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New comment by dahdum in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

dahdum — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:35:07 +0000

Here is the actual study: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....

They didn’t control for occupation, pay, managerial status etc.. An on-site physical job like nurse, facilities, or technician was compared to predominantly remote administrative jobs.

New comment by dahdum in "India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions"

dahdum — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:37:20 +0000

> You can't use a debit card because of transaction limits and lack of consumer protections.

My debit card is branded Visa so it has the Visa Zero Liability protections, and I can raise the purchase limit from $6k to $25k using the app.

New comment by dahdum in "Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead"

dahdum — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:11:56 +0000

From an American viewpoint, no one else has “free speech”, UK included. The First Amendment is globally unique. So it’s a matter of definitions.

> The First Amendment to the US Constitution provides almost absolute protection to freedom of expression. By contrast, European and EU law curtails the right to freedom of expression. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2025/7728...

New comment by dahdum in "We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447"

dahdum — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:21:08 +0000

It can be better to lose it all trying than return a small fraction to investors.

New comment by dahdum in "Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money"

dahdum — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:18:08 +0000

How would your classifier compare to the frontier model delegating to Deepseek via a MCP tool call itself? Doesn’t it have far more insight on the difficulty of the task then your router could? I’ve been doing this with Claude Code delegating to Codex and an Ollama Qwen model.

New comment by dahdum in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models"

dahdum — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:46:22 +0000

That's the correction that unblocks the whole thing, and it's the piece nobody had.

New comment by dahdum in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved"

dahdum — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:19:57 +0000

As someone at 96% 2 days into their Max subscription, my totally unbiased opinion is that these errors warrant a full usage reset.

New comment by dahdum in "Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench"

dahdum — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:28:01 +0000

Not OP, but to me it initially felt extremely proactive and energetic, just powering through roadblocks with ingenuity and enthusiasm. After it came back I was constantly getting refusals and downgrades for things Opus had been doing. I’ve written it off for my use cases and getting by just fine with Opus 4.8 and now 5.

New comment by dahdum in ""Opus 5 is a really bad model""

dahdum — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:29:39 +0000

I’ve been using Opus 4.8 heavily with Claude Code heavily and I haven’t noticed any problems at all with 5. It seems a bit more proactive (not as much pre-ban Fable though). My claude.md and agent prompts are both 〜20kb, and I use memories/rules/skills as well.

Agent to agent communication does appear to have improved considerably. I run the loops to the full context window and with proper working docs I don’t even notice a difference after compaction.

New comment by dahdum in "Doctors Just Staged the Quietest Coup in American History"

dahdum — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:47:15 +0000

I’d prefer that psychiatrist professional opinions stay out of politics, as they will certainly be weaponized, turned partisan, and tarnish the field. There are numerous reports from people that have actually met him in private describing his public persona as a theatrical showman.

> The President was not examined face to face, and he is not a patient of any member of our group. Rendering a formal diagnosis in this case is not our role. We have closely followed his behavior and his statements over the past year.

> It is our professional opinion that the behaviors of Donald Trump, tragically, are neither momentary lapses nor political theater. It is our professional opinion that they reflect a rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline.

https://www.congress.gov/119/crec/2026/04/30/172/76/CREC-202...

> However, it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.

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

New comment by dahdum in "Canada's first sovereign wealth fund"

dahdum — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:34:05 +0000

This is a great way to sidestep the political process to fund popular projects. The political constraints will ensure returns are middling, so unless they subsidize with tax breaks on dividend income I think it would be a poor commercial investment.

Whether its perfect or not, it almost has to be better than the current status quo.

New comment by dahdum in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

dahdum — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:21:16 +0000

They use machine id, shouldn’t need the key to reactivate on reinstall.

New comment by dahdum in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

dahdum — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:03:54 +0000

You’ve always been able to install and use without an account (oobe\bypassnro). As long as power users and businesses can avoid it, they have no real incentive to change.

New comment by dahdum in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

dahdum — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:57:33 +0000

The peak was right before they launched marketplace in my opinion (2013?). After that they had no incentive to improve Jira/Confluence, easier to take the marketplace cut. I could never understand why they couldn’t solve the speed issues though. It just got worse and worse.

New comment by dahdum in "OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats"

dahdum — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:30:26 +0000

Insane that NYT is driving this privacy nightmare.

New comment by dahdum in "Basic Income Pilot Project: Study results"

dahdum — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 21:04:47 +0000

Important to note their findings only apply to a smaller subset of people, and do not include those with the most need.

> The findings of the pilot project will be generalizable not to the entire German population, but to 21- to 40-year-old individuals in single-person households with middle incomes.

The reason:

> We were thus faced with the decision of selecting 122 people who represented the entire country but did not provide scientifically reliable data on the effects of a basic income, or selecting 122 people from a more limited group from whom we could draw definitive conclusions. In the end, we chose the latter.

https://www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en/blog/how-the-p...

New comment by dahdum in "BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English"

dahdum — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 23:21:02 +0000

It reads as a mistake to me as an American too, and I expect most of us. It’s an artistic choice.

New comment by dahdum in "Paxlovid: You'd have expected more"

dahdum — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:51:54 +0000

It was dramatic and started just a few hours after the first dose. I was worsening all morning and by mid afternoon a reversal, coinciding with the Paxlovid side effects. It wasn’t an overnight thing where rest was a factor, I was awake and bedridden. So I’m pretty convinced, enough to drop $1,500 retail if need be in the future for it.

New comment by dahdum in "Paxlovid: You'd have expected more"

dahdum — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 02:56:27 +0000

That metallic taste still gives me shudders when I think about it, but I’m very grateful for Paxlovid.

New comment by dahdum in "Paxlovid: You'd have expected more"

dahdum — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 02:54:29 +0000

It worked extremely fast for me, I took it within 16 hours of symptoms that were increasing rapidly. Within 6-8 hours I started feeling much better, instead just dealing with the Paxlovid side effects. I don’t think my body fought off Covid that fast. Anecdotal of course, but I’d take it again in a heartbeat. I did get a rebound infection the next week but I couldn’t feel it, just tested positive for a couple days.