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Re: Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc

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yeah -- I saw it's built on "open source foundations", do you know what project this is?

My guess is Podman. They released native hypervisor support on macOS last year. https://devclass.com/2024/03/26/podman-5-0-released-with-nat...

My guess is nerdctl and containerd.

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> New Design with Liquid Glass Looks like software UI design – just like fashion, film, architecture and many other fields I'm sure – has now officially entered the "nothing new under the sun" / "let's recycle ideas from xx years ago" stage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_%28user_interface%29 To be clear, this is just an observation, not a judgment of that change or the quality of the design by itself. I was gett…

I kind of hate it. Every use of it in the videos shown so far has moments where it's so transparent as to have borderline unreadable contrast.

I agree with you, I hope they quickly tweak this into something more readable. There could be a really nice mid ground here.

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That's a good thing though right?

It would be better for the OrbStack guy if they bought it.

Apple sees some nice code under a pushover license and they just can’t help themselves.

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Okay, the AI stuff is cool, but that "Containerization framework" mention is kinda huge, right? I mean, native Linux container support on Mac could be a game-changer for my whole workflow, maybe even making Docker less of a headache.

The containerization experience on macOS has historically been underwhelming in terms of performance. Using Docker or Podman on a Mac often feels sluggish and unnecessarily complex compared to native Linux environments. Recently, I experimented with Microsandbox, which was shared here a few weeks ago, and found its performance to be comparable to that of native containers on Linux. This leads me to hope that Apple will soon elevate the developer experience by integrating robust containerization support directly into macOS, eliminating the need for third-party downloads.

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All this focus on low power gaming makes me think Apple wants to get in on the Steam Deck hype.

Apple is in a reasonably good place to make gaming work for them.

Their hardware across the board is fairly powerful (definetly not top end), they have a good API stack especially with Metal. And they have systems at all levels including TV. If they were to just make a standard controller or just say "PS5 dualshock is our choice" they could have a nice little slice for themselves.

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All this focus on low power gaming makes me think Apple wants to get in on the Steam Deck hype.

They better have a partnership with Sony in the works, then. Valve and Apple's approach to supporting video games diverged a decade ago. Hearing "Steam" and "Apple" uttered in the same breath is probably giving people panic attacks already.

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You can't really sandbox development dependencies in any meaningful way. I want to throw everything and the kitchen sink into one container per project, not install a specific version of Python, Node, Perl or what have you globally/namespaced/whatever. Currently there's no good solution to that problem, save perhaps for a VM.

Hmm have you tried devenv? https://devenv.sh/ UV is pretty good for python too.

uv doesn't provide strong isolation; a package you install using uv can attempt to delete random files in your home folder when you import it, for example.

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All this focus on low power gaming makes me think Apple wants to get in on the Steam Deck hype.

Until Apple-ported games are able to be installed from Steam instead of the App Store, you can count me out.

Re: Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc

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> New Design with Liquid Glass Looks like software UI design – just like fashion, film, architecture and many other fields I'm sure – has now officially entered the "nothing new under the sun" / "let's recycle ideas from xx years ago" stage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_%28user_interface%29 To be clear, this is just an observation, not a judgment of that change or the quality of the design by itself. I was gett…

Back when Jobs was introducing one of the Mac OS X versions, there was a line that stuck with me.

Showing off the pulsating buttons he said something like "we have these processors that can do billions of calculations of second, we might as well use them to make it look great".

And yet a decade later, they were undoing all of that to just be flat an boring. Im glad they are using the now trillions of calculations a second to bring some character back into these things.

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