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The difference makes a lot of sense to me.

The phones are watches are primarily sold on annual leases through carriers. And no one is buying them for the chips, it's all camera and form factor.

The macs, on the other hand, can more easily swap between chips in manufacturing. And the form factor is pretty static. So Apple, in a race to have the best chip in the field at any given time, is just releasing them as soon as they're ready.

I agree the whole "m5 max > m6" is confusing, but I think they figure only the nerds who learn the specifics are going to care anyway.


As someone who teaches AI at a university, understanding the basics of how the LLM works is really invaluable to understanding where and how they'll be applied.

You're right that it's probably a little too in the weeds, but it's also a nice clear and fun objective that teaches you the basics. Like building a TODO list in JavaScript to learn webdev or a Gameboy emulator in C++ to learn how a CPU works.


I can't help but respect the dev's self-awareness


When you give those resources to your coding agent, do you give them URLs? Or work with local versions?

I've found a lot of success pointing claude at locally downloaded docs over llms.txt URLs but not sure how to scale the pattern for a bigger project.


I'm in the process of planning an indoor-outdoor wedding in NYC so I made a little weather history explore tool

https://12seasons.nyc/explore/


15 years of mouse-free professional programming and never in my life have I touched these.


30 years of professional programming and I touch "Home", "End", "PgUp", "PgDn", "Ins", and "Del" every single day.


You can do this using fn button, without moving your hand every time you need to press them.

It's very convenient, when your hand don't move at all and can reach every button.


One of built-in, often used by me hotkey is Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Insert (open a new temporary scratch file). It's a default one and I don't want to set up it on every new device. Another one is Alt-Shift-Insert (rectangular selection).

A problem is that it's hard to remap, because everything else I can think of is taken already.


It's also very convenient to not have to remember a bunch of extra combos or perform the gymnastics to press them, especially if you need other modifiers too like shift+pgup, shift+ctrl+pageup, etc


you can do it using any button you like. lots of keyboards are entirely remappable. i don't understand how/why one saying they never touch these buttons is some kind of flex, like it's somehow superior to avoid using some keys or something.


Anyone else catch that he wrote this on an 11-inch MacBook Air (2016 at latest)?


Why couldn’t he have used the same laptop many years after its release?


I believe gp is noting that the MacBook couldn’t have been made after 2016 since that’s when that model was discontinued.


What I like about Marimo notebooks over Jupyter:

1. They're just a python file so they work with python editors

2. There's no hidden state

3. I can import from them

4. I'm not accidentally committing base64 encoded image output anymore


huh, I was doing this but without the feature. This is neat!


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