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sergeivaskov

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sergeivaskov··on What do you think of people buying Mac mini's to run AI?
The premise that 'barely any decent size models can run on it' misses the biggest advantage of Apple Silicon: Unified Memory. Where else can you get a machine with 64GB or 128GB of VRAM for running quantized models at this price point? Buying the equivalent VRAM in Nvidia GPUs (like multiple RTX 3090s/4090s) would cost thousands of dollars, draw massive power, and sound like a jet engine. The Mac Mini is dead silent, sips power, and lets you run 70B+ parameter models locally via llama.cpp. It's currently the undisputed king of VRAM-per-dollar for local inference.
sergeivaskov··on Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author
If Copilot insists on being a co-author for suggesting a comma, I expect it to also take co-responsibility for the bugs it introduces and page itself when the production goes down at 2 AM.