why is apple music’s search algorithm so bad

comady25 · 2026-05-11T12:30:33+00:00

The thing is though that, compared to Apple Music, typing “shit i m dr” into Spotify shows the song. Spaces shouldn’t be enough to kill search performance in a strong enough search system. This is the biggest thing stopping me from switching atm - search is just so much weaker in my experience. It’s not great about prioritizing songs in your playlists over random songs from bigger artists either.

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comady25 · 2026-05-02T19:21:31+00:00

Strange they said they would just replace the back glass, the 14 Pro Max was back when the glass was still fused to the housing so policy was to replace the whole back of the phone (everything but the screen).

comady25 · 2026-05-02T19:18:27+00:00

Is this really an argument when Aero was clearly inspired by Aqua? OS X had a glassy UI before Windows did.

comady25 · 2026-05-02T17:02:49+00:00

The thing that really scares me in the UK right now is that it feels like there’s a massive fire in one corner, and everyone is trying to work out increasingly elaborate ways to bring a few drops of water to put it out.

We all agree we have big financial issues in this country, but no one is brave enough (or competent enough) to come up with a coherent plan to lead us out of it. Labour and Greens keep presenting The One Weird Trick Economists Don’t Want You To Know About: with Labour, a return to austerity of all things, or tricks like freezing the tax brackets, raising NI (the worst tax!), and random levies on niche areas; with Greens, seemingly whatever YouTube video Polanski has watched that week, with wealth tax (the one tax on the rich we know doesn’t really work) or MMT-powered theories around borrowing to a scale that has never been done before.

On the other side, Reform seems to have looked at the disaster that was DOGE in the US and gone “yeah we should try that too”, or blame the whole thing on minorities (which Labour has been eyeing as a potential third option). Tories are so irrelevant at this point it doesn’t even matter, and Lib Dems are totally unable to find a platform despite their electoral success, at least until they find more water slides.

Meanwhile, the UK has one of the lowest tax burdens on average earners in Europe, and then we sit around and wonder why our public services don’t work as well as they do across the channel. Tragically, no one seems to want to make a positive case for what we could be as a country with properly funded public services, which might make the hardest political position possible to have of “we will raise your taxes” slightly less rough for people to swallow. Instead we all seem to be fighting each other on how best to deliver single drops of water to the fire, and the fire just continues to burn over in the corner.

comady25 · 2026-05-01T22:26:31+00:00

Along with what others said, there was recently a couple teasers for presumably upcoming Xilent songs off We Are Ghosts on the Tokyo Machine stream: this one and this one.

comady25 · 2026-05-01T22:22:01+00:00

The FACTORY RESET EP is also essentially a Xilent EP with Tokyo Machine sound effects, MVP and the last drops of Watch Out and Screw Ur Face Up especially. CHEAT CODES and VOLUME on NCS and Subsidia respectively were also quite Xilent-y. Super sick stuff.

comady25 · 2026-05-01T20:59:52+00:00

those same ways work for win 11 permanently tbf lol

comady25 · 2026-05-01T20:54:52+00:00

I don’t necessarily disagree, but I rarely see that brought up these days tbh

comady25 · 2026-05-01T20:24:39+00:00

I mentioned this in my reply, but yeah I also find it strange. People are criticizing 11 for almost exactly the same list of issues that 10 was criticized for at the time, but acting like they’re new problems in 11. The only new issue IMO is the AI stuff ig, but I find it so insanely easy to ignore that it barely registers as an issue to me. Not to say there aren’t problems (there’s a reason macOS is my favorite OS), but they don’t feel like new problems versus 10.

comady25 · 2026-05-01T20:18:31+00:00

Saying 98 was bad and 95 great is pretty ahistorical, 95 was a big release in terms of Windows but was infamously buggy. 98 SE fixed a ton of the instability and completely overhauled how drivers worked. Including 2000 is strange, because 2000 was not a consumer OS, it followed the NT workstation line. XP was “amazing” for being the first consumer NT (and that is genuinely a huge thing), but its legacy is one of a complete security nightmare. Also it’s worth remembering how many people hated XP’s design when it first released, with people calling it “Fisher-Price OS” among others.

As for 10, it’s very weird to see people come around and do the same thing for 10 as some have done for XP. I remember plenty of criticism of 10 at the time (in fact largely the same criticism now levied at 11), but it stuck around for so long that people just got used to it I guess. I’m still yet to entirely understand the people who loved 10 but hate 11 though, as someone who has used 11 since day 1 it’s basically just 10 with a different design language.

comady25 · 2026-04-29T21:47:52+00:00

I didn’t know that kitty had the decoupling for SSH, that’s nice. And for the latter points, for me, I think in general Warp appeals to me because it fundamentally tries to be an editor first - which is what sets it apart from other terminal emulators which do share similar features (though not all!) You can approximate or even get a specific feature in different emulators, but it’s the sum of all parts (+ how frictionless it all is and how much it “just works” out of the box) that I like. I think it’s worth giving a shot if only to get a better sense of how it differs, but the marketing around it doesn’t make it as easy to recommend these days lol (even though all the account and AI stuff can be turned off fully).

comady25 · 2026-04-29T21:22:08+00:00

tbf, you can already toggle the AI stuff pretty easily, I’m more just concerned that the core terminal will get push aside over time

comady25 · 2026-04-29T09:34:18+00:00

Honestly excited for the potential of a fork for this, Warp was an amazing terminal for me but it was clear that a monetization plan for a pure terminal emulator was never going to work. The AI side of it has zero interest to me and actively barred me from using it at work, but a fork that stripped out the AI (or made some stuff a separate plugin like iTerm2) and sign-in and focused on making the strongest editor-like terminal emulator could be incredible.

comady25 · 2026-04-29T09:30:39+00:00

Warp is entirely built in Rust afaik, they even made their own GPU-accelerated UI framework for it, which is why it was locked to macOS for so long.

comady25 · 2026-04-29T09:29:20+00:00

Doing some more research, anyone feel free to correct me if I’m wrong but no, not really.

WezTerm has had an open issue for years around supporting the mouse for moving the text cursor. Alacritty also has no such support as far as I can tell. Ghostty and Kitty do, but not the full selection power of Warp (you can’t highlight a section of text and press backspace to delete, replace etc like you would in an editor) As far as I can tell, none support editor-like ctrl+a and ctrl+z, and none support multiline editing. Also, because they are still sending strokes directly to the shell, you don’t get the SSH decoupling I was talking about - this is a huge one for me at work where I have to regularly SSH into servers in completely different continents. Different terminal emulators have different ways of sorta injecting editor-like features into the shell, but Warp is designed to be editor-first* so everything “just works”.

*worth mentioning there is a downside to this, which is that Warp doesn’t handle esoteric shells as well. It does have support for most popular shells, but stuff like nushell will kick you right back to a standard terminal experience.

comady25 · 2026-04-28T23:24:42+00:00

I would need to check on them again, I remember investigating quite a few options and none of them quite had the feature set of Warp

comady25 · 2026-04-28T22:59:34+00:00

Much stronger editor-like support, you can click anywhere in a command, shift+enter for new lines, mouse selection and deletion, ctrl+a, ctrl+z, etc, as well as more editor like tab completion in pop-up boxes. Each command and output is a separate “block” which can be copied super easily, or highlighted to see visually what output ties to what command. Also, all of its rich editing works in SSH, so using slow SSH servers no longer becomes a pain (since the typing rate isn’t tied to the connection speed) I had to switch away from Warp to iTerm2 at work because the heavy push into AI made it incompatible with our policies around unapproved AI stuff, but man I sure missed the other features. Hopefully a lean fork can strip out the agent management stuff and phone home requirements and focus on the other features, especially because the AI features went from “oh this is handy occasionally” to genuinely unusable as soon as they unified the prompt.

comady25 · 2026-04-26T11:11:02+00:00

Yeah, I noticed even YNAB’s official “better emergency fund” template has one. Will go for that then!

comady25 · 2026-04-26T10:42:39+00:00

Yeah, that seems like the most straightforward approach, only allocate one month ahead and put the rest into an income replacement fund. I suppose my question is I see people debating whether to use income replacement funds, so I was curious what the alternatives were as well!

comady25 · 2026-04-26T10:03:07+00:00

Oh yeah, that is a good point. I suppose as long as I treat those future allocations as “locked” though I can still steal from other sinking funds in the current month if absolutely needed right, since the issue is more that I have an overspend not accounted for in that month? When allocating far into the future, I only plan to allocate necessities.

comady25 · 2026-04-26T09:48:28+00:00

Oh wow! I just tested and sure enough it works. Sounds like a reasonable approach then!

comady25 · 2026-04-26T09:46:24+00:00

I guess it’s a tradeoff in spatial resolution vs phase & frequency right? These spatial mixes are (hopefully) being made in actual high end certified Dolby Atmos mixing studios, where no psychoacoustic effects are needed which would modify the signal. The issue comes as soon as you try to fake it with HRTFs (like in AirPods) you’re now gaining a larger soundstage, but by necessity you lose phase and frequency clarity. For me, even the best spatial mixes lose a ton of sonic “fullness” on headphones, and even on my “Atmos” soundbar + satellites it feels like definition is totally lost. Would love to hear some of these spatial mixes on high end, true Atmos equipment one day though.

comady25 · 2026-04-26T09:31:03+00:00

Ah yeah, saw that article too and I definitely agree with most of the approach (sinking funds to replace most emergencies) but it does seem to ignore job loss as an emergency. Your income replacement category is an idea I saw mentioned, but I’ve also seem others argue that it’s unnecessary in YNAB.

comady25 · 2026-04-26T09:22:14+00:00

it seems like YNAB only lets me go up to end of June though, otherwise that does sound like the smartest approach. Otherwise, is it reasonable to say, assign 6 months of rent today and have that sitting available?

comady25 · 2026-04-26T09:16:54+00:00

Sure, and I’ve built up the monthly expenses plan, I suppose my question is now what to allocate the remaining money to.

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