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If you consider the transition from macOS 15 to 26+ 'small', I think you should see an optician.

Like GP, I despise the new design. I'll say the old design was pretty peak design. Windows looked like windows. Buttons like buttons. With accessibility tweaks (for transparency and borders) I could make it very, very usable.

This new thing is a crime against UI. Every icon now sits in a circle, and takes up % more room as a result. Because … it's pretty? It isn't pretty.

I upgraded my laptop thinking I was going to develop an app and that I'd need to be on the latest design. I ended up developing a TUI so I needn't have bothered. Every time I see my partner's laptop, still on Sequoia, I shed a little tear.

> including the ops

Citation needed.

Edited?! Wow.

I forgot about my other Airbnb experience. The place was mediocre, I rated it so. The guy called me and offered me money, just cold hard cash, to change my review. I refused.

Yes! Great point. Japan seems to be the only place where people actually rate sensibly.

Which, of course it is. There's a reason we're going back there, again, next week.

We stayed in one last week in Seoul, only because hotels are prohibitively expensive. (We book last minute.)

On leaving, the host offered us a discount on future bookings if we left a 5-star review. This 'beg for a 5-star' practice is common in every Asian business. We got it from a Hilton in Vietnam. (It's probably global. Our recent experience happens to be in Asia.)

In fairness, hotel ratings are the same. My SOP now is to ignore all 5-star ratings. Simply don't read them. Instead, sort by lowest and that gives you the true measure of a place.

Ratings are totally broken.

> the thinking is mine even where home page's words aren't entirely

I know that, because I saw your HN post.

A drive-by visitor doesn't. They see the AI copy, think 'slop', and keep going.

Hi Peter. This is advice I give to every AI product now, not just yours. Nothing personal.

It's fine to use AI to create the product – but please, for the love of god, write your own copy. When someone can't be bothered writing their own landing page, I assume they're just not that bothered about the product.

A waste of resources?! Good lord.

I run Tailscale on all my devices, all the time. This particular VPS isn't exposed on any public ports. This is better for everything, and saves me – not a Linux sysadmin by trade – a ton of time.

As a result, I get the very convenient and fast `tailscale file cp` command for free. You're telling me that the minuscule number of extra cycles it takes over `scp` is a "waste of resources"? Have a look at yourself.

OP here. Tailscale file copy seems much more resilient than the direct-from-site download.

Might not be faster, but I don't care. It always completes without me having to retry it.

Because a VPS is in a datacentre and my machine is on some residential wifi. Internet is better in datacentres.

GP here. I use AI all day. I love Claude.

But it's objectively true that if the market crashes tomorrow, lots of normal people lose money. This hits extra hard – which happened back in 2007/8 – if that's the day your life-long savings are converted from stocks to cash.

Are you arguing that because those pensioners can now get a frontier model cheaper than they can today that this is a net benefit?

My process now for downloading giant things when I'm on poor wifi:

1. Start the operation in a browser, inspect it, copy as cURL, cancel it.

2. Login to VPS, paste cURL appending `-o <filename>`.

3. When finished, `tailscale file cp <filename> <machine>:`.

A bit of a faff, but 100% reliable.

Weird that you're downvoted. It would suck very hard indeed if your pension portfolio matured the day after a crash.

Generating information isn't free. I do it for a living. Let me tell you, if I got paid nothing I'd stop real fast and go dig a hole.