alwillis

10 ms·

181.
by alwillis 7mo ago
I get that AI isn’t deterministic by definition, but IMHO it’s become the go-to response for a reason to not use AI, regardless of the use case. I’ve never seen AI “hallucinate” on basic data transformation tasks. If you tell it to convert
182.
FBI director Kash Patel's personal email breached by Iran-linked hackers(indianexpress.com)
13 points by alwillis 7mo ago|1 comments
183.
by alwillis 7mo ago
> It's a leadership failure. They obviously have a UI/UX dept. Those people want to be considered productive. They had a guy who had no UI/UX experience leading the UI/UX team. He left for Meta thank goodness [1]. [1]
184.
by alwillis 7mo ago
> Gatekeeping. OK, fine, but at the very least this has been Apple's stance for a very long time now The point is this person has been dealing with Gatekeeper for a long time but all of sudden it’s a deal breaker?
185.
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference returns the week of June 8(apple.com)
3 points by alwillis 7mo ago|1 comments
186.
Samsung Brings AirDrop Support to Quick Share with Galaxy S26 Series(news.samsung.com)
4 points by alwillis 7mo ago|0 comments
187.
by alwillis 7mo ago
ugrep agrees with you [1]. [1]: https://ugrep.com/
188.
by alwillis 7mo ago
> I install most of my packages from a Brewfile, which itself is Ruby code. Same. Whatever happens, the new version should support Brewfile.
189.
by alwillis 7mo ago
bun is my go to for npm packages; it’s so much better and faster than npm, it’s not funny. Never had any issues.
190.
by alwillis 7mo ago
Since I enabled HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY, downloads have improved for me to the point where download speed is no longer an issue.
191.
by alwillis 7mo ago
> The A18 and A18 pro do not differ in memory bandwidth. A18 Pro has a modest memory bandwidth advantage over the standard A18, which is part of why it can support ProRes recording and always-on display while the standard A18 cannot.
192.
by alwillis 7mo ago
> I think this is the argument for UIs To quote The Godfather II , "This is the business we have chosen." The most popular and important command line tools for developers don't have the consistency that Claude Code's
193.
by alwillis 7mo ago
> In a recent episode of Dwarkesh the guest who is a semiconductor industry analyst predicted that an iPhone will increase in price by about $250 for the same stuff due to increased ram/chip costs from AI. Apple will not be able to
194.
by alwillis 7mo ago
> Realistically you need +300GB/s fast access memory to the accelerator, with enough memory to fully hold at least greater than 4bit quants. The latest M5 MacBook Pro's start at 307 GB/s memory bandwidth, the 32-core GPU M
195.
by alwillis 7mo ago
> Putting the GPU and CPU together and having them both access the same physical memory is standard for phone design. > Mobile phones don't have separate GPUs and separate VRAM like some desktops. That's true. The difference
196.
by alwillis 7mo ago
> Apple is having their Windows ME moment. As someone who lived through the early days of Windows, macOS Tahoe and Windows ME aren’t in the same universe. > It doesn't matter how much cheap hardware you throw at the unwashed mass
197.
by alwillis 7mo ago
> The same reasons not to deploy DNSSEC that face large organizations apply to you: any mistake managing your DNSSEC configuration will take your domain off the Internet (in fact, you'll probably have a harder time recovering than l
198.
by alwillis 7mo ago
LetsEncrypt has been checking for DNSSEC since they launched 10+ years ago. The ACME standard recommends ACME-based CAs use DNSSEC for validation, section 11.2 [1]: An ACME-based CA will often need to make DNS queries, e.g.,
199.
by alwillis 7mo ago
Just wanted to add the latest data on DNSSEC [1]. 25 million zones is a drop in the bucket compared to the size of the internet, but it's also not nothing. | Last updated. | 2026-03-16 05:04 -0700 | |:
200.
by alwillis 7mo ago
> On a mobile chip That's not really a thing with Apple Silicon. The A series chips and the M series have the same CPU and GPU core designs. Because you don't need to support Thunderbolt 4/5 controllers, PCIe lanes for NVM
201.
by alwillis 7mo ago
I should clarify that I was referring to the memory bandwidth. Compared to the 100 GB/s of a M3 MacBook Air, the 60 GB/s of the Neo is 40% slower. My M1 Pro MacBook Pro's memory bandwidth is 200 GB/s; that's 3.33x f
202.
by alwillis 7mo ago
In the case of the A18 Pro in the Neo, the memory is integrated directly into the package which is shared between the CPU, GPU and Neural Engine. Naturally it's faster to have all of this in the same package, with memory bandwidth up t
203.
by alwillis 7mo ago
Totally agree the LLM sucks posts should be accompanied with the prompt.
204.
by alwillis 7mo ago
> I think this is actually the reason the Neo has 8 GB of RAM (non-upgradable). It’s their anti-cannibalization strategy. It has 8 GB of RAM because they wouldn’t be able to hit the price point of $599 with more; their target audience do
205.
by alwillis 7mo ago
> Apple is going to cannibalize their own laptop market. As long as you buy a Mac laptop, Apple is fine with that, regardless of which one. That’s because they know who their customers are. The Neo is in its own category; the $599/$
206.
by alwillis 7mo ago
> And oh yes, the modern Mac shares those 8GB with the video RAM... The Unified Memory Architecture is why these Macs are so fast—no wasted cycles moving data between RAM and GPU. And the data is compressed in real-time so less data has
207.
by alwillis 7mo ago
> This is Apple's "Nintendo moment" when they realize they can package old hardware and win on polish and ecosystem. The A18 Pro isn't even two years old yet; it debuted in iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max September 2024.
208.
by alwillis 7mo ago
My fault; I'd lost track how far Asahi progressed.
209.
by alwillis 7mo ago
I wrote about how Unified Memory, SSD directly attached to the SoC and Apple's use of real-time compression saves memory, reduces power consumption and wear on SSDs [1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4735470
210.
by alwillis 7mo ago
I'm aware of that option, but that's not something the average user is going to do. But knock yourself out if you want to try it.

More ›