I still have this book! my mom reading this to me and my brother was my introduction to Tolkien.. very nostalgic.

Interesting, on that page using Safari, clicking on the home/nue logo or most other links/buttons results in a null error :)

I would hope React buttons work when people click on them though.

HN is one of very few places where I feel "at home".

Thank you @dang, and everyone else!

Exactly why I have zero regrets going native on macOS. Yes, Xcode isn't the best to put it mildly and SwiftUI is still maturing.. but I am so glad I don't have to deal with the modern web stack. Daily smiles instead of facepalms, most of the time!

No one "has to" rewrite just because they're building on the web. Coffeescript was a bad bet but other than that all of the technologies listed there would have been fine for many years to come without a rewrite.

I wonder how soon they will arrive at 80%/20%.

UTM is great, and once snapshot capability is added [1] it will become my default recommendation for sure. Until then sticking with Parallels. NOTE: An unofficial snapshot manager exists [2].

1: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/5484

2: https://github.com/Metamogul/UTM-Snapshot-Manager

As someone who would always practice the habit of doing development within VMs as opposed to my actual system for a number of reasons, I tried UTM and played with it for a long time to host ARM64 Linux VMs on my M1 Macbook Pro, however the file sharing issues plagued me - with the most common problem being, having my shared folders disappear suddenly from the guest VMs, and having to do workarounds to get them back, quite often. Next, I tried VMWare Fusion, but it has the same problem. After that I tried Parallels, which seemed too expensive, so I jumped to Lima.

I am glad to have found Lima - it also is based on QEMU and made bringing up linux VMs very easy and provided network sharing out of the box. Now all my development lies within these Lima VMs and I am happy to report I never had a problem. I know I could do display forwarding if needed but I am good with these headless instances for now (thanks to VSCode).

I've been using a similar setup for a while now. I just use SFTP for file sharing. Never bothered to try UTM's file sharing feature.

While this is a good alternative, some tools like git clients and other things that I run on the host system can't be worked out via SFTP

Use sshfs.

this seems like a perfect use case for NFS. zero network problems to mess with anything (because it's a virtual network between host and VM), it's very easy to set up, and it should be quite fast indeed. 9p would be another option, I suppose, though I don't know of any 9p servers for MacOS.

APFS supports copy on write snapshots today, for any filetype. I would think that snapshot features in UTM would simply wrap that functionality.

as simple as `cp -c`

though if that were true, I guess it would be implemented already.

Hah, I was going to say that I've successfully faked a limited form of snapshots using clonefile, and then turns out that's what the implementation-in-progress is doing.

Does it support TPM emulation, and ansible/vagrabt?

Looks like they added TPM just last month: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/3082

On Windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra_PDF is amazing!

Kind of, but the recent switch to the mupdf engine sacrificed what little layout customization it had for epubs. Now you can't even change the font anymore.

All these layoffs to me personally seem just an accelerated and highly opportunistic cull of people in the bottom of stack ranking.

Of course they still do it, of course they will use this golden opportunity to improve what they think of as "health" of the organization.

Yes, they probably overhired during the pandemic, but people laid off will not necessarily be the same ones.

* The Language of Mathematics: Utilizing Math in Practice by Baber https://www.amazon.com/Language-Mathematics-Utilizing-Math-P... really helped me "get it", as I always found programming natural but math hard. This one is written by a CS professor and it really makes all the difference.

* How to Solve it by Polya https://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-Mathematical-Princeton-Scie... and How to Prove it by Velleman https://www.amazon.com/How-Prove-Structured-Approach-2nd/dp/... helped strengthen that understanding.

* This year I am trying to master https://www.amazon.com/Methods-Mathematics-Calculus-Probabil... which focuses on how to "connect the dots".

* I am using Geometry and the Imagination by Hilbert https://www.amazon.com/Geometry-Imagination-AMS-Chelsea-Publ... as an attempt to "immerse" myself in Geometry. I just love this book.

That is already doable with xargs itself

xargs -P maxprocs

Parallel mode: run at most maxprocs invocations of utility at once. If maxprocs is set to 0, xargs will run as many processes as possible.

GNU parallel gives you some extra features like a runtime log and resumable operation.