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What movie was it? There’s a good chance I can find it.

If you’re in Reddit, there’s also a subreddit dedicated specifically to this kind of thing (requests for stuff that is no longer available) called /r/DHExchange

That iMac should easily run Linux, why not install it? Also I don’t know what else to call hardware that’s still working great 14 years later except for longevity…

I’ve been programming since well before LLMs and I never learned well from programming books. It just wasn’t the right format for me. I always learned by picking a project at the edge of my ability and just going for it, looking things up as needed and solving problems as I came across them.

I had tried learning from books when I was younger and that was the reason I thought for years that I couldn’t learn to program. Turns out books just aren’t for me (I love reading in general, just not to learn programming).

I don’t really use Twitter so I’ve never used it via the bot, I’ve only ever used it via the web app.

I bounced back and forth between Grok and Perplexity for web search type tasks and at least for the moment am preferring Grok mostly because it seems to perform more searches and check more results per query vs Perplexity and their $10/mo plan covers my usage vs $20 for Perplexity Pro.

However I’m not married to any LLM service and will switch to another one the moment I get better results from it.

At least in my usage I haven’t noticed any obvious bias, but I don’t really search for politically related stuff so maybe I just haven’t seen it.

I keep hearing this statement, and it always makes me wonder if people have actually used Grok…

I have a Claude Max plan I use for coding, but I also have a Grok Lite plan I use for web search type tasks (similar to Perplexity) because I like how the Grok harness handles searches and I don’t need a SOTA model for that use case. I’d never pay $30/mo for a full SuperGrok account but to me it’s worth the $10/mo for Lite as I was hitting limits on the free tier.

I’ve never noticed it to be particularly biased at least for anything I’ve been searching for on it. And on the other side, I’ve never noticed it to be particularly less censored or anything compared to other models either (also a claim I’ve heard a lot about Grok but I think because it is/was part of their marketing).

Looks very similar to IINA in design (to be clear I like IINA), so I’ll check it out!

It’s actually extremely useful for DJ’s listening to their music collection. I always miss being able to adjust the bpm when listening to some of my songs that I always play a lot faster or slower than they’re produced.

> Does it mean this is based on customer's sessions?

Yes

> Are they entitled to build knowledge bases for every profession, topic and workflow in the world using customer data?

They certainly believe they are and they’re quite open about it.

It even has a name, Clio. Per their page it’s a “system for privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use”

Here’s their page on it: https://www.anthropic.com/research/clio

I was in fact not aware of it until seeing your comment, this looks potentially perfect for a tool I’m making that involves financial data. I’m pretty on top of LLM news but I’ve never heard of this company, maybe they need more marketing?

My daily driver for the past 20 years or so has been a Mac, doing everything from software development to music production to general computer use.

I’ve never had to use the CLI to turn off Apple DRM to install software. I use the Homebrew package manager to install all types of command line and GUI software and I download and install all manner of software outside the App Store regularly.

The only times I’ve had to do anything is if the app isn’t signed which is rare to come across, and even then it is a couple clicks in the macOS GUI to allow installation (I’ll grant you the fact they’ve made it more cumbersome in the past years by requiring you to go into the settings panel and click a button there, but it never outright prevents installation and never requires CLI use).

I really have to question if you’ve actually used a Mac or if you’re just repeating something you’ve heard because it doesn’t match my daily experience at all nor that of any Mac user I know (all my coworkers for example).

After some searching apparently it means “congestion control algorithm”. Definitely should have been defined in the article, especially since they have a whole section dedicated to explaining what it is.

> MacOS's relatively restrictive use cases

I’m very curious what you mean by this.

> I mean, I'm all for jumping on the Microsoft hate train, but not if it misses the elephant in the room.

That elephant didn’t even exist yet for the first few years of poor uptime shown in the graph in TFA… I don’t really disagree if we’re talking about the recent uptime issues, but how does that explain the years 2020-2023?

The graph in TFA shows the downtime pattern starting in January 2020. OpenAI released GPT-3.5 in November 2022 (basically December), and LLM/agentic coding didn’t really kick off in the way you’re describing until 2024, but really in 2025.

How can that explain the terrible uptime for the ~4 years post acquisition before all the AI stuff you’re talking about started?

I have both, and if they already have a good steam library I’d definitely go with the steam deck for them. They’ll immediately have a bunch of games to play on it (and synced game progress).

While you’re correct that FreeBSD is not a Linux distribution, the word “distro” is literally short for distribution. It doesn’t have a different meaning like smart and smartass, it’s more like repo and repository.

Of course they release this just as alternative browsers like Ladybird are making great progress…

No not at all. Some of the original contributors stepped away, but they’re still active and have recently made a bunch of progress toward M3 support.

Their blog is quite active: https://asahilinux.org/blog/

Announcements have been quiet for a while because they have been focusing on upstreaming their kernel changes, but more recently they’ve been adding new features and working on new model support again.

I have 4TB in mine (wish I’d gone for 8TB though now that it’s almost filled), and no I don’t worry about it at all because I have backups. Regardless of your drive layout (RAID isn’t a backup), you’re data can be gone at any moment if you don’t have good backups (lost/stolen laptop, software issue, etc). You mention already having backups so I really don’t understand this concern about having a single large drive… If it breaks, you restore from your backups. Yeah it’s annoying but it’s annoying to lose a 1 or 2 TB drive as well and the resolution is exactly the same anyway: restore from your backups and move on with life.

On M1 and M2 currently yes (M3 in progress). Check out the Asahi Linux project.

Ironically I’ve never found official status pages to be all that accurate either since companies love to exclude all kinds of outages from counting towards uptime. Anthropic is hilariously egregious about that as a recent example I can think of, but I assume GitHub does the same since it’s so common in the industry.

Talented engineers shouldn’t have much problem finding another position even in this market (of course they should find one before leaving I’m not discounting family responsibilities and whatnot), so if your argument is they’re not able to leave and find another job then you’re essentially agreeing with the person you’re replying to.

CC isn’t even limited to Anthropic models, there’s a post on the front page right now to use it with Deepseek V4 since Deepseek provides an Anthropic compatible API and CC reads API URLs from env variables so you can override them.

Haha yep yahoo has been mine forever for the same reason stated by the OP

Especially considering that Apple added it as a headline feature to the latest Xcode releases…

> It is no secret that Apple operates with hundreds of siloed teams in order to maintain individual domain expertise. The teams then come together in a collaborative manner to bring together the final products.

Having worked there this is a perfect description of the organization from my experience.

> So yes, it is likely true that SOME teams use SOME LLM for SOME tasks. It is a viable argument from R&D and other perspectives.

> What is almost guaranteed NOT to be the case is that Apple is somehow vibecoding company-wide.

100% agree

Another option on macOS is fn+e which I’ve always found easier to remember. I’m not sure why there’s two shortcuts in the first place, but maybe this information is useful to someone.

I exclusively use stars as bookmarks which is why I always found it strange when people talked about lots of stars meaning high quality or trustworthy…I’ve learned since then that I’m probably in the minority (both in using stars as bookmarks and not caring about how many stars a repo has).

Looks like they changed the post link to a Bloomberg article instead but kept the comments thread. So I guess he’s already aware.

I noticed the exact same thing. I read the original, went back to read it again and it’s completely changed.