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elAhmo··on Claude Opus 4.8
As if choosing a model to use on its own is not hard, offering six levels of "effort" (quite a vague term as well), low, medium, high, xhigh, max, ultracode (?!?!) is really making comparisons next to impossible when people using the same model can have vastly different experiences.

What exactly is the diff between high and xhigh? Or xhigh and max? This is definitely too granular and it seems Anthropic took OpenAI's confusion with models as inspiration.

elAhmo··on The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time
You can't just start collecting sales tax before registering with the state, and likewise to stop collecting you need to deregister. It is a fairly standard procedures every accountant is aware of.
elAhmo··on Claude Opus 4.8
How do you compare them to 5.3 Codex? I am using 5.3 Codex for a while, I subjectively think it does better job than Opus 4.6/4.7, with a fraction of the cost, and I did give 5.5 a try and it seems a bit better but magnitudes more expensive.
elAhmo··on Claude Opus 4.8
What is ultracode mode?
elAhmo··on Last.fm is now independent
Is anyone using last.fm in 2026? This made sense when people were playing MP3s in their Windows Media Player or Winamp, but as 99% of the people just stream music now, what is the purpose of this service?

It has been maybe a decade since I met someone who actually uses the service.

elAhmo··on Ferrari Luce
The back looks nice, but from the profile and front/top this is really unlike a Ferrari.
elAhmo··on Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
I wonder do the same benefits appear while cycling
elAhmo··on Anthropic acquires Stainless
Rather than jumping to ask Claude something, maybe you should've read things more carefully.

I said difference between a _programmer_ and a _software engineer_ (or _software developer_, it is irrelevant in this context).

elAhmo··on Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada
You got the sides wrong unfortunately, one of the states you are mentioning was literally created in the last century and is now doing the same thing that prompted its creation. But it must be nice living in ignorance and buying the propaganda.
elAhmo··on Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada
Such a waste of time, money, media space, human hours on useless thing.
elAhmo··on GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
Insane to think GH has at least 3800 internal repos.
elAhmo··on Anthropic acquires Stainless
Yes, hence the term software engineer which has programming as just one part of the job.
elAhmo··on Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
Colossal failure to read the room, insane coming from an executive in charge of one of the most impactful companies of our lifetime.
elAhmo··on MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
Similar story here, I used the original M1 Air 8GB for for years, still in same great condition without any flaws. I did get a M4 Air last year because I just needed more than one display and wanted to work in a docked mode, and I have similar feelings with this machine too.
elAhmo··on A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
> It's the very first LLM that I feel like I can wrangle into solving tedious, but straightforward, problems correctly. It still makes a ton of mistakes and needs to be very rigidly guided, but it does a pretty good job of tracing its own reasoning and correcting itself in a way that the other models do not.

I swear that people have said the same thing with effectively every new model that came out in the last six months.

elAhmo··on I’ve banned query strings
Such a useless blog post and initiative. Author control his website, and if someone lands there by clicking a link, it is not user's fault.
elAhmo··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
Two letter answer: EU
elAhmo··on Inventing Cyrillic (2024)
Bosančica, or Bosnian Cycillic is also an interesting take on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_Cyrillic

elAhmo··on From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
For the most part is the troubling part :D Ideally there is one vendor that handles this, as a team we don't want to deal with Clerk + something else just for RBAC, so naturally we tried to solve it via Clerk.

Their recommended guide is to pretty much have your own RBAC using key value pairs they offer, which is IMO relatively lazy and most teams come up with this on their own anyway. I wish they offered something that is not prone to someone editing a JSON input manually on their website. You can do basic stuff with it, build tooling around it, but again the fundamental model of only user having a role on the org level has its limitations.

elAhmo··on BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
A country is more than just its manufacturing industry.
elAhmo··on BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
> China is where the US was 75 years ago

Quite a wild claim

elAhmo··on From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
Using Clerk, quite unhappy with it. No proper RBAC (roles are tied to organizations, not stored on user itself, so you cannot have a concept of global admin or something like that, unless you use metadata for storing arbitrary key value paris), and more than once in the past weeks/months it had a downtime causing the whole app to fail.

Would think twice before using it in the future.

elAhmo··on Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
Funny to see this closely match contribution graphs with effectively no downtime on weekends.
elAhmo··on Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
What could go wrong?
elAhmo··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
This was so hard to watch. "Half stock, half cash" is such an insane shallow level of detail provided for a 55.5 billion takeover.
elAhmo··on GitHub Is Down
Can you share where did they published that?
elAhmo··on An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce
It is somewhat of a critical tool, so you don't wanna be checked by a doctor who made their own stethoscope or got one for 3 USD on AliExpress.
elAhmo··on Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta
People just wanna track stuff, they don't really look into is something HIPPA compliant or read the ToS. App store push, recommendation, word of mouth are what makes the app like this spread, not really details HIPPA compliance.
elAhmo··on Men who stare at walls
Why not a walk? No podcasts or music, just walk.
elAhmo··on Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
It didn't go dark, and doesn't seem that critical in general.

General idea still stands, but it is not like this just disappeared and backups will stop working.

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