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> PRAGMA journal_mode = WAL

Pretty sure this is a persistent setting. Don't need to set it per-connection.

Working fine for me right now, from Brazil. Claude via Github Copilot at least.

> If the person invites me to a online meeting with a signed e-mail, I trust that person that it's really them.

In the interview scenario, generating an email signature is hardly beyond what an AI can do.

You have no prior knowledge of this person or his signature, it's not some government issued ID, it's in essence just random data unless you know the person to be real.

And how would you determine that the buyer intends to play on linux, and not windows like 9x% of the buyers?

Feels like every time I drop by the office there's 2-3 new faces I've never seen before.

People I know seems to not take issue with them being there, so I'm sure it's probably fine. Fine enough for it not to be my issue to deal with in any case.

> Claude should have gone for native apps and demonstrated that it is possible to do anything with their AI.

Using IntelliJ I actually find myself wishing for an integrated webview of Github Copilot. The native view is absolutely terrible, jumping up and down non stop.

> I also think Steam does a great job a hiding it

Steam kept pushing a game as "recommended for you" with 99% negative reviews.

In what world would I possibly want to buy a game with a <1% approval rating?

> Was forced to verify to get access to a new account. Like, an interstitial page that forced verification before even basic access.

I'm forced to verify to access my existing account.

I cannot delete it, nor opt out of 'being used for AI content' without first handing them over even more information I'm sure will be used for completely benign purposes.

I find notepad useful for sanitising clipboard content.

No bold text, italics, bullet points, invisible html.. Just get the text and can copy it to paste again somewhere else.

Ala Cmd+Shift+V on Mac

My only data point from Europe is Norway, where credit cards are widely adopted.

There are also official debt registries, where you (and prospective lenders) can look up how much debt you have.

A bit different than the credit score concept.

> I mean it’s an obvious decision to not accept cards if you can avoid it. You’re letting a company like Amex siphon up to 3% of your income away in perpetuity.

In Brazil you can easily be paying 5-6% when accepting card payments, if not more. You'll generally get a 10% discount when opting to pay with cash in clothing/electronics/etc stores.

The vendors you'd pay with Pix in brazil are typically the vendors who may not even accept cards at all, it's pix or cash.

(Although you CAN pay with pix at many supermarkets, I'd rate it as rare. Also useable for online payments, but you take the risk in case of fraud, unlike with creditcards)

Yet if the airline goes under, or I never receive the product I bought online, using Visa/Mastercard I'm not left holding the bag.

If I take a random loan with the bank and use those funds to do the same purchases using debit, then I'm the one taking the loss.

I would never buy a plane ticket on debit.

Airbnb reservations I also tend to do on credit.

Anything related to company expenses I also do on credit and receive reimbursement prior to having to pay it myself.

Right you are.. Perhaps I recall incorrectly and it was a different command. I did try it, and it did not exist. Odd.

> Another pattern I’m noticing is strong advocacy for Opus

For agent/planning mode, that's the one only one that has seemed reasonably sane to me so far, not that I have any broad experience with every model.

Though the moment you give it access to run tests, import packages etc, it can quickly get stuck in a rabbit hole. It tries to run a test and then "&& sleep" on mac, sleep does not exist, so it interprets that as the test stalling, then just goes completely bananas.

It really lacks the "ok I'm a bit stuck, can you help me out a bit here?" prompt. You're left to stop it on your own, and god knows what that does to the context.

I actually tried GPT 4.1 for the first time a few hours ago(1).

I spent about half an hour trying to coax it in "plan mode" in IntelliJ, and it kept spitting out these generic ideas of what it was going to do, not really planning at all.

And when I asked it to execute the plan.. it just created some generic DTO and said "now all that remains is <the entire plan>".

Absolutely worst experience with an AI agent so far, not to say that my overall experience has been terrific.

1) Our plan for Claude Opus 4.5 "ran out" or something.

I've run into something akin to `const int EIGHT = 7`.

Courtesy of TCS.

Just your ISP, their ISP, your hosting provider (if applicable) and the browser vendor.

Adding in an optional HTTPS there would not greatly increase the amount of intermediaries, though I by no means argue that it matters.

With all the hassle a government contract can bring, it's just not worth it for anything lower.

> Where do you look first?

Git commit will generally explain why it was done. The task it references may or may not explain the decision process that lead to it. Usually not.

It's rarely related to code, more often a business decision due to some obscure reason/desire which may or may not provide any actual value.

> But I am not a storage/backend engineer, so maybe I don't understand the target use of Redis.

We use it to broadcast messages across horizontally scaled services.

Works fine, probably a better tool out there for the job with better delivery guarantees, but the decision was taken many years ago, and no point in changing something that just works.

It's also language agnostic, which really helps.

We use ElasticCache (Valkey i suppose), so most of the articles points are moot for our use.

Were we to implement it from scratch today, we might look for better delivery guarantees, or we might just use what we already know works.

How odd.. I have this on my iPhone, but to my recollection the mac has never not once asked me to enable any kind of cloud stuff or sell me storage.

A whole extension? Seems like something any custom-css/custom-js plugin can handle. Stylus, or those monkey extensions.

.hnuser attr=href=?user?id=rd

.parent().parent().hide()

Though no idea if such a plugin exists for Safari.

My main peeve with the Apple TV (device) is that the home button keeps sending me into Apple TV (App) instead of to the main screen.

I have to click it twice to get back to the home screen.

> What’s the point in having smart TV without internet access?

The difficulty in finding an affordable TV without smart functionality alone means that you're most likely buying a smart TV.

I yet again bought a Samsung smart tv (despite having sworn never to do so again..) and I'm never letting it connect to the internet after what happened to the last one.

> Very easy to spoof the MAC of the TV or setup some SNI spoofing proxy server

At that point you're in the 0.1% that the hotel does not really need to worry about. The other >99% will still need to pay for wifi.

> What about not sharing at all?

I had windows defender want to upload a certificate to microsoft.

Default behavior is to silently always allow uploading "suspicious files"

I tried this on iPhone 17 (regular), the phone became more or less unusable. ~500-2000ms lag when changing or closing an application.

The liquidglass experience was bad, but reduce motion was unusable.

There are people who don't own credit cards, and the app stores rarely offers any other "cash like" alternative other than gift cards.