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Howard Oakley is a highly respected technical writer. I subscribe to his site's RSS because of the fine writing which has had a consistent voice since well before GPT was released.

Can you explain from what exactly "Virtualisation ... is different" then?

I'm not GP, but I assumed it was a play on Apple's "Think different" marketing mantra

"Every single hardware device in an Apple silicon chip is different from its equivalent (if there is one) in Intel Macs"

There are no significant differences in virtualization hardware between Intels and ARMs, and certainly none described in that article.

It's not about the virtualization hardware, it's about interfacing with the rest of the hardware. The article is about why Apple decided to use Virtio when they weren't doing that before the ARM transition.

You don't know much about Mac bloggers then.

Yeah, I'm not part of the cult.

This is the most angry comment thread I've ever seen about a hypervisor.

Of the 20+ articles I read about hypervisors in my life this one has the least actual information and the most clickbait title.

There's more to the article than just the article. A technical blog elicits discussion and conversation in the comments. I never get why people totally miss such value add.

Seems that the comments for every article posted to HN these days has complaints about AI.

For people who feel compelled to make such complaints - can you at least include a specific example or two from the article that you feel are "slop"? And preferably something more substantive than calling out the use of em dash.

AI slop is definitely a thing, but it is a logical fallacy to assume that every article written with the help of AI is slop. And this article didn't feel like AI slop to me, so I'm curious to know why you think it is.

Anti-AI slop is also very much a thing. Let's try to avoid posting that as well.

People love to feel like they're the clever ones in the know who see the "real" world that others miss. It's the same underlying motivator behind conspiracy theorists. It's nice that you see what's really happening, which clearly makes you better than all the others who stumble around blindly. They're not special like you are.

I read "AI slop from the looks of it" in the same tone of voice as "that's what they want you to believe".

Yeah, it tends to be like "the article title has 'is' in the title, it's slop"

This article may not be AI, but it is slop from the technical perspective.

I think Howard is one of the people I would be most surprised by if he was using AI. He just writes this way and has been doing so for years.

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