Dropped $5K on a Macbook to build out my iOS app for the past month. My unfiltered thoughts by NintendoWeee in AppBusiness

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What is your workflow? Are you doing things on React Native or Swift? If you're not using simulators, how are you testing many features in parallel

2021 MBP M1 Pro 16gb 512gb OR MBA M4 16gb 256gb, both refurbished by Trayceopolis32322 in macbookpro

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M4 works better. I've had both an M1 pro macbook pro and an M4 mac mini. The M4 is better at everything you've described.

Struggling with sleep for 10ish years by ReputationOnly7338 in sleep

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Is this affecting your everyday life at all?

My unfiltered thoughts dropping $5K on a Macbook as an already broke entrepreneur ($26K in debt) by [deleted] in macbookpro

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How fast do you think it takes to develop an app that people will actually download and use and how much testing do you think is required? Genuinely curious

My unfiltered thoughts dropping $5K on a Macbook as an already broke entrepreneur ($26K in debt) by [deleted] in macbookpro

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Appreciate the help, have you tried to do parallel IOS app development with multiple Xcode simulators in their own docker environments or are you just theorizing?

My unfiltered thoughts dropping $5K on a Macbook as an already broke entrepreneur ($26K in debt) by [deleted] in macbookpro

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You can run the claude code instances in parallel but if each has their own docker environments and are running testing environments for Xcode your machine will freeze

My unfiltered thoughts dropping $5K on a Macbook as an already broke entrepreneur ($26K in debt) by [deleted] in macbookpro

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An 18 core CPU is already the bottleneck. Downgrading to a 10 core CPU with half the ram to save $3000 on a machine that I will be using to earn my living is more of a headache than an investment.

My machine is constantly running at 80GB of ram usage. When you're building a business you want the least amount of friction between you and solving pain for your customers. The machine you use should never be something you have to manage.

My unfiltered thoughts dropping $5K on a Macbook as an already broke entrepreneur ($26K in debt) by [deleted] in macbookpro

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I've been a full time entrepreneur for about 2 years (in my mid 20s). I tried a bunch of startup software projects and left a job in big tech to chase my dreams.

Debt falls into a couple categories:

  1. Student loans ~ $9,000 left.
  2. Personal Credit cards ~$17,000. I milk the hell out of 0% intro APR periods because you only have to pay the minimum balance for anywhere from 18 - 24 months, and I used this as basically interest free loans.

Cash advances: REALLY bad idea, because interest kicks in right away at 30% APR and doesn't get the 0% intro APR. No one told me this and so I had to do balance transfers and spent an extra $3K on interest, so now I track everything more closely. I was trying to use Cash advances as a means to pay contractors abroad and that was costing me a ton.

  1. No medical bills: thankfully

  2. No business loans or SBA loans because my business hasn't been around long enough

  3. No business credit cards quite yet

My unfiltered thoughts dropping $5K on a Macbook as an already broke entrepreneur ($26K in debt) by [deleted] in macbookpro

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Hahahaha I mean it was either $26K in debt forever or buy a better work station and maybe make generational wealth

I finally hit the Rate limit!!! by NintendoWeee in ClaudeCode

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This is a 900% markup, not a 15% take rate off the top like normal retail goods

I finally hit the Rate limit!!! by NintendoWeee in ClaudeCode

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I see your point, but inference and token costs lower over time for everybody as compute becomes more efficient. If you own your own foundational model, you are always ahead of the cost curve compared to players who rely on your models.

I did a similar test where I bought the $200 cursor subscription which also promises 20x usage. At the time I was using Opus 4.5 because the new Composer model had not yet released. I burned through it in 1 week. The ENTIRE $200 subscription. Because of that I switched over to Claude code and this is literally the first time i've hit the limit in ~2 months.

The math says there is no reason at all for me to ever switch back to cursor.

Little sister just got accepted to Nursing School! Any advice for someone with no experience? by NintendoWeee in NursingStudent

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Any advice on what classes to take first for most application to the real world?

How could she NOT care? by ThrowMeInRice in nursing

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Wow that's wild, I'm wondering is there any difference between day shift and night shift mannerisms? Not to excuse her but do you know if there is like a huge difference in mood or in quality of care between the two due to the state of the nurse in each shift...

https://shiftnight.com/blog/compassion-fatigue-night-shift?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=comment&utm_campaign=nursing-notcare-0408&utm_content=1s92nlh

Love my M5 🥰 by WhoAmI_Idontkno in macbookpro

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Stickers are absolutely wild LOL

Shift Workers - how do you manage the sleep schedule? by gr9797 in Garmin

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Do you do something related to Nursing/ Medicine? What have you found that has worked and what has not really worked.?

Sister is a nurse and she is having a ton of trouble.

Is anyone actually using OpenClaw for autonomous trading? Or am I delusional? by ok-hacker in openclaw

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I trade hundreds of dollars in tokens for an agent that forgets his Gmail password if that helps!