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I hate to give Apple any ideas... but I've always wondered why macOS/iOS support falling back to software rendering, when all of their devices ship with a known GPU configuration. Without that fallback, getting the OS running on non-Apple hardware would take a lot more work.


Apple has documentation on installing OS X in a VM: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/ins...

While _this_ usecase obviously isn't officially supported, it does seem like they support VMs in some capacity officially.


This document is about running macOS in a VM on Apple's own hypervisor. Wouldn't this count as official support?


GP's 'this' refers to the submission, i.e. macOS in a container. (Aside: I hate 'a Docker', a Docker what? Image? Container? Registry?)


yeah, "a Docker" is incomplete and incorrect. and annoying. It could have been a character limitation, I guess, but edit it down so it makes sense instead of just ending the sentence prematurely.

"Do you have a Facebook? Or an insta?"

No one cares about correctness at all, anymore.


It's a Docker on the intertubes, I can't even.


Who calls it instagram? Like Reebok->RBK. Only old out of touch people say instagram or reebok


And that is how we descended to the madness of the word crypto.


I would have loved to ask Turning if he (p)owned any crypto, and then told him it was “up” 5% today.


I honestly don't know if that is sarcasm. If not I'm gleefully both old and out of touch :-)

P.S. For bonus points, ask me how I pronounce INXS :-D


It is and isn't. Just like the state of an electron. To truly know if it is sarcasm or not, it will cost you one cat.

However, it's no less serious than the GGP's arms in the air upsettedness about calling the 'gram insta. oops, see, i called it two different shortened names back-to-back. uh-oh, somebody's going to be upset!! ;-)

If you don't pronounce INXS as INXS, you're doing it wrong.

Edit: the name I just gave up trying to understand is Musk's kid's name. talking about a name that a kid will grow up to resent their parents about.


I pronounced it inks for the longest time


that's an interesting take on it. we cant get INXS, but we're okay wth the omttng lettrs in modrn compny names and terms lke ROTFLMAO


What letter is omitted from "ROTFLMAO"?


like, a whole bunch: olling n he loor aughing y ss ff to spell it out. obviously, some letters are used more than once, so my math teacher will deduct points for not reducing the fraction.


You missed the firetruck letter that your parent poster had likely indicated.


ig.. insta.. oh you mean instacart? or did you mean to say 'the gram' ?

These abbreviations are location/culture dependent. For example, here when you say "I'll app you", it means sending a message on whatsapp.


I wonder if that’s GPU accelerated, the last time I used a macOS VM on a Mac it wasn’t, but it wasn’t with the newest version of the hypervisor.


It is. There’s a paravirtualized Metal driver.


Presumably they use it internally. IIRC there are drivers for VirtIO devices in modern MacOS, implying they use KVM/QEMU for something.


It's also used when you load into the recovery partition, IIRC. It may be redundant nowadays, but it's a nice redundancy to have for sure.


Makes sense to have that working if there are gpu hardware issues… which did happen for many years


Without that fallback, getting the OS running on Apple hardware would take a lot more work, as well.


I would imagine battery life may be a part of it


I imagine it's pretty powerful to put your queen on the corner of 4 squares so it can capture along two ranks and two files.


good point for sure, but in terms of relative power it's probably the same, as it could then be captured along two ranks, files, diagonals, and a fair number of knight, and even some pawn positions.


At least it's on-brand.


If I knew I only had a few weeks/months of freedom left, I'd spend my time doing something other than writing blog posts.


Looks like he still has his Adderall prescription, despite all of this.


League of Legends?


Maybe he will finally reach Silver.


> NETBIOS is still used in modern stuff, no?

Even as a Linux guy I like to have netbios enabled since it gives you automatic DNS entries for all the hostnames on your network. I love being able to `ssh me@my-nas` without having to deal with hosts files and static IPs.


Netbios is off by default in Windows; technically it is auto, but auto only turns it on if it sees a request from another machine on the LAN, or the network's DHCP passes a special field (no Linux dhcpd impl does this by default, or even has that functionality other than a manual custom field; you only see this if Windows Server is fulfilling the AD role and your AD is also your dhcpd, which is rare nowadays).

Windows, since Vista, prefers to use LLMNR/RFC 4795 (as Vista was designed to be an IPv6-first OS; Netbios and SMB for the purposes of legacy interop is purely a IPv4 concept), and as of Windows 10, also supports mDNS/RFC 6763.

LLMNR + WS-Discovery is the Vista and up solution for the entire Zeroconf stack, mDNS + DNS-SD over mDNS is Apple's solution for Zeroconf (and is also implemented via Avahi; Apple's Bonjour is open source and was chosen by Android before being replaced with yet another impl). Netbios + SSDP is this solution (and kinda disjointed, tbh) for pre-Vista.

Edit: My own personal network doesn't use any of these, and I use a local dnsmasq install to do be dns and the dhcpd, serving static assignments via /etc/ethers + /etc/hosts. All machines support DNS, support for the various discovery mechanisms suck in random ways across vendors.


DNS/DHCP configuration can add a domain suffix to use... You can use something like myoffice.lan or myoffice.localdomain ... Then when you use ssh me@some-box it will use some-box.myoffice.localdomain and you just have to make sure that resolves in your assigned DNS host/forwarder.


How about mDNS and / or a DHCP-server?


Last I checked, mDNS didn't support Windows (requirement for our household) but it looks like it does now. I'll play with it next time I set up a new machine.


ah but you see, using authentication on a business network is very difficult and we must allow rando anonymous devices to do whatever they want, apparently.


There's also losses when transporting electricity. A pipe can be made perfectly airtight, but a wire cannot be made perfectly efficient*

*Yes I know about superconductors, that doesn't apply here


https://www.angi.com/articles/how-much-should-it-cost-instal...

> It typically costs between $400 and $1,500 to install a range hood, with the average being $750. Installing a ductless range or a replacement range hood with existing ductwork falls on the lower end. Installing a ducted range hood with new ductwork comes in near the high end.


In NYC to do this you'd have to penetrate the envelope of the building - that requires a permit, which requires an engineer. You're looking at 8k a shot, before a single piece of hardware or a single hour of labor. Figure 12k all told.


How much does it cost to upgrade the service entrance and run new electric lines of sufficient capacity to run an induction range through 19th/early 20th Century buildings that were never designed for that? I'm betting it's not cheap. One site estimates $15,000-30,000.

The range I'm looking at on the Lowes site requires nearly 12kW if you want to use all the burners, not counting the oven. That's 100 amps just to run the range without any other electric usage in the apartment.


To be fair the problems with gas stoves have been known for a while now. It's even made its way to HN a few times. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25332332


> Connecting with Microsoft accounts is only useful to enable Windows Hello. Otherwise, use local accounts only.

I have a Surface Pro 4 with Windows 10 and a local-only account, and I log in with Windows Hello. Is that unusual or deprecated in Windows 11 or something?


Do you use a security key?

It seems like you need a Microsoft Account otherwise.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/sign-in-to-your-...


For Windows 10 that’s absolutely not the case, you can use any Windows Hello method you want with a local account. Most of that article is talking about security keys because they are more involved than Hello.


No security key, just my face. That link also seems to say it can be used without an online account. Hence my question.


Likely OpenAI wants to retain control of their company. If they keep 51%, they have a majority stake.


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