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tigeroil··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
I'm glad it's not just me - the failure mode you and the parent discuss is a huge part of why I just don't use Claude anymore.

I've never had this issue with GLM or DeepSeek.

tigeroil··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
My gut feeling is that Moonshot are probably ZDR but their terms are excessively permissive.

That said, I wouldn't rule out OpenRouter misclassifying - I've seen some providers where I'm fairly sure they have.

tigeroil··on Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release
Indeed - I was a bit surprised by them mentioning this to be honest, since, as I understand it, this is kind of a widely accepted limitation of setTimeout - it's purely a 'best effort' timer. It's not intended to be something where "yes after exactly Xms it'll execute.
tigeroil··on Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office
I think the simple and boring answer is it really depends. As you say, your commute is short, but also I think there's just a personality element to it. Some people absolutely thrive and are way more productive remotely (and I think HN skews towards that type of person), and other people are the opposite, losing their minds if they don't have colleagues beside them to talk and collaborate with.
tigeroil··on Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch
I suspect they also know full well that the global ones will be resold in China.
tigeroil··on Spammers are better at SPF, DKIM, and DMARC than everyone else
You mean like the time I had a salesperson demanding that we turn off Cloudflare across our entire domain because he'd read some random article somewhere saying we should?
tigeroil··on Apple's Siri Chief Calls AI Delays Ugly and Embarrassing, Promises Fixes
I really don't think so. Their competitors have much, much better offerings here, so it's clearly not a limitation of the technology.
tigeroil··on A combo of ChatGPT and spot EC2 instances screwed me over
Indeed - they're fantastic for specific use-cases, i.e. ECS where instances are "disposable" but they're the last thing you want for something you want running continuously.
tigeroil··on Apple acquires Pixelmator
Logic is a weird one. It has really truly excellent included instruments (such as Alchemy) and effects, but the app itself feels rather outdated. The mixer, whilst having had some nice features added since Logic 9, is in dire need of an update.
tigeroil··on EU ChatControl is back on the agenda
This is not a good argument as to why we should break encryption.

Rather, it's an argument that law enforcement should start engaging with those groups on telegram directly, i.e. setting up stings etc and just actually go and catch them. Do some good old police work.

If you're able to find them on telegram, clearly law enforcement are capable too, if they're resourced and willing. Encryption isn't the problem here.

tigeroil··on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
Indeed and this is the other thing - even if Telegram don't themselves co-operate with law enforcement, it'd be fairly easy for law enforcement to request access to the phone number from the carrier, then use it to sign into the Telegram account in question and access all of the messages.
tigeroil··on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
Indeed. Even being charitable and assuming that they're not lying (they say elsewhere that they've shared zero bytes with law enforcement, despite this being demonstrably false), in reality if say, they were to arrest the founder in an EU country (France, perhaps), all they need to do is threaten him with twenty years in prison and I'm sure he'll gladly give up the keys from all the different locations they supposedly have.
tigeroil··on Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%
I know it's a minor detail but the other day I was using Windows for something and I was amazed by how sluggish even task manager felt.
tigeroil··on ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator
Funnily enough from the way that he talks in his videos I always assumed he wasn't that knowledgeable, until I found out more about him and realised what an incredibly skilled programmer he actually is.

I think maybe he just comes off that way because of how he presents things in videos.

tigeroil··on Hackers Exploited a PC Driving SIM to Pull Off Disney Data Breach
It's interesting because I actually do agree with you entirely but unfortunately I suspect this is a fairly common issue.

I think unfortunately there's a lot of software developers who (and I'll happily include myself in this), think they know better and that they don't have to worry about malware because they use 'common sense'.

One of the biggest issues that I find people tend not to understand is that, even if you find the malware very quickly, and remove it, it only takes a matter of seconds for it to steal credentials / sessions / other sensitive data and send them to who only knows where.

tigeroil··on Warsaw came close to never being rebuilt (2015)
I don't live in Poland but Saska Kepa is fantastic.
tigeroil··on Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?
To be fair I'm in this position but it's with a small company that aren't exactly regularly hiring.

I suppose the point is, these jobs exist but it's quite hard to replicate as it's not common with large firms that are regularly hiring.

tigeroil··on SofleKeyboard – A split keyboard based on Lily58, Crkbd and Helix keyboards
I used a Corne for a while and I loved it but after a couple of years I found I was actually getting quite bad pain in my thumbs.

I've gone back to a normal keyboard for now but maybe I'll give this a go at some point.

tigeroil··on Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
You say that but in my experience the same kinds of people who will say that are also the kinds of people who demonstrably don't actually even know what AI is.

They're the same types who'll insist that DALL-E is just making collages of other artists' work, for example.

tigeroil··on NOFX to retire after final tour without ever having had a job
Indeed. I think many people don't realise how many artists do actually have day jobs as well - it's not always as lucrative as you'd think.
tigeroil··on Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs
I dare say this would actually be even more harmful than Pornhub holding people's IDs, as it would then give OpenID immense power to track not only the fact that you watch porn, but also what other services you use as well...
tigeroil··on Ask HN: Is Firefox better than Chrome when it comes to user security?
If you're willing to include Chrome forks then I'd say Brave is, despite the issues surrounding their love for crypto, more secure than Chrome, and it has much better anti-fingerprinting if you care about that.
tigeroil··on Half of U.S. Homeowners and Renters Struggle to Afford Their Housing Payments
Indeed. Everyone I've spoken to seems to be convinced that clearly, something has to change, house prices must drop, but the reality is, there's too many people for too few houses, and unless that changes housing will always continue to become more expensive.
tigeroil··on HMRC offers a Linux version of Basic PAYE Tools, but it recently stopped working
I think that's sensible but you also aren't required to use the basic PAYE tools - there's plenty of other cross-platform packages.
tigeroil··on macOS Sonoma 14.4 might break Java on your machine
Indeed - I recently switched to Linux and I'm much happier. I'm shocked how much better the experience is lately.
tigeroil··on Fedora Workstation 41 to No Longer Install Gnome X.org Session by Default
Funnily enough I had a similar issue that only occurred after switching to Wayland, that turned out to be due to a bad DisplayPort to HDMI adaptor.

Replaced it with a new one and it now works fine.

tigeroil··on Coding on Copilot: Data suggests downward pressure on code quality
Indeed - if anything in my organisation AI has lead to developers replacing poor quality existing code more quickly because what was quite a time consuming process before can be sped up tremendously by using language models.
tigeroil··on Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization
Yeah must admit I think I jumped the gun a bit there. Reading about it a bit more it seems like this is a major manufacturing cock-up that this was even possible.
tigeroil··on Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization
It's Alaska Airlines. I wouldn't read too much into Boeing's reliability from this, given Alaska's previous maintenance record...
tigeroil··on 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev
I'd second ChatGPT for development in general.

Whilst I'm just a web developer, I've had times, even using third party libraries that aren't particularly well documented, where ChatGPT seems to have a shockingly good grasp of the library and seems to understand it better than the documentation does.

It's a lifesaver honestly.

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