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New comment by sanitycheck in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

sanitycheck — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:33:28 +0000

That was a Windows laptop, local SSD, about 200gb of raw files (fuji, pentax) from this year so far. Plenty of ram, plenty of spare storage, but no discrete GPU which might have been the issue. I might try it on Linux at some point.

New comment by sanitycheck in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

sanitycheck — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:00:12 +0000

Pentax sensibly decided to add native DNG capability a long time ago, the raw files work everywhere I've tried them.

(Except DaVinci, which I couldn't get to do anything without freezing for minutes at a time this morning.)

New comment by sanitycheck in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

sanitycheck — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:25:38 +0000

I thought the same when I got a Fuji, but the issue is support for the X-Trans sensor. Turns out that converting to DNG doesn't change that and software that opens the DNG still needs to understand how to use the data in it.

New comment by sanitycheck in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

sanitycheck — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:23:56 +0000

DxO PhotoLab supports RAFs these days, and does not have a subscription model. They have black friday sales, if the RRP seems a bit much.

I've just installed DaVinci and pointed it at my photos from this year and so far it's been frozen for 8 minutes, not initially confidence inspiring.

New comment by sanitycheck in "Claude mixes up who said what"

sanitycheck — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:53:40 +0000

I'm a naturally paranoid, very detail-oriented, man who has been a professional software developer for >25 years. Do you know anyone who read the full terms and conditions for their last car rental agreement prior to signing anything? I did that.

I do not expect other people to be as careful with this stuff as I am, and my perception of risk comes not only from the "hang on, wtf?" feeling when reading official docs but also from seeing what supposedly technical users are talking about actually doing on Reddit, here, etc.

Of course I use Claude Code, I'm not a Luddite (though they had a point), but I don't trust it and I don't think other people should either.

New comment by sanitycheck in "Claude mixes up who said what"

sanitycheck — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:24:06 +0000

It's both, really.

The companies selling us the service aren't saying "you should treat this LLM as a potentially hostile user on your machine and set up a new restricted account for it accordingly", they're just saying "download our app! connect it to all your stuff!" and we can't really blame ordinary users for doing that and getting into trouble.

New comment by sanitycheck in "How to get better at guitar"

sanitycheck — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:10:01 +0000

Sure, there's "deliberate practice" and it matters - but so many people seem to think if they're playing that's what they should be doing, or it's a waste of time. In reality that often isn't much fun, and they start to associate the instrument with this sort of difficult and often disappointing experience, and they give up.

New comment by sanitycheck in "How to get better at guitar"

sanitycheck — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:55:03 +0000

I'm only good enough to impress people who don't know what a good guitar player sounds like.

My advice to people, which seems to work OK, is just to have the guitar out and ready to play wherever you're likely to be - maybe even in the way so it has to be moved sometimes - and just pick it up and play it as often as possible.

Waiting for the kettle to boil? Play the guitar. TV is showing ads? Mute it and play the guitar. Your partner needs to go to the bathroom before you both go out? Play the guitar.

It doesn't matter what you play, it doesn't have to be good, it can be a random improvisation, it can be scales. Your fingers are learning.

New comment by sanitycheck in "The Claude Code Leak"

sanitycheck — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:28:11 +0000

For me it was the "it's not x"/"it's y" stuff and some other structures Claude is very fond of using all the time. Perhaps humans are starting to write like LLMs!

New comment by sanitycheck in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

sanitycheck — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:10:35 +0000

Obviously if you're running Claude Code you need a token for that and an internet connection, that's kind of a given. What I'm talking about is permission (OS level, not a leaky sandbox) to access the user's files, environment variables, project credentials for git remotes, signing keys, etc etc.

New comment by sanitycheck in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

sanitycheck — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:39:17 +0000

The user thing is what I currently do too. I've thought about containers but then it's confusing for everyone when I ask it to create and use containers itself.

New comment by sanitycheck in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

sanitycheck — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:35:17 +0000

So don't let them interact with anything external. You can push and pull to their git project folders over the local filesystem or network, they don't even need access to a remote.

New comment by sanitycheck in "Show HN: A plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code"

sanitycheck — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:29:19 +0000

Any sign of AI, TBH. I don't come to HN to ask Claude, I already pay Anthropic for that.

New comment by sanitycheck in "I Quit Editing Photos"

sanitycheck — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:37:05 +0000

I'll be sticking with Lightroom 6 (non-subscription) and the old cameras it supports, until the sad but inevitable day I can no longer run it.

I don't find editing takes much time, because I now have so many custom presets I can apply on import or in bulk that do 90% of the work.

What does take ages is picking out the best shots, but really the only way to make that quicker is to take fewer photos. Which I suppose shooting film actually does force you to do. (But so would a 2GB SD card.)

New comment by sanitycheck in "I Quit Editing Photos"

sanitycheck — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:32:00 +0000

This is great, I discovered it a year or two ago - nice work! Excited to hear there might be more development happening.

New comment by sanitycheck in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

sanitycheck — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:05:27 +0000

I don't understand how they found nothing in the raid, wouldn't they normally bring drugs with them to plant? If they forgot those that's a whole new level of police incompetence.

New comment by sanitycheck in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

sanitycheck — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:43:55 +0000

Anecdotally I know approximately zero 'normal' (non-tech) people who are intentionally using generative AI, several who have been badly misled by Google's AI summaries, and quite a few who are vehemently anti-AI (usually artists and writers).

(Except when mandated by their employers, which nobody is happy about or finds particularly useful.)

New comment by sanitycheck in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

sanitycheck — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:30:16 +0000

Well, and that service then inevitably being hacked and your ID being distributed and/or sold to miscreants online.

I'm in the UK, I'm normally connected through a VPN these days.

New comment by sanitycheck in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

sanitycheck — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:30:00 +0000

I bet not many of us would be here now if we hadn't had our own computers before age 16.

New comment by sanitycheck in "An update on the Farphone's battery"

sanitycheck — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 22:45:22 +0000

I have a Samsung tablet in a non-flammable container waiting to be disposed of after being mostly plugged in for 3 years then suddenly swelling quite alarmingly. YMMV.