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New comment by unicornfinder in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

unicornfinder — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:38:22 +0000

I'm on their pro plan and I respectfully disagree - it's genuinely excellent with GLM 5.1 so long as you remember to /compact once it hits around 100k tokens. At that point it's pretty much broken and entirely unusable, but if you keep context under about 100k it's genuinely on par with Opus for me, and in some ways it's arguably better.

New comment by unicornfinder in "WWDC 2025: Apple Says Personalized Siri Features Are Still Not Ready"

unicornfinder — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 20:37:29 +0000

I don't disagree but then don't announce it.

The issue isn't that they don't have these features, the issue is that they announced them in such a way that suggested they were right around the corner, or even that they'd be available on the new iPhone 16, and now it seems increasingly likely that the phone will never have the advertised features.

New comment by unicornfinder in "Dentistry is less scientific and more gratuitous than people think (2019)"

unicornfinder — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:11:42 +0000

Entirely anecdotal but in my experience amalgam fillings do seem to hold up much, much better than white ones.

New comment by unicornfinder in "The bait-and-switch hidden in today’s cookie announcement"

unicornfinder — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 14:08:39 +0000

Indeed. My response to this has largely been "if this passes I'll just block traffic from the UK to my website" as it'd be cheaper than implementing this utter madness.

New comment by unicornfinder in "Clap: The New Audio Plug-In Standard"

unicornfinder — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 09:30:10 +0000

Indeed, REAPER is surprisingly prominent in video game audio.

New comment by unicornfinder in "Estonia clocks fastest inflation in the Eurozone at 20.1 percent"

unicornfinder — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 12:18:29 +0000

Thing is even if you're not using Russian gas directly, prices are still going to be influenced by the global gas market (and the wider global economy in general).

New comment by unicornfinder in "Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it"

unicornfinder — Thu, 05 May 2022 16:36:15 +0000

I suspect as of Big Sur that Apple were intending to release touchscreen Macs, but the changes to the OS in future versions makes me suspect that they then changed their mind.

New comment by unicornfinder in "Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]"

unicornfinder — Thu, 05 May 2022 10:36:06 +0000

Indeed. As someone in their 20s one of my regrets, genuinely, is that when I was younger I didn't just spend more time playing video games rather than doomscrolling...

New comment by unicornfinder in "Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]"

unicornfinder — Thu, 05 May 2022 10:25:17 +0000

Indeed but I think again information does have a role to play here. Back then everyone around you was going through the same shit and you learned to deal with it.

Now you have social media giving a constant reminder that you're not good enough and that you need to achieve more.

Conversely I do agree that there is a bit of a "learned helplessness" that I've noticed is a bit more prevalent in the younger generations, and I can't work out if that's a symptom or a cause.

New comment by unicornfinder in "Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)"

unicornfinder — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 12:14:06 +0000

I think you've hit the nail on the head. I'm happily using Windows now but used a Mac before and it took a long time for me to realise that my complaints about Windows largely boiled down to "it doesn't do things in the way that I'm used to".

With that said, whilst I do like macOS overall I always found it infuriating how on macOS applications could steal focus. Something I do appreciate on Windows is that focus stealing by and large isn't a thing.

New comment by unicornfinder in "Job hunting while day-jobbing (2021)"

unicornfinder — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 11:23:33 +0000

I mean, I agree, but to be fair I had a positive experience once by letting my employer know when I had already started interviewing elsewhere (really just giving them a heads up that I was planning on leaving within the next 6 months) and to my surprise they were more than happy to match the salary and make changes (for example going fully remote) to accomodate me. I'm still there nearly 3 years later.

Really depends on the employer and on how much they want to keep you and how willing you are to stay there.

New comment by unicornfinder in "An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown"

unicornfinder — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 15:29:39 +0000

In short, because the vaccines available in China, as it turns out, aren't all that effective at all, and the Chinese government desperately needs to save face now.

New comment by unicornfinder in "The hunt for the M1’s neural engine"

unicornfinder — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:30:04 +0000

Which implies that, at least theoretically, that Apple could enable the other neural engine at a later date (not that they would).

New comment by unicornfinder in "Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in Windows Explorer"

unicornfinder — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:13:57 +0000

It really reminds me of that interview with Steve Jobs from the 90s where you can tell just how frustrated he is at Microsoft's success with what he describes as really "third-rate" software.

New comment by unicornfinder in "Apple M1 Ultra"

unicornfinder — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 22:04:57 +0000

Not to mention if you build your own PC you can upgrade the parts as and when, unlike with the new Mac where you'll eventually just be replacing the whole thing.

New comment by unicornfinder in "Google purchasing and expanding its Warsaw office for $700M"

unicornfinder — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 14:18:04 +0000

Oh absolutely, but what I have noticed as well is that companies in lower wage countries have started charging more as well as there's now more demand for outsourced workers.

New comment by unicornfinder in "Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4"

unicornfinder — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:04:42 +0000

My company is fully remote, and whilst I'd agree that it's certainly doable to onboard people remotely (we've absolutely done this successfully), I would also say it really depends on the types of people and I suspect possibly the roles as well.

New comment by unicornfinder in "Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4"

unicornfinder — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 14:03:42 +0000

Indeed. Not to mention if you're at one of the bigger companies then you're more likely to change teams than leave the company entirely.

New comment by unicornfinder in "Win32 is the stable Linux userland ABI (and the consequences)"

unicornfinder — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 20:51:32 +0000

To be fair though I think there's a happy medium. For a while I really loved Apple's approach of just not giving a damn about backwards compatibility but I have to say using Windows did make me realise just how wonderful it is not worrying about whether the software I want to use will work.

New comment by unicornfinder in "Pedestrian deaths spike in U.S. as reckless driving surges"

unicornfinder — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:50:06 +0000

To be fair I think the problem isn't just the people but how the roads and infrastructure is designed in the US. It's very anti-pedestrian.