I do appreciate the technical simplicity argument and I'm always advocating for it. And the few neat tricks i.e. Copilot.

That being said, I'd much rather read a few ideas for good recurring passive income. Instead, the author kind of flexes on that, then says "I get refused VC money because they don't see how their money would be useful for me" -- which is one more flex -- and moves on to the technical bits.

It's coming across as bragging to me.

There are a myriad middle states in-between "frupid" (so frugal that it's stupid) and "Instagram scale".

Python requires much more hand-holding that many don't want to do for good reasons (I prefer to work on the product unimpeded and not feeling pride having the knowledge to babysit obsolete stacks carried by university nostalgia).

With Go, Rust, Zig, and a few others -- it's a single binary.

In this same HN thread another person said it better than me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737151

Love your username and how it relates to your comment -- and the topic at hand.

I was writing algorithms to find prime numbers on a 6502 some 31-32 years ago and I hold dear memories.

There have been multiple initiatives to remake a 6502-based computer. My today's self does not appreciate the 8-bit limitations however; artificial and not limiting in the way that sparks creativity. I'd much rather work with a 32-bit micro PC (I believe they're called micro-controllers?) and be able to address more memory and then try to minimize its use, rather than being stuck at 8/16-bit addressing forever.

But every time I see a 6502 post, I get a tinge of longing. :)

While I cringe at most LLM speak, I have learned quite a bit from it. Certain terminology and some gaps in my entirely self-learned English. I appreciate that. It helped me better express myself at work and use less words (but hopefully more substantive ones).

But yeah, their general tone is very... castrated. Safe. Hugely impersonal.

I have learned to quickly edit out their suggested comments when I ask for an advice.

To me they have been a positive -- after careful curation.

I can't turn back the clock and I will have to relay to my family that this month I'll get less money because I need to read English literature.

We operate within our own time and energy budgets, man. I might never get to that literature. My peaceful times in life where I could chill and choose what to do are over and I don't expect them to ever come back. Though who knows.

You have no hours of the day where you can choose to do something? Are you a prisoner?

I expected more of HN than drive-by comments.

So you really cannot figure out how somebody could have time but still be unable (or very unwilling) to do things they perceive as their plans that they want to do?

Really? Not a single idea?

Tearing down straw men is easy. Thinking critically and widely is more difficult.

Man, come on now, it's 1.20 EUR a month.

Of course it's nothing, but it's also not a set it an forget kind of thing, which in many ways for hobbyists is why cloudflare/github pages are nice.

Yes, it's nice to have a trillion+ dollar monopoly able to subsidize loss leaders to put your competitors out of business.

There are differences, but I think most people's code does not expose macOS' suboptimal containerization performance is all. Check my comment sibling to yours. We have noticed very observable differences.

Until Apple adds a kernel-level containerization support (likely: never) then this difference in performance will continue to exist.

That being said, Orbstack really is the best on macOS. Docker Desktop is only slightly slower but much worse as an UX. Colima I appreciate for its full headless nature but it's severely behind in performance, sadly.

To put things into perspective: we have an integration test suite that takes:

- 30 minutes with Colima on Mac;

- 20 minutes with OrbStack on Mac;

- 13 minutes on a weaker CPU (Ryzen 5500U) on a native Linux laptop;

- 14 minutes on a Ryzen 5600X and a virtualized Debian inside Windows 10 WSL2.

Pretty stark differences. Granted our test suite is mostly I/O bound but that really tells you something about the VM overhead on a Mac and the lack of an actual kernel-native containerization support on macOS.

Why would that concern you unless you are working on the cutting edge and the very limits of that hardware?

The current generation is insanely fast. I am planning to get a gaming PC for my wife and a mix of gaming + workstation PC for me (or maybe just base it off of the Ryzen 9950x3D and call it a day). We plan to hold on to them for 10 years.

I don't care if anything 6x faster comes out. For what I need the current generation is even an overkill.

I'd even go as far as to say that it would be quite OK if that's the very last generation and no further hardware development ever happens.

I am on the edge of current available hardware and do feel the desire to upgrade. As stated before, I am unhappy with the current maximum when combing frame generation, resolution, and graphics quality.

My dream spec is UE5 at 120hz on an 8k oled. I think that sounds like a super sick experience I would buy tens of thousands of dollars of hardware for.

One local store drops prices to clear stock and/or gain mindshare. Within a week, everybody else does.

Happened before, will happen again.