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We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon

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Re: We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon

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post #20

"You can even get /dev/kvm inside a Linux VM on an M3 or later running macOS 15, which runs Firecracker unmodified." I'm very confused why any SWE is on a M1 or M2 Mac. I've always gotten a new machine at $CORP every 2 years...

Sounds extremely wasteful to me. What's a new machine going to offer than a 2 year old machine doesn't?

Re: We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon

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post #29
post #14

What an awful blog renderer that, in Firefox, works when scrolling with the trackpad, but doesn't work when using keyboard arrow keys or pageUp/down: I get blank pages when scrolling with the keyboard beyond the initial viewport.

Sorry about that - just pushed a fix :)

Are there any technical reasons to override native scrolling functionality in the first place?

Re: We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon

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post #14

What an awful blog renderer that, in Firefox, works when scrolling with the trackpad, but doesn't work when using keyboard arrow keys or pageUp/down: I get blank pages when scrolling with the keyboard beyond the initial viewport.

I never understand why people mess with layout/scroll bar in this way. Like, now you have got more things to maintain.

Re: We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon

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By experience, getting Firecracker to run well on M-series macs is quite the undertaking. I'm not at all surprised Encore decided to take this path considering their customer base! At Lovable we decided to spend ~1 engineering month getting our sandbox infrastructure to be 100% runnable on Mac and on Linux with predictable builds using Bazel etc. But we actively decided to take a different route than Encore and run n…

I’d like to learn more about doing this myself - do you recommend any good guides or posts?

Re: We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon

#47

By experience, getting Firecracker to run well on M-series macs is quite the undertaking. I'm not at all surprised Encore decided to take this path considering their customer base! At Lovable we decided to spend ~1 engineering month getting our sandbox infrastructure to be 100% runnable on Mac and on Linux with predictable builds using Bazel etc. But we actively decided to take a different route than Encore and run n…

Note M1 and M2 macs don’t have hardware support for nested virt.

Re: We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon

#48
A suggestion to the author -- don't outsource your writing to AI, or, if you do, go over it with a fine-tooth comb and remove every trace of Claudisms from it.

I read the subtitle: "What it takes to boot the same microVMs on Apple's hypervisor, and the one capability Apple will not let you have." and immediately navigated away.

Re: We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon

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A suggestion to the author -- don't outsource your writing to AI, or, if you do, go over it with a fine-tooth comb and remove every trace of Claudisms from it. I read the subtitle: "What it takes to boot the same microVMs on Apple's hypervisor, and the one capability Apple will not let you have." and immediately navigated away.

Agreed, and then the actual text of the post gets worse. It’s actually unreadable; I literally could not follow what the article was about (without putting in the effort to unravel the Claudisms, a little like unraveling Shakespeare or Finnegan’s Wake) and gave up.

It seems we are all (on HN) thoroughly convinced that the models have all gotten worse at writing as the version numbers have gone up and they are supposedly more powerful models. Sol 5.6 is nowhere near as bad as Opus 5 or even the 4 series but not great.

But looking back there was a time we were enamored with how they wrote. Perhaps it’s related to the newfound prohibitions on “write in this writer’s style”? I wonder if training the models to not be able to do that anymore has steered them towards not being able to write, at all, in any existing human good writing style and they are navigating the small pathway through all existing good human writing to whatever you want to call what they are doing now?

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