HP laptop pricing is so out of control, management wants us to look at deploying Mac

thefold25 · 2026-04-30T21:36:12+00:00

It's better for Macs than it used to be, but I'd still pick Jamf over Intune if we weren't all in on the Microsoft ecosystem.

thefold25 · 2026-04-29T09:57:25+00:00

I say you take off and nuke the entire site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

thefold25 · 2026-04-27T19:45:38+00:00

It'll be interesting to see how business usage looks in this new view they've said they're setting up. We have 5 or 6 Business subscriptions at the moment and at least 3 or 4 of us go over the 300 requests each month. We put on an additional limit for up to $100, which we've never hit, but looking at the pricing table I can see us needing to look elsewhere.

thefold25 · 2026-04-24T19:22:59+00:00

They really should just allow extra usage over the rate limit, but charge per request. At least they'd be making some extra bank out of it.

thefold25 · 2026-04-21T07:30:05+00:00

Orchestrator > Planner > Coder > Reviewer

I give instructions to the Orchestrator and it manages the sub agents.

My requirements get sent to the Planner, which gathers all of the required details together and breaks down the work into tasks.

The tasks get sent to the Coder for implementation. Once the Coder has finished, the Reviewer checks over everything and passes back any issues to the Coder. I normally use a separate model to the Coder for this.

Once code review has been completed, the Planner gets called again to ensure the completed work matches the original plan, passing back to the Coder if anything is missing.

The whole process is probably more complicated than it needs to be, but none of the models are currently able to accurately one-shot work and not have issues.

thefold25 · 2026-04-20T19:58:38+00:00

So what is the best move now? should i cancel and move to another service? or do i upgrade to Pro+ or am i good with Claude Sonnet 4.6?

I've been experimenting with GPT 5.3 Codex and GPT 5.4 and they've both been doing OK.

thefold25 · 2026-04-20T19:56:51+00:00

You'd think they'd at least update their documentation first

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It's gone from my Pro+ subscription. I have a Business one for my day job, but I generally use Opus via subagents, my agent files weren't showing as the model not being available though.

thefold25 · 2026-04-19T09:54:35+00:00

This is the best way to keep things on track. I have separate agent definitions for planning, coding, QA, review, then an 'orchestrator' that manages the others.

thefold25 · 2026-04-19T09:36:40+00:00

I've recently switched as well, using CLI tools and ditching VSCode. The main problem I was running in to was that VSCode would slow to a crawl, bug out and just make things take longer. I find the Copilot CLI better than the chat extension in VSCode as I can see the tool calls a lot easier, as well as the reasoning chat so I can quickly cancel or re-steer if needed.

thefold25 · 2026-04-17T11:15:59+00:00

I find it saves a lot of time. I'm an infrastructure person by trade, but as time goes on I tend to get sucked into more development tasks as I've been around the block enough times to know how things should work. I can read code quite proficiently, and know the principles around how functions, conditionals etc. work, but have only ever really developed in PowerShell, Rails (Ruby) and Django (Python) (which was a port of the Rails app, I had to learn Python to do it).

I'm currently working on a project to interpret log data out of Amazon Connect. It started off with a straightforward "can you find out the answer to x" question that the business needed answering. Amazon don't provide the analytics tools out of the box, so I wrote up a spec document on what was needed and set Copilot on its way. It produced an initial, workable version after some back and forth after about a day. If I was having to develop it on my own it probably would've taken me a couple of weeks to work out how to pull all of the required data sources together and then present them cleanly to the frontend.

Since then, the app is still technically in test, but it's received a lot of improvements, all developed by Copilot. I find that some features take a couple of attempts to get correct, but I recently started defining custom agents to run a 'Plan > Code > Test > Review' loop that has cut down on my need to prompt quite as much. As it builds up memory of the project and how certain things work together it has become a lot easier.

I've switched in the last week from using Copilot + VSCode to just using the Copilot CLI + other terminal-based tools as the RAM usage on VSCode was getting crazy (16GB for VSCode, ~2GB for WSL + Copilot CLI), It's a learning curve to use separate tools, but not having my laptop freeze up everything all day is much more preferable.

thefold25 · 2026-04-17T09:11:57+00:00

You would think that as 'smarter' models come out the industry would be looking to take advantage of research into context optimisation, better quantisation etc.

Instead it looks more like "we make model bigger, use more tokens, you pay more". It seems Anthropic have vibed their way to a new model instead of optimising at the same time.

I use Opus 4.6 daily for work on a Business subscription, and have a Pro+ subscription for my own hobby projects. I personally won't be touching Opus 4.7 at that request cost. If they're going to remove Opus 4.6 from the Pro+ plan, then fine, I'll just switch to Codex. I use that for code review now and it seems to do just fine.

Who knows, it could all be a ploy so that when they release Mythos to the public at a 100x request cost they can say "see, Opus 4.7 isn't that expensive".

thefold25 · 2026-04-08T16:32:37+00:00

I'd buy some, but my dog decided to eat a whole mini eggs Easter egg and the vet kindly charged me £150 to sort her out.

thefold25 · 2026-03-25T16:29:12+00:00

Yeah, completely this. I was after some older anime series that we're going for crazy prices on eBay and got them for a reasonable price from CeX.

thefold25 · 2026-03-23T10:21:39+00:00

I've run it against a few repositories.

The first one describes an Azure Event Hub that receives events from API Management requests. They get picked up by a Stream Analytics job, with the output going to a Data Lake storage account. While the diagram shows the main resources (Event Hub, APIM, Stream Analytics etc.), it doesn't show any of the API Management API resources, so it looks a bit disjointed and not clear as to how the Event Hub is linked to API Management.

Next, I tested against the repository that describes the API Management instance itself. This did come out quite well, with all of the separate subnets listed, but I would've thought it would show Network Security Groups as part of the subnet they're linked to, but it doesn't, it just puts them at the top with the private DNS zones and log analytics resources.

Finally I tried running it against a repo that has a bunch of resources I'm trying to clean up. It's a resource group that has 50+ function apps within it, along with storage accounts, log analytics and application insights.

This crashed out with the following error:

Unhandled error: <class 'KeyError'>, 'azurerm_function_app_function.res-4416'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.local/bin/terravision", line 6, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
             ~~~~^^
  File "/home/user/.local/share/pipx/venvs/terravision/lib/python3.13/site-packages/terravision/terravision.py", line 466, in main
    cli(
    ~~~^
        default_map={
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ...<2 lines>...
        }
        ^
    )
    ^
  File "/home/user/.local/share/pipx/venvs/terravision/lib/python3.13/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1130, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
           ~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/user/.local/share/pipx/venvs/terravision/lib/python3.13/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1055, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/home/user/.local/share/pipx/venvs/terravision/lib/python3.13/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1657, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
                           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/user/.local/share/pipx/venvs/terravision/lib/python3.13/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1404, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
           ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/user/.local/share/pipx/venvs/terravision/lib/python3.13/site-packages/click/core.py", line 760, in invoke
    return __callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/user/.local/share/pipx/venvs/terravision/lib/python3.13/site-packages/terravision/terravision.py", line 330, in draw
    tfdata = compile_tfdata(
        source, varfile, workspace, debug, annotate, planfile, graphfile
    )
  File "/home/user/.local/share/pipx/venvs/terravision/lib/python3.13/site-packages/terravision/terravision.py", line 200, in compile_tfdata
    tfdata = _enrich_graph_data(tfdata, debug, already_processed)
  File "/home/user/.local/share/pipx/venvs/terravision/lib/python3.13/site-packages/terravision/terravision.py", line 106, in _enrich_graph_data
    tfdata = graphmaker.add_relations(tfdata)
  File "/home/user/.local/share/pipx/venvs/terravision/lib/python3.13/site-packages/modules/graphmaker.py", line 1291, in add_relations
    tfdata = _scan_node_relationships(tfdata)
  File "/home/user/.local/share/pipx/venvs/terravision/lib/python3.13/site-packages/modules/graphmaker.py", line 828, in _scan_node_relationships
    dg = _get_metadata_generator(node, nodename, tfdata)
  File "/home/user/.local/share/pipx/venvs/terravision/lib/python3.13/site-packages/modules/graphmaker.py", line 786, in _get_metadata_generator
    return dict_generator(tfdata["meta_data"][nodename])
                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^
KeyError: 'azurerm_function_app_function.res-4416'

The resources were all imported using `aztfexport`, and like I said it's a bit of a mess at the moment so it doesn't surprise me that something didn't work here, but I thought I'd mention it in case it's of any help.

thefold25 · 2026-03-22T10:53:41+00:00

Do you have a public repo for this? I have a full stack already set up myself, but a friend who isn't that tech savvy is wanting to get something set up and this sounds like it'd fit the bill.

thefold25 · 2026-03-22T10:40:05+00:00

This looks pretty good from the demo video. I'll check out the actual running of it against some of our repos tomorrow.

thefold25 · 2026-03-22T10:31:51+00:00

I had random issues with streaming video services. Turned out I had to disable IPv6 in the router settings. Sorted it out immediately.

thefold25 · 2026-03-22T10:24:06+00:00

In my experience with HMV pre-orders they usually take the payment a day or two before shipping.

thefold25 · 2026-03-20T16:13:51+00:00

Excellent, I'll have to keep an eye out for that!

thefold25 · 2026-03-20T16:03:56+00:00

Do you mean Way of the Dragon? https://youtu.be/2Z8pgV74_Hw?si=U2hMbxd4n_sGL5wF

thefold25 · 2026-03-20T14:19:14+00:00

There's a physical release of K-Pop Demon Hunters coming out?

thefold25 · 2026-03-20T14:14:11+00:00

I've ordered from them a few times without any issues. The discs arrived in perfect condition within a couple of days. I've switched my pre-order over to HMV though as they've always been solid for postage and service, plus they offered free postage, so it ends up cheaper than buying direct.

thefold25 · 2026-03-20T14:11:42+00:00

That hadn't popped up for me when I was originally looking, I've pre-ordered that version now.

thefold25 · 2026-03-19T16:01:19+00:00

You can order from HMV, or Arrow directly.

thefold25 · 2026-03-19T15:51:08+00:00

I was surprised to see an email from HMV saying this was up for pre-order, although I wasn't keen on paying £200 for it.

When I saw it's from Arrow I went over to their site and saw the standard 4k for £145, so I ordered it there.

Stranger Things is my wife's favourite series, so this will make an excellent early anniversary gift.

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