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by fartfeatures 5mo ago
The people who designed Mach in 1985 would almost certainly design something very different if they had today’s hardware, AI agents, secure enclaves, NPUs, ubiquitous networking, cloud edges, wearables, smart home devices and generally devi
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by fartfeatures 5mo ago
I found out about it through this guy and his videos, they are slow but in depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSLFz4jTMEY
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by fartfeatures 5mo ago
Because nothing lasts forever. Take a look at what Harmony OS is capable of if you want to see what a modern take on an OS and ecoystem looks like. It sure isn't the pinnacle either.
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by fartfeatures 5mo ago
Yeah that's definitely what I'm saying. Hopefully there is work being done on the replacement for the Mach kernel and OSX / iOS in general. If there isn't that would be a grave mistake and exactly the kind of one someone
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by fartfeatures 5mo ago
The capital return program was a massive own goal in my humble opinion. It will work for now but soon Apple will go through their Intel years because they spent too long sweating their (admittedly incredible) assets. Something like Harmony
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by fartfeatures 5mo ago
Also a couple of big investments that might have been better spent elsewhere e.g. Apple TV+ and the Apple Car. The vision pro and the audible gasp the audience let out when the price was revealed was a particular low point. Having owned tha
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by fartfeatures 6mo ago
Ccleaks is down?
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
"There are a lot of people who say that bombing can never win a war. Well, my answer to that is that it has never been tried yet, and we shall see." - Sir Arthur Harris The response is as applicable now as it was then. Time will t
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
Under-engineered is a much better term.
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
> You're interacting with an LLM, so correctness is already out the window. With all due respect if you are prompting correctly and following approaches such as TDD / extensive testing then correctness is not out the window. Th
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
MCP is useful for the above. I work on my own more often than not and the utility of MCP goes far beyond the above. (see my other comment above).
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
I can't go into specifics about exactly what I'm doing but I can speak generically: I have been working on a system using a Fjall datastore in Rust. I haven't found any tools that directly integrate with Fjall so even getting
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
All the code I work on now has an MCP interface so that the LLM can debug more easily. I'd argue it is as important as the UI these days. The amount of time it has saved me is unreal. It might be worth investing a very small amount of
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
I'm pretty sure that is not exclusive to X.
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
The M4 Max lacks the UltraFusion interconnect, making an M4 Ultra impossible. We might however see an M5 Ultra due to the new Fusion Architecture in the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips (just announced for the latest MacBook Pro), which uses a high-
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
That's good info thanks and you are right I didn't take that into account. I do however think that 8GB may be basically usable now but I'd like to see students able to use these machines for a decent length of time and to be
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
It was just an example of a simple app built by Apple themselves being a RAM hog. 375MB just for control centre on fresh open (15.7) but like I said I have seen it higher recently on multiple occasions. That's before we talk about a lo
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
I've seen the stocks app take up 2GB of RAM before. Even Control Centre can be a RAM hog. If Apple were still slinging efficient software 8GB is one thing but their catalyst based crapware is far from efficient.
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
Fantastic thankyou.
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
Is there any chance of a stable release that fixes the memory leak issue? I know I could run nightly but for something I spend all day every day using I'd much rather run a stable version.
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
StackOverflow was also full of knowledgeable but objectionable people. I'm very glad not to have that energy in my life any more. Those that hate LLMs are welcome to continue using StackOverflow but I shan't be.
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
PostmarketOS doesn't exist in a vacuum. It’s the final stage of a device's life cycle. If the initial sales of new devices decline, the pool of available hardware for enthusiasts to tinker with in five years will be significantly
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
Are you suggesting that a human being writes an OS in a vacuum without seeing any other OS or looking into how it is built. That feels a little facetious, no?
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
Can you?
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
Fun that you had to caveat it with some hand wavy homework bull. Gives you a nice get out of jail free clause when inevitably an AI writes an OS.
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
There are ways to achieve that without a blanket ban, if you read their AI policy it seems more "ethically" motivated. They certainly address this first, with many more words and 7 references. They do go on to address code quality
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by fartfeatures 7mo ago
Feels pretty Luddite to me. I remember when people were crying about how much power a google search uses. This is the same thing all over again and it is as pointless now as it was back then. https://arstechnica.com/ai/
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by fartfeatures 8mo ago
This is where Apple, Microsoft and Android need to step up. Indeed they already have in many ways with things being better than they used to be. There needs to be a strict (as in MDM level) parental control system. Furthermore there needs t
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by fartfeatures 8mo ago
IPFS was an attempt at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System
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by fartfeatures 8mo ago
This was such a self inflicted own goal. Siri has needed work for years and every year they neglected it. When they first bought Siri it was state of the art and then it just languished. Pulling an Intel and sweating your assets until it is

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