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> When did you experience problems with Docker on Mac?? On my 16gb Macbook Pro, compiling a monorepo for my job. Between the APFS slowdowns and the virtualizat
by bigyabai 7d ago
> When did you experience problems with Docker on Mac??
On my 16gb Macbook Pro, compiling a monorepo for my job. Between the APFS slowdowns and the virtualization overhead, it was faster to build everything in a VPS and download the artifacts onto my Mac.
> About CUDA, mac has great GPUs , so much so that it’s a fad now to buy mini Macs to run LLMs.
Mac GPUs are close to the worst on the market. There's a reason why AMD and Nvidia are being put in datacenters while Apple Silicon isn't. Apple's GPU designs are a waste of electricity for LLM inference. My RTX 3070 Ti cost $500, is fabbed on Samsung's 8nm node and beats the 5nm M2 Ultra's GPU in power efficiency. That's how bad Apple Silicon GPUs are for compute.
> I don’t know about why you would use those file system
NTFS and ExFAT are the two most-common filesystems of all time. Almost all flash drives and external drives are formatted like this, not HFS or APFS.
> Package management is awesome on Mac with brew
Brew is a dependency graph nightmare. You should be using Nix on macOS if you're a developer, it handles things like side-by-side package versioning and environment isolation much nicer than Homebrew does. Brew works okay for simple app installation, but is basically a torture device if you use it professionally.
- brabel 6d agoYou seem to be in a completely different universe than me. Mac GPU, for consumer products, is absolutely the best when you need LLMs which require a lot of memory and consumes much less power (it's funny that you seem to believe otherwise when that's literally that biggest advantage of Mac silicon which absolutely no one who knows anything about computers doubts). Real world, proper comparison here: https://www.thinkdifferent.blog/blog/the-truth-about-mac-vs-nvidia-for-ai-i-tested-both/ https://www.thinkdifferent.blog/blog/the-truth-about-mac-vs-... If you think Nix is great but Brew is not, I really don't know what to tell you. One is a UX nightmare, the other just works. Nix is cool, I admit, but for day to day usage, it really is not ready for real world usage. Your comments are like a parody of a professional, I highly doubt you're a professional, you're a teen, aren't you? I should've guessed it when you mentioned "High-performance Vulkan drivers" :(.