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New comment by rjrjrjrj in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

rjrjrjrj — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:59:18 +0000

C'mon, the LLM/compiler false analogy? In 2026?

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "First Commodore PET sold, June 5, 1977"

rjrjrjrj — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:45:27 +0000

That must have been a expensive piece of gear at the time.

In the mid-to-late 80s, my school still had a lab of 10 or so PETs. All connected to the same dual floppy unit. I remember the teacher would tell half the class to save their work, then flip the floppy over for the rest of the class.

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

rjrjrjrj — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:07:14 +0000

New Mac customers, perhaps. But new Apple customers? The vast majority of Neo buyers almost certainly already have an iPhone.

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

rjrjrjrj — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:53:17 +0000

I don't think so.

For most people in the Apple ecosystem, the iPhone is central and the Neo is another useful (but secondary) companion device. Not unlike the Watch and Airpods.

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

rjrjrjrj — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:38:36 +0000

They make the best-selling phone model in the world. Best-selling smart watch, etc. Apple is not a luxury brand.

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "Chuwi Minibook X"

rjrjrjrj — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:17:10 +0000

Or put the dock on the right side of the screen.

In my experience, 13.3" MBA is fine for many applications. A little smaller (eg 12.5") might still be usable. 11" would not work with current MacOS.

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (2013)"

rjrjrjrj — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:57:27 +0000

Even the 128k was reasonably successful commercially. Hundreds of thousands of units sold, which was quite good for the time. Inflation-adjusted, it cost quite a bit more than the Vision Pro. They sold the same model with very minor revisions (512, then 512e) into mid-1987.

The 1986 Macintosh Plus was a huge market success and it is only modestly different from the original. Even the SE and Classic didn't change things much.

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

rjrjrjrj — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:09:41 +0000

1024x768 low-dpi display, Core 2 Duo, etc

"Runs" doing some lifting here.

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

rjrjrjrj — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:40:34 +0000

> I have an iMac from 2012

> Well, I have a Framework 13 also, running Linux, and despite the hardware being from 2022

Please be sure to add a comment in 2036 on how your Framework/Linux experience worked out.

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

rjrjrjrj — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:28:31 +0000

No, but they are all on HN. And before that, Slashdot.

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

rjrjrjrj — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:44:25 +0000

Such as?

Feels like the Neo covers pretty much all the bases:

browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and alternatives

IDEs like VSCode, IntelliJ, Eclipse

open source heavy hitters like QGIS, Blender, Ghostty, even Gimp

unix command line tools via HomeBrew, etc

commercial suites like MS Office and Adobe

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

rjrjrjrj — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:21:22 +0000

The original Air was not good.

I think you mean the second gen Air (SSD-only, c2010), which was an incredible combination of price, performance, and usability.

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

rjrjrjrj — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:27:48 +0000

You will be able to drop an old Neo off at an Apple store and they'll recycle it. Same as with most of their other products.

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "Ruby vs. Java vs. TypeScript: my experience on building a Cowork DOCX plugin"

rjrjrjrj — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:01:01 +0000

Difficult to square the author's surprise with the later comment "I have my fair share of building a Java desktop application and know jpackage and alike very well"

You can't get very far in Java development without working with .jar files (which are zip archives).

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S."

rjrjrjrj — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:36:53 +0000

Canadian university degree is fine. Look up TN 1 visa if you want more details.

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "Declining America"

rjrjrjrj — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:47:56 +0000

The whining you hear is you.

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "Declining America"

rjrjrjrj — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:36:25 +0000

"Deep regrets"

L-fucking-O-L

What did they expect?

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

rjrjrjrj — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:14:17 +0000

The butterfly keyboard's known issues resulted in a huge recall.

The touch bar didn't fail at anywhere close to the same rate, although yes... it was expensive to fix if it did fail.

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

rjrjrjrj — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:19:50 +0000

I didn't like it, and was happy when they got rid of it. But I didn't hate it.

I did hate the butterfly keyboard that was introduced at the same time. Probably Apple's biggest hardware mistake of the past 15 years or so.

New comment by rjrjrjrj in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

rjrjrjrj — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:02:30 +0000

It is extremely inconvenient.

Both because a dwindling minority of people do old things the old way; and because new things (eg Netflix and Uber) are designed for the new way, even if they don't absolutely require it.