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@SebAaltonen Those are not similarly priced windows laptops. Thag is msrp for the Neo and heavy discounts for the rest. Here in Au those Windows laptops are 30-50% more expensive than the Neo when they are on sale (they are usuallh proced against the Air).

MacBook Neo browser tab switch perf (timed link): youtu.be/f9fhCMBIbis?si…

New M5 MacBooks have super fast SSDs, while MacBook Neo SSD is half speed compared to cheap $500 Windows laptops. 8GB RAM + slow SSD is a bad combo. Neo is marketed for browser use, but M5 Air beats it silly when switching tabs for example. Ultra fast SSD + 16GB RAM matters.

@VadimYuryev Does it disable sleep? My mac does not sleep with external usbc storage connected.

THIS is the only 400MB/s SSD in the WORLD that can do this! Perfect for the MacBook Air and MacBook Neo which only have ports on the left side, so I can easily plug it in without messing up our OCD-perfected side-by-side MacBook setup. Sandisk Extreme Fit! Link below

Found an AI perspective I’d never heard before from a teacher of teens. It’s a bit meandering but your three minutes will be well used.

Putting a 2mm thermal pad on top of the processor in the MacBook Neo = 10-15% higher multicore performance (@ 1-2W higher power) highly recommend

New blog post: A Decade of Slug This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain. terathon.com/blog/decade-sl…

@novikoff My only concern is the lack of keyboard back light. Have a laptop without it and it is bad. But might be ok with white keyb and black letters, donno

Just don’t lie to yourself. Base MacBook Neo works exactly as your current Mac. Blender, Video Editing, Capture One… all works just excellent.

Dearest Interns, I just want to take a moment to appreciate @cmuratori Honestly TheStandup would not be what it is without Casey and Casey, you honestly make me (and I assume everyone that listens) want to be a better engineer. Everyone else, your fired, with appreciation ThePrimeagen

this Obsidian + AI is the new hot combo. few people know that the CEO of Obsidian @kepano has made multiples skills for Claude Code and Codex that you can use right now both for your codebase and your personal vault.

Hi @Apple ! When can I use my vibe coded apps on my own phone without restrictions? I don't need redistribution, they are my apps for myself!

@dhh @intel Which one is cheaper?

Asus seems to have killed with the new Panther Lake ExpertBook. Better screen, better keyboard, 50% lighter(!), matching battery life, and overall great performance vs M5 MacBook Pro. Huge credit to @intel for this turn around!! youtube.com/watch?v=Q77Azv…

Acer and ASUS are now banned from selling PCs and laptops in Germany following Nokia HEVC video codec patent ruling videocardz.com/newz/acer-and-…

That's all folks! The entirety of The Compass is now out and available for posterity. The Q&A archive for Part 3 will be edited and also up in the next few days. You can find the archive playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

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ISN Breaking News: (cc: @straczynski) Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube "The strategy involves posting one episode each week, allowing audiences to experience the story at a paced rhythm that mirrors the original broadcast schedule." cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-n…

Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free. ...well, I mean, you probably could've grabbed a GOG offline installer out the back of a truck earlier, but NOW it's Official/Legal and has the in-development community patch built in for ongoing support. oldunreal.com/downloads/ut20…

I just published a 15 hour long video on YouTube covering everything you need to know to create beautiful 3D Anime in Blender and Davinci Resolve. Everything I have learned in the last 2.5 years is condensed into this video. I hope it's useful to you. :) youtu.be/xZWxEoa-Dwk

David Lynch losing his mind when informed by his crew that he has to complete a scene within 2 days.

Every time you replace “I’m overwhelmed” with “I need to decide what matters most and go slow,” your brain stops firing alarm signals and starts organizing information again.

Lamport's Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System is one of the most important systems papers of all time. It formalizes something kinda obvious: Within a timeline everything happens in an order defined by events it observed (I threw a ball, you caught it), but on two separate timelines, like two people offline on their laptops, two events *aren't* ordered with respect to each other. It's impossible to merge these timelines together in the general case, no matter how accurate clocks are. It's like those movies where two people go down different timelines: you can't merge those together no matter how good their watches are. To build local sync you have to accept one of three things: 1. Sometimes data loss will occur, e.g., last-writer wins. 2. There's a specific lossy or domain-specific API you can use, e.g., operational-transforms, CRDTs, or client-side merge logic. 3. Different people see different timelines forever, which is fine for some applications. A lot of the interesting work in local-first happens around option #2. How to limit operations users can perform to those that can be acceptably merged together or where it's ok to have certain kinds of data loss.

I finally landed on a memory-optimal way to render audio waveforms in the browser. The full audio is decoded once, then chunked into 2s bins. Each bin stores peaks at 800 peaks/sec in a Uint8Array. Bins are persisted individually in IndexedDB, which keeps the data as raw Uint8 arrays and is faster to read than OPFS. Local or session storage wouldn’t work here. A 2h video ends up as ~5.76 MB cached on disk. While scrolling or zooming the timeline, I load only the visible bins and downsample them to the required resolution. Everything runs async and I never keep more than a single bin in memory at once, ~800 bytes. Rendering supports mixed resolutions in the same pass since bins arrive async. By caching a read index and sorting bins ascending, each peak lookup stays O(1). On refresh, I wipe the IndexedDB so cache size never gets out of hand.