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kylec··on Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With Caveats
Also it's "Ternus" with an "n"
kylec··on Asahi Linux on M3
I don't think Linus Torvalds has any sway on what Apple does. Or do you mean John Ternus, the new CEO?
kylec··on The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
If it's advertised as a case and it works, why is it a scam? I don't own a 3D printer, nor do I know anyone who does. If someone is designing, printing, and selling a useful product, why is that a scam?
kylec··on Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
Doesn't the 3090 cap out at 24GB VRAM? That's not a lot to run a local model
kylec··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
And yet in some ways, modern computers feel slower than those from decades ago. Software today is so, so much less efficient than it was back then.
kylec··on Chuwi Minibook X
Netbooks aren't dead, they're just called Chromebooks now
kylec··on Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
I, too, have a server running 16.04 that I'm afraid to update. It currently has an uptime of 1281 days... at this point I'd feel bad rebooting it
kylec··on Googlebook
Different iterations of the product were called both those things
kylec··on If AI writes your code, why use Python?
I did go through the Go tutorial many many years ago, but it's been so long I don't remember anything. I do remember it was an enjoyable process though, and I'd love to pick it up again.
kylec··on If AI writes your code, why use Python?
This post resonates. I recently built a little web service to scratch an itch I've been having and after discussing the options with Claude we settled on Go, and honestly it's been fantastic. Highly performant, native threading, dead simple to deploy with containers. And I don't even know how to read or write Go.
kylec··on Dav2d
I wonder if the author is a Dave2D fan?

https://www.youtube.com/@Dave2D

kylec··on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
The $20 plan showed me how good Claude Code was, and now I'm paying $100/month. I never would have paid $100 just to try out Claude Code.
kylec··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
I think they usually record on Tuesdays, so not long
kylec··on Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)
The limit of 2 is just for virtualizing macOS. You can run as many Linux VMs as you want at once on macOS.
kylec··on Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)
This is a very silly restriction, at least to apply uniformly to all Macs. I think if you buy a more powerful Mac they should let you virtualize more Mac instances. Like an M5 maybe limit to 2, but maybe let an M5 Pro do 4 and an M5 Max do 8 or something.
kylec··on Am I German or Autistic?
I'm neither apparently, which I guess is a relief? Some of the questions I felt didn't have an answer I would select, like the inner monologue one. I generally don't have an inner monologue as I understand it described by people who do. Also, there's way more wrong with the world than those four answers.
kylec··on The MacBook Neo
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··on First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In
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··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
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··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
Apple doesn't tend to use "RAM" in their marketing materials, they usually use "memory", which appears 9 times in the press release.
kylec··on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you'
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··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
"I don't know what did it, but here's what it does now"
kylec··on Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews
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··on AI is a horse (2024)
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··on Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades
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··on Modern Walkmans
Yes, pretty much:

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

kylec··on People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows
What about a Mac? macOS isn't exactly Linux, but you can run a lot of Linux command line things just fine on it, and Apple will always make sure macOS works 100% on the Macs they sell.
kylec··on Feedback doesn't scale
When I worked at Netflix many years ago, they loved to boast about how they didn't have any "processes". My experience was that process ALWAYS exists, but at Netflix you just had to figure it out and hopefully not step on the wrong toes along the way.
kylec··on Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot
This could backfire on Microsoft - if a company's leadership sees low Copilot by their employees, cancelling the subscription is an easy way for the company to save money.
kylec··on Amazon to end commingling after years of complaints from brands and sellers
I’m astounded, this has been a problem for 10+ years and I just assumed they didn’t care and would never change it. Better late than never, but why the sudden change?
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