Especially they will require even more compute to get anything close to usable output. Human brains are super efficient at learning and producing output. We will need exponentially more compute for real time learning from video + audio + haptic data.

I think idealists often get into politics as well, but they're not cold, calculating and power hungry enough to get into the important positions.

>it becomes up to a body of bureaucrats to determine what is true.

I think we have a ministry for that.

I always forget, what year was that created in? 1984?

the ministry of silly walks? ;-)

I've upgraded to Tahoe at 26.2, zero complaints from my side. Haven't had any runaway memory leaks or similar that were reported.

Same here. I know some people are unhappy with some of the UX tweaks but honestly I don't notice much of it. The whole liquid glass thing is a bit gimmicky. Other than that, I don't see much difference. The rounded corners on windows are a bit silly. But I don't spend a lot of time fiddling with windows. Most of my windows are maximized (not full screen). I'm sure there are other issues people dislike that I just haven't noticed.

I use my laptop for development. I don't actually use most of the built in applications. My browser is Firefox, I use codex, vs code, intellij, iterm2, etc. Most of that works just fine just as it did on previous versions of the OS. I actually on purpose keep my tool chains portable as I like to have the option to switch back to Linux when I want to. I've done that a few times. I come back for the hardware, not the OS.

In my experience, if you don't like Apple's OS changes that is unfortunate but they don't seem to generally respond to a lot of the criticism. Your choices are to get further and further out of date, switch to something else, or just swallow your pride. Been there done that. Windows is a "Hell No" for me at this point. I'll take the UX, with all the pastel colors that came and went and all the other crap that got unleashed on macs over the last ten years. Definitely a case of the grass not being greener on Windows. Even with the tele tubby default desktop in XP back in the day.

I can deal with Linux (and use that on and off on one of my laptops). However, that just doesn't run that well on mac hardware. And any other hardware seems like a big downgrade to me. Both Windows and Linux are arguably a lot worse in terms of UX (or lack thereof). Linux you can tweak. And you kind of have to. But it just never adds up to consistent and delightful. Windows, well, at this point liking that is probably a form of Stockholm Syndrome. If that doesn't bother you, good for you.

So, Mac OS it is for me as everything else is worse. I've in the past deferred updates to new versions of Mac OS as well. Generally you can do that for a while but eventually it becomes annoying when things like homebrew and other development toys start assuming you run something more recent. And of course for security reasons you might just not drag your feet too long. Just my personal, pragmatic take.

Is your Spotlight usable? Mine literally will not find an app

Searching for Chat yields "Ask ChatGPT", "ChatGPT Atlas", "ChatGPT Atlas" the website, and chatgpt.com. Does not yield the actual ChatGPT.app which I have currently open lol.

Spotlight is so bad that they removed Launchpad to force people to use it.

Raycast replaced spotlight for me years ago. Highly recommend replacing your spotlight hotkey with it.

Closing Tabs in Safari till takes more than a second though. And if you hold Cmd-W to close all of them it just completely locks up and crashes. Still not fixed since the release of Safari 26.

Literally unusable

I'm on an M4 Pro MacBook-- basically the fastest computer you could buy from Apple before today-- and opening/closing the tab sidebar in Safari on Tahoe takes multiple seconds, even if I have only 4-6 tabs open, and seems to drop to 5 FPS. It's comically bad.

It's so bad I switched back to Chrome. I had thought Chrome had a major battery life penalty compared to Safari on Macs, but I checked more up-to-date info and apparently that's outdated.

Never had this problem, been on Tahoe since it released. My safari tabs are buttery, silken smooth.

I have this issue as well on multiple Tahoe Macs. Opening a new Safari window is 500ms to 1000ms. Adding a tab is faster most of the times. But Safari frequently loses tabs turning them into a blank page without a URL. Searching in the passwords app talkes multiple seconds. This is on multiple macs with different icloud accounts even.

I don't have that problem (new Safari window in < 100ms) but I believe you, LOL.

Because I have the problem on 7+ Macs (as in all mine, my kids', my sister's and my dad's (all of which I am primary tech support on)) where if I press ⌘+ to increase the font size on a website, it increases — and then immediately reverts back to the previous size.

Every single time. But only the first time. I just did it on this site to be sure it still happens.

Do it again, and it works.

It's been happening for at least one or two years, across more than one major OS upgrade. ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯

Works fine for me. I wonder if you have some extension or script on one of the sites you use slowing down the tab closure.

I’ve been running the macOS 26.4 beta and have none of these issues.

I will say that 26.4 beta 2 was the first time I've regretting using betas since Sonoma beta 2. The Sonoma beta ruined the firmware on my machine and Apple had to replace the logic board; the latest Tahoe beta broke all networking on my machine and I had to erase the installation to fix everything. I've since dropped off the beta train for the time being.

I already left the beta train on my iPhone because I had too many issues getting my grocery apps to allow me to place orders without going to my laptop and doing it in a web browser.

Do you have more info on those crashes (e.g. crashlogs)? I work on Safari and might be able to get that forwarded to other people.

That's objectively false. I use safari all day everyday and have never experience any of that stuff.

This sounds like swap needing to be swapped in and then released. Check your memory usage.

There are MacBook companies, but Lenovo is basically the only other alternative.

I've had Dell in the past, but haven't seen one in years.

It's not necessarily a leaky abstraction. But a lack of _knowledge in the world_.

The abstraction may be great, the problem is the lack of intuitive understanding you can get from super terse, symbol heavy syntax.

But everyone had at least one friend, Tom.

If you've never worked in a large corporate environment you don't know how stupid things become. In a perfect bureaucracy nobody thinks.

> In a perfect bureaucracy nobody thinks.

This resonates so well and I love it. I'm stealing this

I work at a Fortune 10.

Things get stupid for sure. But I have never once seen “hey let’s do away with access controls for high-COGS services”.

It's never that explicit, it's more the things that nobody takes care of, because it's nobody's job. The bigger the company, the more jobs fall through the cracks, that should be taken care of, but lack an explicit role in the hierarchy.

There's usually a small handful of people that care more than they should, keeping the company afloat, but it's despite the company's policies, not because of them.

It’s funny, I’d say the details are right, but the overall picture is still wrong.

It tries to cram too many things into this one show. Like a medley of computing history.

Yeah, the the characters kind of feel like Doonesbury characters, where they just slot in wherever they're needed at a particular moment in history. Each season's story by itself feels authentic, but when you watch their character arcs from start to finish, each person involved would have to be a generational talent.

And it's not like that kind of thing never happens, like look at General Magic and its through-lines through the tech industry up until 2015 or so, but it just happens too conveniently in the show. Particularly Bosworth's role seems far-fetched to me. He's already at the end of his career in season 1, and somehow he remains relevant through the internet age?

The "Phoenix" monologue in the last episode evokes nostalgia for everything Donna and Cameron have been through, but it also breaks suspension of disbelief by pointing out just how much of history these two people have been involved with firsthand.

Take a look at the careers of Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, Brian Kernighan, Larry Wall, James Gosling, Kirk McCusick, Allen Holub, Al Aho, Marvin Minsky, Daniel Friedman, Gerald Sussman, Lance Leventhal, John Carmack, John Romero, Paul Graham, Guy Steele, Christopher Date, Bill Joy, Eric Raymond, Douglas Comer, Andrew Tanenbaum, David Patterson, Jeffrey Ullman, Fred Brooks, or Jim Keller.

To stretch the human analogy, it's short term memory that's completely disconnected from long term memory.

The models currently have anteretrograde amnesia.