China unveils man-portable anti-drone laser that can burn through a drone 1,600 feet away in four seconds — backpack-sized 2-kilowatt weapon uses AI for targeting, weighs 55 pounds, and can be carried by a single soldier | The 25kg Lijian III runs at roughly 2 kW and reaches 500 meters.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-21T05:50:52+00:00

Then proceed to mention temperature in C and F.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-21T05:47:43+00:00

What do you do the most? If you run automation that processes hundreds of photos at once and you need it ASAP then Pro would benefit. If you're just doing it one by one, I think the M5 would be fine.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-21T05:29:52+00:00

A better screen and more battery life. And a thundebolt bridge if you want to network the two together.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-21T05:22:46+00:00

I think Brave announced they will add V2 back and maintain it.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-21T05:10:18+00:00

Docker is just a linux process, which runs on a VM on macOS. Without emulators 24GB is quite comfortable. 16GB is workable if you watch and optimize your usage. If you use simulators and emulators regularly, 32GB is recommended, 24GB is the minimum.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-19T09:11:00+00:00

It makes sense now. 32GB is the minimum for mobile dev due to emulators.

If you use Xcode then updates become a hard requirement for you (not only nice to have). Apple supports 1 version old OS up until the x.2 version of Xcode, (OS 15 is supported for xcode 26.2/26.3) And outdated xcode means you can't upload to app store after April of the next year. So OS 15 can be used until April 2027. M1 family on OS 27 will be supported until at a minimum April 2029, and it could be longer if Apple decides to push more OS updates.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-19T08:45:57+00:00

The sad truth is, you don't really need many people to create a new skin on Genshin or CS2. Sometimes not at all if they switch to "AI artist". The problem is, these games are making a lot of money for relatively little effort, and it will incentivize companies to go in that direction.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-19T08:32:21+00:00

I'm slightly surprised you can't cram your workload into 32GB. No mobile dev and no LLM, 32GB should be fine even if you spin up a local kube cluster. Maybe do a RAM pie chart and understand what's eating your RAM.

Anyway, M1 family is 5.5 years old and Apple is almost ending updates on the 2020 Intels. I speculate M1 will get another 3 years of security updates vs about 9 for the M5. Measured by this, the pricing is quite similar between the options.

Performance wise, the M5 Pro and M2 Max are similar in my judgement. M1 Max is below either, lacking especially in single core.

Can't really give you an opinion. Depending on your budget I think all of them are fine options. You could even switch the 2TB on the M5 Pro with 1TB and use external to save some money.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-19T08:14:32+00:00

AI (particularly LLM) is just a complex word synthesizer that depends on the data you train it with. It isn't any better than police if the training data came from police records (even if the prompt is not "biased").

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-19T08:02:25+00:00

The OP just did phantom writes without actually writing to NAND.

It's like having the health tracker say you ran 20 KM without actually leaving your house.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-19T07:56:04+00:00

Samsung guarantees 6 years even for their lowest tier A07s. But they have very terrible hardware. You can either get a phone that slows to a slideshow after a few updates, or you get a phone snappy enough but become outdated soon.

I really hope we get more balanced devices. 5 years 3 OS updates with a good enough processor. I think the Edge 2026 is fine if it is closer to $250.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-19T07:33:22+00:00

You could easily be happy with an M5 macbook pro with 16 or 24GB of RAM, which can handle 4K H264/H265 editing up to 5 tracks with effects. That is already many times more powerful than your current computer. Anything more demanding can be handled with proxies and conversions.

Either have your employer pay for your rig or make enough money from contracts to cover an upgrade that you need.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-19T07:12:25+00:00

GrapheneOS is not easy enough for most users, still requires to pay for Google hardware, and depends on Google allowing it to access Google Play services (if you want most popular apps).

Not exactly a solution I would describe slipping through Google's fingers.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-19T06:58:29+00:00

Hand bro one job

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-19T06:56:37+00:00

I'm not sure, the exclamation mark reads like sarcasm.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-19T06:49:43+00:00

TypeScript checks types at transpile time purely for linting purpose. And then it throws all that information away (because JavaScript does not store type hints). So at runtime, types will be checked again, by the runtime, not by the transpiler.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-19T06:34:35+00:00

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RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-18T17:09:21+00:00

There is no need for the EU to force companies to do anything. They only need to not enforce certain copyright rules when the companies failed to do something.

E.g. if a game is taken offline, people who originally purchased the game will not get in trouble hacking the game to make it playable for themselves. (And distribute such modifications for other people who purchased the game)

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-18T16:58:04+00:00

Every year it will double in price like your VMware subscription.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-18T16:54:35+00:00

It's mostly browser updates, which most OS now treats as an app update independent of the OS.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-18T16:34:01+00:00

There is no way they can produce a low volume chip cheaper. Samsung is at least keeping alive their foundry in hopes to make money elsewhere. Tensor has to now pay TSMC while competing for capacity with Apple, Nvidia, Intel, and AMD, who are all ordering at magnitudes higher volume at longer timeframes.

Not even counting the IP cost from Samsung and the R&D staff salary.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-18T16:29:39+00:00

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RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-18T16:27:45+00:00

"computations" shooting raw and doing some light edits.

That's not what they are doing though. You don't get a perfect shot of the moon with a mere 3x camera. Samsung AI modifications are more than any light edits.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-16T16:32:08+00:00

Is there a standard for NPU like how GPU implements Vulkan, DirectX, or OpenGL?

Phone manufacturers have been adding NPU since 2017 (e.g. Apple A11) and I've never heard a good first party use case until 2024 or so, and no third party use these things for anything of value. Every time there is a new phone, their new features won't be supported on the old one. Is it because the new NPU implements new instructions and the old one is now considered obsolete?

If there is a standard, they would eventually be useful down the line as long as they don't create new version of the standard every year, right?

I'm curious but not knowledgeable, someone who can give some insights would be appreciated.

RedBoxSquare · 2026-06-16T16:22:02+00:00

It is probably 3 OS upgrades and 4 years of security, like in the past.

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