I'm glad enough people got M1 MacBook Airs now that the broader sentiment within the commentariat is changing and people are pushing back on the dismissals.

8gb has ALWAYS been fine in Apple Silicon Mac OS. RAM usage on a fresh boot is a meaningless statistic (unused RAM is wasted RAM). And they're just plain capable!

I stopped reading here:

> The ethical force of that project did not come from its legal permissibility—it came from the direction it was moving, from the fact that it was expanding the commons. That is why people cheered.

How is this not just relitigating GPL vs MIT? By now you know which side of that argument you are in. The AI component is orthogonal.

I got Opus 4.6 to one shot it, took 5-ish mins. "Write me a python program that outputs an svg of a fleur-de-lis. Use freely available images to double check your work."

It basically just re-created the wikipedia article fleur-de-lis, which I'm not sure proves anything beyond "you have to know how to use LLMs"

I was wondering how long it'd take for someone to bring Apple up. I'm clearly behind.

The MacBook Neo is the opposite of pg's "Brand Age". It's very subtly branded, the Apple is no longer shiny and "MacBook" isn't written anywhere in it. There are no identifiably-Apple design quirks, no notch. It's just the platonic ideal of a laptop. Screen, keyboard, trackpad. Nothing extra.

The cutesy intro video will be the main driver of ~0 sales for it.

Claude Opus 4.6 couldn't figure out how to use it to write to a Google Sheet (something to do with escaping the !?) and fell back to calling the sheets API directly with gcloud auth.