Hacker News: loveangus

New comment by loveangus in "Sycophancy in GPT-4o"

loveangus — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:21:17 +0000

It's a recipe for disaster.

Frankly, I think it's genuinely dangerous.

New comment by loveangus in "The Story of Samsung's failed deal with iFixit, as told by iFixit's CEO"

loveangus — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 13:13:59 +0000

For news content I agree, but for deep-dives on people and their character I quite like the background and scene setting that authors do.

New comment by loveangus in "U.S. Athletes Are Taking Full Advantage of Free Healthcare in Olympic Village"

loveangus — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 13:07:49 +0000

I went public and private routes for a surgery last year, ended up with the NHS as the process was faster, additionally ended up getting a payment from my private insurance for going the public route.

New comment by loveangus in "Blackhouses of Scotland"

loveangus — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 07:26:14 +0000

Yeah, Ulster Scots is still somewhat common in the most isolated and rural areas of Northern Ireland, almost exclusively spoken by farmers - who aren't, unsurprisingly, frequent users of the internet.

This is how some US teenager, who didn't speak a lick of the dialect, ended up being the lead contributor to the Scots Wikipedia:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/26/shock-an-aw-...

According to my father, who's an Ulsterman, back in the 70s and 80s you would still find job advertisements written in Scots, as supposedly it was a legal requirement to write in both English and Scots - similar to Quebec with English and French. Although most of the time these postings would be complete gibberish as no one who lived in Belfast understood Scots at all.

New comment by loveangus in "How not to say the wrong thing (2013)"

loveangus — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 13:13:44 +0000

sharing privy information to outer rings will also negatively impact the inner rings, there's definitely a limit which the authors don't mention