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How does battery life compare to Sequoia? I heard there is a huge drop

Unfortunately I don't know yet because I updated for Xcode 27 + iPhone dev, so having an iPhone plugged in 24/7 is heavily spewing the results towards "much worse".

If I can still reply mid-to-late next week I'll let you know.


There’s always some claiming this after any iOS/MacOS update only for it to quietly disappear until the next upgrade.

Google is the new IBM. All the signs are there.


IBM is more than 100 years old, has defined a huge part of how we think about computers, made plenty of its employees and workers of the wider field rich, has sold many businesses it considered distracting, and is still worth $200B+. Anyone saying "IBM" in the sense of "stagnant failure" is delusional.


Not to mention they are still at the forefront of materials science and industrial design, and just so happen to manufacture bespoke CPU & server platforms that run circles around all the hyperscalers...


Though of late, IBM has apparently decided it should be just another Indian outsourcer.


Google will do the same eventually.


I don't think this is what I respoded to. We cannot deny IBMs contribution, just like we can't deny google's.

But where they are in their life as a company is a different question. IBM is beyond growth phase. May even be on the decline phase.

My point is Google is still in its growth phase, still inventing, growing, etc.


I thought supermarket loyalty cards were just a QR code of a simple serial number. Is it different where you are?


The story about that AMD ARM core is that they were making it for Amazon. Performance was not good enough so it was canned. Amazon then went on to make their own chips called Graviton.


> your average diabetic who has fairly good control over their blood sugars

I think it's huge for diabetics. It's a mental toll for them. They hate having to constantly prick themselves to take readings. It's awkward, inconvenient and you have to do it multiple times to be sure you got a good reading. And worse of all, it's possible to forget to take a reading when you need to.


I don't understand. All of the diabetics I know personally (one type 1 and two type 2 diabetics) use continuous glucose monitors and have for some time, so they rarely need to prick their fingers anymore. Ketone levels can be checked with a urine test.


There's some difference in the readings of a CGM due to sampling different things (blood with finger sticks vs intercelluar fluid for a CGM) and taking a bunch of vitamin C (pills or in food) can throw the readings off. But I think one or two sticks a day to calibrate the CGM and in situations where readings seem off should be sufficient.


Well I'm a T1D and I'm not generally worried about DKA because I wear a CGM and keep my blood glucose below 140 mg/dL


Tahoe slows it down, but Seqouia is still strong.


Yep, even 600GB/s is barely usable and not fun.


Well, “low” is relative. Not everyone can spend a small car’s worth on a Studio…


But everyone can load 10 bucks on a deepseek flash API and have almost unlimited usage at decent speed.


For now. Local will always be free, and will only get better.


> Requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later

Why? Tahoe hasn’t even reached its first birthday and plenty of us are still on Seqouia not wanting to put up with apple’s disaster release. There’s nothing a terminal needs from Tahoe specifically.


Not a purposeful exclusion, macOS 26 simply the lowest version I currently build and test against.

It's a great call out, I'll take a look at that shortly.


7. Do you want the most contributions?

I hate to admit it, but GitHub has a massive community. I’ve personally seen a project leave it and then contributions dropped significantly.


Having people personally go out of the way for a little bit of friction tells you how valuable, and perhaps, serious these people are. I'd rather have that group of people contributing to my projects than fly by night agents that just shit all over the floor and expect treats for doing so.


Contributions aren't just commits/prs. It's also opening issues. The harder it is to provide feedback, the more likely users are going to seek a different library or tool, and depending on the actual objective of releasing or publishing code, that is not ideal.

I do agree on the fly by night agents, especially since so much is actually just agents acting on behalf of folks who just spam whatever permissions are requested in Claude/Codex.


Don't think open submission feedback is worth much anymore, at least not the amount of effort it requires to curate it. Having friction still seems like a great way to get decent feedback nowadays rather than needing to manually curate 100s of issues where 98% of them are spam/garbage.


That's fine if the projects are in a single place (e.g. GitHub) as you only need to create one account.

If every project requires its own username/password just to report a bug, I may do that for the first 2 or 3, but not for every project. I'm also unlikely to create accounts on hosting platforms I don't intend on using outside of reporting the single bug.


That's fine, maybe they don't want casual users like you to be part of their community. There is a reason to prefer group coherence over availability. Availability doesn't actually help the group for most online communities, it's actively a hinderance.


It's also a useful signal in the age of LLMs. A bit of hoops to jump through before a PR can now be seen as a good thing.


You don't really need GitHub's 'community'

It is mostly all AI agents, bots and spam anyway, not to mention most projects are now vibecoded slop on there.

You're better off going to a different forge or hosting one yourself.

Codeberg has a no LLMs policy which is very attractive for many.


The larger 3.6 35B is actually a mixture of experts (MOE). This means a small proportion of those B's are actually active. It's fast and suitable for agentic tasks but nowhere near good as the dense 27B model, which has all of its parameters loaded.


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