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New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "Salesforce Global Outage"

WinstonSmith84 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:32:06 +0000

That's not what I meant. Salesforce had a choice to use (and support) battle tested frameworks, and decided instead to build their own one.

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "Salesforce Global Outage"

WinstonSmith84 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:00:58 +0000

Aura existed simply because Salesforce thought to be smarter than open source, well. Can't deny it though: Salesforce engineers were great on the backend, but frontend dev has never been their thing. Back then there was Angular 1 which was miles ahead. React was released shortly after Aura itself, so to say. LWC is what Aura shall have been 10+ years ago. And that ties back to what OP wrote: awful UX extremely slow bloated with JS.

Now, don't talk me about VSCode Extensions. This is the perfect example of an awful dev experience. apex-jorje-lsp.jar with a JVM to parse Apex taking GB of memories, extensions taking dozens of seconds to load (when they load) ... In fact, the only decent LSP is aer, a simple decently working Go binary rather than the monster Salesforce shipped. The one good tooling Salesforce built in the last 15 years is, to some extent, the SF CLI - which came after the `force` CLI from the same guys who built `aer`, anyway. And nowadays, people can use that with their preferred editor from Zed to Vim with shortcuts from built upon the SF CLI.

So no, Salesforce didn't do great with tooling, they just did the bare minimum waiting on the (small) community to give them the right ideas.

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "Salesforce Global Outage"

WinstonSmith84 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:51:58 +0000

Peak Tech Salesforce was 2010 +/- 2 years - i.e. after Visualforce and before Aura era. It used to be a developer oriented platform and it became shiny/flashy garbage eventually. But all these shiny things allowed them to get a large market cap with very brilliant sales people, it's hard to deny.

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member'"

WinstonSmith84 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:52:09 +0000

The US-Iran war is very unpopular and it's not even that the US is winning it.

Going against Canada would mean .. what? Having tanks roll in Toronto downtown? Assuming it would be a military success, which isn't guaranteed after what happens in Iran,that would be unpopular beyond anything we've seen.

Tough words, that's the worse we may expect from the US gov realistically.

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

WinstonSmith84 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:22:18 +0000

Well, regardless of the drama, the interesting part on Anthropic vs OpenAI is:

- One of the two main persons work at Anthropic and "almost" or "partially" solved the issue, but eventually didn't succeed

- An external person with just an excerpt of the chat and certainly less versed in Mathematics (than these 2) tackled the problem.

There is little doubt that OpenAI is so much ahead and maybe the gap is even larger than what we see on Astra vs Fable.

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)"

WinstonSmith84 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:35:43 +0000

Motorola doesn't have a great track records for flagships smartphones. I will keep finger crossed that we won't have to choose again between security and features but either way it's a great news, and I truly hope that GrapheneOS will be adopted by more manufacturers in the future

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)"

WinstonSmith84 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:24:35 +0000

I don't understand much from MTE/Android or MIE/iOS but the explanation is also confusing when:

- They claim Apple did a great job integrating MIE in iOS - iOS doesn't encourage to opt into MTE ... Apple's docs warn developers of performance and stability issues

So it seems like even for iOS, this special security feature is only available for Apple own iOS app (at most?).

Then also:

> Even Signal doesn't opt-in. Our approach enables forcing using MTE in the standard allocators regardless.

So does that mean that Signal and any other apps are enrolled in MTE on Graphene?

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

WinstonSmith84 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:19:42 +0000

Agree, but the point is not because Fable is better than Sol, it's because it's .. different .. it just looks at the problem through a different angle.

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"

WinstonSmith84 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:02:18 +0000

I wish Fable were as good as you make it sound. A plan created by Fable is good, but in my case, it always contain issues caught only when it's reviewed again (whether by itself, Opus, Sol etc.). That's (almost) not different from plans created by Sol, GLM 5.3 etc. The one thing where it's genuinely better is the front-end, but then again it's far from perfect, it just needs less iterations.

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "Cerebras CS-4"

WinstonSmith84 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:57:57 +0000

Because that would reveal their edge to investors, or the lack thereof.

If Fable turns out to be a 10T or 20T model, there is little to boast vs Kimi at 3T. But the opposite is true: if Fable were to be e.g. a 500B model, that would show how far ahead they are from the open models. This isn't likely to be the case ...

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "Cerebras CS-4"

WinstonSmith84 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:52:03 +0000

Yes. And Opus goes a very long way compared to Fable, Anthropic isn't doing any favour, it's clearly just 2 models with a very different amount of parameters.

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

WinstonSmith84 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:11:59 +0000

it's going to be easy to defeat either way, like SynthID is. From apps built to remove the watermark, to simply rephrase the work with an Open Model...

By the way: https://x.com/alexcdot/status/2087078010524406137

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "Zed DeltaDB"

WinstonSmith84 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:03:46 +0000

What am I missing in Zed is actually a "File History" - like in VS Code, which keeps a history of every time a file was saved to the disk, and it's very easy to review that history.

Now this DeltaDB goes way beyond that

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage"

WinstonSmith84 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:36:15 +0000

it depends on how you see things. By default OMP with all its options turned off is very much like Pi, just with a better UX/UI - and - a faster start, somehow. And you can turn things on when needed. I see people like Pi because it's super skinny and they can tweak it with extensions A, B or C. I like OMP because I don't have to spend time figuring out the next best thing while there is a guy out there who knows (more than me) what he is doing and packaging all the good stuff into his app. Yes it's opinionated, but I use regularly half of the installed extensions - and occasionally play with other features too.

But I can agree on a thing: the best for OMP would be to have a clear "list of extensions" that can be activated or deactivated (to unclutter the menus)

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "Rear center fuel tank adds roughly 20k liters and extends range by 1k NM"

WinstonSmith84 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:23:28 +0000

The Sydney / London flight most direct path cross Russia and that's already 17000km so probably it has to go south of Iran and that's another 1000km thus 18000km total.

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

WinstonSmith84 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:14:01 +0000

I'm rather scared of US models - if Anthropic was the only AI provider in the world, it's easy to see that common people would have no access at all. Thankfully there is OpenAI which compete 1:1 with Anthropic (at a slightly lower cost) but most importantly the Chinese models keep Anthropic, but also OpenAI in checks.

And I'm saying this as someone working for American companies.

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "Herdr: One terminal to rule them all"

WinstonSmith84 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:56:19 +0000

There are two pluggins I've seen:

1- https://github.com/dcolinmorgan/herdr-remote Support Cloudflare, Telegram, .. quite buggy to me

2- https://github.com/0cv/herdr-mobile-relay Forked from the original one but improved and usable on phones, however the scope narrowed down to Cloudflare only

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "Herdr: One terminal to rule them all"

WinstonSmith84 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:28:37 +0000

There are plugins yes. You've to setup cloudflare and ideally your own tunnel, and it's pretty seamless as long as your laptop isn't off / sleeping

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

WinstonSmith84 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:29:38 +0000

> Management also seems to have prior Kremlin links

You mind sharing links / sources / etc. ?

New comment by WinstonSmith84 in "CursorBench 3.1"

WinstonSmith84 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:47:05 +0000

that benchmark seems to match my experience. GPT 5.5 is significantly better than Opus 4.8, last time I tried composer 2.5 it was truly dumb, and Fable to me looks to be on par with GPT 5.5 but .. different overall ... The best is to have a LLM-peer-review between GPT and Opus (now Fable) for best outcome.