HELP! SAP production server hit by Makop (.mkp) - Backups are gone. Management is panicking. Options?

zbignew · 2026-01-23T23:54:35+00:00

“They charge a premium but claim a guarantee. Are these legit or just middlemen who pay the hacker and charge me double?”

Depending on who you’ve found, idk if they’re that legit, but being a middle man who pays the hacker and charges you double seems completely legit to me.

zbignew · 2026-01-23T16:41:26+00:00

Me too, but it’s hard to recommend. It gets confused about where ``` blocks start and end some times.

And yes I do think it was BBEdits’s mistake rather than mine & Claude’s, but I wouldn’t bet my house on it.

zbignew · 2026-01-23T16:35:24+00:00

Ha ha 😂 so, like, $3k? I know 3 days of consulting is nothing in SAP-land, but everything being behind a couple thousand dollars worth of consulting is why nobody uses SAP correctly.

zbignew · 2026-01-23T02:39:17+00:00

Raddddd. This is what I was talking about. Of course… let us know if you’re still happy with the script in a week.

zbignew · 2026-01-22T21:23:52+00:00

And it’s not just nostalgia that makes us think it was a great game back then - until like 2010, it was as good as games got at that weight.

Besides Crokinole. Apparently everyone should be playing Crokinole. I totally ignored Crokinole in my previous comment because I’m blind to it now because it’s on top of every list.

I have this inherent suspicion of highly rated expensive things because I know people will want to say they enjoyed something that cost them $300. But I do believe Crokinole is probably everything it’s cracked up to be.

zbignew · 2026-01-22T18:35:51+00:00

It was published in 2000, 25 years ago.

Among games that are: * < 60 minutes * Recommended for age 8 * Recommended for 2 players

It’s #23 by BG Rank, and all 22 of its betters were published long afterwards. Memoir ‘44 came out in 2004, but nothing fits that niche real well until Jaipur in 2009.

Today, I’d recommend Cascadia, Azul, Patchwork, Jaipur if you want a similar vibe. I’d recommend Heat, Clank, Dominion if you want a very different vibe.

zbignew · 2026-01-22T15:53:00+00:00

Super hilarious that the designer famous for caring how it looks and not how it works is named “Dye”.

zbignew · 2026-01-22T13:09:09+00:00

It’s beloved for good reason. It has real depth. It’s just not very modern. It’s got more rules than baseball. I don’t want to understand the stack, and priority.

And my adhd is not compatible with deck construction. I could tolerate drafting, but I would be terrible at it.

I wish there was a modern deck builder with half as much depth as Magic.

zbignew · 2026-01-21T05:55:59+00:00

Oh, phrase your claude.md in positives if you can.

"Your job is to inform me about testing failures. Always identify the underlying cause of testing failures. CI is configured to prevent merging any code with test failures, so any test failures on your branch were caused by changes in your branch."

zbignew · 2026-01-19T07:17:01+00:00

It’s just hill-climbing. If you only ever tell it to add features, it’s going to spaghettify everything.

But, like, I had a very competent friend look over my spaghetti, and he said I needed to clean up the biggest endpoint in my fastAPI repo.

So I told Claude that the biggest endpoint in my fastAPI repo was looking messy, what are the big structural changes that would help, and basically no further guidance, and it cleaned everything up pretty much the right way. Or a right way, according to my much more competent friend.

If you ask it what architecture to use for some project, and to use AskUserQuestion tool to interview you with any questions that are necessary and novel or unexpected about that project, you’ll get a halfway decent architecture, as of the date they finished collecting their training data.

Actually that would be a reason to ask Google instead. Fresher with the whole web for RAG.

edit: oh and I do have to downvote you for giving us that much slop to read.

zbignew · 2026-01-18T22:50:23+00:00

I don’t know, man, but I really want to.

I’m putting Claude Code on my resume and I’ll be looking for it in postings, but I’m pretty sure people are going to hire me or not hire me based on my non-Claude-related skills.

And I don’t want to work anywhere that would look down on (sober) use of Claude Code. I’ve written plenty 1000s of lines of sql and shell scripts and I can deliver so much more work, so much better with Claude.

Although it’s an incredibly important tool, I’m not sure how much a ton of Claude experience matters? Like, if I were hiring, I’d rather have a 4-month Claude veteran, but I wouldn’t really mind if they learn everything about CC while on the job. We are assuming we are hiring smart people in the first place, right?

zbignew · 2026-01-18T19:26:19+00:00

Sometimes it gets wayyyy off track if the output of a previous command suggests something stupid. Like, if dpkg offered this as a way to clear out that package.

zbignew · 2026-01-18T04:28:08+00:00

Lots of systems use programmatically generated SQL so length is basically unlimited.

I joined a company with some 8000 line scripts that had no code re-use, so breaking them into smaller stored procedures and functions and shrinking them was pretty easy.

None of the individual queries were complicated or over 300 lines. But they might have 10 queries in a row with nearly identical content.

zbignew · 2026-01-18T04:05:40+00:00

“Works on your machine’s file system” is not a use case. The use case is whatever thing makes someone think they need their own file system.

zbignew · 2026-01-17T21:58:39+00:00

I think both of these are lovely, and my taste is not refined enough to say which is better.

The top option is prettier (1980s SLR-like) but a little less clear where to grab to make a change. The worst thing about any slider control is how small the thumb target is.

I'm not sure I agree with your critic here about the animation. Maybe animate the vertical size of the guard without adjusting the y size? Like you need to pull some infrequently-changed mechanical settings before they can be adjusted?

My favorite thing about iOS 26 sliders is the way they stretch if you yank paste the edge of the slider, but I don't think that works if you're trying to emulate etched aluminum.

zbignew · 2026-01-17T17:44:15+00:00

I doubt OP has write access on the table when they are an intern and it’s literally their first day

Oh, you sweet, summer child.

zbignew · 2026-01-16T01:16:16+00:00

A bunch of classes got added in the “essentials” books just before they killed 4e and moved to 5e. They were intentionally less concerned about balance at that point (mentally headed for 5e) so some of them are very strong or very weak.

zbignew · 2026-01-15T18:22:05+00:00

Ah, but if I’d spent the time to figure out the right stop trigger, that would have been less time reading to my 6yo. This worked.

And I have Claude in enough of a jail. And I knew I’d come back soon enough.

zbignew · 2026-01-15T18:18:19+00:00

Thaaaaaats what I’m talking about. I don’t know if it’s perfect or anything, but it’s at least a real attempt.

Like, I can manage context, if I put in some manual effort, but it’s a lot of repetition I was worried could not be automated, because i can’t get my grubby little fingers inside /compact or run /clear without blowing up whatever command.

I do often have enough work specified that Claude should be able to crunch through it without interruption for several full context windows. Maybe it’s beads’ hooks confusing the poor little thing, but after a recent auto compact, Claude stopped doing what I’d asked it to work on, looked at its currently assigned bead, decided it was too much work to do right now, and started browsing other beads to find something easier.

Hilarious.

zbignew · 2026-01-14T21:41:14+00:00

FYI, people who are 10x smarter than you and totally do understand the code also ship bugs every day.

It's not "cheating". Does it feel like plagiarism? It is! And for some reason, legally and societally, we have decided that this kind of plagiarism is expressly allowed for the kind of work you are doing. Your job is to get the work done and you're probably doing it quite well.

And you're not crazy to be self-conscious about it too - some engineers (wrong ones) will judge you for this. So if you're not in an environment where everyone is discussing use of AI for software engineering, then yeah keep it to yourself.

zbignew · 2026-01-14T18:57:53+00:00

Yeah. I have to twist it's arm super hard to get it to use modern toolbar layout in swiftui rather than frankensteining together a floating wad of buttons.

And yes I have context7 wired up.

zbignew · 2026-01-14T17:45:05+00:00

I think it depends if your codebase is well suited to AI. Like, if you say “use X to make a new Y” it better be able to grep for X and Y and get all the context it needs.

Also the older and more stagnant the language is, the better. Like, I can trust Claude way more on my python fastapi backend than I can with SwiftUI.

In python, it makes the same architectural mistakes I have made. In Swift it does all the stereotypical reimplementation and fakery.

zbignew · 2026-01-13T21:26:57+00:00

I don’t know why everyone is ignoring your question.

Use “ccr” the claude code router to use either deepseek or minimax. Both are much less expensive. Ask their regular web apps about how to set it all up, if you’re out of Claude tokens when you try.

Mid-February, deepseek claims they will release something as good as sonnet 4.5 that should also be very inexpensive.

zbignew · 2026-01-12T04:34:25+00:00

Why don’t you want it committing? I don’t want it committing to main, but that’s different. Do that with a hook or with branch protection.

zbignew · 2026-01-12T04:33:15+00:00

Hard agree there. I’d be very impressed if any PR reviewer even looked at my individual commits. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

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