through obscurity".

This taught me that _MY_ hardware was mine to modify how I wanted. It gave me an incredible sense of power, and capability.

* = well at the time I thought it did. =)
Sadly I don't live in Europe.
Very similar experience here when upgrading, although not quite as bad.
> Making ram faster doesn't mean it can magically store more.

For real. This myth that "Unified RAM" doesn't need as much capacity as "regular RAM" needs to stop being perpetuated. Intel-based Macs already had memory compression and SSD swap.

My M1 MBA with 16GB of RAM was definitely limited by the amount of RAM a number of times throughout its life, and my 24GB M2 MBA has a much better balance due to the additional RAM.

8GB is fine for someone who doesn't do anything but basic web browsing and word documents, but I'm not comfortable recommending 8GB of RAM to anyone who intends on doing more than that. I'm honestly a bit uncomfortable with 16GB these days, but it is tremendously nicer than 8GB.

If Apple hadn't just lowered prices by $100 on Mac mini, I would say that 16GB should be the minimum, but for $599... I think 8GB is probably fine for what you're getting.
It was upgradeable in 2018, but they the teardown to reach the RAM needlessly complicated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQq4hLKv1Cc
I'm not exactly sure how they choose which particular gas to use, but I'm sure the lighter gasses will leak more easily.

Conceptually, it's like a thermos bottle, and you'd think that you would want a vacuum, but apparently that's hard to keep intact on windows, so a noble gas between the layers works better.
> the answer to bloated apps

RAM is dirt cheap these days. Bloated apps are bad, but 8GB really is simply a joke that punishes many people for the sake of product categories, at least until RAM is indistinguishable from storage.
> The Linux built in package manager is only ok. It often lags behind in versions of things I need

No such thing. What distributions did you have experience with? And what distributions are you running on your production systems?
> "when they screw up design, they do it in a spectacular fashion"

So they do sacrifice for flashiness?

> "I buy a new MacBook every decade"

Oh, a lot has happened in the last decade. This is an anecdote about 1 or 2 machines you've owned.
Not really -- Apple has increasingly pushed more niche updates (spec bumps and ancillary product lines like the mini) via press release, and reserves their keynotes for more notable updates like laptop redesigns and broad-appeal products like the phone and tablet.
Seems the differentiation factor would be RAM. Mac mini maxed out at 32 GB even with M1 Pro, where I am expecting 48 GB.
The 2018 model has socketed RAM.
All devices should be upgrade-able and repairable by customers, we paid for it and we own it, we have the rights to change it easily. We need to enforce the right-to-repair law fast, and please sue Apple if it does not conform to it(along with its only-me and pay-me-30% apple app-store policy)
Apple's pricing is pretty interesting. On the low side they annoy with a hobbled option (256G storage); on the high side they price things to ask "do you _really_ want 2T ssd in this thing?" In the middle is the product they'd like to sell the most.

An $800 box with a power cord. Spend the same and get a therma-throttled cpu with iOS and display (iPad); a little more and get a monitor (MBA). Spend double and get a larger monitor with a keyboard and mouse (iMac).

Maybe the primary question is if the user is cloud first (minimal storage) or classic filesystem packrat (better buy big).
This resonates with me. I'm 47 and have been basically unemployed for 4 years, and when I tell friends and family I think have ADD-Inattentive they say, "no that's just the post pandemic life, everybody is like that now.". Though when I point out most people are employed, they don't have a good response. Or maybe they are thinking "you are just lazy" which is the life-script bias you mention. Am I _am_ lazy but I've also been able to hold a job (and find new work) in the past, so something changed.

ADHD has become such a fad that people tend to be dismissive of new diagnosis, especially in adults. But adults are exactly where you'd expect to see a lot of new diagnosis, since many of us had negligent health care when we were younger (for example: I also have significant hearing loss that wasn't diagnosed until I was 14, but I had been failing hearing tests since I was 7, no one told my parents). And in middle age the compensating behavioral systems we developed can just stop working, especially when assaulted by pandemic-related chaos.
Properly constructed, I think these windows are expected to have a useful lifespan of at least 20-30 years. I think the heavier gasses are less likely to leak, so long as the window is kept intact and undamaged.
I can second this. In Holland, we get a translated C'T which is the only high-quality general “computer magazine” still existing.
I disagree. There were many plot threads but most of them were just uninteresting. Too many characters were off in their own worlds in full plate plot armor. They could die and make their whole story irrelevant because they were on their own; or they could come back, which they did.

The first two seasons were interesting because people were in the thick of it and their deaths were prior to their plot arcs reaching even their midpoints. I understand the books were more sprawling. But the show was very simple by the end.
I agree, the web is famous for its strict adherence to specifications. This behavior is super obvious.
The point being made is that HN is meant for discussion; so I'd assume you wouldn't see any value in discussing that topic on the forum.

I think it's fair to say there are certain principles (like the idea that a minor cannot consent to a sexual relationship with an adult, or that slavery is a moral wrong) can be viewed as immutable (or, at least immutable within a certain cultural context).

However, germane to the discussion in this thread, I don't think the definition of "happiness" is one of those immutable principles.
As an Italian I am failing to see the cleverness, even if they are written the same wind and wind (different pronounciation) have different roots and meanings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homograph

It would be like you had a site about planting seeds and had the site named por.ca.

Now, if it was something like riavvol.to, it would have made more sense.
16Gb is minimum on M1 I found. I hit problems on my 8Gb machine regularly. It’ll work fine but you do get heavy pauses.

The thing to be careful of is if your custom config breaks then the turnaround to fix it can be a couple of months. Ergo only buy stock configs. That makes the market somewhat less friendly.
Reminds me of minesweeper
This is what I've never understood about Tor. What possible incentive does anyone have to run an exit node? Seems like nothing but a liability for some extremely awful stuff.
The Mac Pro is now Apple’s last machine with an Intel chip
Except they didn't and recently unveiled this 13" MacBook Pro with M2 chip: https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-13/. Granted it's not the 14"/16" model, but still a touch bar on a new model.
It is not a "dagger to the heart", it is something they have to take into account.

What makes things harder for them makes it harder for the enemy, and vice-versa.

If anything, maybe it will help intelligence services realize that gathering intelligence is only half of the job, keeping secrets is the other half. Well, maybe they already realized it and we are not aware of that (it means it worked). But at the time of Snowden's leaks they failed big time. While most people focused on the content of the leaks and arguing about whether Snowden is a hero or a traitor, what I mostly saw is a guy who managed to break the security of the NSA. If a single guy can do that, what about trained spies backed by world power gouvernements? I guess countries like Russia and China already knew everything there was to know about the NSA. I could go for some "master plan" conspiracy theory, but my guess is just that the NSA is incompetent, or at least it was at the time of Snowden. Maybe that "dagger to the heart" is more like a wake up call, I hope for them.
In a painful sort of way slogging through those books in the middle makes the later books even more enjoyable I think.
thank you everyone, it was very unclear to me based on past releases.
WW2 didn't end the Great Depression, borrowing and spending huge percentages of GDP. From 1941 to 1946, the US borrowed 90 percent of GDP and injected it into the economy. The war was a catalyst, but unfreezing the economy with stimulus is what ended the Great Depression.
You might want to read the actual article instead of running off to wikipedia because Someone Is Wrong On The Internet. Pay particular attention to the part where they go into detail that the discovery was 1) done with a spectrometer, not a camera and 2) it's UV, not visible light. Might temper that knee-jerk some.
This is exactly what makes Apple engineers get up every day, to deliver a better chip for this kind of use cases :D
Ultra since pro is the baseline adjective.

Not that I find the naming any good but Max v Ultra would have been more of a head scratcher.
Yes:
https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/amd-ryzen-5-5600g
https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-air-2022 (same chip as in the cheaper Mini; the Mini has a fan so it should run a _little_ faster there)

Though for web browsing both presumably fall solidly under "good enough".

If I was signing up for Tech Support for Relatives, though, I'd _definitely_ go with the Mac; you don't want to be getting phonecalls about Windows 12 or whatever in 2027.
I wish! But there most be some return on investment or they wouldn't be doing it. Tor is so much faster than it used to be so I think it is likely there is well resourced person who is up to something on Tor .
You’re not wrong. Fun times :(
They do. I am on a last gen M1 Pro MacBook 16" using a 240Hz display but it's capped at 120Hz.
people in rich countries depend an awful lot on people in poor countries making stuff for them and keeping them rich
USB standards are a giant clusterfuck. I don't know how they managed to get it to this point.
Magsafe v3 supports PD 3.1, and the USB-C ports do not; this is not true
PHP devs hate to admit that the only reason PHP is still relevant at all today is because of WordPress.

If WordPress moved to a modern language tomorrow, PHP would cease to exist afterwards.
Wow, that's pretty weak. 32 GiB memory limit? In 2023 ?
The real problem with technical recruiting that creates a bunch of nasty feedback loops in the system is recruiters and HR not understanding the technologies they work with and not having the engineering sense to talk with candidates for 5-10 minutes about their projects and see if they're full of shit or not. The only thing 98% of them can figure out how to ask is "How many years of experience do you have with ____ technology?"
New MacBook Pro Models Feature HDMI 2.1 Port Instead of HDMI 2.0
No. At least not on this one: MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020)
His wife was a “real editor”. She did Enders game
Why get the M2 Pro Mini when you can just opt for Mac Studio with M1 Max? They're roughly in the same price bracket.
It's an important question. Leisure to me is to be freed of the obligations of productivity. I think framing it as "what do you DO for leisure" transforms leisure into consumption.

I don't agree that high productivity is the price of leisure. If that were the case, when do we get to cash that check? We've achieved record levels of productivity, so when do we get record levels of leisure?

I'm writing this as an American workaholic. So I'm in it as much as anybody. I'm just getting old and starting to ask a lot of questions. :)
Do these work on Linux? Or is it a limitation of the silicon?
I'm not sure what point you're alluding to here. I've met lots of people, some of whom I'd say took much greater risks than starting a tech company. I'm not sure if you're conflating conventional notions of monetary success with what the article is about, which is happiness.

Is your point that in order to take risks to be happy you need to be so cock-sure as to be closed minded? I tend to disagree and would probably characterize that as reckless as opposed to taking informed risks.
New make --shuffle mode
Not watching TWOT at this point will be because the first season was an awful "adaptation".
Can't say I share your experience. Just upgraded to Ventura and didn't run into any issues.
HTDPv2 https://htdp.org/ - it's about learning to program rather than teaching a specific language.

I thought the little projects you build along the way struck a good balance of interest, e.g. you're building a snake game by section 2 (but crucially you've already been exposed to how to think about data so you're not just dropped into the deep end with some boilerplate to fiddle with).

Anyway, i could write tons of praise for this book but it's convinced me to ditch python for teaching newbies and i LOVED python for getting newbies started real quick with projects for years.
I did not know about that option!
India will very soon (if not already, because the CCP's official numbers are propaganda) have more people than China and has better demographics. They will eat China alive. Doesn't help China pissed off literally every single neighbor they have with their arrogance and aggression.

China'd be lucky to exist in 2050.
Depending on your definition of “FBI” that is and long has been true. Laws are for the slaves, not the masters.
Yup unless there's a LINPACK comparing it to VAX 11/780 it's deeply unserious.
The fact that people pay for thirdparty apps when the official app is free should hint just how bad the official app is.
It’s called the Mac Studio now.
Those caring about space usage presumably wouldn't include an entire OS in their containers?
200x improvement over Nvidia with sparse matrices or without? Nvidia supports a certain level of sparsity.
Same here. I've heard people argue that 8gb is enough for web browsing, and while that is true, I genuinely struggle to imagine a use-case that doesn't max out the memory within 30 minutes of usage.
I'm not trying to bash Apple in bad faith, but let's be real the $599 model is inadequate. 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD in 2023. There's plenty out there on the M1 Mac mini's 8GB being a bad idea even for casual users. I had an 8GB M1 mini when it first came out and returned it because it was swapping to the SSD with like 3 apps open (nothing like an IDE or Docker or Adobe X Y Z).

I just find it humorous that you can spend several thousand dollars on a Mac mini, Mac Pro, or Mac Studio. It seems like there's a lot of product overlap to me.
> for discussing geopolitics with friends on a pi for a few months before finding it had been compromised.

that's very suspicious
As soon as Asahi gets proper GPU support I'm installing linux and relegating macOS to a tiny partition for managing my iPhone.
It shows that Ruby still has life left in it yet. The language itself is wonderful, there's a great ecosystem of tooling but the performance was always lagging. Hopefully some of this makes it a choice for people once more over other more esoteric languages. My only concern here would be the time and sunk cost fallacy of someone like a Shopify working on a Ruby JIT. It reminds me of when Facebook was working on the HipHop VM for PHP code and compiling PHP to large C++ binaries. I mean I get it, you have millions of lines of code, you don't want to rewrite it, but I often wonder, is there a better solution to this? Is there just a natural path towards, write new things in a new language and leave the old behind? Genuine question, because I'm not talking about rewriting the stack, I'm just talking about not investing significant amounts of time in low level infrastructure that's totally unrelated to business priorities. Yes fast code means better user experiences but often there's alternative ways around this than doing some literal JIT compiler work.