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interpol_p commented on Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026   businessinsider.com/insta... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
SV_BubbleTime · 22 days ago
>Honestly I wouldn't be shocked if I'm more productive in an office (due to pressure to seem busy, which correlates somewhat with amount of time actually being busy)

As a hiring manager, I appreciate the honesty and nuance. There is so much bullshit about remote work from the people doing it that it’s a little too much “doth protest”.

“I get so much more work done and I cracked the code to productivity, and surely no one would abuse this system, especially not you ultra worker 5000. Anyone who disagrees with me is a threat to the oversightless system I have an I must try and protect this by attacking them.”

interpol_p · 22 days ago
Depends what you see as “abusing” the system. By working from home, I can take a walk in the garden when I find it hard to think, it energises me. At my office I can (and do) take a walk in the car park, but inevitably I leave the office with a headache caused by constant noise and fluorescent lighting

At home, I can put my family first if needed. When I’m at the office and something comes up at the kids’ school that I need to deal with, it’s a mad dash to get away soon enough that I almost have to drop everything and run

The times working in the office has been good as a software engineer: when we are prototyping on physical hardware I do not have at home. That’s it

It’s great if people love to go to the office. That’s fine. It’s managers that enforce it who are the problem — the people who work for you aren’t children and if you feel like you can’t trust them to make the decision to work from home, why on earth would you trust them in your office?

interpol_p commented on Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10   blog.google/products/andr... · Posted by u/abraham
kayodelycaon · a month ago
It’s great. I used it to move entire folders from my Mac to an account-less iPad with no Internet connection.

I thought it was going to be slow, but hundreds of gigabytes was fully transferred in less than a minute.

interpol_p · a month ago
It's fast, but it's not that fast.

My son regularly borrows my iPhone 14 Pro for shooting video, and I inevitably have to do a large AirDrop transfer to him of all his footage. We usually see about 10 GB per minute, which is really fast

interpol_p commented on RTO: WTAF   wordsrightman.beehiiv.com... · Posted by u/tags2k
badgersnake · 3 months ago
> socialising far too much and get nothing done

Alternatively, you networked, built useful relationships and shared knowledge.

interpol_p · 3 months ago
Sure. I catch up with many of them on weekends anyway — we hike together, our families know each other, some live nearby etc.

Regarding knowledge sharing, that happens equally well via Slack. (Actually, I'd say a screen share works better than over-the-shouldering someone else's screen in person)

interpol_p commented on RTO: WTAF   wordsrightman.beehiiv.com... · Posted by u/tags2k
interpol_p · 3 months ago
We have some sort of hybrid policy. Every single time I have showed up at the office, I either end up socialising far too much and get nothing done (I find it extremely hard to work next to people without talking to them).

Or nobody is there and I end up having driven (40 minutes each way) to the office to have Teams meetings with a wonderful view of the car park, under fluorescent lights, using a cheap low-resolution office monitor. When I could have been having those Teams meetings with a view of my garden and a much nicer monitor I have invested in

interpol_p commented on iPhone Air   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte
beoberha · 3 months ago
Just do not understand the market for this one. The current size of phones is a solved problem. Nobody is asking for these things to be thinner. Most people use cases and are happy to add some thickness for battery life. Besides, the camera "plateau" makes it all futile.
interpol_p · 3 months ago
I'm in the market for this

I've been hoping for Apple to return to "thin" and it's nice that they're trying. I don't know whether I would buy this, but my current iPhone 14 Pro feels like a brick — thick stainless steel

When I go for a run, it's uncomfortable to have in a pocket depending on what running clothes I am wearing. The heaviness makes it feel far more likely to break all the times I have dropped it (and I have dropped it many times, without a case)

interpol_p commented on OpenAI Progress   progress.openai.com... · Posted by u/vinhnx
interpol_p · 4 months ago
I really like the brevity of text-davinci-001. Attempting to read the other answers felt laborious
interpol_p commented on Blurry rendering of games on Mac   colincornaby.me/2025/08/y... · Posted by u/bangonkeyboard
eviks · 4 months ago
> through NSScreen’s safeAreaInsets

How is vague "safety" is better than a simple descriptive rect_below_notch?

interpol_p · 4 months ago
Safe area can account for things that are not just a notch. It's used across Apple platforms to indicate anything that might need to occupy a dedicated region on the screen: notch on iPhones, home indicator, iPadOS traffic light buttons, menu bar, curved edges of displays, and so on

Your container views can extend the safe areas for their children as well. In our apps, which allow users to run their own custom projects, we increase the safe area for our UI so that users can avoid it in their own rendering

Safe area is a fairly neat and functional API. The unfortunate thing is the older `CGDisplayCopyAllDisplayModes` API is just lumping all resolutions together

interpol_p commented on Claude Code is all you need   dwyer.co.za/static/claude... · Posted by u/sixhobbits
interpol_p · 4 months ago
I've been diving into Claude Code after reading articles constantly praising its abilities. But I think perhaps it's better suited to web development

Using it for iOS development is interesting. It does produce working output (sometimes!) but it's very hit-or-miss. Recently I gave it a couple hours to build a CarPlay prototype of one of my apps. It was completely unable to refactor the codebase to correctly support CarPlay (even though I passed the entire CarPlay documentation into it). I gave it three attempts at it. Then I intervened and added support for CarPlay manually, following that I added a lot of skeleton code for it to flesh out. Claude was then able to build a prototype

However, over the next few days as I tried to maintain the code I ended up rewriting 60% of it because it was not maintainable or correct. (By "not correct" I mean it had logic errors and was updating the display multiple times with incorrect information before replacing it with correct information, causing the data displayed to randomly refresh)

I also tried getting it to add some new screens to a game I develop. I wanted it to add some of the purchase flows into the app (boring code that I hate writing). It managed to do it with compile errors, and was unable to fix its own build output despite having the tools to do so. Instead of fixing the build errors it caused, Claude Code decided it would manually verify that only its own changes were correct by running `swiftc` on only files that it touched. Which was nonsense

All that said, there was a benefit in that Claude Code writing all this code and getting something up on the screen motivated me to finally pick up the work and do some of these tasks. I had been putting them off for months and just having the work "get started" no matter how bad, was a good kick start

u/interpol_p

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