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What I found shocking is just how drastically faster some workflows are.

If you work in JS and Node (say doing unit tests for an angular web app) this machine is so much better it’s unbelievable. It’s probably less than half the time to run tests. Half. It’s real productivity change.

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Great, now that we have this new fast hardware, time for developers to make everything 2x slower again.

Do all technical advances make you feel sad? Why hang out on Hacker News then?

It's actually a legitimate phenomenon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15643663

Blinn’s Law

“As technology advances, the rendering time remains constant.”

https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/founders-series-industry-...

See also Parkinson's law: "Work expands to fill the time available for it's completion"

Also the famous Jevons paradox.

Not all but software related in general and Javascript/Electron related in particular any advance make me sad. I hang out on HN to find comfort in fact that others also feel crappy software hosing all the hardware advances.

It's not far from reality; suddenly there's 100% more capacity for analytics and behavioral tracking.

God I hate this timeline.

Then opt out of it by blocking all that tracking and those analytics as well as those spurious a/b tests. While you're at it you might as well block any and all "social functionality". This way they get to play with their new toys without bothering you.

Remember what happened with the last great speed increase from spinners to SSD. They speed up was as dramatic as the bloat added in the past decade to slow it down. One of the worst offenders is Apple though.

As a JS developer, still waiting for full Homebrew.

But then again, I might as well wait for the next iteration of Apple Silicon if that is the case.

You can install ARM and x86 Homebrew side-by-side. It works really well.

When I set up my M1 mac I compiled as much as I could from source using the ARM Homebrew, and for everything else I installed it via the x86 Homebrew.

Why wait? I just built node myself, yes it takes a solid hour to compile but it works.

On older platforms(High Sierra), brew builds from source most of the time and I just built node(latest) on a i5 MacMini 2011. It took 76 minutes.

Oh god. You are going to hate this. Node v15 on my MacBook Air built in 20 minutes.

Oh no, not at all, in fact for an entry level Mini of almost 10 years it's not bad at all.

Or you can try MacPorts which already supports ARM ;)

https://www.macports.org/

maybe more people will starting writing twice as many tests!

And this is via Rosetta 2?

You can build node for the M1.

I was using Native Node built from source.

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