These details don't detract from the efficiency. The postal code can prefilter every other field which can frequently narrow down to one. I would leave the ability for the user to override with free form data entry as data isn't perfect and changes over time.

I don't remember asking for "efficiency" in typing out an address, something we teach children how to do. It doesn't seem like a societal problem worth iterating over.

These tools are more than often wrong, and cause more grief for the user than any potential help it could provide.

There is no developer in the world that knows this data better than the person typing it into the form.

I'd like any person or system asking for my information one field at a time to minimize my time and effort to give it to them.

When they make erroneous assumptions, which they often do, they steal more of your time and effort than it would take without "assistance".

I bet a large majority of Americans have their city and state uniquely identified by their zip code

if it's not unique, a trivial fallback would be to not populate anything, and that's where we are today

What always bothers me with enums, sealed-types, etc is that I can't compose a new ad-hoc set based on elements of someone else's enum. You can make one using the other but not the other way around, TypeScript's is more general.

Of all the features only the M6 processor and maybe C2 modem interest me.

Because it's my 'dev machine' an OLED display only raises the price.

Well you could have a virtual particle whose mass could be time-averaged.

> 8 GB unified memory is brand-new e-waste today. macOS 26 makes it even worse.

One reason Apple can get away with 8 GB of RAM is their SoC does realtime compression of data in RAM and they use high bandwidth memory; the A19 Pro RAM bandwidth is 60 GB/s. This enables them to treat the SSD like an L3 cache.

It's nearly 5 years since the M1 was released; I suspect Apple has gotten really good with their RAM > compression > SSD system since then.

I will take MKBHD's take on this[0]. Great as a higher-end 'chromebook' etc. Could be an upgrade for my Surface Go 3 but not as portable. Definitely more useful than a tablet.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBX5WH9b4M4

> I can't see them releasing something with a terrible user experience

I see you haven't upgraded to Tahoe yet!

We don't have a Qwen3.5-Coder to compare with, but there is a chart comparing Qwen3.5 to Qwen3 including Qwen3-Next[0].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1rivckt/visuali...

I would much prefer vibe-coding to be used at the highest layers, not the substrate that we all depend on.