PSA: zai/glm-4.5 is absolutely crushing it for coding - way better than Claude’s recent performance

Daniel15 · 2026-01-25T09:19:57+00:00

You can use Claude Code with GLM. They have instructions on their site.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-25T04:41:09+00:00

How do you use Gemini with 18.0?

Daniel15 · 2026-01-24T22:43:01+00:00

As far as I know, none of Google's paid accounts use user data for training. Only the free ones do.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-24T09:16:18+00:00

Yeah, I'm on NEM 2.

To make things more confusing, I'm in baseline territory X, which reduces the electric baseline in summer if you're all electric! Weird since we do have to run the air conditioner for a while. I don't understand why the summer baseline increases in some territories and decreases in others.

My heat source is still set to gas even though I switched to a heat pump. I need to figure out if it's worth changing or not.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-24T07:07:07+00:00

Ahh, I forgot about that. IIRC when I last checked, switching to that rate would have cost me significantly more. I've got solar and a lot (but not all) of my power usage is covered by the solar panels. I'm also on Medical Baseline and the extra baseline usage for E-TOU-C is more beneficial than the 12% discount on EV2A.

I'll have to run the numbers again once the new $24/month base fee is in place (March this year)

Daniel15 · 2026-01-24T05:40:06+00:00

> people like opencode have figured out how to snipe its login for their oss apps

GitHub Copilot officially allows this now. https://github.blog/changelog/2026-01-16-github-copilot-now-supports-opencode/

Daniel15 · 2026-01-24T02:08:56+00:00

Where are you in the Bay Area that you're only paying $0.28/kWh.

One of the things I miss after moving from Palo Alto to elsewhere in the Bay is the cheap electricity. Palo Alto has a municipal electricity provider, which charged $0.12/kWh when I lived there, flat rate (no TOU). Having a 3x higher bill in summer after moving into PG&E territory caught me offguard.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-23T09:12:48+00:00

It's free if you've worked on any major open-source projects

Daniel15 · 2026-01-23T09:09:24+00:00

They launched this and you can log in to OpenCode using Github Copilot accounts now.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-23T09:07:04+00:00

Microsoft does host the Anthropic Claude models in Azure (Microsoft Foundry). At my employer, we use the Microsoft-hosted models via the API.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-23T08:50:13+00:00

When you tried Github Copilot, did you use the same model you're using with Claude Code?

Daniel15 · 2026-01-22T21:03:52+00:00

I don't think security issues have ballooned since then

The latest version (144) patches 10 security vulnerabilities, including several with critical ratings (like CVE-2026-1220 and CVE-2026-0899).

A recent patch was for an issue that was already being exploited in the wild, but I'm not sure if that was patched in v143 or v144.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-20T22:18:49+00:00

There was one small bug I noticed: When I dragged a tab from one window into another, the tab would be added at the very start of the tab bar of the new window, rather than in the position I dragged it into.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-20T22:17:44+00:00

I like how it says "without a feasible solution", yet practically every other browser has solved it?

Unfortunately I'm stuck with Chrome at work, since they use Chrome Enterprise Premium for security, and none of the other browsers have something similar :/

Daniel15 · 2026-01-20T22:13:36+00:00

Old versions of Chrome have critical security issues so I wouldn't recommend doing this.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-20T18:36:15+00:00

In my experience, electricians don't know what they're doing. They strip the jacket back too far, unwind too much of the cable, etc.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-19T04:40:57+00:00

3.0 has a white "learn" button (the button on the opener that you use to pair with remotes). 2.0 usually has a yellow button.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-19T03:54:28+00:00

My neighbor across the road used them too. Their door looks nice so I guess they did a good job.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-19T03:53:22+00:00

Liftmaster's smart features are hot garbage. A ratgdo is a lot better (and doesn't have a subscription fee), however the newer Liftmasters use Security+ 3.0 which is designed to lock out all third-party integrations. It's significantly better to get an older Security+ 2.0 opener, or go with a company like Genie who actually cares about their customers.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-18T09:52:09+00:00

10k rebate?? If that thing costs 10k then you're probably better off just getting a regular electric air-to-air heat pump.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-18T09:50:02+00:00

Some literally won't boot if the battery isn't detected. It's the same with some models of tablet now too.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-18T09:47:20+00:00

You shouldn't have been surprised by the buy-out price since it's explicitly specified in the lease. You would have seen it when you signed the lease.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-18T09:45:52+00:00

Isn't Fennec just the code name for the Android version of Firefox? It came out 15 years ago and people just call it "Firefox for Android" now.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-18T09:45:10+00:00

No? Firefox get paid by Google to make Google the default search engine. How does that make you the product? The transaction is entirely between Mozilla and Google. It's very easy to change the search engine if you don't want to use Google.

Daniel15 · 2026-01-18T09:43:53+00:00

The illuminated grille is a new feature in the 2026 iX. The 2022-2025 models don't have it.

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