I wouldn't mind it, if he had supplied suggested mitigations.

I think every one of those animations are system-supplied ones. Some are likely SwiftUI ones, which heavily abstract you from the iron, and, if other frameworks are supplied, the abstraction goes even farther.

It can be a major engineering effort, to improve a half-second animation.

That said, this is how designers work. I have worked with some of the top designers in the world, and it can be tempting to want to strangle them, as they choose a half-pixel alias as the hill to die on.

But if we try to work with them, it can make an enormous difference in how users react to our software.

I think it was a fairly well-known technique.

I suspect that the cops wouldn’t like the chain public, though.

Took about six months for someone to crack the hash.

It’s coming along great. I’ve only been working on it since February, and it’s very complete, functionally. I’ve been using an LLM, extensively.

The original server took over seven months to write, but with the LLM, I had it done in about a month. The PHP code is great quality.

It’s not all bunnies and flowers, though. I’m spending the next few days, rewriting a Swift viewcontroller that the LLM wrote. It works, but the code is awful. It looks like it was written by a jargon-addled high schooler on Adderall. I just can’t bear to have that level of junk in my app. I asked it to refactor the code to improve the quality, and reduce the size, and it removed all the documentation and logging; leaving the thread- and delay-riddled garbage behind.

If someone that worked for me had done that, I would have evicted them, with a trebuchet.

I realized that I can't count on the LLM to help me maintain its mess, so I'd better just suck it up, and do it myself.

The good news is, is that I’m so far ahead of schedule (a position that I’ve never been in, in forty years of development), that I can afford to do this.

I have enjoyed Greek, Turkish, Lebanese, Moroccan, Afghan, and Iranian baklava.

Each culture puts its own stamp on the food.

There was this telco, in Upstate New York, that was infamous for being a firehose of scam/spam robocalls. I think they may have been shut down, though, because I haven’t seen their numbers in the CID for a couple of years.

I would suggest that carriers are limited in what they can do. Crooks be crooks, and many of them are very clever. They usually figure out how to weasel past the guard dogs.

Hmm...you seem very interested in redirecting this train of conversation. Why?

It's kind of upsetting, for me to see these, because they prey on folks that are out of work, or afraid they will be out of work.

I guess it makes money (from desperate people), so I guess that it's "legit," as far as this site goes?

I have a problem with folks that scam desperate people (because of the extracurricular work that I do), but hey, I guess I'm in the minority.

Not my job to "verify," in the technical sense.

When a call for an Indian crypto pump comes in as "SMITH, ROBERT", and a local exchange, I call that "spoofed."

Almost every spam call has that I get, is spoofed.

Someone here explained it, once.

I think the spoofed calls use a legacy transport tech that can’t be forced to validate.

In that book, he was “Tim Benzedrine,” and his wife was “Hashberry.”

They were over-the-top hippie archetypes.

I enjoyed Tim Benzedrine, and Hashberry, from Bored of the Rings.

The problem is, is that it works, if you assume "working" means the software sellers get wealthy.

There's a reason that most waitstaff wear black. They should blend into the background, and not be what the folks at the table are talking about. In rare instances, restaurants exist, where the waitstaff is the service.

In software, though, you're being served by a waiter wearing a clown suit, screaming slogans at you, and serving you lukewarm, pre-chewed goo.

> If you got a free headcount increase essentially overnight, why wouldn’t you use it to deliver more value to your customers, faster?

That shows that, in reality, it's short-sighted profit-taking. Boss just wants another lambo in the garage, and doesn't really plan to be around, when it's time to pay the piper.

I wrote a special native management app, and often use that, to implement dashboard functionality, like the kind of thing that the HN mods do.

Yeah, I could, for example, feed the logs into an LLM, and get fancy reports, but it’s a lot easier to simply hit the charts button in the navbar, and view interactive graphs, customized exactly for my workflow.

This.

As I’ve pointed out in other posts, I work in two languages: Swift (my main language), for native app clients, and PHP, for backend work.

I have a lot of experience, with each language (12 years for Swift, and 25, for PHP).

My experience with an LLM, is that I get very good PHP, and fairly mediocre Swift. The Swift often looks like fancy tricks, that newer enthusiasts like to demonstrate. Lots of unnecessary threading, and complex, dogmatic, overengineered approaches to simple problems.

I suspect that this has a great deal to do with the availability of high-Quality public repositories. PHP is more than twice as old as Swift, and, by nature, is a much more open language.

I don’t think it has a public interface, though. It’s really a developer resource.

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It likely depends on the implementation, and the tool.

In my work, the Swift code is not really that good (but it’s not terrible), but the PHP code is very good (better than mine). I use ChatGPT. Maybe Claude might give better Swift, but I’ve invested quite a bit of context in ChatGPT.