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Claude models were always too eager and "overly helpful" for my taste. But it seems better models tend to be this way. GPT 6 and 5.6 are overly helpful too, but at least less than Fable. But I seem to be sticking to GPT 5.5 as this was a really focused model.

I don’t get it. You don’t need a Mac mini to use Claude Code on the go, any home server with stable internet is enough. Was it the marketing?

Either they're running Claude Code with a local LLM (technically possible via dev tools albeit unsupported), or they genuinely have no idea why the Mac is good for AI and just bought it because they were told it was good for AI.

The former honestly sounds like a nightmare because the Mac Mini can run some big models but not that big, and Claude Code will guaranteed stuff your context with 35k tokens, and all the Anthropic proprietary tool-deferral and tool-search stuff is meant to be handled inside the inference engine in a way that I don't think any open-source engine like vLLM can support right now (much as I wish it did). So you have a huge context on startup, broken functionality, and an underpowered LLM struggling through it all. Not to mention I have no idea how any of the sidecar LLM stuff is meant to work in that context (e.g. auto-mode classifier and even things like dynamic session naming). Am I missing something?

I don't want to assume it's the latter, I want to be charitable to other people. But.


  Either they're running Claude Code with a local LLM (technically possible via dev tools albeit unsupported), or they genuinely have no idea why the Mac is good for AI and just bought it because they were told it was good for AI.
Neither. I use Claude Code subscription through my Mac Mini when I’m on the go.

I develop using a Macbook primarily. Having a Mac Mini keeps the environment the same when I'm on the go. Plus, any home server would not be as efficient or fast as a Mini with an M4.

Of course it was. I’ve been using Mac minis since they were released and the mania the past year or so is unreal.

I would hope an old Xbox One disconnected from LAN and WiFi, with a GTA VI DVD inside, could start the game just fine.


Well it can't because how can they check if you're licensed to play the game? Connect to the internet first, then it'll let you start the game.


You wouldn't be able to.

GTA VI is not being released on the Xbox One. Game discs aren't DVDs and haven't been for well over a decade, they use Bluray discs, which won't even matter since GTA VI isn't shipping with a physical disc, only a code.

You need internet to access this product. You need updated system firmware.


I obviously made a typo and meant GTA V.


An offline console would have no access to patches for any game (including the mandatory day one patch that kills off enough remaining bugs to make a modern game playable), downloadable content, or the all-important multiplayer.


Ironically, Xbox One support for true offline play was gutted when Xbox gutted a lot of planned Family Sharing support when Sony claimed the Xbox One was not going to allow you to play games offline and made that a marketing campaign with pawn shops like GameStop. (The same campaign that also called in-box Kinect a mistake and complained that the Xbox One was too "media focused" and "not for real game players".)

The resulting early Xbox One pivot removed features that would have been useful when systems were down and replaced them with "offline capable theater" instead. (The same pivot that also killed the Kinect and Xbox One multitasking and host of other useful media features.)


You could probably make your infra cheaper if you sent the generated slides to the web client and use some js ffmpeg wasm to compile the video in the browser. This way you could probably use the cheapest VPS to handle this.


"option shift -" like so —, or if you want an en-dash, just "option -" like –. The funny bit is that I like em-dashes too as they indicate a pause or an interruption in thinking that just looks better than parenthesis, however I sometimes like to use en-dashes as well, which can be a pain since some fonts, especially monospaced ones, render exactly the same, for example in this HN edit box: - – —


> "option shift -" like so —, or if you want an en-dash, just "option -" like –.

That’s true in the US layout, but on other layouts those can be reversed.

> for example in this HN edit box: - – —

They look the same in the HN edit box because the font is monospaced, but once posted they do look different.


— Got it. I can em dash now! — — —


I used to get 2-3 shady crypto offers per week on LinkedIn. It stopped when I started replying with AI generated responses demanding multiple verification steps: official email, official offer link, terms and scope etc. And a note with a firm refusal to run any code or install any package on my machine for "recruitment tasks".


The PR buzz convinced me so I subscribed today to Pro. Running two tasks simultaneously with Fable and Opus 4-8 on ultra reasoning, analysing a single smart contract file used all my 7h usage within 20mins and didn’t produce any results. Pretty useless. I think Anthropic has plenty of room to optimise the interactions and token use but that would cut their income quite a lot, I doubt there’s any will to do it pre-IPO.


> Running two tasks simultaneously with Fable and Opus 4-8 on ultra reasoning

That's abnormally heavy usage for Pro plans which don't include a whole lot of usage to begin with. Opus is generally too much for them but you can get a lot of mileage out of Sonnet.


That’s a big lol compared to what I get out of ChatGPT Pro… running 5.5 on xhigh.


Dosbox has its emulator to run DOS, but afaik dosbox binary that starts up dosbox on Mac uses Rosetta on M-series Macs, and without Rosetta it simply won’t start and emulate DOS.


At least the ARM-based binary of DosBox-X (a variant of DosBox) runs natively and works great for everything I've thrown at it like old Apogee games, etc.

https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x


Wow that brings back some memories, but I was playing those games on a 386 running them on any hardware from this century must be absolutely trivial.


Oh yeah for sure. I used to play Commander Keen, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Major Stryker, etc. though it was on a 486 SX 25 MHz back in the day too!


But I wonder if Heroic can install HoMM2 on a Mac if no Mac binary is available on GOG.


Hmm i guess this would require figuring out how to extract game data from an .exe installer GOG distributes. I guess AI would figure it out in like 3 minutes ;) I’ll check later.


You could try https://github.com/dscharrer/innoextract (installable via homebrew).


I wondered if innoextract was Linux only, but I see there is a homebrew formula. https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/innoextract

Is the author reading hackernews?


That, or just run it with wine.


Interestingly, wine works on Apple Silicon via Rosetta2 so I guess it won't work by macOS 28, and we will be only left with arm64 DOSBox-X.


... and arm64 innoextract hopefully


There was a tool that would take a GOG installer and extract it.

https://www.macsourceports.com/utility/extractor


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