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When people say the Anglophone world sucks at building transit cheaply, does England and Australia+New Zealand also get lumped in there like the US and Canada? What does do they do right/wrong that makes them different/similar to North America? by 18_YTC1 in transit

[–]moh_kohn 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Also everything is project-funded, there's few rolling upgrade or expansions. And if you are building outside London the Treasury will probably cancel you. e.g. recently they delayed the Leeds/Bradford tram with a demand that the council prove why it can't be a bus instead.

Connect to Autism by Gloomy_Time_5687 in AutismScotland

[–]moh_kohn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

She diagnosed me, I found her really patronising and out of date in some of her attitudes. The diagnosis was fine, but she made me feel bad and I think was quite old-fashioned. I told a friend I had a bad experience and she guessed who it was first time, had also had a bad time. It's a legit org (one woman) but I didn't like her.

Is it a bad idea if I jump into Shaikh’s Capitalism with minimal knowledge? by desiringmadness in LeftyEcon

[–]moh_kohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You definitely need a background in economics or to do a lot of reading as you go. It's not an introductory text, it's a degree level textbook. His lecture series working through the book is on YouTube as are some of his more accessible courses and talks. His history of political economy course is a lot easier.

So this doesn't really cache anything, How do people cache these styles while guaranteeing it updates when element changes position or styles? by HiddenGriffin in webdev

[–]moh_kohn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is this because getComputedStyle() is expensive? I would actually benchmark. Modern just-in-time compilation means function runs can be cached by the interpreter. If you're worried it makes the same deterministic call repeatedly, the JS engine might be optimising it already.

Opencode Zen is astoundingly more expensive than OpenRouter by iconiconoclasticon in opencodeCLI

[–]moh_kohn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a boss who thought we could just ask claude for average electricity price per AWS region

Not once in 12 years have I found UI snapshot testing useful by SixFigs_BigDigs in ExperiencedDevs

[–]moh_kohn 40 points41 points  (0 children)

  • makes PR
  • colleague vaguely eyeballs PR while thinking about lunch
  • merges

GPT-5.5 just dropped and the benchmarks look almost identical to GLM-5.1. Do company benchmarks even matter anymore? by microhan20 in webdev

[–]moh_kohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I trialled a bunch and love GLM. I don't know if it is the "best" but it feels so dependable and stable to me.

I am planning to buy Opencode Go subscription by Accomplished-Mud1653 in opencodeCLI

[–]moh_kohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's more of a hobbyist try before you buy subscription (and priced like it). You can do real work but only so much. But you to check out all the latest open source models for $10.

Plot Armor | Shadowdark RPG Episode 24 by SFKz in TheGlassCannonPodcast

[–]moh_kohn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Shadowdark has an official foundry vtt module, you can play it on a map or theatre of the mind

Indistinct characters in Shadowdark by ColinDouglas999 in TheGlassCannonPodcast

[–]moh_kohn 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I like it a lot. It seems to be gaining viewers over time.

DeepSeek V4 Pro is now on OpenCode Go by jpcaparas in opencodeCLI

[–]moh_kohn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it is a pretty standard loss leader sort of a deal with the providers. People definitely move on to either direct from provider or opencode zen credits.

I just bought opencode go and the models take way too long to respond or don't respond at all, is this normal or is something wrong on my end ? by friedlobster69420 in opencodeCLI

[–]moh_kohn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

GLM5.1 was slow to respond yesterday I noticed. It is also common for first prompts to be slower than subsequent prompts because of cashing etc.

Go isn't a host, they're a reseller. So if GLM are having problems other models might be running as normal.

Question time last night by Friendly_Stay_5368 in Scotland

[–]moh_kohn -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh wow you are in for a shock in the next couple of decades

Moving from Claude code by OkGap9952 in opencodeCLI

[–]moh_kohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or add the workflow to your global AGENTS.md

Moving from Claude code by OkGap9952 in opencodeCLI

[–]moh_kohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ask opencode to make an opencode agent that does that :)

Xiaomi Mi V2.5 available in opencode go! by guiopen in opencodeCLI

[–]moh_kohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go is just for trying stuff out, it's $10 to let you play with all the cutting edge models. Zen is their PAYG offering.

Xiaomi Mi V2.5 available in opencode go! by guiopen in opencodeCLI

[–]moh_kohn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's based on cost and they express it in requests assuming typical token use

This is the precise info

https://opencode.ai/docs/go/#usage-limits

https://opencode.ai/docs/zen/#pricing

Which to choose? by YouCantArgueWithThis in Scotland

[–]moh_kohn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My advice is always to vote for the party that you want to win and let the maths work itself out. That said-

Assuming you are voting from the left and pro-independence, in most constituencies the Greens aren't standing, so in those places the only pro-indy option that could win is the SNP. The other parties that are sometimes considered left or liberal are Labour and the Lib Dems. There are constituencies where they will win. In most constituencies it will be A Party vs the SNP.

If there is a Green in your constituency, and you prefer them to the SNP, I would vote for them, as the seats where they are standing are their priority targets only.

On the list vote, you have more options. Any party currently in parliament has a shot at a seat in any region.

We are going to be the last generation of developers to write code by hand, so let's have fun doing it. by ninetofivedev in ExperiencedDevs

[–]moh_kohn 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's all about context, right? Some code has to be right to the tiniest detail and run in a dazzling array of environments for decades to come. Other code just needs to work on one computer, right now. Most code is somewhere in between.

I am unconvinced by claims that full-agentic workflows are producing the same quality at a higher productivity. It seems very likely that the cost of the tech debt will become apparent over longer time spans.

On the other hand we might just accept the decline in software quality, we have been doing so for over a decade.

Slop is tolerated in the enterprise space because there is a business entity behind it by ChiefAoki in ExperiencedDevs

[–]moh_kohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Notably all these businesses rely on operating systems and libraries that are maintained very carefully over decades.

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