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sdsd · 2026-03-05T01:53:35 1772675615

I've been using 8 GB on my M3 for years as a security engineer, doing pretty heavy development. I usually have like 15 Brave tabs open, several terminals, a game (PokeMMO) and a small DeepSeek model, lots of Claude Code instances running, Obsidian, and LadyBird, among other small things. I honestly have no idea what people do with all that RAM.

eertami · 2026-03-05T08:21:46 1772698906

To provide my anecdata, my work MBP is 48GB and with nothing more than our dev environment, VSCode, Slack and Chrome it's at 34GB memory used. Modern NVMe drives make swapping to disk bearable (and it's the same on MacOS and Linux), but it is still swap and there will always be a performance penalty.

Sure I could survive with a 32GB machine but over the many years of life a laptop has, the extra cost seems negligible, and I would prefer to have slightly more RAM than I need rather than slightly less. With how bloated the web is becoming I wouldn't recommend an 8GB machine in 2026 to someone who intends to use it for the next decade. (I know people still using 2013 Macbooks with 16GB that are still fine for the kind of usage the Neo is aimed at.)

kwanbix · 2026-03-05T02:33:36 1772678016

15 tabs? I manage multiple projects, one per window, and have about 15 to 30 tabs per window. So maybe 300 tabs.

sdsd · 2026-03-02T18:36:15 1772476575

If you like the core games I highly recommend PokeMMO. It's the first five games glued together into an MMO and it's free.

sdsd · 2026-02-27T17:03:22 1772211802

I wondered if this would be about PokeMMO, which I've recently started playing. Basically, they made a commercial Pokemon game by gluing the first five ROMS together, and they get around intellectual property by making players supply their own ROMs (which they assume you've acquired legally) for copyrighted assets.

It's incredibly fun. I'm pricklypears2 if anyone wants to play together. And if the devs read this, please add Mimikyu somehow I beg you <3

sdsd · 2026-02-25T15:14:50 1772032490

I was about to comment the same thing. Usually I don't call the function directly, but via the tty command in my shell scripts:

  if tty -s; then
    echo "Standard input is a TTY (interactive mode)."
  else
    echo "Standard input is not a TTY (e.g., piped or redirected)."
  fi

Now I wonder how _isatty_ itself detects whether a file descriptor is associated with a terminal!

skydhash · 2026-02-25T17:07:09 1772039229

In OpenBSD, with the fcntl system call

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/lib/libc/gen/isat...

https://man.openbsd.org/fcntl

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/sys/fcntl.h

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/ba496e5267528b649ec87212...

sdsd · 2026-02-24T20:35:05 1771965305

Highly technically knowledgeable people are more influential in this sphere than the average consumer. If developers hate your device and love your competitor, that's a real problem.

criddell · 2026-02-24T22:00:24 1771970424

It's not clear to me what the net outcome is.

I've mostly owned Android devices but for my family I've always recommended iOS devices because they are more locked down.

sdsd · 2026-02-03T20:25:32 1770150332

Open process manager to force an unresponsive program to close. This has been part of popular lexicon for decades. Eg from the song Death to Los Campesinos, "I'll be ctrl-alt-deleting your face with no reservations"

sdsd · 2026-01-26T23:35:02 1769470502

anthes.is, my favorite Unix blog

sdsd · 2026-01-26T13:42:24 1769434944

As a Guix lover and LLM tooling enthusiast, I complete agree. Administrating my system via Claude Code is so much easier. LLMs work better on a system that's hackable via text.

sdsd · 2026-01-14T21:35:55 1768426555

https://danbednarski.github.io/

Click the glyph and select mimikyu

sdsd · 2025-12-26T15:31:23 1766763083

That's a good suggestion to OP but as a user, I find it adds character and makes it feel human in an increasingly LLM-polished internet.

CamperBob2 · 2025-12-26T16:34:27 1766766867

That's how I used to feel about spelling and grammar checkers. I was wrong. Maybe you are, too.