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2 articles tagged with “Apple silicon”

The Paralon capybara at a Mac, holding a small file with a broken wax seal while a sealed copy glows on the desk

Sep 13, 20264 min read

"zsh: killed" on macOS After Re-downloading a Binary: the Code Signature Cache, and the One-Line Fix

A provider re-ran our Mac install command and every launch of the agent died instantly with "zsh: killed". The binary was fine, the same file ran on other Macs, and there was no crash log. The cause is how macOS caches code signatures per file: curl -o over an existing executable leaves one the kernel refuses to start. Here is how to recognise it, why it happens, and the fix for your install scripts.

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The Paralon capybara holding one glowing cable that splits toward three machines: a Linux tower with graphics cards, a Windows laptop, and a Mac

Engineering

Sep 9, 202610 min read

One Model Name, Three Engines: vLLM on Linux, vLLM on WSL and llama.cpp on Apple Silicon Behind One Endpoint

The same model ID is now served by vLLM on Linux GPUs, vLLM on Windows/WSL, and llama.cpp on Apple Silicon Macs, and the caller cannot tell which one answered. Here is what had to be made equal for that to be true, the tokens-per-second we measured on an M1 Ultra and an M4 Max next to the GPUs, the 27B experiment that failed first and the rules it left behind, and a self-update bug that only exists when your inference server is a child process.

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