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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…
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HN should have a conference-findings thread for something like WWDC, with priority impact rankings P4: Foundation models will get newbies involved, but aren't ready to displace other model providers. P4: New containers are ergonomic when sub-second init is required, but otw no virtualization news. P2: Concurrency now visible in instruments and debuggable, high-performance tracing avoid sampling errors; are we finally…
There's a different thread if you want to wax about Fluid Glass etc [1], but there's some really interesting new improvements here for Apple Developers in Xcode 26. The new foundation frameworks around generative language model stuff looks very swift-y and nice for Apple developers. And it's local and on device. In the Platforms State of the Union they showed some really interesting sample apps using it to generate d…
I might we wrong but I guess this will only works on iphone 16 devices and iphone 15 pro - thus drastically limits your user base and you would still have to use online API for most apps. I was hoping they provide free ai api on their private cloud for other devices even if also running small models
If your app is worthwhile, and gets popular in a few years, by that time iPhone 16 will be an old phone and a reasonable minimum target.
Skate to where the puck is going...
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But the opposite of "flat" is not "transparent". This was posted in another HN thread about Liquid Glass: https://imgur.com/a/6ZTCStC . I'm sure Apple will tweak the opacity before it goes live, but this looks horribly insane to me.
Agreed, people have said perhaps its Apple's way of bringing VR vibes to the UI, showing layers of UI elements. But I'm not so sure if I want transparent.
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And I couldnt be happier to see it back. I have not been a fan of the flattening of UI design over the last 15 years.
But the opposite of "flat" is not "transparent". This was posted in another HN thread about Liquid Glass: https://imgur.com/a/6ZTCStC . I'm sure Apple will tweak the opacity before it goes live, but this looks horribly insane to me.
iPad update is going to encourage a new series of folks trying to use iPads for general programming. I'm curious how it goes this time around. I'm cautiously optimistic
Isn't it still impossible to run any dev tools on the iPad?
I hoped for a moment that "Containerization Framework" meant that macOS itself would be getting containers. Running Linux containers and VMs on macOS via virtualization is already pretty easy and has many good options. If you're willing to use proprietary applications to do this, OrbStack is the slickest, but Lima/Colima is fine, and Podman Desktop and Rancher Desktop work well, too. The thing macOS really painfully…
> The thing macOS really painfully lacks is not ergonomic ways to run Linux VMs, but actual, native containers-- macOS containers Linux container processes run on the host kernel with extra sandboxing. The container image is an easily sharable and runnable bundle. macOS .app bundles are kind of like container images. You can sign them to ensure they are not modified, and put them into the “registry” (App Store). The…
You don't get that in macOS. It's more of a jail than a sandbox. For example, as an app you can't, as far as I know, shell out and install homebrew and then invoke homebrew and install, say, postgres, and run it, all without affecting the user's environment. I think that's what people mean when they say macOS lacks native containers.
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Ish - it always depends how deep in the weeds you need to get. Tokenisation impacts performance, both speed and results, so details can be important.
I maintain a llama.cpp wrapper, on everything from web to Android and cannot quite wrap my mind around if you'd have any more info by getting individual token IDs from the API, beyond what you'd get from wall clock time and checking their vocab.
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Using the Linux filesystem has almost no performance penalty under WSL2 since it is a VM. Docker Desktop automatically mounts the correct filesystem. Crossing the OS boundary for Windows files has some overhead of course but that's not the usecase WSL2 is optimized for. With WSL2 you get the best of both worlds. A system with perfect driver and application support and a Linux-native environment. Hybrid GPUs, webcams,…
FWIW I get better battery life with ubuntu.