There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple’s claim that 8GB of unified memory was enough for base-model Apple silicon Macs, you won’t be able to use it. There’s a memory requirement for Predictive Code Completion in Xcode 16, and it’s the closest thing we’ll get from Apple to an admission that 8GB of memory isn’t really enough for a new Mac in 2024.

  • @Aux
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    16 months ago

    Again - content.

    • @[email protected]
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      6 months ago

      If a program has to keep in RAM all the things you are not currently, like right now, displaying or editing, then its author shouldn’t be in the profession. That also applies to the portions of a huge text file or a huge image you are not touching right now.

      EDIT: Thankfully people writing video players usually understand this.

    • @Shadywack
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      26 months ago

      Again, you’re wrong.

      • @Aux
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        06 months ago

        Ahaha, ok!