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kylec commented on The MacBook Neo daringfireball.net/2026/0... · Posted by u/etothet

beAbU · 3 days ago

If apple came out with their own linux distro, with open drivers and a mainline kernel... A girl can dream!

kylec · 3 days ago

I feel like Apple wouldn't want to make full Linux work on their hardware, but they could enable their Darwin kernel to emulate Linux syscalls and provide a way to boot into a mode that basically loads the kernel and whatever Linux shell you want

kylec commented on First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In macrumors.com/2026/03/05/... · Posted by u/tosh

aa-jv · 8 days ago

I've been holding back to find a suitable machine for a bit of XCode development, web browsing and mail, and I'm pretty close to concluding this'd be good enough, but I'm pretty sure I'd be better off with something heftier, since I mostly just want to develop JUCE stuff on MacOS .. anyone got opinions on this so far? How does the A18 versus Mx architecture factor into things, will we need to write slightly different code for each, or can we write ARM assembly that will be fine in both environments?

kylec · 8 days ago

I'm going to echo what others have said, Xcode will run on 8GB but the moment you need simulators or iOS canvas previews it will need more memory. You can probably get by on the Neo, but it won't be ideal. I suggest an M4 Mac mini instead.

kylec commented on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/scrlk

whywhywhywhy · 11 days ago

$5000 laptop you have to pay to add a power adapter… gratuitous penny pinching from Tim Cook's Apple.

It's one of those things, yes if I'm spending that much on a laptop I can afford to spend $80 on the adapter too, but does it feel good as a customer to do that or are you souring the experience of buying from you just to earn a few more dollars.

kylec · 11 days ago

I'm assuming you're in the EU or UK, Apple is required by law to not include a power adapter:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/10/15/eu-gets-what-it-a...

In the US they provide one in the box free of charge.

kylec commented on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/scrlk

wincy · 11 days ago

I typed “RAM” to search for it and boy they hammer home how lucky I am to be getting 1TB SSD standard, but no mention of RAM anywhere on this page. Anyway, the MacBook Pro starts with 16GB of RAM. It’s $400 to go from 16GB to 32GB.

Interestingly, 36-128GB models are showing as “currently unavailable” on the store page, and you can’t even place an order for them right now? But for anyone curious, it’s quoting $5099 for the 128GB RAM 14” MacBook Pro model.

kylec · 11 days ago

Apple doesn't tend to use "RAM" in their marketing materials, they usually use "memory", which appears 9 times in the press release.

kylec commented on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you' theverge.com/ai-artificia... · Posted by u/JeanKage

kylec · 16 days ago

I wonder if a similar system is in place at McDonald's because they never fail to ask if I'm using the app, it's pretty annoying

kylec commented on Gemini 3.1 Pro blog.google/innovation-an... · Posted by u/MallocVoidstar

mullingitover · 23 days ago

> it's almost impossible to get Gemini to not do "helpful" drive-by-refactors

Just asking "Explain what this service does?" turns into

[No response for three minutes...]

+729 -522

kylec · 23 days ago

"I don't know what did it, but here's what it does now"

kylec commented on Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews netviews.app... · Posted by u/n1sni

kylec · a month ago

Huge win on the name change. I'm never going to install an app called Pingstalker on my computer, it would feel gross and I'd worry other people might see it and be alarmed by it.

kylec commented on AI is a horse (2024) kconner.com/2024/08/02/ai... · Posted by u/zdw

throw310822 · 2 months ago

Famously Steve Jobs said that the (personal) computer is "like a bicycle for the mind". It's a great metaphor because- besides the idea of lightness and freedom it communicates- it also described the computer as multiplier of the human strength- the bicycle allows one to travel faster and with much less effort, it's true, but ultimately the source of its power is still entirely in the muscles of the cyclist- you don't get out of it anything that you didn't put yourself.

Bu the feeling I'm having with LLMs is that we've entered the age of fossil-fuel engines: something that moves on its own power and produces somewhat more than the user needs to put into it. Ok, in the current version it might not go very far and needs to be pushed now and then, but the total energy output is greater than what users need to put in. We could call it a horse, except that this is artificial: it's a tractor. And in the last months I've been feeling like someone who spent years pushing a plough in the fields, and has suddenly received a tractor. A primitive model, still imperfect, but already working.

kylec · 2 months ago

A tractor does exactly what you tell it to do though - you turn it on, steer it in a direction, and it goes. I like the horse metaphor for AI better: still useful, but sometimes unpredictable, and needs constant supervision.

kylec commented on Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades spectrum.ieee.org/ai-mode... · Posted by u/barqawiz

tossandthrow · 3 months ago

Try running anything interesting on these 8gb of ram.

You need 96gb or 128gb to do non trivial things. That is not yet 749 usd

kylec · 3 months ago

The M4 starts with 16GB, though that can also be tight for local LLMs. You can get one with 24GB for $1149 right now though, which is good value.

kylec commented on Modern Walkmans walkman.land/modern... · Posted by u/classichasclass

encom · 3 months ago

Don't these all use the same crappy internals, because there's only one company left making those, to satisfy the remaining hipster crowd?

kylec · 3 months ago

Yes, pretty much:

https://www.theverge.com/24295971/we-are-rewind-fiio-cassett...